Ron Paul Part Two?

Question

After recently reading the interview in Newsweek with Ron Paul, I have a few questions.

First, the article.

[n.w.- You say that our sovereignty is under assault at home, By whom?

r.p.- The philosopic group who likes governmental globalism--the people who would support, say, the U.N., the World Bank, the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the WTO (World Trade Organization).]

This seems to me like a direct attack upon the soverignty that he's defending. This man is directly dis-owning the United Nations, and many of its subsidaries. Does Ron Paul even realize what he is saying? He's trying to pull America in a completely different direction and I can tell you this right now, this direction will leave America in a state of helplessness and uncertainty.

Answer 1

I interviewed Ron Paul at a conference a couple of months ago.

Dude is off his rocker.

Answer 2

I am not exactly a fan of Ron Paul's ideas.  I really admire his honesty and consistency, his independence, but I think some of his ideas are downright kooky.

But in a way he's really very right.  We have reached a point in world history that was predicted by Karl Marx. Marx predicted that corporations would grow more and more powerful until eventually they became more powerful than governments.  At that point, governments would become the servants of corporations and 'global' corporations would roam the world seeking the cheapest labor and resources and the richest markets.  This would be a disaster for working people as countries joined in a 'race to the bottom' to provide the cheapest labor and materials, destroying the standard of living, environmental protections, etc. etc.

Globalization is a -good- thing if it's done fairly. But the way it's being done is that the bankers and corporate giants get together to slice up the world between themselves.  Borders fall to capital but not to labor.  This is not the rich nations expoiting the poor nations but the wealthy and powerful and well-connected exploiting -all- nations.  

Do you realize NAFTA has managed to lower wages and standard of living in all three countries?  How could it do that?

The mainstream of the GOP, in fact of both parties, is bent on this program of concentrating wealth.  Wealth in the US is more concentrated now than any time in more than 100 years.  Ron Paul is not only right to oppose this program, but he is very courageous to come right out and say so.  Nobody even talks about it out in the open any more.

Answer 3

Sovereignty of what?  Of globalists?

The truth is the United States and Israel have already "dis-owned" the UN.  We have operated outside of it since its inception.  We have vetoed more resolutions than any other country.  Israel has violated more UN resolutions than any other country in the world, and the US has done nothing to hold them accountable so the rest of the world must sit helplessly mum.

And as for the World Bank and IMF, read Stiglitz' Globlization and Its Discontents for an insider view of what these institutions really do.  You might understand Ron Paul's view much more.  I have lived in Eastern Europe and I've seen first hand the damage the US economic policy has done.

Answer 4

Do you realize what you are saying? Do a little more research on the organizations he "attacks". American sovereignty is not at all what they are interested in.