Of Ron Paul and Paris Hilton

Why are we so fascinated by people such as Paris Hilton? Other than being born into money, being somewhat good-looking, and managing to a variety of incredibly stupid things, Hilton has no outstanding or interesting qualities. Yet she remains one of the most popular search terms on both Google and Technorati. Perhaps there is something amusing in predicting or guessing what she'll manage to do next.

For goodness sake, Paris! At least do something with your undeserved stardom; find a charity to support, donate some of that money you never earned. However much one may dislike the celebrities of Hollywood, at least a fair amount of them give their name and face to worthy causes.

And what of Ron Paul, that relatively amusing Texan Senator, who is also a rather popular search these days? However little I agree with his aims, I admire Paul for his honesty, and also for standing up for his principles, the man refuses to back down.

That being said, his stated goals of abolishing Medicare, Medicaid, the IRS, along with a host of other institutions are, laughable and scary. They are founded on the belief that unbridled capitalism, a so-called 'free-market', will increase the competition between various businesses, thus driving the prices down. However, I believe that introducing a completely capitalism economy will do nothing more than eliminate the middle-class of America. We will begin to see more people who have large amounts of money, yet contribute nothing useful to society -such as the aforementioned Paris Hilton-, as well as more people who are unable to adequately support themselves.

In short, the rich will get richer -and stupider- while the poor will get poorer. Those in the middle will probably continue to watch the worthless heiresses of the world make humanity look bad.

Perhaps my earlier admonishment of Hilton should go out to everyone reading this as well. Get out there and do something worthwhile, help your fellow man, learn about the world...rather than about the Paris's of it.

-Bedeo