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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 935593" data-attributes="member: 12508">A weak response, as I expected. I always hear Libertarians say &quot;let the market decide&quot;. Fine, that makes sense if the market isn&#039;t corrupted. Since the market is corrupted, letting the market decide is a bad idea, as in if we the government had let GM fail. I&#039;ll grant you that government can be wasteful and needs to be cut back in certain respects (like the military), but a large federal government seems a necessity given the size and complexity of our country.I realize that Ron Paul doesn&#039;t want to completely eliminate the federal government, but he&#039;d like to prune it all the way to the ground, which is nonsense. We don&#039;t need a Department of Education or an EPA? These are national concerns that exceed state capabilities. And our government is rigged in favor of large companies. Ron Paul wuldn&#039;t really change that because Libertarians are huge fans of privatization, believing (falsely) that private industry can always do a better job than government. Isn&#039;t that a huge gift to Corporate America?And where did I ever say that &quot;everything exists because of government&quot;? Sometimes government helps, and sometimes it hinders. It isn&#039;t perfect by any means, but a Libertarian USA would be a disaster. There&#039;s a reason Paul never gets more than 7 or 8% of the vote, and that&#039;s because 92 to 93% of Americans think he&#039;s crazy. Count me as one of that number.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 935593, member: 12508"] A weak response, as I expected. I always hear Libertarians say "let the market decide". Fine, that makes sense if the market isn't corrupted. Since the market [I]is[/I] corrupted, letting the market decide is a bad idea, as in if we the government had let GM fail. I'll grant you that government can be wasteful and needs to be cut back in certain respects (like the military), but a large federal government seems a necessity given the size and complexity of our country. I realize that Ron Paul doesn't want to completely eliminate the federal government, but he'd like to prune it all the way to the ground, which is nonsense. We don't need a Department of Education or an EPA? These are national concerns that exceed state capabilities. And our government is rigged in favor of large companies. Ron Paul wuldn't really change that because Libertarians are huge fans of privatization, believing (falsely) that private industry can always do a better job than government. Isn't that a huge gift to Corporate America? And where did I ever say that "everything exists because of government"? Sometimes government helps, and sometimes it hinders. It isn't perfect by any means, but a Libertarian USA would be a disaster. There's a reason Paul never gets more than 7 or 8% of the vote, and that's because 92 to 93% of Americans think he's crazy. Count me as one of that number. [/QUOTE]

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