[Brutha]

There's nothing wrong with using the ideas of others if you agree with them.

You don't seem to understand the idea between an idea and its expression.
Aside from that we (the people in this thread) all think that the Irak war and the patriotic act were bad ideas, so you don't have to copypaste it into this discussion.
The democratic candidacts are also against the war and the patriotic act.
In addition it doesn't address the points raised by Tasaio or myself.
If you want to campain here and discuss your candidat that is fine. But simply copypasting the same arguments around the internet isn't really having a good discussion. Links were invented to reference to something someone else has written.
The argument of "the power of the people" is having a real discussion that leads to better ideas instead of simply copying what someone else sais.

How could any corporation achieve an multinational monopoly without government support? As long as there is a profit incentive, there will almost always be effective competitors in a truly free market.

Buying competitors.
Or simply talking to the competitors and building a cartel.

The most visible monopolies at the moment are in media and government.

Visibilty isn't the key factor. You have also take into account the monopolies that would be there if we hadn't our market interventions.

Contrary to what many think, the majority of Income Tax doesn't go to paying for social services, instead being used to pay off interest on that national debt which is owed to the Federal Reserve.

Destroying the Federal Reserve won't free the USA from it debt burdon. As long as you respect private property you have to pay that interest.

You have to think in terms of cashflow. Accommulating huge amounts of debt was a bad move in the past, but it still has to be payed (at least Ron Paul doesn't speek of not paying it).
If people opt out of social security someone has to pay social security for the elderly.

Cutting the military might gives him a bit space to lower taxes but I he will cut a lot more like (according to the video) the department of education.

Contrary to what you may think, the justification for the Iraq war was UN security council resolution 1441. I urge you to research that for yourself.

Bush tried to justify his invasion in a lot of ways. But that doesn't mean that he is right in interpreting the resolution that way.

Because of Federal regulation of airwaves companies like viacom and clearchannel control the "mainstream" distribution of entertainment and news.

Do you think instead of regulating airwaves every company should be allowed to use every airwave? Do you know what happens when multiple people try to send the same thing in the same "airwave space"?
Do you find something in Ron Pauls program that would reduce the dominance of those media companys?

As for your belief that the president isn't powerful enough to make major changes, you need only look at President Bushs executive orders over the past 8 years to get an idea of how much he has changed things, to the detriment of the american public.

I think you underrate the influence of people like Cheney or the Fox media people.
Bush wasn't alone. There are a lot of neocons in that party that push in the same line.
And the will continue to do so under a different president. For that reason the republicans should get a minimal amount of power after the next elections.
Then Bush didn't exactly followed the ideal of the division of power. If Ron Paul follows his constitutional ideal I doubt that he would do the same.