Before you go praising Ron Paul so highly keep in mind that he would do away with Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment insurance, a national minimum wage and every other feature of the American safety net. As a Libertarian true believer he would do away with ALL regulation of business and industry. And anti-discrimination laws. He's a staunch believer in Laissez-faire capitalism. The Libertarian principles of isolationism and social liberalism have long appealed to college students, artistic types and for some reason many programmers I know, but a closer look exposes how truly disastrous their policies would be to minorities, the poor and the elderly.