Ron Paul Recent AMA on Reddit Reveals Bias Towards Private Prisons

[dsteve01]

Hey everyone, I recently saw that in Ron Paul's AMA, he totally left the most popular question floating:

Ron, what is your take on private prisons?

EDIT: Evidently you don't have one, but I'd kind of figured. Your political platform whiffs of mammon worship inelegantly draped in misinterpreted liberal causes and populist conspiracy theories, which is then flogged as a panacea. Only highlighting the bright, shiny parts of your platform is a seriously unbrave way to sway hearts and minds.

If you want to make the libertarian economic argument so be it, but stand by it. You might've even done a lot of good by bringing people from the hard-right Palinesque GOP off the cliffs of social barbarism and authoritarian mewling with familiar homespun bootstrappy economic arguments, but that isn't what you've done. You have instead expended tremendous energy trying to convert liberals into gold bugs and anti-government conspiracists with promises of pot and vague sermons about withdrawing the United States from international affairs and obligations. This says a lot about your goals to me.

Let's be clear about one thing though: Libertarians do not, and never have transcended the system. It is not some mystical third way that will solve everything. It is a cursed thing and a familiar thing, a chimera of bad economic policy and passable advocacy for individual liberty. Neither is unique, and that is all the praise I can muster.

With that, a musical interlude courtesy of DJ Friendzone, MC Sagan, and Lil' Ron: So Brave

EDIT 2: Thanks for the gold, reddit friends. To the others, further complaints about my post can be directed straight into your nearest bin.

It's still the most popular question and reveals the gaping hole in his economic outlook. Could this foreshadow Rand Paul's presidential run? Would you want a government devoted to privatizing schools and prisons?

Ask your friends today!

Also, I made a collection of the posts that Paul didn't answer on my google space.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Of course he does...he would support a return to "sharecropping" if he could get away with saying so

the Pauls would probably even support indentured servitude for that matter!

[Fuddnik]

2. I don't think he'd support dentures for his servants.

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. I know right? Why would he make them more capable of eating?

[golfguru]

4. Now this would be one positive use of NAFTA

Send all our prisoners to Mexico jails. It will cost 10% and no one will
ever want to be a repeat offender after spending time in Mexican jails.