Ron Paul on the Environment

This is Ron Paul's take on the Environment.

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[dnHooligan]

Henry Ford's original prototype had a body made of hemp "plastic" and ran on a hemp bio-fuel...unfortunately the federal reserve act put his future in the hands of the "money masters."

[Hufenator]

Environmental policy has to be enforced preemptively by the government. Companies will pollute to what they can get away with. When "regulated" by the market, a company could pollute & cause people to get cancer, and may be sued into bankruptcy, but all those people would have already contracted cancer and the ground water will already be unusable.

There are certain things everyone has equal rights to, the environment and health care. Both should be the responsibility of the government.

[Hufenator]

@MrTitiez Since everyone has equal right to a clean environment, but one person or one corporation can screw it up for everybody, you cannot depend on the private market to regulate it. As long as polluting is cheaper than not polluting, businesses will pollute to stay competitive. They leach carcinogens into the groundwater, and then one of your loved ones dies of cancer all because you had misplaced faith in the "efficiency" of the free market

[MrTitiez]

@Hufenator Government can't take care of the environment. Consumers in a free-market get to decide what is best for the environment. It's more of a direct democracy when you let the market take care of it, because it's then up to whatever the consumers want. Government taxes and regulates and does not let the consumer decide. Don't depend on the government, because their all corrupt politicians, depend on people making good choices.

[benastuart]

@Hufenator more like life, liberty, property, and the environment. Although healthcare companies should have to be obligated to take on anyone who can afford their *reasonable* health care plans

[Seekarr]

He is insane if he actually the corporate market will develop a replacement for their black gold. You don't need to look further than yahoo finance to see how crazy that thought actually is.

The environment does require the government to protect it from forces who will otherwise continue to rape it.

[luciferiexcelsil]

@3Gallagher How so?

[3Gallagher]

@luciferiexcelsil You are very confused...

[swasomekayaker]

I'm not a huge fan of his environmental policy. He strongly thinks people's property should be protected from other people's pollution, and I agree with that. But what is going to protect nature? You can't own nature; in no way can it be thought of as private property. Ron Paul needs to rethink this policy

[luciferiexcelsil]

@rob3500gt Who put those laws? Big companies. How did they accomplish that? through the power that their capital gives them. Free market is a flawed concept as it generates huge amounts of wealth but for a few, and great misery and exploitation to most. It was seen through the 19th century and currently seen on developing countries. Just a simple fact. The great "middle class American living standard" is not thanks to Capitalism, but to regulatory laws imposed on the market and the companies.

[rob3500gt]

@luciferiexcelsil free market does not lead to monopolies.... lobbyists and restrictive laws that raise the entry barriers for small companies do.