Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (225591)	2/6/2002 9:22:20 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM --- RON PAUL GETS IT RIGHT. One certain Democratic victory that will result from the Enron debacle will be a resurrected campaign finance reform law. Make no mistake --- whatever law passes the congress, (and one certainly will), it will benefit Democratic candidates. Ron Paul is a libertarian serving as a Republican Congressman from Texas. He nails it with this quotation on campaign finance reform: "(W)e ought to be asking ourselves why corporations and interests groups are willing to give politicians millions of dollars in the first place. Obviously their motives are not altruistic. Simply put, they do it because the stakes are so high. They know government controls virtually every aspect of our economy and our lives, and that they must influence government to protect their interests. "Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand in hand." - Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), "Texas Straight Talk," 2/4/02 boortz.com