Atlas Flopped

Thank you Rand Paul! You have done everyone a service, albeit unwittingly, by revealing why your brand of Republicanism, and Republican philosophy in general, isn't relevant to America today. With people like Dr. Paul in charge, things would be very different. The states would control education, for instance, so that more than even now, Texans could teach one thing and Pennsylvanians could teach something else. Goodbye, Dept of Education. And so long Environmental Protection. You're not needed. Trusty business leaders would surely police themselves just like the Wall Streeters did. (Remember Alan Greenspan's shock, shock, that they didn't?) It's inspiring to hear Dr. Paul explain that mining accidents happen. Guess those widows and children should stop their weeping and just be thankful that they had jobs even though they knew every day in the mines might be their last, so poorly were they regulated. How about oil spills? Joe Kennedy, the father, famously said that business men were bastards, but of course he was a Democrat. He knew that profit hungry corporations would seldom be really good citizens, do more than give money away, without the Sheriff watching. Rand Paul doesn't think we need those pesky watchdogs.

But it's on the social side of national issues that Dr. Paul has been of particular service to the country. If elected, he's made it clear he would surely champion the Republican dream of repealing the New Deal and it's most recent offspring, ObamaCare, to say nothing of Medicare, Americans with Disabilities, etc. He doesn't feel private business owners should be required to do anything they don't want to do, like desegregating their restaurants. And on it goes. Left to Dr. Paul, this country would only be partially desegregated even today. It's really difficult to envision the mischievous results of power in his hands. There's always Newt Gingrich, who compares Obama to Hitler and Stalin, and defends his position!

Thank you also, Dr. Paul , for helping us decide what kind of a Constitution we want, as America moves into the 21st Century. Strict observance would save so much trouble. If the problem wasn't envisioned by the Founding Fathers, Dr. Paul would just let nature take it's course. Why you could probably abolish half a dozen other governmental departments and hundreds of agencies in the interest of economy and he and his friends would never notice a difference. Too bad about the others, but someone has to be on the bottom of the ladder. Right? Wrong!