Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
Kentucky voters have a bad habit of getting what they wished for. We vote for far-right idiotic whores who have sold themselves to Corporate America and Communist China to represent us in Washington and that is what we get. A bunch of rich, elitist snobs whose vision has failed our country miserably but has made them and the greediest and least patriotic among us very rich. Now the Mad Doctor Rand Paul is showing once again that a Kentucky Republican is about the worst thing in Washington and cares nothing about their country as long as they can sell themselves to the highest bidder in Corporate America. For the Mad Doctor that winning bidder this week is Big Oil.
Rand Paul is showing what he came to Washington to do. Despite all the bluster about whatever idiocy the tea party was foaming at the mouth about that week at Hillbilly Report we knew all along that that was just a bunch of garbage Rand Paul used to fire up the weak minded. The real Rand Paul was a typical Kentucky Republican Corporate Whore. Now he is representing who he really cares about, Big Oil as they fleece the American worker in Kentucky for record profits and slop at the government trough to boot. Listen Kentucky as the Mad Doctor "works for you":
Is this guy serious?? Does he really believe that the average American worker in Kentucky should be all broken up about the poor folks in Big Oil who are fleecing them daily at the pump? In the twisted, idiotic world of Rand Paul the folks at Big Oil are welcome to "punish" us at will and we should do nothing about it. In fact, we should subsidize it.
Rand Paul tries to say that he was against government bailouts and the stimulus. However, when you really look at the facts he is a complete liar. He actually believes in worse than a bailout for Big Oil. He believes they should be able to rob us at the pump, slowing our economic recovery and make huge profits doing so. Then, as if that in itself is not bad enough he believes we should reward them once more with our tax dollars for their bad behavior. And make no mistake, that is just what we are doing:
Oil prices, which averaged a near-record $103 per barrel in 2011, have risen steadily since the beginning of 2012. In tandem with oil prices, gasoline prices are also rising—from an average of $3.30 ending the week of January 2 to $3.59 last week. Higher gas prices mean that money is flowing out of Americans’ wallets and pocketbooks and straight into the coffers of Big Oil companies. This Center for American Progress analysis finds that each penny rise in the average quarterly (three months) price of a gallon of gas corresponds to a $200 million increase in quarterly profits of the big five oil companies—BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell.
Since the beginning of the year, the price for gasoline increased 29 cents per gallon. If that average increase holds true through the end of March, it will translate to $5.8 billion in additional profits for the big five.
http://www.americanprogress.org/...
Now all the Mad Doctor can about that is lie to desperately try and keep taxpayers subsidizing this theft for Big Oil. You see, the plain and simple fact is that Big Oil is not using its big profits and subsidies to hire anyone. In fact a huge amount of the people they employ make minimum wage:
Meanwhile, the oil industry is not using its profits to hire more people. Paul falsely claimed the oil companies employ 9.2 million people — in fact, there are only 2.2 million jobs in the entire oil industry, and 40 percent of those jobs are minimum-wage work at gas stations. Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP have shed their U.S. workforce by 11,200 between 2005 to 2010, according to a report last year. Big Oil isn’t investing in renewable energy or in reducing oil spills, either.
But of course Rand Paul told us long ago that we all make too much money:
Perhaps the most idiotic thing Paul said is this about investing in the fuels of the future:
It doesn’t seem to right that your tax dollars are sent to companies just because they’re big contributors.
Is he joking or does he just think we are stupid?:
Republicans have received 88 percent of donations from the oil industry’s coffers. In the Senate, Republicans have taken over $13.8 million from oil, compared to the Democrats’ $3.3 million, meaning Senate Republicans have taken four times the amount in Big Oil contributions as Democrats. Kyl is the No. 29 largest recipient in the Senate from oil and gas in career contributions with over $330,000and Paul has received over $106,000 from oil.
http://thinkprogress.org/...
Yes Kentucky got the Corporate whore they voted for. Now, our Senators not only seek to enrich Communist China but they are hoping to steal more of your money away from you to give to Big Oil. Why?? Because it pays them so very well.
So Rand Paul, while you are entititled to you own beliefs you are not entitled to your own facts. The fact is that folks like you and those you truly represent have robbed our country blind and the only solution you have is to steal even more from us to give to a very few people you deem "acceptable".
Yes, Rand Paul is the same Rand Paul we elected. A walking, talking disgrace a liar and a Corporate Whore Senator.