Basically, Mr. Paul, what you are saying is that the bureaucracy which I’ve been personally dealing with is better than government bureaucracy. How so, Mr. Paul? Would there be someone in the government who would make people jump through hoops or deny them care so that he or she could rake in millions, in one case, billions of dollars per year? Is that how the government would work? Because that’s damn sure how the private sector works.
And what, Mr. Paul, do you say to those who would be denied employment because of conditions for which they had no say, like their ethnicity or race or gender? Is your answer “tough shit”? The employer’s free to hire whomever he wants, even if his hiring decision is based upon irrationality?
If helping people whose natural characteristics bother employers enough to deny them employment is an indication of a “nanny state”, then so be it. I think it’s an indication of caring state officials elected by caring citizens who know that all is not equal and that part of the inequality is based upon greed, racism, sexism and, basically, an attempt at ethnic cleansing.
People want to vote for you, Representative Paul, because you’re a Republican who has the guts to stand up to other Republicans and call for our troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
It’s interesting that those same people aren’t asking, “So, Representative Paul, what happens to these people after we bring them back from Iraq?”
You sure as hell aren’t going to take care of them. You’re going to have some private business whose goal is to make its CEO and top executives as wealthy as they can be “take care of our veterans”. Will our veterans who’ve been ignored in Iraq be able to afford the top shelf care offered by these corporations? Are they physically going to have enough time to go through all of the brochures to find out which corporation offers more for less? Will those advertisements be as “honest” as the advertisements we see on our TVs today?
We know that Ron Paul’s worldview is to do the best for Ron Paul. If you listen to Rand’s interview, you know that she finds it “immoral” for people to care about others, at least before they’re satisfied that they’re sufficiently wealthy. We know by what happened at such places as Enron that CEOs are never satisfied with their personal wealth.
I submit that, if Ron Paul, by some miracle, is elected president, the troops will be withdrawn from Iraq as quickly as possible.
I further submit that, after the troops are withdrawn, Ron Paul will care less about American citizens, including those troops, than any president before him, even Dubya. Why? Because, if you listen to Paul’s goddess, Ayn Rand, that’s the right thing to do. Not caring about others is, indeed, the right thing to do.
Conclusion
I said that this would be long and I was right.
I also said that it would be a mish mash of ideas as a lot of things were running through my angry mind when I began to write this. I see now, however, that it does tie together.
I wrote a fairly long personal narrative to show that wasteful bureaucracies exist not only in government, but in the private sector as well. Since the private sector is not answerable to the people, those corporate bureaucracies can continue to raise prices, deny employment for no good reason and force people to do the work which makes them money while paying those people too little to live on. This is what Libertarians want. The rights of each person should be decided by each person, not a majority. So, instead of a majority forcing people to follow the law, we should have the wealthiest and most powerful people and corporations forcing people to follow their laws. If we look at what’s happening to the media, we know that competition won’t prevent people from having to follow corporate laws.
I brought up another personal experience to which Ayn Rand and her disciple Ron Paul would say, “Stuff happens. He has every right to be as wealthy as he can make himself, to incorporate a business and hire whomever he wants to hire and deny employment to whomever he wants to deny employment.”
Mr. Paul believes that if one is Black and corporations are no longer required to follow a law forcing corporations to hire qualified Black people, well, to repeat, stuff happens. Mr. Paul won’t care what stuff happens to the Black or Hispanic person who can’t find work. You know why? Because it would be immoral to help them. It would take away the self esteem of the people who are refused employment, self-esteem which would no doubt be flying high as they beg on the streets for enough money for food for the day.
