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Not quite says Robert Higgs. Although many of our horrid government institutions and laws have the Commie Seal of Approval, this country has for a long time and even more so currently been exhibiting the tell-tale signs of another closely related collectivist system.

Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet?
Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List
November 10, 2008
Robert Higgs

Reading the news has been exciting lately. Hardly a day passes without the announcement of some new government initiative to save the world. Bail out the mortgage lenders; bail out the big insurance company; bail out the banks; bail out the money-market funds; bail out the commercial-paper sellers; bail out the depositors in belly-up banks; bail out the automobile companies; bail out the deadbeats who didn’t make their mortgage payments when they came due. When the Treasury bumps up against its borrowing limits, and interest rates begin to rise on its bonds, bail it out, too, by having the Fed flood the world’s credit markets with new reserves created by nothing more than a snap of its electronic finger. Who knows what industry, special-interest group, or noisy whiners bloc will be bailed out next? With the Fed standing ready to inflate without limit, the festivities need never end.

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Brian Moore, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate talks with Neil Cavuto. Naturally Moore embraces the bailouts and nationalizing financial institutions just like the anti-capitalist big government neocons and liberals. Moore says socialism would “turn over power to citizens and consumers and workers who will basically socialize our system and have a fair distribution of monies throughout our country instead of leaving it up to a small elite group of people who really conduct very bogus types of financial dealings at the expense of the majority of Americans.”
Really? And who will be the deciders on this fair distribution of monies? A small elite group with a total disregard for the rule of law and sound economics but equipped with capricious notions of collective fairness? That is the only possibility in a social democratic system, the turning over of power to elected kleptocrats and unelected bureaucrats. But that is the source of our current social and economic ills—that is the unconstitutional system that has poisoned this country for too long isn’t it?
As Ron Paul has said, “No matter how much the grand planners from both political parties deny it, many of their programs and proposals are socialist. Federal taxes, regulations, welfare, subsidies, wage controls, price controls, and interest rate manipulations all represent socialist interventions in the economy.”
The Socialist candidate has much in common with the Republican and Democratic candidates since they all have the same repulsion for constitutional limits on federal power and the same belief that more of the economic disease will be the cure. Probably Moore’s only lament about our current economic system is that it is more a right wing collectivist (fascist) than the left wing collectivist (socialist) system that he prefers.

That’s the message Earl Ofari Hutchinson has for the major party candidates in his Huffington Post article yesterday. I couldn’t agree more with that message but for the reasons Earl gives for McCain and Obama to give up on courting the Paulites…well that’s another matter.

Earl starts with the “fringe” but not so scary, but scary enough positions that strike fear into big government collectivists like Earl.

“The scary thing about Paul’s candidacy was never his fringe views on taxes, social security, abortion rights, his opposition to tough environmental regulations, tout of non-interference in state rights issues and his opposition to civil rights laws (said Paul, they actually promote bigotry by dividing Americans into race and class).”

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
May 12, 2008

The House passed two bills attempting to rehabilitate the housing and mortgage market this week. There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of criticism and blame for the bad decisions, and rightly so. Lenders and banks do share much of the blame for the overheated market. Lending standards were relaxed, or even abandoned altogether, creating an exaggerated pool of homebuyers that led to ballooning home prices that many, especially real estate investors, expected to continue forever. Now that the bubble has burst, the losses are staggering.

However, many in Washington fail to realize it was government intervention that brought on the current economic malaise in the first place. The Federal Reserve’s artificially low interest rates created the loose, easy credit that ignited a voracious appetite in the banks for borrowers. People made these lending and buying decisions based on market conditions that were wildly manipulated by government. But part of sound financial management should be recognizing untenable or falsified economic conditions and adjusting risk accordingly. Many banks failed to do that and are now looking to taxpayers to pick up the pieces. This is wrong-headed and unfair, but Congress is attempting to do it anyway.

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ADVOCATOR OF INDIVIDUALITY

“Even though Ron Paul can not become president, he might manage to change at least a part of the American people, and bring back self confidence to those that have been lost in the majority, followed individuals, and forgotten their personality.”

Revolutionist Ron Paul Continues Campaign

Paul advocated individuality, and irritated many with his liberalism and ignorance of controlling the world, which the US is carrying out.

Whilst the democrats are fighting for a presidential nomination, the republican Ron Paul, who has exited the presidential race, is continuing his campaign.

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“As any libertarian, Paul wants to guarantee individual freedom for people. Meaning, he wants to neglect wars and world control, conducted by the USA, he wants to leave NATO, legalise marijuana and honour democracy and the Constitution above all – without violating anyone`s individual freedom. Revoking the ministries, Paul wants to cut back on expenses and force Congress to do its task and serve the people. What his party members find worst is that he strongly opposes war in Iraq.

It is hard to succeed in today`s America with ideas like these. As a Republican who strongly advocates family values, he is not a favourite among the Democrats, or the Republicans. His vision of America is above the Republican-Democratic relations, but those whom he wises to lead are not on his level.”

Ron Paul – Man Who Would Change America
State power-wielders mind the fact he would revoke most ministries in the USA, leave NATO, end war in Iraq and legalise marijuana.

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Aside from the shaky english, not half bad articles.
They use the word “liberal” to describe Ron Paul, but in their part of the world “liberal” still has its original definition, something that was turned into the opposite meaning in the USA—back in time when the socialists stole the word.

Jim Bovard, author of his latest and greatest book Attention Deficit Democracy rips AmeriCorps a new one.

The National Service Illusion
JAMES BOVARD

National Service is one of the hottest causes of presidential candidates. Both Barack Obama and John McCain are gung-ho for expanding Americorps to hire a quarter million people to perform federally-orchestrated good deeds. Former presidential candidate Senator Chris Dodd wanted to make community service mandatory for high school students and boost AmeriCorps to a million members. John Edwards also favored making national service mandatory.

But does America have a shortage of government workers?

AmeriCorps is the epitome of contemporary federal good intentions. AmeriCorps, which currently has roughly 75,000 paid recruits, has been very popular in Washington in part because it puts a smiley face on Uncle Sam at a time when many government policies are deeply unpopular.

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Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk Column
May 5, 2008

In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim that the way to reduce gas prices is by expanding the government’s power to regulate prices and control the supply of gasoline. For example, the House of Representatives has even passed legislation subjecting gas stations owners to criminal penalties if they charge more than a federal bureaucrat deems appropriate. Proponents of these measures must have forgotten the 1970s, when government controls on the oil industry resulted in gas lines and shortages. It was only after President Reagan lifted federal price controls that the gas lines disappeared.

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