There's poor and there's poor poor. There you have it, Rand Paul's philosophy.....we're purty durned lucky to live in a nation where the poor have it so good.
I'd say that this is exactly what is wrong with Republicans, Libertarians and Tea Party folks. The empathy that they have for the less fortunate is astounding in it's non existence.
As a Christian, I am appalled at this cruel, crass, crappy attitude.
What the hell happened to, "Feed my sheep?" What happened to doing it unto the least of these....of loving your neighbor as yourself...of
selling what you have and giving it to the poor. Okay, that may be a little extreme, but you get the idea.
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Rand Paul...on the one hand, looking out for BP and capitalism...
Responding to an attack from Democratic nominee Jack Conway at a candidate forum yesterday, Paul tried to defend his past statement that the president criticizing BP is "un-American." Paul launched into a spirited defense of "the engine of capitalism," and worried that assaults on it -- like the criticisms of BP from Conway and his Democratic friends -- could lead to a "day of reckoning" in the U.S., and perhaps a Depression.
Rand Paul... on the other hand, looking out for the poor....
This somehow led to a lesson Paul said Kentuckians should hold dear: Sure there are "problems" with the way America deals with the poor, but when they think about it, poor folks should thank goodness they're not stuck in one of those other horrible countries.
"The poor in our country are enormously better off than the rest of the world," Paul said. "Doesn't mean we can't do better, but we have to acknowledge and be proud of our system of capitalism, be proud of our American way."
Then Rand Paul tell this cute little story:
The Soviets used to show a propaganda film -- they wanted to show how horrible America was and how our poor were doing so poorly. They filmed a building in the poor section of New York with some broken windows and they said, 'Oh this is how the poor in America lives.' But it backfired on them because the Soviet citizens looked at that video closely and they saw flickering color television sets in all those windows.
See folks, our poor aren't poor poor, they are just kinda, sorta poor cuz some have the tv machines.
All the angst in the world will not change them. They. just. do. not. care.
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