CORPORATE AMERICA could become a big supporter of RP - here's why!

It's going to take an awakening of the sheeple to command accountability from the corporations they support, just as they must demand it from their elected officials. In the marketplace, accountability is regulated by the dollar. In politics, it's regulated by the vote. Until these two things (the dollar and the vote) are given solid footing, neither system will work the way they should.

The other ingredient that is drastically in need of repair (and which protects the integrity of both of the above) is our court system. I've often thought that if a few well meaning progressives actually took the time to study Constitutional law and used their social conscience to become judges, we would be a whole lot better off. Of course this will only happen when people utilize educational institutions that actually teach our Constitution and the foundations our country was built on.

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How to support RP's cause every day:
1. Don't use credit cards
2. Stamp your cash with RP stamp before spending
3. Take cash out of ATM, stamp, put back in bank
4. Explain to teller why you did #3
5. Repeat

There are appoximately 14 million U.S. businesses, 2% of that would be 280,000. I think it would be impossible for Congress to write legislation that would give that 2% of businesses special priviledges.

But even if you took that 2% as being in cohoots with government, that still leaves over 13 million or 98% that could benefit from RP's sound economic policy. Plus if the economy tanks so to will most of those companies.

While I acknowledged in the original post that the most powerful are against RP, the VAST MAJORITY of businesses could benefit and support RP's policies.

only because under RP, small businesses (the mom and pop types, too) will thrive. Big businesses have worked to create the fees, fines and red tape that they can pay and live with, but will strangle most smaller businesses.

Big businesses don't mind government regulation because they pass those fees and fines to the consumer as small increases in price per unit. Small businesses can't do that, otherwise a gallon of milk, for example, would cost $600 because they don't have the means to sale hundreds of thousands of gallons of milk per day.

A big business can tack on a $.03 charge per gallon and easily come up with the funds to pay a governmental fee...or fine. They don't care. They have lobbyist that push Congress FOR restrictions and fines.

You are correct that a free-market would benefit corporations that do not rely on government for their existence but what you may be missing is that the most powerful corporations rely on the government to exist and a free-market threatens them. Corporations like GE, the pharmaceutical corps, the healthcare industry, the insurance industry, etc. like a government run economy because it allows them to use government as a tool (or weapon). The can get taxpayer dollars (for a variety of bs reasons - like R&D, bailouts, etc.) transferred to them, they can write legislation that stifles competition and lobby Congress to pass it. They can also combine the two (ie; Bush's prescription drug plan) that forces taxpayers to become their customers whether they want to or not. Think about it, in a free-market, Haliburton wouldn't even exist since their only real customer is government.

I think you may be throwing out the baby with the bath water.

There are many thousands of corporations that are as diverse a individuals, some good, some not so much. However, most of these are run by people who understand the common sense of RP's sound monetary philosphy and how it could benefit the economy in general.

RP is not opposed to big business per se, he is only opposed to the abuse by those who unjustly buy their way into welfare or warfare programs. He has stated that the role of the government in promoting the economy is to "Get out of the Way".

To cast a blanket proclaimation that all businesses are bad, or on the dole, is just not true.

I think that a lot of the anational corporate fat-cats would be frightened of the level economic playing field proposed by Ron Paul.

I think that many corporations are artificially propped up by military/imperial Keynesianism and an unsound and fraudulent monetary policy. A Paul Presidency would rightfully undercut this backward system and new corporations based upon sound economic principles would arise.

"We don't have to start a brand new revolution...All we have to do is restore the original Constitution." -Ron Paul

...And, if this was just about money, then they'd hop right on the RP express.

But it isn't just about money--it's about POWER. What could be better than buying policy? That's why they will never get in line with this--RP can't be bought, and that's "bad" for "business".

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