But what are Ron Paul's policies, and how will they affect government corruption and economic inequality? Ron Paul is opposed to big government, which he defines as a government that wants to "run every aspect of our lives." He is opposed to federal intervention of any kind in the lives of American citizens, including income tax and financial assistance from Medicare and Medicaid. He believes that the free market, left to itself, will provide Americans with more freedom, and that a massive and meddling federal government is to blame for the aforementioned signs of decline within the U.S. What these beliefs fail to take into consideration is the entirety of human history preceding the U.S. government in its present form. Historically, the only difference between a country that, for example, exploits child labor, and one that does not, is a democratic government that first outlaws child labor and then uses a police agency to enforce its laws. Without government intervention in the U.S. economy, child labor could easily make a comeback. This might sound outlandish, until we stop to consider that child labor was common practice in the United States until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and remains a common practice today in impoverished countries all over the world. (Many children in these impoverished countries work in factories that produce goods for American corporations: wealthy Americans continue to exploit child labor in the 21st century.)
So it isn't difficult to see that Ron Paul's vision of a completely free society will not come about as a result of our dismantling a large portion of the federal government. Without laws regulating human behavior, including laws concerning what the powerful can do to the powerless, there can be no freedom. Left to itself, a free' market will naturally create a more and more pronounced divide between rich and poor, until there are only two classes: the extremely rich and the extremely poor. And, as mentioned, the extremely rich, dissatisfied with mere extreme wealth, will continue to expand their power, taking more and more away from the poor, until a combination of foreign threats (economic or otherwise) and popular uprisings in the homeland destroy any chance of the nation's survival.
In order for people with less power to feel as if they have some control over their own lives, they need assistance from their government. People with fewer resources and opportunities than the super-rich need a chance to get a good education, to have access to nutritious food and proper healthcare, and to move up the economic ladder, away from poverty and powerlessness. If Ron Paul's policies are ever enforced within the U.S., those with the least power will lose many opportunities now offered by their government, and people with the most power will, once again, feel free to trample all over the human rights of the poor. History has shown that free markets without artificially imposed limitations upon simple human avarice will invariably produce the same result: a dead civilization. And this is exactly what Ron Paul's policies offer us.
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