Hey very cool, I donated some money last night. Good to see a Ron Paul post from you Tynan. Anyways, I think a lot of the time when people hear about him wanting to abolish all these federal programs they get scared that they wouldn't be replaced with anything.
While I do think that almost complete privatization could take place for every gov agency, it wouldn't at first. Education would just be shifted to the states.
Food and drug control wouldn't go away, it would just be 'endoresed' by more Protection Companies. These companies already exist, but if we didn't pay billions of tax dollars to the government to do it for us, there would be more companies doing it.
Ron Paul 2008!
Andrew Ford