Ron Paul is too amazing.

If people know about Ron Paul people will vote for Ron Paul that is all there is to it. The only jerk that is going to split votes is Donald Trump. I am convinced the only reason he is running is to take away votes from Ron Paul.

If the last election had been conducted with honesty and integrity, I am certain I would have been elected. I had more actual grass roots support than any other candidate.

To be fair, it was the media that defeated me, not my opponents.

It is also important to note here that the republican party has turned from away from true conservatism to what can best be described as liberal fascism. There is no President in history that signed every spending bill to hit his desk other than George W. Bush.

Though Wellstone was killed, he was a good man. Here are few.


Dave Nalle
Cross
Goldwater
Westmiller
Bob Barr

you are correct. i have been screaming about this since that fuckhead hit the scene.

During Bush's term people called me a left winger, and now during Obama's term people call me a right winger. Two arms, same body. Why don't you run as an independent it worked for Lieberman. I changed my political association from Democrat to independent solely because of you and your son and in the process realized I was a Libertarian at heart. Regardless of what party you run as you have my vote , but if you are not given the nomination where does that leave you where does that leave America?

I'm going to look up those guys thanks.

If your fantasy came true those atrocities would be happening here, NOW and nothing would stop the corporations from doing it because according to ron paul such laws are unconstitutional. Yeah that world would be alot fun. And if you don't have the budget to get all your food and product purchases, your local land, drinking water, and air tested for toxicity then what? btw I don't drink aspertame and bleach but I might as well be drinking corexit and cesium in your fucking fantasy.

I think Trump is having the effect of turning the American people against the Republican party to be frank. By acting the way he does with ridiculous notions, he looks like a radical nutcase.

Though I do not agree with his policies, I support the President in that I recognize his legitimacy and I respect the sanctity of the office. He got elected off of a backlash against Bush's fascist policies.

These birthers are dividing the republican party. No one want's to be associated with a nut. I believe that is their goal, to undermine the republican party.

To quote Doc Brown from Back to the Future "No wonder your Presidents are actors, they have to look good on television"

Only in America...

If you drink or bathe in a municipal water supply you sure as hell do.

Has government regulation prevented any of these things?In a free market, drug manufacturers wouldn't have the government as a buffer between them and the consumer, for instance. Their profits would be exposed to the people directly.There would be no government institution that would be there to legitimize their poisoning of the American people. Government oversight doesn't prevent any of these things when the politicians are for sale to the highest bidder.

It's all divide and conquer. Everybody is so distracted by the side show they are unable, or unwilling to focus on what matters. Regardless of Obama and where he came from he's in there. People need to deal with it and move on and focus on the here and now.

Your example is nonsensical (moronic) and your conclusion is equally clueless.

What you're saying is the workers at the plant (the guys hired by the company that owns it and has incentive to cut costs to increase profits) should police it.....so what would stop the company from hiring only the most clueless (like you) yes-men and idiots who would give every cutback the green light just to advance their own career?? So in your example not only would the company be able to get away with ANY cost-cutting it wanted, but it would have incentive to hire incompetent idiots who didn't know how much danger they were at risk for b but clearly understood the fastest way to a promotion (maybe out of the plant?) is to look the other way and greenlight everything...how is that not a recipe for a catastrophic disaster? Do you guys EVER think things through to their conclusion?

patriots don't support 9/11 aiders and abettors


is that written in a law or something?
is EVERYTHING they say or claim bs?
maybe you should have added "period" to.

Deregulation defangs the lobbyists, and totally destroys their influence.

This translates into congressmen and women that are not for sale, because there is no profit involved in bribing them. it would bring a whole different breed to Washington, because there would be no chance to make easy money taking bribes.

Bribery is the single most corrosive influence in politics.

That is why so many fight against deregulation, especially the international corporations and bankers. By melding themselves with government , they legitimize their activities that are not in the best interests of the American people..

Divide and conquer is a tried and true method of undermining any group of people and taking away their power to change things for the better.That is why it is utilized in every single election.

ABO -Anybody but O

Why do you hide behind an anonymous proxy? Paranoid much? Workers who are there in the midst of it are not going implement regulations which put their own lives in danger.

I took some RCT classes earlier this year if anything safety is of utmost importance to those who personally work in the field. I would probably be well on my way to working at a DOE facility if it were not for the Fukushima disaster causing me to rethink my career choice.

You are either clearly out of touch with reality, or obfuscating. I am convinced you are working nefariously to undermine the republic. I've seen this before.Government regulation does nothing to reduce harm by corporations, because politicians are in their hip pocket. It only makes things much worst.

That line of thinking is exactly what got Obama into power.

You make a good point, and in industrialized nations government oversight only exacerbates the situation of incompetent regulation. As I pointed out before, one tiny accident in a free market economy would drive a nuclear operator out of business.

Your input has been invaluable to me. Keep up the good fight. I'm going to bed, it's 4:20 am where I am at. Goodnight.

Yes, regulation has helped prevent these things when it actually allowed to function and isn't handicapped by corporatist politicians who let corporations police themselves (as ron paul advocates). We are not as polluted as Somalia, Nigeria, Mexico, or even China, but that can always change with the elimination of certain laws and regs. Your free market concept is a deluded lie because the mega-corporations would have no laws and no resistance to using their full power to eliminate all competition and gain total market dominance. ....also I see that your mental disorder precludes you to seeing safety regulation as "sanctioned poisoning" (even as you suggest companies be allowed to freely pollute, or whatever else they want)..wow....and then you wonder off on a tangent about politicians being for sale....A more sensible approach would be to, you know, address that particular issue (maybe strict public financing of all politicians) and not go off on the deep end and allow corporations to do anything including just dumping deadly waste on people's front lawns.

"I am convinced you are working nefariously to undermine the republic"? huh? Because I walked followed some ronpaulite moron's asinine fantasy to its logical and catastrophic conclusion? Am I in the People's Republic of China now??

btw doofus, its "Government regulation does nothing to reduce harm by corporations WHEN politicians are in their hip pocket". Your Ron Paul world simply saves them the annoyance of buying politicians and lets them freely pollute and pillage, for profit....with CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION.

I'm pretty sure he's a half point or less away from full blown 'tard....so if THAT belligerent ignorance has been of help to you, please ask the docs to double check your meds.




Your comments are contradictory. You're suggesting that it is not possible to build a profitable nuclear plant without the kind of severe cost cutting that would only be possible without regulation and oversight, which by default would make such a plant insurmountably more unsafe compared to a regulated plant. By your logic, all the Japanese nuclear plants should not have had any regulations or oversight since, their inception, just so they could produce a better profit. Not only would this disaster have happened regardless, but it would probably have ALREADY happened if such were true and included more severe damage to even more plants. Honsho would be literally be a tomb at this moment if what you propose was law for Japan. I don't even want to imagine what it would mean for our nuke plants and our safety.

Nobody said that regulation and oversight makes disasters impossible. If the Japanese disaster shows anything its that nuclear power is inherently unsafe, but to propose they be made even less safe, in the name of profit, is just plain stupid. You have everything backwards because clearly, you're a fucking moron.

Without politicians that are bought and paid for, corporations would be limited not by government oversight but by force of law. If they did something that was illegal, they couldn't buy their way out of it by buying a politician in their district, because it would do no good.

Deregulation has nothing to do with removing laws that limit the dangerous activities of corporations, it just removes government oversight of their operations making them responsible for their own actions.

Politicians who are not bought and paid for would be unlikely to approve dangerous activities within their districts. I'll wager were in not for lobbyists, nuclear energy would never have gained approval by congress at all.

I am suggesting that without government oversight, nuclear energy would be unprofitable and in all likelihood would never be approved.

If operators tried to cut costs, they would be shut down for being in violation of laws that govern their activities. A it is, such accidents are the shared responsibility of the government overseers and the industries they regulate. This puts government in bed with the industry, with similar goals to prevent disclosure of accidents and the severity of their consequences.

In a true free market economy, One small release of radioactive materials would result in bankruptcy and prosecution of the operator, not coddling and protection.

Like I suggested earlier, I recommend researching what did happen when we had a nuclear accident, and the safety of nuclear reactors in general.

In my opinion, they represent a risk no corporation could take without government oversight and the shared responsibility it represents, and that is why people like you are paid to do what you are doing in the first place.

Right?

Abolishing regulations and oversight of corporations is symptomatic of a government THAT IS BOUGHT FOR AND BEHOLDEN TO corporations, not the opposite. What drugs do you have to take to believe that allowing corporations to do whatever the hell they want, with constitutional protection from oversight, is somehow going to make them not cut costs at the expense of the environment and whoever is caught in their path...as they currently do in other countries with lax regulations? Your preaching a delusion that is refuted by common knowledge...wtf is wrong with you? Oh, and just so you know corporations consolidate their power when they get it, political or otherwise, and they would not simply give up control over politicans because they signed laws favorable to them (dud, you fucking idiot).

You're also lying about deregulation not affecting corporations "dangerous activities". Ron Paul is for abolishing all regulations, agencies, federal oversight, and even consumer protections. He explicitly said the agencies overseeing nuclear power should be abolished. You're lying to the point your creating a candidate that pathetic scum Ron Paul himself would be against.

Well your opinion isn't shared by Ron Paul, who would rather we all die in a nuclear haze than that industry be regulated. The man is a certified old koot, a lunatic with a podium. I agree nuclear power is inherently unsafe, but again, Ron Paul doesn't want the industry itself gone, just the regulations holding back the madmen in suits who would cut costs and kill millions.

You did?? I took some RCT classes too, passed with flying colors (did I just lie, or did you?).

Now on to your childish naive belief workers wouldn't endanger themselves. Deepwater Horizon. Look it up. Who do you think installed the faulty Chinese BOP? Same guys who got blew up were the ones who knew it was inevitable and yet stayed and kept everything within the company. Your idea of workers policing the plant (might as well let the shareholders do it from their smart phones) is just fucking stupid. Workers will be intimidated to shut up (same as Deepwater Horizon), promotions will go to the yes-men and pink-slips to the talkers (same as Deepwater Horizon) and we'll end up with a catastrophe and the CEO selling off major shares a couple days beforehand (same as Deepwater Horizon). You idiot libertarians are just anarchists who think chaos will produce these benevolent corporations chaired by reincarnations of Jesus Christ, and reality will somehow be the exact opposite of other countries these same corporations are in (polluting and contaminating their way to huge profits) with lax regulations.