ARLINGTON, Texas -- Don't tell Ron Paul and his supporters that the race for the GOP presidential nomination is over.
They put Republicans in Texas and beyond on notice Saturday that they plan to take their campaign all the way to the national convention in August in Tampa, Fla.
Read more here: Ron Paul, supporters say GOP race isn't over yet - KansasCity.com
On 4 issues, Ron Paul seems like a better/different Republican. The Federal Reserve, Military spending, drugs and prostitution. But on all the other issues, Ron Paul's right wing ideas are even more extreme than Romney's or Bush's. Do you think a private corporation should own Yellowstone? Vote for Ron Paul. Don't like the EPA? Vote for Ron Paul.
1. There is no such thing as a "free market."
2. The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).
In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.
The conservative mantra is "let the market decide." But there is no market independent of government, so what they're really saying is, "Stop government from defending workers and building a middle class, and let the corporations decide how much to pay for labor and how to trade." This is, at best, destructive to national and international economies, and, at worst, destructive to democracy itself.
The "middle class" is not the natural result of freeing business to do whatever it wants, of "free and open markets," or of "free trade." The "middle class" is not a normal result of "free markets." Those policies will produce a small but powerful wealthy class, a small "middle" mercantilist class, and a huge and terrified worker class which have traditionally been called "serfs."
The middle class is a new invention of liberal democracies, the direct result of governments defining the rules of the game of business. It is, quite simply, an artifact of government regulation of markets and tax laws.
Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class
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