Nicholas1024
Smash Lord
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Yeah, I took you out of context there, I'm sorry. I guess I'm just used to everyone being an idiot on that topic, and drew my conclusions accordingly.Woah, there. I was just criticizing the "Let's find the answer first, then try to apply it to every question second" philosophy of politics that seems to be so common. As if your entire political views have to fit on a bumper sticker. That's silly. Neither "Government is bad, keep it out" nor "Government is a useful tool to solve social problems" is an adequate answer to every problem. Why should expect it to be?
Ron Paul tends to be like a real live Stephen Colbert. He's a caricature of the premise of small government. He is what you get when you take it to an extreme, and by comparison makes the rest of them look bad. That's why the republican establishment (especially Fox News) has a concerted and deliberate campaign to marginalize him.
I think that it's an excellent guiding principle to, when all else is equal, not involve government. But don't put too much stock in guiding principles. Evaluate issues as they stand on their own merits.
@Succumbio
If the average person is really that dumb, I can finally understand how certain presidents got elected...
And regarding Ron Paul, I think it sums up to "Our government is too stupid to do a proper job of anything, and will only make things worse, so let's stay out of it." And in case you're wondering, what we did do helped prop Stalin up. (who by the body count was WORSE than Hitler), cost tons of American lives, and by dropping nukes on Japan, ensured we'd have decades of uncertainty and tension via the Cold War. (And if you want to say Japan started it with Pearl Harbor, keep in mind that before that FDR had basically left all our defenses on the pacific wide open, fired one admiral for complaining about it, provoked the Japanese via stuff like cutting off trade, and finally disgracing the replacement Admiral who happened to be in charge of the place when it did get bombed.) Considering the track record we're dealing with here, I'd think you could understand his position, even if you don't agree.
@BPC
Honestly, I still think stores that accept black business would have a much larger number of customers (simply by lack of other options), and thus outperform their competitors. Even back then, if white and blacks stood on legally equal footing (Don't really know if that was the case or not), I trust the minority to be smart enough to open their own stores and compete.
And the Fed might not be directly government operated, but it's only by special government allowances that they aren't hauled before the courts and convicted for counterfeiting. So in the end it's more or less the same thing, without the government being involved, the whole scenario would never happen.