Dangerous Allies: Big Business and Big Government
by Ron Paul
Last week ended with some promising news on finally stopping the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately the administration still seems to believe that shutting down working oil wells is a higher priority than effectively dealing with the broken one. They are again issuing a moratorium on offshore drilling while maintaining a de facto ban on new permits even for shallow water drilling which they previously stated would not be affected. The courts have twice declared this unconstitutional, over 70% of the people see this as unreasonable, yet the administration seems determined to simply end offshore drilling, at least for those producers that cannot afford to sit idle for any unknown period of time until the ban is lifted.
Whether or not this latest effort will hold up in court is yet to be seen. Sadly, many smaller oil producers in the Gulf see the writing on the wall and instead of waiting around and risking their livelihoods on the whims of American politicians and judges, they are leaving for friendlier business climates. What is happening to this country when the Republic of the Congo is better for business than the United States?
One big factor is regime uncertainty. Regime uncertainty is the opposite of the rule of law. It is the rule of the whims of the people who are in charge and what mood they are in on any particular day. It is usually associated with third world dictatorships and plays a major role in why some countries remain poor. When a business cannot predict whether a government will issue a permit, confiscate or nationalize their capital investments, tax them into bankruptcy or arbitrarily stall their operations, they tend to do business elsewhere. This type of government hostility is not conducive to wealth creation and it is tragic to see it chasing away businesses here when wee need the jobs and productivity more than ever.
When the rule of law is respected it provides business with some measure of predictability so they can plan and operate smoothly. When it is not respected there are just too many variables, too much risk of loss or waste. Of course disregard of the rule of law creates other problems, too. For the larger and better connected businesses it creates the opportunity of regulatory capture. If the government becomes too unpredictable, one business survival strategy is to become so involved in government and regulatory bodies that they effectively gain control over the very entities that are supposed to keep them in line. In other words, if you can’t beat the government, become the government.
A business that achieves regulatory capture is also able to write and implement laws and regulations that they can deal with but its competitors cannot. The eventual outcome is that companies use regulation to drive everyone else out of business until a monopoly is achieved, putting consumers at its mercy. Meanwhile, the people develop a false sense of security, assuming that the many regulatory bodies in place are protecting them. Without respect for the rule of law, however, those bodies and their regulations are more likely protecting and enabling big business at the expense of small business and the consumer. We see this not only with big oil, but big banking, big defense contractors, you name it. That is why especially in a crisis we should uphold the Constitution. It is the ultimate consumer protection from crony corporatism.
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You sir are right!
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You sir are right!
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Not only is government not a business, but businesses only exist because of government.
Governments should hold firms accountable to the public good. “Promoting the general welfare” means more than just the right of a firm to earn a profit. The historical meaning is that companies can only be incorporated and active in a society if they serve the public.
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This man is full of shit. He is against everything but he is with the Republkans. I sincerily dislike this hypocrite
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His wife is always waiting for him.
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His wife is always waiting for him.
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Folks, it’s greed that’s destroying America, simple as that. And it’s coming from both the private and public sectors. We’ve lost all morality and respect for our fellow man. Until we fix these things, it’s pointless to even talk about size of government.
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Free Energy is real but the coverup is strong, if you are interested in a REAL free energy machine then
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-hear hear! imagine a Libertarian President Paul….heaven!
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woooh…..as i was watching this i got a wrong number call,from a call centre,asking for a ”mr paul”….spooky!
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Try 60 million.
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the republic of congo is not a good example.
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I love Ron Paul, and I watch all of his video’s on youtube. I see lots of comments of “why is this man not president?” The answer to that question is simple. The people do not elect the president, a small group of people do. These people are members of the electoral college. We can campaign for Ron Paul all we want in 2012, but the reality of it is, the electoral college, and the ownders of the media, do not want this man in power, and what they want, they get. End of story.
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-Well that’s your problem, you learn at a Marxist/Communist Dumbass School. Ignorant Idiot!
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Actually, I learned this in college dumbass it’s sad that I have to talk to someone of inferior intellegence.
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Interesting how when a ‘purely transparent’ ‘audit the fed’ bill is put on the table, this bill starts out with enough ‘yays’ for it to pass which very rapidly deteriorates so that it, at best, only gets in as a watered down version! It would appear that this occurs because many of those ‘yays’ realize that pure transparency of the federal reserve would reveal their own ‘pieces of the pie’ and after all…..Who would want a bill to pass that would implicate themselves???!!!!
Rangel and Kerry are not isolated cases, but more like the ‘NORM’!!!! One thing to take note of….is that most of the time when a couple of politician’s corruption is brought out in the open like this, it’s due to someone (perhaps a newscaster, reporter, activist, etc getting too close to one of the (or several of the) ‘BIG BOYS’ ‘behind’ government!!!! The one’s with the real ‘behind the scenes power’!!!! The one’s ‘pulling the strings’ of the politicians (like Kerry, Rangel, and even Bush and Obama!!!!) ‘Take note of the ‘quickly appearing news items and their even quicker disappearance from the public eye’!!!!
These are the ones with their mitts into where the federal reserve money disappears to the tune of trillions of dollars that no one is willing to impose enough transparency so that we can see where it went!!!! These are the ones behind the big ‘bribes’ and ‘favors’ issued to the lobbyists and politicians!!!!
And it’s probably a sure thing that when someone like these politicians are brought out into the open in order to ‘set the public’s attention to other directions’ that those individuals involved (usually politicians) have been set up with a nice little ‘offshore account’ package for their troubles!!!!!
Unless the federal reserve ‘books’ are brought out into the open, we will probably never know who these ‘BIG GUNS’ are that are really in charge of ‘this severely corrupt’….. ‘THE GREAT UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ,INC’!!!!! And until this big CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION is ‘brought to its knees and shredded apart’ very little is really going to change in this country for the good of the US citizens!
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- Grow up little boy. Fuken pervert!!
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- …by Free Market Capitalism. Idiot!
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– …by Free Market Capitalism. Idiot!
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