His desperate attempts to bring about anarchy and "starve the beast" all while displaying rank hypocrisy are just the kind of things that make Mitch McConnell drool. You see, Paul wants to point a finger and ignore the real facts, all while seeking to deny Kentuckians hundreds of millions of dollars of federal assistance:
Republicans have been much more vocal than Democrats in their support of low taxes and reduced spending. However, while lowering taxes, they dramatically increased federal spending, doubling the national debt during the last administration. They were unable to balance the budget a single year they were in charge under the previous administration. Getting only half of the equation right just isn’t good enough.
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Is that so Dr. Twisty Curls?? The only thing you got right was how your beloved Republicans and new bosom buddy Mitch McConnell failed miserably in curtailing spending. That was because they doled out Corporate welfare just like you want to. The mad doctor definately has his facts wrong on the party who cuts taxes too. Remember how Paul's new mentor Mitch McConnell got his banking bailout and then railed right along with Paul about the stimulus?? That stimulus was ripe with tax cuts for all Americans:
The size of the proposed tax cuts -- which would account for about 40% of a stimulus package that could reach $775 billion over two years -- is greater than many on both sides of the aisle in Congress had anticipated. It may make it easier to win over Republicans who have stressed that any initiative should rely more heavily on tax cuts rather than spending.
The Obama tax-cut proposals, if enacted, could pack more punch in two years than either of President George W. Bush's tax cuts did in their first two years. Mr. Bush's 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut of 2001, considered the largest in history, contained $174 billion of cuts during its first two full years, according to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. The second-largest tax cut -- the 10-year, $350 billion package engineered by Mr. Bush in 2003 -- contained $231 billion in 2004 and 2005.
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So, why do these tax cuts not count to Rand Paul?? It seems like to me that in the last few decades one thing we have had plenty of are tax cuts. You see, what bothers Paul, just like his newest, bestest buddy Mitch McConnell is that some of these tax cuts went to real, average working Americans. Americans who are working for peanuts because men like Kentucky's newest dynamic duo Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul have outsourced all the good jobs because we all know that Corporations should just be able to do whatever the hell they want to with no oversight.
So, before any Democrats or any sane Republicans go voting for Rand Paul you need to consider his radical beliefs on taxation and Corporations. Does Kentucky really want to know what would happen to them if Rand Paul and the tea-baggers vision came to fruition?? Kentucky would lose big:
Some state agencies rely chiefly on federal money. They include the Health and Family Services Cabinet, which runs the Medicaid program that provides health care to one in five Kentuckians. The federal government picks up 80 percent of the tab.
Monthly entitlement checks go directly to Kentuckians, including $5 billion a year for Social Security retirement benefits, $2.5 billion a year for Social Security worker-disability benefits and $1 billion a year for Supplemental Security Income, which is disability aid for people with no work history.
In 2005, 18 percent of Americans drew at least one of those checks, according to the Social Security Administration. That figure edged up to 22 percent in Kentucky. In parts of the state with the poorest, oldest populations — Owsley County, for example — it jumped as high as 40 percent, creating what's known as "the mailbox economy."
The federal government also helps Kentuckians with flood insurance (to the tune of $2.1 billion a year), mortgage insurance ($877 million), crop insurance ($667 million), food stamps ($674 million), veterans disability benefits ($478 million), Pell Grants for college students ($182 million) and welfare for families ($181 million), to name some of the costliest assistance programs tracked by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
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Does Kentucky really want to lose all of the help the federal government provides?? What would happen to our state's economy if all that was just gone?? What would happen to our children, parents and grandparents and the handicapped?? Thomas Jefferson stated that government was a neccesary evil. However, allowing Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul to join hands in helping roll back the Enlightenment in America would be just plain evil.
Rand Paul does not want to starve the beast, he wants to starve anyone who is working and barely getting by. He and Mitch McConnell will surely fit together like peas in a pod.
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