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The extraordinary lack of coverage of Ron Paul

- Eric de Carbonnel - Market Skeptics

@Jim C. good questions about health care taxes and states, and Lincoln and slavery/secession. **I can't answer for him or his campaign officially, this is what I interpret his positions or responses to be based on his interviews and writings.**

-- States and health care taxes: The position he or anyone who follows the Constitution would revolve around this... Most Americans are taught and accept there is a strict separation of power in the federal gov't: the executive branch, judicial branch, and legislative branch.

What most of us forget or aren't taught with as much enthusiasm is there is indeed a strict and vital separation of power between the federal government AND state governments. So, his position is the fed has no jurisdiction over health care, but if each individual state through majority vote wants to enact something like it, that is for each state and its citizens to decide and the fed cannot and should not get involved.

If you're concerned about state gov't exerting too much control, one solution is vote in Libertarian candidates at the state and local levels. In any case, there is a strict separation between state and fed gov't that must be respected.

-- Lincoln and slavery/secession: I've liked Lincoln ever since I was young, who wouldn't - growing up poor, becoming president, freeing the slaves... a great American tale. However, after doing a bit of cold research on slavery/Civil War, my views have changed a bit on what he did and how he went about doing it -- similar to how most people's views on Christopher Columbus have changed (many people today agree he did not "discover" America, he accidentally crashed into it...).

With Lincoln and and slavery/secession, many countries around the world had slavery. None of those countries ended slavery with a civil war. They pretty much did it by decree - they just stopped it. America could have done the same thing and saved all those lives and avoided the economic repercussions of the Civil War.

At the time slaves were property (it's a disgusting practice that lasted too long in human history, and unfortunately today there is international human trafficking, which is modern slavery - a topic for another time...)

Many have said one way the Civil War could have been avoided would have been if the federal gov't bought the slaves outright and then immediately set them all free. Something like that would have ended slavery, avoided the bloodbath, and it would have compensated the slave owners and therefore eliminated any talk about secession.

Ron Paul has commented on these scenarios in the past -- the position is slavery could have been ended without the bloodshed and cost of the Civil War, just like it happened in many other countries.

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Beginning of the headline : Is Ron Paul Getting the Coverage He Deserves? [NO] Nick Gillespie | August 17, 2011 Reason staffers Mike Riggs and Katherine Mangu-Ward were on the television yesterday to discuss the media’s response to what might be called "The Riddle of Ron Paul": Why do major newspapers, broadcast shows, and cable news outlets seem hell-bent on ignoring a 12-term GOP congressman who came in a tight second in the Iowa Straw Poll? Indeed, the results of that hokey quadrennial exercise in corn-dog politics was used to talk up Michelle Bachmann’s legitimacy... Read More

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