Author: Ron Paul
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Paul: The right lessons from Obamacare’s meltdown
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The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare’s health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance option. If Obamacare continues on its current track, most of America may resemble…
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Paul: Fascism is a bipartisan affliction
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If neoconservatives and progressives truly understood fascism, they would stop using the word as a smear term. That is because both groups, along with most political figures and commentators, embrace fascist ideas and policies. Fascism’s distinguishing characteristic is a “mixed economy.” Unlike socialists and communists who seek to abolish private business, fascists are content to…
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Paul: Government can’t help; it can only hurt
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Three recent stories regarding three government agencies – the IRS, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – show why we should oppose big government for practical, as well as philosophical, reasons. In recent months, many Americans have missed their flights because of longer-than-usual TSA security lines. In typical D.C.…
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Paul: Do we really need to bring back internment camps?
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Last week, Retired General Wesley Clark, who was NATO commander during the U.S. bombing of Serbia, proposed that “disloyal Americans” be sent to internment camps for the “duration of the conflict.” Discussing the recent military base shootings in Chattanooga, Tenn., in which five U.S. service members were killed, Clark recalled the internment of American citizens…
