Ron Paul on ABC/YahooNews (Elizabeth Warren)

[EvilMonsanto]

Run time: 15:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNZdOEkVo0   Posted on YouTube: November 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: Aaronundie Views on YouTube: 305   Posted on DU: November 08, 2011 By DU Member: EvilMonsanto Views on DU: 1028

 
I posted this because the Elizabeth Warren Comment is picking up alot of steam
But I think watching the entire video would allow you to have a more complete argument

[Jack Rabbit]

1. He couldn't have picked a worse day to say this

If Elizabeth Warren is a socialist, then so am I. If it is socialist to recognize that human society grows from human nature and that a single individual, no matter how gifted, cannot make it on his own, then I am a socialist, too.

So far I haven't said anything about the abolition private property. Dr. Warren, in her remarks, appears to affirm the right to own private property. That doesn't sound like a socialism to me.

I do not agree with Dr. Paul that government is inherently inefficient or that private business is inherently efficient. I do not believe that businessmen are inherently wise or that they always make rational decisions. I note that Dr. Paul doesn't go that far, either. He recognizes, at least, that crooked financiers played a big part in creating the current economic mess. Nevertheless, there are no Ayn Rand heroes, no capitalist Übermenschen. And Keynesian remedies work.

If what Dr. Warren is running on is socialism, if what OWS presents as a remedy to economic injustice is socialism, then let us make the most of it.

Dr. Paul chose to say this on a day when the Republicans were handed their collective ass for union-busting, social safety net-cutting, pro-Ponzi scheme politics. He couldn't have picked a worse day to proclaim that Dr. Warren is a "socialist" or that there is anything wrong with what she says.

[kenfrequed]

2. As usual...

He shows a complete lack of understanding of economics, society, government, and rational thought process. The caricature of him on SNL is closer than anyone probably realizes to what his political philosophy actually is.