Archive for September, 2008

free market fundamentalism

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Even Ron Paul is wrong in his fundamentalist belief that free market has nothing to do with the financial crisis today.
But free (unregulated, uncapped) market allows concentration of resources in the hands of a few (corporatism) and allows these guys to stretch everything else, from government regulations to wars; the lack of science-based regulations allowed [...]

whom to vote

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I finally listened patiently and attentively to the democrat and republican ABC New Hampshire debates (thanks to the posters at youtube). I also listened to the presidential debate from Univ. of Mississippi on 26 Sept.
From the republican camp, I noticed one talking rationally: Ron Paul (previously libertarian), then some intelligent but misguided folks: Huckabee and [...]