Ron Paul lives in a fantasy world of days gone by
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Sometimes I find myself nodding in gentle understanding of Ron Paul’s points. This is not one of those times. TPM has a video up in which he says basically that if you’re poor – well, sucks for you.
From TPM:
For Rep Ron Paul (R-TX), education and medical care are not rights but rather “things that you have to earn.”
In an exchange about U.S. credit policy with MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur on Wednesday, Paul was asked whether people should be able to borrow money to buy a house, or car. “Oh, in a free market, you can do that,” Paul said, but only so long as that credit is backed up by real money, and not something that “comes out of thin air.”
Uygur asked the Congressman if students who can’t afford tuition should be able to get government loans. “No one has a right to anyone’s wealth, I don’t have a right to come to you and say my poor kid needs 500 dollars for an education,” Paul replied, “an education is not a right, medical care is not a right.”
He makes a point in the video below that things were different when he was younger. They were better. College didn’t cost as much back then. Of course, black people in the south couldn’t even go to college then – or vote for that matter.
Right, things sure were a lot simpler.
I wish people like Ron Paul would stop pining over how good this country was when they were young. First, it’s not true. Second, it doesn’t matter. We don’t live in the 1950’s, we live now. Get used to it.
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The problem with you guys that are skeptical of RP’s views is that you are so entrenched in how politics is being played out today you see RP’s solutions as radical and that they wouldn’t work. But year after year there are no positive changes, you get taxed more, price of living goes up.
Since the dollar is coming to an end and you are all going to be in a crisis over oil/gas and food prices shortly, you won’t have much choice but to make huge changes in your lifestyles. Maybe then you will stop and think “hey that Ron Paul was right after all, shame I didn’t listen to him!”
The good ole days is no place I would ever want to live. If Ron could return to the “good ole days,” he would hear people grumbling about how the world has gone to hell, not like it used to be in the good ole days.
We are living in the good ole days right now. We just don’t know it, but our grandchildren will.
Have I EVER trashed you Holty????
Be honest…I know it’ll hurt…;-)
I am perpetually confused by the American way of having a Christian (am I allowed to say that word?) name as a surname.
Actually he looks alarmingly like a chap I saw coming out of a porno cinema the other day….
Obviously a perv. Old and bald(ish)….nuff said
Right wing libertarian?….WOW!!! WTF IS THAT when it’s at home?
Ron Paul wishes it was the 18th century, I wish he had lived in that time.
Put a simpleton in front of a keyboard and occasionally he will type something that makes sense, but not very often. That’s the way I see Ron Paul. He makes a point about American imperialism and military expansion, but that’s about it. Not really fair to trash a guy for his opinions, but I get trashed for mine sometimes, so if Paul ever got real power he would be a disaster.
I saw that interview yesterday and I was not impressed for all the reasons articulated in this story and in those of the comments. The very idea of him being elected president or even receiving the nomination is far fetched.
As you say, the problem with libertarians such as Ron Paul and his son is that they don’t live in the real world. Rand demonstrated that in his theoretical opposition to the Civil Rights Act, because he couldn’t recognize that it would take ages for “the market” to correct the injustice and indignity of people being refused service at lunch counters because of the color of their skin.
Just as Ron in this video clearly doesn’t give shit about poor people being denied a chance at a college education, Rand didn’t give a mouse’s fart about the countless people who would have been hurt without the Civil Rights Act. Right-wing libertarian thought is uncaring lunacy.
I work with a teabagger who regularly shares those Glen Beck type of vignettes, how people used to band together to hold bake sales or whatever when someone took ill. A simple grasp of the CPI and medical costs should be enough to curtail that line of thinking.
As you point out,the Good Ole Days weren’t so good for many people.
I can tell by “nodding in gentle understanding” you get the very few but very correct good points the guy has.Me too.
I wanted to respond before the crowd of “I only oppose war when a Republican’s in office” Democrat partisans stop by to trash him.