America's Socialist Programs

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Yes, the 29000 + supporters that plopped down their hard earned cash to support a failed ideologue whose sole message is What? We can do it cheaper? We can illegally skirt campaign finance laws to buy a blimp?

I think it would be a better thing if I were to go back in time and send Ayn Rand's girlhood crush over to her house so he could kill her before she could write her tripe. Far more proactive and doable than arguing with someone like you.

Now we have a failing President who is managing to bring the country down lower than Bush. Congratulations on the change. If there was a sole message in the Paul campaign it would be to obey the Constitution. No blimp was purchase and a rented blimp did not break any taboo against free speech. Why mention Ayn Rand when it is far more trendy to mention the Koch brothers as the manifestation of all evil.

Gibran wrote, "you have to ask yourself what programs would these people keep? and how do they address inequalities in health-care, education and wealth? Aynn Rand should be replaced with Rawls... "

The federal government is effectively bankrupt. You have to ask yourself which federal programs should be dropped to afford the remainder of programs and which programs could and should be operated at the state and local level to improve their efficiency. Want some equality in wealth? Then create a shortage of US labor by escaping NAFTA and GATT while imposing some import taxes to lower income taxes. Only when labor is in short supply can it start demanding a larger share of the national economic pie. Begging for scraps from Obama isn't going to cut it.

Maxx, "We all should know how well this worked for education in the past when there was no or very little federal involvement with what states did about education, i.e., segregated schools, poor quality education in many southern states. "

That brought Mississippi education to the top of the heap, right? Lucky for Mississippi, California's blue state policies have driven California public education from near the best in the country to being a contender to challenge Mississippi, with all it's federal help, for the #50 spot.