Dirty Politcs by the Obama Administration?

In this interview Ron Paul talks a bit about the stimulus bill, and the process by which it was introduced. Ron Paul is an honest guy, so I’ll take him at his word until I see strong evidence otherwise. Obama made a campaign promise to publish all legislation five days ahead of time to allow congress and the public to peruse it. He didn’t do this for the stimulus. It could be argued that the stimulus is an emergency measure and should be exempt, but he also didn’t do this for children’s health insurance, which was hardly an emergency since it doesn’t kick in until mid-year. But this was more than a simple broken campaign promise; according to Ron Paul, the bill wasn’t revealed until the midnight before the vote, and was 1,000 pages. This was made worse by making only five hard copies available, which seems to me to be a clear tactic to prevent the opposition from being able to work together to get it read and discussed before the vote. Lets get this info out to the public at large. I want to see either a denial, an explanation, or a loss of credibility over of this one. If it is true, it is disappointing.

Ron Paul on Anti-Trust

This is a very old video (07/13/1983) of Dr. Ron Paul (congressman) and Dr. Dominick Armentano (Ph.D. in economics) discussing the role of government in relation to monopoly. It is a commonly held belief in this country that one of the main functions of our government is protecting us from large corporations. As our recent banking bailout illustrates, it generally does the opposite. While I find socialism rather distasteful on a government scale, I tend to think that either socialism or free market are superior to our current system evenly between the two. What we have now is politicians invested in wealthy corporations both protecting them from competition and socializing their losses.

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