Comment: I don't think Ron Paul ever expected to have "this movement"

He has said many times that his role in Congress is to "educate" not to change -- he's a realist; good God could imagine the heartache if he went back every year thinking he was going to change it all?

The "evil-they" will make money off of anything that has a mixed revenue bag.

1) Consumers-who-Purchase
2) Consumers-who-Invest
3) Gov't Intervention
---Subsidies
---Bailouts
---Lending
---Tax Loopholes
---Barriers to Entry
---Price Setting

As long as the revenue is "mixed" then they will join it -- the "mix" means not dependent solely on consumers (meaning fixed -- a mixed economy is a fixed economy). In essence they want guarantees against consumer sovereignty.

Gov't Leverage and Power (above):
1) Consumers-who-Vote
2) Consumers-who-Lobby
3) Corporations-who-Vote
4) Corporations-who-Lobby
5) The Senior Politician
---Controls Warchest
---Controls Special Committee Seats
---Thus Controls Junior Politicians

The latter is why politicians must sell out -- you can't have enough RP's to fix the game in our favor because "game fixing" is what they want -- they bet on both sides (they are fully hedged) they just need the war to continue -- they need us to engage as voters-lobbiers.