"The question has been raised about whether or not our president is a socialist," Paul said. "I am sure there are some people here who believe it. But in the technical sense, in the economic definition of a what a socialist is, no, he's not a socialist."Thank you Dr. Paul. Just to throw a wrench in the spokes, corporatist does not mean fascist despite what the right wing says-- since we're being precise in all. Corporatists are everywhere, I might occassionally include myself in that mix as well. Paul rightly labels the GOP as controlled by corporatism as well. In comparison, Obama's administration has been much less corporatist than Bush's ever was though we didn't hear Paul say that.
"He's a corporatist," Paul continued. "And unfortunately we have corporatists inside the Republican party and that means you take care of corporations and corporations take over and run the country."
The only "bailout" Obama can be credited with is the federal rescue of GM, which is for all practical purposes a blue collar corporation. Not that private citizens didn't benefit from the rest of TARP cause many did. But the essence of the bailout was because those corporations were too big to fail with Wall Street being the biggest beneficiaries. GM, on the other hand, was necessary not only for the auto industry but mainly for the 250,000 employees. Out of all the bailouts, GM was the most practical for private citizens.
One also can't help but notice that Paul's anti-corporation rhetoric is also reminiscent of Marx himself. Could you imagine if President Obama, or any Democrat for that matter, gave a speech about the evils of corporatism, the military industrial complex and how private citizens are taken aback and disconnected from their government by wealth being concentrated in a few hands what the GOP and the MSM would be saying about that. There's no doubt they would call it socialism. But for Ron Paul and especially the GOP, they are capitalism's saviors.
Finally, it's also extremely noticable that Ron Paul is maybe the only Republican in the world that notices the link between endless war and the deficit. Paul was booed when he mentioned his anti-war stance while the person responsible for both endless wars, the tripling of the national debt, trillion dollar deficits and the largest expansion of government in two generations was given a standing ovation. If there was ever anyone that could run as an independent or as a third party candidate and win it would be Paul. So why he's a member of the most fiscally insane and detatched party ever is beyond me.
