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Mon Jan-07-08 02:02 PM
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Ron Paul is an opponent of the safety net and a champion of privatization.
Hmmm. What I got out of The Shock Doctrine is that "privatization" and "free trade" are deceitfully misnamed: both are actually examples of government actively transferring wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich. Russia, Latin America, etc. didn't get oligarchs because the government stopped doing anything; they got oligarchs because the government actively made them richer and more powerful by giving away public money and public property without any of the competitive pressures an actual market would bring.
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