Common Ground With the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Here are a few issues that can serve as the basis for a coalition between Paulian libertarians and tea people and the Occupy folks:

1. End the Fed
2. End corporate welfare especially outright subsidies
3. Bring the troops home
4. Cut offensive military spending
5. End laws that create monopolies (e.g., preventing people from buying health insurance out of state)
6. Going way out on a limb here but, elect Ron Paul.

Let me sell point six to the Occupiers. Obama is clearly a tool of the corporate state we both oppose. Ron Paul would not be an imperial president and could not repeal the welfare state you favor without the consent of Congress. His main influence would be in those areas where the president has the greatest constitutional authority: war, the military and foreign policy. That’s where you are likely to agree with him.

Speaking of corporate welfare, I will be arguing the Pork Lawsuit against cash grants to NY corporations next Wednesday (October 12th) at 2pm in Albany. We won in the Appellate Division, 5–0, and are now up against the entire state political establishment and IBM in the state’s highest court. Seating is limited but you can watch the webcast here. Also, we are having a rally on the Capitol steps at noon.

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11:50 am on October 5, 2011