Commentary By Ron Beasley
For once I agree with Ron Paul, OK I agree with him on a number of things including foreign policy. But this didn't make him many friends at the SRLC but had the liberals in the US nodding their heads in agreement.
"The question has been raised about whether or not our president is a
socialist," Paul said. "I am sure there are some people here who
believe it. But in the technical sense, in the economic definition of a
what a socialist is, no, he's not a socialist.""He's a corporatist," Paul continued. "And unfortunately we have
corporatists inside the Republican party and that means you take care of
corporations and corporations take over and run the country."Paul said examples of President Obama's "corporatism" were evident in
the heath care reform bill he signed into law last month. He said the
mandate in the bill put the power over health care in the hands of
corporations rather than private citizens. But he said the bill wasn't
the only place where corporatism is creeping into Washington."We see it in the financial institutions, we see it in the
military-industrial complex," he said. "And now we see it in the
medical-industrial complex."
Not much I can find to disagree with there.
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No kidding. But that's also why the republican base and lots of the teabaggers don't really care for Paul. Like him or not, at least he prefers accuracy and principal over the defamation and demagoguery his pals find so irresistible.
ReplyDeleteI can count quite a few times I've seen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich talking in one voice on important issues. Integrity triumphs tribalism.
ReplyDeleteRead how the Washington Blog -- the WSJ shit rag, edited out Paul's inclusion of the Republican Party as "corporatists" ... this guys are pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThe thing to disagree with about Rep. Paul's denunciation of "corporatism" is that you will never -- NEVER -- find him advocate effective regulation and law enforcement, which alone might make things different.
ReplyDeleteGood Point Frank
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