Below there's a quote from Ron Paul and one about him.
I haven't found the 2 videos I was looking for that, in my opinion, indicated Ron was for stopping big organizations from having regulations more favorable to them by making smaller organizations.
It doesn't matter because I have discovered that he certainly is not for breaking up big organizations.
The problem was I couldn't understand that the transition to a free market happens quickly but not overnight and I could come up with no other way to prevent regulatory abuse than downsizing big organizations.
If someone had explained to me that things would happen quickly but not overnight, then I would have been able to understand that a transition to a free market takes some time because trust needs to be established between individuals and organizations in the west that have mistrusted each other for thousands of years.
Unfortunately, explaining an environment of trust, to most westerners, is a difficult chore at which I believe Libertarians are failing to do their best.
It's glossed over because it is so clear to Libertarians they don't realize how unclear it is to the rest of us.
But we, your audience, must be allowed the respect to discuss all of our concerns with those who understand better.
I was not afforded such respect but I am obsessed with getting to the truth.
Unfortunately, I represent only 1 vote and I have to wonder how many others are as truth-driven as I am.
To be blunt, Libertarians have been a big failure at the polls and it all can't be blamed on the rigged 2 party system.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul42.html
If we were to choose freedom and capitalism, we would restore our dollar to a commodity or a gold standard. Federal spending would be reduced, income taxes would be lowered, and no taxes would be levied upon savings, dividends, and capital gains. Regulations would be reduced, special-interest subsidies would be stopped, and no protectionist measures would be permitted. Our foreign policy would change, and we would bring our troops home.
We cannot depend on government to restore trust to the markets; only trustworthy people can do that. Actually, the lack of trust in Wall Street executives is healthy because it's deserved and prompts caution. The same lack of trust in politicians, the budgetary process, and the monetary system would serve as a healthy incentive for the reform in government we need.
Markets regulate better than governments can. Depending on government regulations to protect us significantly contributes to the bubble mentality.
These moves would produce the climate for releasing the creative energy necessary to simply serve consumers, which is what capitalism is all about. The system that inevitably breeds the corporate-government cronyism that created our current ongoing disaster would end.
Capitalism didn't give us this crisis of confidence now existing in the corporate world. The lack of free markets and sound money did. Congress does have a role to play, but it's not proactive. Congress' job is to get out of the way.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/8359-presidential-candidate-ron-pauls-extremism
This was enough to catch the attention of the Los Angeles Times, which pouted, “Voters who supported Obama in 2008 because they were promised change would probably be delighted at the speed with which Paul would try to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and [with] his resistance to involving the U.S. in foreign military actions.”
Those same voters, if Paul were elected President, would likely also be delighted at the speed with which he would begin the dismantling of the regulatory state; the turning back to the states their legitimate and necessary functions, usurped by the federal government; and, finally at long last, allowing the free market an increasing flow of oxygen to revive the economy and begin to repair the damage caused by all the statist “remedies.” As emphasized by author Mullen: "If reason, justice and equity are extremism, then it is time to listen to the extremists."
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