Last [September], Ron Paul was on The Daily Show, and under the gentlest of questioning from Jon Stewart, he said some truly insane things… Paul made his usual case that government is bad because it makes decisions for everyone, whereas “when you make a bad decision, it only hurts you.”
Stewart tried to bring up cases in which private actors harm people, like industrial pollution, but each time Paul protested that no, no, that wasn’t actually the market, that was corporations acting “in collusion with the government.” His argument seemed to be that corporations are only capable of harming people when they’re corrupted by government’s influence…
I trust I don’t have to bother explaining just how nuts this is, but here’s my question: Does Ron Paul really believe this? Does he really think that if there were no government, then no one would ever steal, cheat, or hurt anyone, just because they’d understand that the market would eventually make such behavior unprofitable? Is he really that stupid?
I guess he is.
Ron Paul, Crazy Person (via ryking)
in a nutshell. - cbg
