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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Perhaps, if Host's post is too difficult for you, you can focus on something simple ...Ron Paul's position on environmental regulation that I posted earlier: Ron Paul on the environment and the EPA:
Q: What makes you the strongest candidate on energy and the environment?
A: On environment, governments don't have a good reputation for doing a good job protecting the environment. If you look at the extreme of socialism or communism, they were very poor environmentalists. Private property owners have a much better record of taking care of the environment
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Q: What do you see as the role of the Environmental Protection Agency?
A: You wouldn't need it. Environmental protection in the U.S. should function according to the same premise as "prior restraint" in a newspaper....
http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/10/16/paul/
Were you around in the early 70s before the federal environmental laws?
With all its faults, can you deny the accomplishments of the EPA and Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Solid Waste Disposal Act, etc.?
Do you really believe that "private property owners" would have done the same without federal regulation? The pre-1970s state of the environment would suggest that private property owners failed miserably.....dumping raw sewage in lakes, rivers and streams, spewing toxic chemicals out of their smokestacks, burning rubbish in open dumps.....
Or, like samcol, you can just ignore it 
Here is why Ron Paul is at low single digits (1-4%) in all national polls.
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The dude in that video is far crazier than Ron Paul, and he cant even characterize his positions correctly.
Honestly... do you guys really beleive that if Ron Paul were elected, we'd immediately backtrack to industrial revolution era, and start putting 7 year olds in all our factories to haul the toxic wastes down to the closest river?
Do you really think people are going to die en mass if we *phase* medicare out and slowly transition to another system?
Do you really believe his stance is to blow up all these regulatory agencies immediately, letting the chips fall where they may while he sits back and watches chaos ensue? Thats what it sounds like.
Because something isn't regulated by the federal government, doesn't mean the states cant regulate it. Thats the whole idea... let states pick up where the feds leave off, and take over many regulatory roles that the federal government handles now.
Host:
If Ron Paul were going to be that good for big business and the "elite", why isn't he a frontrunner? Even though Ron Paul doesn't take donations from corporations, with the powerful elite and mega-corps backing him in other ways, he would be the most popular candidate right now, bar none. He would be getting more facetime on the TV networks, than any other candidate. He's pro free market, not a corporatist.