There has never been a monopoly that wasn’t the direct result of govt intervention and support.

The anti-trust laws were never more than a means by which govt can take down one competitor at the request of another, better connected competitor.

Not only are they bone mean but their bone ignorant too.

JohnGalt23 on April 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM

And again you miss the point. It bothers me when I see those who claim to be conservatives holding a hypocrite as the example we should follow.

I think its fine the demand the Executive Branch to follow the Constitution. I’m all for it. I just think that the person demanding such things ought to practice what he preaches. Its hard to take a person (and his acolytes) seriously when he talks out of both sides of his mouth telling us that government spends too much all the while putting in 65 requests for earmarks totaling $400,000,000. When Paul was running for the GOP presidential candidacy, he promised “principled leadership”. Which principle was he upholding when he says one thing and does another?

You need to find another hero.

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Hawthorne on April 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM

Agreed.

I think the GOP’s downfall actually began when it ignored Ronald Reagan and started to run as a “big tent” party.

Reagan once said, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”

Sure the GOP won a few elections. All they had to do was sacrifice a few core principles. But in the end, look what it got them.

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Where’s a chimp when you need one?

ambuldog on April 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM

NOT THAT WE NEED ONE, BUT IF WE DID, I’D CHECK ’1600′- IN D.C. FIRST…

Why is it necessary to use a bullhorn when the number of people attending your rally can fit in your living room?

sherry on April 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM

GOOD QUESTION, ANSWER IS THEY HAVE THEIR HEADS BURIED WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T SHINE…

Hmmmm…..sensitive about Paul’s hypocrisy aint’cha.

GT on April 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM

No. Just sensitive about Constitutional illiteracy among those who claim to be conservatives.

Once again, until you can discern the difference b/t the legislative and executive branch… do your homework.

I wonder how much press coverage there will be on the real tea parties April 15th. Don’t see how they can completely ignore them there are so many planned. Here in Texas, the last time I counted there were tax protests planned in 49 cities/villages.

Want the Ad Revenue that FOX is generating for themselves based upon Ratings ? MSM is conflicted….Ideologue vs. reality

We!
Tarted!
We!
Tarted!

JohnGalt23 on April 12, 2009 at 3:33 AM

Hmmmm…..sensitive about Paul’s hypocrisy aint’cha.

For all that Bell got broken up, there was Bell Labs that made much of the comms we have today possible. In trying to get the last static out of long distance satellite comms they also discovered the background radiation left over from the Big Bang: Bell Labs did basic science work that no one else did.

On the other side of the scale there is US vs IBM. It dragged on for over a decade and the US was out-lawyered, out-fought, and put under a warehouse full of documents that have never been properly addressed by anyone. A literal warehouse (picture Raiders of the Lost Ark… that was cleaned out to make way for US vs IBM). The US dropped the case a few years after a little business unit of IBM in Boca Raton was given the ok on a data input system with a bit of local processing power on open architecture. It was called ‘Project Chess’. And it did a lot more than just put a data entry terminal on the market, that PC did. So, yes, monopolies can end due to new advances in technology.

Fairchild PO’d its engineers and they left in the late 60′s to form this little company called Intel. You might of heard of them.

We have been warned about Federal presence in the banking system beyond currency, and the ills and questionable Constitutionality of it. That was stopped, once, and the Nation prospered with very little Federal presence in the banking sector until President Wilson made the Federal Reserve. The folks who made the wrong policy during the lead up to the Great Depression and in the lead-up to this minor problem magnified by placing ones eyeball on an anthill to make it into a mountain. Likewise T. Roosevelt was a Progressive and really enjoyed the ability to break-up and threaten companies from the Federal side. I do believe we have gotten a load of garbage on the role of the Federal government since the start of the 20th century… and the more I look at it the less I like the results we see today.

Now we’re pissed, fly-over country is wide awake, the professional protesters are in a hurry to push us back down to where they want us. We must not let that happen. We should use the Tea-Parties as a launching pad, we need to out community organize the community organizers. We need to put our petty disagreements aside. This is for the better of all of us. We have more in common than not, use it to put America first, not party.

The left has been at this for more than forty years, we need direct action NOW, we have allot of ground to cover. They always target the rich, but in the end that always includes anyone above the poverty level. They always say we’ll get a tax break, sometimes we do, but they will always find fees and taxes on other things, so in effect we are paying more to government.

If you ever bothered to pay attention to what you pay taxes on day to day, add it up over the course of a year, you will find that over 50% of what you earn is taxes and fees, and for what? A broken system that rewards the lazy, and punishes hard work.

Go to a Tea-Party, this is not about party politics, it is about our values, our rights, and the survival of our Nation. We cannot continue down this path, that, I hope we can all agree on.

They are realizing this is going to be an unavoidable truth for them.

GT on April 11, 2009 at 10:15 PM

Ron Paul is, all things being equal, very much against granting the executive branch powers to do… well, pretty much do anything not explicitly named in the Constitution.

JohnGalt23 on April 11, 2009 at 8:23 PM

Ummmm… where did Ron Paul find “earmarks” in the Constitution?

Reading comprehension ain’t your strong suit, is it?

Earmarking is a function carried out by the “legislative” branch. I only talked about the “executive” branch.

Do your homework.

paulsur on April 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM

Those two Texas Senators are prime examples of what I say, there is very little difference between the two parties. Both parties adopt policies of the CFR, Trilateral Commission, etc. They are globalists that are willing to sell your nation out to us Mexicans. They will institute global governance whether you like it or not, unless you wake up and organize.