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Sen. Rand Paul cut a six-figure check to the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday in an effort to do his part to put a tiny chip in the federal debt.
The Kentucky Republican returned $600,000 in funds he saved from his Senate office budget in the last year, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.
“It’s the only budget I control,” Paul said at a news conference in Louisville. “It’s not enough, but it’s a start.”
The $600,000 — about 17 percent of his 3.5 million office budget — is on top of another $500,000 Paul returned to the Treasury last year, according to CNN. Paul said the total unspent money he’s returned to the federal government amounts to $1.1 million.
“We watch every purchase,” Paul said. “We watch what computers we buy, what paper we buy, the ink cartridges. We treat the money like it’s our money, or your money, and we look at every expenditure.”
The senator, a Tea Party favorite, noted, “We are frugal from top to bottom.”
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aynrandfan
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:29pmIt’s a start. Thanks to Senator Paul for continuing to highlight the spectacular idiocy of our spending policy in this country. But “We the People” need to do a lot more…like putting more individuals like Senator Paul into office and ensuring they stay committed to ideals like fiscal responsibility. Of course, that presumes that “We the People” are also committed to ideals like fiscal responsibility…I’m not sure “We” are anymore.
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Baddoggy
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:39pmI myself could be on Disability, Food Stamps and other assistance because of my health issues..I pay my own bills by working and I will never take assistance from this country…especilly now. People ask me why I don’t and i say i hope I can inspire some teat sucker to get off assistance someday…But most just want more and morre free stuff…SHAME ON THEM!!! I hate lazy people!
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katzkiner
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:41pmStart today. Go to Rands’ site donate $25 very month at least. That way we can chose our candidate instead of the fatheads who gave us McShame and Romney. If we make it to 2016 we will need a good candidate. Who is better than Rand Paul?
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cemerius
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:53pmI have to say that Rand Paul is one of the last politicans I actually can rally behind and he isn’t from my state! I used to believe in my Senator Marco Rubio until his latest gaffe of joining the “gang of 8″ decision! Of course my Governor is on the skids with me due to his unwaivering support of the medicaid expansion to facilitate Obamacare!! Starting to believe that EVERY Florida politican has drank from the communal kool aid bowl now…….
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The_Jerk
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:53pm” Paul said the total unspent money he’s returned to the federal government amounts to $1.1 million.”
Proof that he can not get elected president. Women spend like crazy. So, they’ll never vote for him. That’s how we got Obama twice. They’re all Sandra Flukes at heart.
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SquidVetOhio
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:59pmOMG! I sentence I thought would NEVER leave my mouth,
R. Paul for president!
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Simple Skeptic
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:12pmIf the Federal Govt. would balance the budget and sustain with an amendment (without raising taxes and assuming states didn’t raise taxes to make up the shortfall), I would write an extra check of 10% directly to pay down the debt…every year. I’m not rich and it wouldn’t even be a rounding error, but if they showed an ounce of discipline in this regard, I’d write that check happily and not try to force others to do the same. My guess is that many others would be willing to do the same.
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The_Jerk
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:17pmSimple Skeptic, never trust a government. That was the lesson passed to us by our Founders.
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Johnny Cocheroo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:21pm@simple
I agree. I think most Americans want something to believe in, something to unite under and work towards as a people. Debt reduction could be it.
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JoanofAmerica
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:22pmFinally, a leader emerges. love Rand!
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Gonzo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:54pmI would really like to know what budget he’s working from, considering we haven’t had one in 4 years.
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MR_B
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:11pmBADDoggy-Same here. We have too much of that thing people no longer value “PRIDE”
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ishka4me
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:15pmI do like Sen. Rubio but Sen. Paul has my vote.
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AUsername
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:17pmNo Rand Paul give it to a more responsible and worth while cause.
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right field
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:20pmI am proud of Rand Paul for any effort he makes to extend conservative thinking into any part of our bloated, wasteful, ever growing, and ridiculous, corrupt Federal government
Beware the “not conservative enough for me” bashing – We cannot change anything unless we win elections. When the message is “so-n-so is not electable” we guarantee that the Marxist will win.
Most of the garbage that goes on in Congress is designed to play “gotcha games” by the Democrats & the MSM – That is why they name their bills the “Defense of Women Act” and “Affordable Health Care Act” – both the opposite of what they will accomplish
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Simple Skeptic
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:21pm@ The_Jerk, Johnny
I knew as I was writing my previous comment that it was completely naive, but with very little to be optimistic about when it comes to our govt., we sometimes have to manufacture scenarios to which we can apply logic.
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LaBelle
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:24pmThe only problem is that the money he saved will just be allocated to some other government entity who wont think twice about spending it recklessly.
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positioned
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:25pmRon Paul returned a considerable amount of the money from his office budget EVERY YEAR that
he served in Congress. Dr. Paul the precedent. Like father, like son. Shameful that every other
Senator or Representative doesn’t watch their spending. They should all be returning money back to the Treasury from their office budget.
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techengineer11
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:36pmNow that’s the way to go.
I wish more Repbulicans would do more than just give lip service to conservatism.
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henryKnox
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:40pmUnfortunately, because DC is so corrupt the money that he saved will probably be spent by corrupt senators like Schummer to further market themselves.
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UNALIEN
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:44pm$600,000 Obama wil redistribute to the Obama phone nation.
$600000
divide by $100 per phone
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= 6000 ObamaPhone recipients
X 6 Obama votes per ObamaPhone
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= 36,000 votes for Obama
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Silvertruth
Feb. 21, 2013 at 3:47pmI’ve always liked Sen. Paul’s domestic, economic positions. Like most Libertarian positions though, I am not a fan of the foreign or social policy’s espoused. I’d be warmer on him if he pulled a little closer to center on those topics.
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GhostOfJefferson
Feb. 21, 2013 at 3:56pmYeah, the last thing you want, in a President, is one who waits for Congress to declare war and one who won’t continue to escalate the WOD despite massive evidence that it’s a failure both economically and in terms of rights lost. Silly libertarians.
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JohnGalt
Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:18pmIf this doesn’t tell us the man we need to get our budgetary problems under control, nothing will!
Rand Paul 2016!
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JRook
Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:21pmWhile it sounds good to return money that has not been spent, it would be far more courageous to put forth a motion, amendment or bill to reduce all senate office budgets by $500,000. Which highlights the real problem we are facing with our politicians. Virtually everything the do is symbolic in nature for attention, cheap political points or pandering to their constituency. Is there anyone in Congress who actually wants to address the real issues and propose real solutions. At least symbolically.
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Mil Mom
Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:54pmImagine if all 100 Senators returned $600,000 to the treasury. That wouldn’t be Chump Change!
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Look4DBigPicture
Feb. 21, 2013 at 7:10pmGood thing that check’s too big to go in Nancy Pelosi’s purse.
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Schteveo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 7:44pmBADDOGGY,
you kind of mix you’re message don’t you?
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People ask me why I don’t and i say i hope I can inspire some teat sucker to get off assistance someday…But most just want more and morre free stuff…SHAME ON THEM!!! I hate lazy people!
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First let me say, as a person ON Disability, I’m glad you have a choice. But the idea that YOU aren’t drawing might inspire someone else to go back to work, again, it might not be a choice for that person.
And the very idea that most of the people drawing SSD just want more ‘stuff’ is stupid on the face of it. Tell me what evidence you have for such a statement. Again, I’m not sure how hat concept applies to this program. You get a finite amount of money, and some people get Medicare too. But given that the majority of people drawing SSD, during what should be their working years, little else comes across the board in a eligibility category for SSD recipients! Most people that working age have a working spouse, that puts the majority of people financially out of getting anything except their SSD.
For what it’s worth, I hate lazy people too. But given that it takes tests and doctors and months [or sometimes years] of PROOF to get into the system, there are easier places in the government trough to GET free stuff. To get SSD just for being lazy, you’d need several doctors and labs and clinics in your pocket, to get to this ‘easy’ money.
more to come
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Schteveo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 7:58pmThe last thing I’ll say on this Doggy is that SSD is the ONLY program of payments / support that requires recipients to pay IN to get anything OUT. For people who never start work, or who are self employed, then become disabled draw SSI, or supplemental income. It’s based on a number of factors, but prior income is not one of them, as it is with SSD.
I think what you were going for here was ire against people too lazy to work, eating well, and living in a 2nd, 3rd or 4th generation doing so. There are NO 4th generations drawing SSD BD. I’m not sure what even possessed you to go off on this stuff, like you did.
But it’s usually a good idea to do some research before stating your case.
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averageman
Feb. 22, 2013 at 6:37amWait until he runs for President…the repubs will demonize him as a “spoiler” …just like they did to Ron paul and to Perot….(remember ” you pass NAFTA and you will hear the giant sucking sound of jobs going to Mexico…?) Yeah he was a kook…So we got Clinton , Bush, Bush, Obama…all NAFTA globalists…and where are our jobs??? And notice how the PARTY (parties) have colluded to BAR any candidates from debate? that THEY dont endorse…? What a farce, our gov’t is over!
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CALL ME SNAKE
Feb. 22, 2013 at 2:56pmAs much as I appreciate the gesture, Rand Paul is hardly the first to do so. It is just that today, he is the loudest. Sen. Richard Shelby has returned more money to taxpayers than any other senator — about 40 percent or $1.2 million a year.
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thibx
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:26pmi have worked in offices all my life and none of them had an expense of 3.5 million. our whole company does not have that kind of expense which includes payroll for everybody.
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trolltrainer
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:57pmThat’s what I am thinking!!! 3.5 MILLION to run a single Senator’s office for a year? WTF?
OMG, we are done…
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GoodStuff
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:00pmExactly…$3.5 million? And Rand Paul only retuned 17% of it? How about returning 90% of that?
Rand is a fraud..just like his pappy.
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WakingSheep
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:13pmWhat about the millions (growing each year) of our other senators?
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:32pmCongressmen and women all get money for 3 offices. One in DC and two in their state or district. The latter two they actually rent space.
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Experiment626
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:37pmThat is what I took from the article as well. $3.5 million for a congressman’s office? It’s $174,000 for a congressman’s salary, but the perks are Fortune 100!
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:39pmIn DC it’s common for kids fresh out of law school to make right around $100,000. So if you want a lawyer as good as the ones at the regulatory agencies or lobbies on your staff, that’s probably $125,000. And someone with a Masters in Econ gets probably $75,000. That’s all of DC and the counties around it, the highest income area of the country.
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ShallNotbeInfringed25
Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:07pmI don’t know too much about what exactly a U.S. Senator expenses are but I would ASSUME that it’s much different than the average small business owners office. They probably have lots of different, unique things to pay for. Give him a break! What would you have him do? Set up his desks and computers on the sidewalk???
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Mil Mom
Feb. 21, 2013 at 5:24pm@GoodStuff
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:00pm
Exactly…$3.5 million? And Rand Paul only retuned 17% of it? How about returning 90% of that?
Rand is a fraud..just like his pappy
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Many years back when I could buy a jar of peanut butter for $.69 I was POA for a miltary family member who did a temporary stint in DC. He was given an amount somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 per month for increased cost of living in DC metro area (over and above military pay) since his barracks was to supply housing, he sent me $700 of it to put in his bank account in case he had transportation needs to get home, this was first month.) two weeks later he asked me to wire him the rest of the money. He said although housing was supplied, food wasn’t available where he lived, it cost $12.00 for a jar of peanut butter, and for bologna they competed with Congressional Cooks who served cold cuts at parties, it was around $20. per pound. Might be a wee bit higher since this has been over 20 years ago. DC living may be expensive.
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Mutiny
Feb. 21, 2013 at 5:59pm@goodstuff
You are a idiot.
I am pretty sure you can look up the budget. Since you love all of the establishment hacks, how much have they returned?
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OperationNorthwoods
Feb. 21, 2013 at 6:52pmDid your office represent the whole state of Kentucky? I’m thinking no.
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huey6367
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:22pmAnd yet Jackson Jr. steals millions from his campaign fund, goes to court and gets to go to federal prison at the tax payers expense (costing the taxpayers even more moeny).
Rand is making a run for 2016. I hope he makes it.
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:48pmBut Jesse Jr. bought and decorated a $2 million house in DuPont Cirlce, even though his mom has owned a very nice house in nearby LeDroit Park at 4th and T for years. I guess she didn’t want him to crash there.
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Gonzo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:52pm100 Senators X $1 mill apiece, is not a bad start. Let’s see what the House can do. LOL Yea right.
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happ77
Feb. 21, 2013 at 4:13pmGonzo… I was thinking the same thing, but a better way
would be to force a cut of $600,000 on all of them.
If Paul can do why can’t the rest of them.
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Eastinfection
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:20pmWoo-Hooo!
Guess they’re havin’ biscuits tonight over at the Fed!
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Gonzo
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:22pmNo East, Gefilte fish with matzo ball soup.
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RodT82721
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:16pmLooks like Rand Paul was brought up right, that’s refreshing today in Congress.
BUT $3.5 million for office expense for a year? Could this be a small part of why we spend twice as much as revenues?
We pay 535 wizards to skin us from Washington, if they get $3.5 Million for their digs, that almost covers the deficit! Even if it’s only the Senate, that means tax payers a paying close to half a Trillion for them to work they magic. We’ll never know how many are stealling thier excess or over spend.
Maybe they should all get a desk on the floor to do their legislating, and send their printing out to UPS, or better yer USPS. Maybe our way-over-budget USPS could get into printing and graphics to cover some of their loses, instead of a clothing line.
I’m pretty sure they would be really efficient.
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:45pmCongressmen and Senators all get 3 staffs for 3 offices and rent two office spaces in their state or district aside from the one they get on the Hill. Curiously, fake Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is also paid $174,000 salary and gets 3 offices. One on the Hill, one about 2 miles away in a poor DC neighborhood where a voter might have trouble getting to the Hill, and one on “the other side of town,” 14 blocks from Capitol Hill, in the National Press Building.
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CaptainCaveman
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:42pmYour math is off. 3.5 million times 100 (the Senate) is 350 million, not close to half a trillion. I’m not sure how much the House gets for their office expenditures, but if they get the same amount, then that would be a little short of 2 billion. A good chunk of change, but nowhere close to the total deficit, which is 1000 billion dollars a year.
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Tri-ox
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:12pmHow about returning to American taxpayers? It is OUR MONEY, ya know.
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Thighmaster
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:35pmThe problem is, from personal knowledge, it’s wasted somewhere else and it’s ultimately not saved.
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2GodBeTheGlory
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:11pmGreat Job! Now if we can only do that with all levels of government, and maybe cut out some agencies all together.
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John.Galt
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:10pmSenators get $3.5 million a year to run their offices??? WTF!
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MCON29
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:22pmI was thinking the same thing. INSANE.
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CatB
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:26pmAnd yet you can’t get a reply from many of them or if you do it is a robo-reply and does’t even match what you contacted them about in the first place. Who in the private sector gets anywhere near that to run an office? I would like to see an accounting from each and every office as to where the money was spent. No doubt a lot of waste and illegitimate expenses.
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Polarized America
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:28pmNot only that, they’re only in DC about 1/3 of a year !!!
i think they should wright a daily report and tell us what they do all day……
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:35pmThey have 3 offices, two of which, in their state, then rent. They also get a salary of $179,000 or so.
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:58pmTo staff 3 offices and rent two more spaces in their state. DC office staff with advanced degrees or law degrees may make over $100,000. As do many federal bureaucrats. It sure takes a lot of $50,000 tax serfs to fund us here. We may have to start cloning you and finding ways of farming you more efficiently.
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freedom4mykids
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:09pmWow…what a concept. How about passing something that would require every member of congress and the senate to have to do that every year. Oh wait … that would require a little to much transperancy for some of them…
Thank you Senator Paul!
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GoodStuff
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:02pm“Thank you Senator Paul!”
For what? For spending 83% of a $3.5 million check for “office supplies”??
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Landon410
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:09pmfor those of you that can’t do math
“The $600,000 — about 17 percent of his 3.5 million office budget — is on top of another $500,000 Paul returned to the Treasury last year, according to CNN. Paul said the total unspent money he’s returned to the federal government amounts to $1.1 million.”
5+6=11
500,000 + 600,000 = 1,100,000
I don’t know why I thought this was so funny……
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fdraiden
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:32pmHuh?
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Landon410
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:40pmread it, “paul said he returned 600,000 last year he said he returned 500,000 paul said he has returned 1.1 million”
needless redundancy, my biggest pet peeve
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WakingSheep
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:15pmWha?
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brown730
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:29pmI thought it was hilarious as well…
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1Epistle
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:47pmI guess they know the low information voter can’t add so they have to do it for them.
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Stevsea
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:08pmI commend him for being honorable and setting an example. I doubt it but maybe it will shame a few others to do something similar. The only thing that I would have done differently is to donate the money to a deserving charity like Wounded Warriors. Money going back into the treasury will just be wasted on something else. I like Rand Paul.
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tajloc
Feb. 21, 2013 at 5:49pmif you donated some of your non money to your choice of charities then you would be as guilty as Jackson. ITS NOT YOUR MONEY. Ya don’t get to just give it away. No wonder we can’t start up a TEA party…we are all on the dole.
but Rom 8:28
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Mainer forever
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:08pmHow can you NOT LOVE this guy?
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civilwarcometh
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:18pmI can’t stand him after he voted to confirm John Kerry…..Hey if don’t need one to be president why do you need one to get a job?? http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/21/obama-regime-says-companies-who-run-background-checks-on-potential-employees-are-discriminating-against-minorities-threatens-to-sue/
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:26pmRand Rocks!
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BelievinginAmerica
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:54pmHere’a another Mainer that would love for once to see Sen. Susan Collins do the same thing. Now we have rip off, Obama lover Sen. King who all of a sudden calls himself an Independent, yeah right!! More like Mr. Windmill millionaire! My head just exploded *^* Horah for Sen. Rand Paul!!
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ASonOfLiberty1776
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:36pmGood comment, Mainer Forever. Too bad Goodstuff is a lying troll/spammer.
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Eric_The_Red_State
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:07pmGOOD MOVE
More people should do that
THIS is what Republican should be doing all across America and the Liberals would have NO leg to stand on.
Isn’t it funny that the DEMOCRATS of the 50′s and 60′s – the hard working Blue Collar – Average Joe – has been replaced with the “Entitled” mindset – and the REPUBLICANS of the 50′s and 60′s – the cigar smoking greedy authority figure — has been replaced with the Conservative Frugal Responsible mindset of today?
Republicans need to do more of this if they are going to beat Santa Claus in the next election.
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soybomb315_II
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:05pmWhy does the federal government give each senator a 3.5 million dollar slush fund??? The only thing the feds should give them is an office space and a desk in the senate…Nothing more.
Let each state pay for their representative’s slush fund – not the federal government
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truthnstuff
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:50pmThat’s how they get rich. Instead of giving it back they spend it on themselves, and get rich.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:01pmWell,Senators do have to communicate with their constituents and maintain records and a staff,travel,pay for strippers and prostitutes….. Well SOME do.
Rand Paul is accountable to about 2.2 million ‘bosses.’
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BruceMajors
Feb. 21, 2013 at 1:53pmThey rent two other offices in their states and have 3 staffs, one for each office. It is how donors’ children and campaign volunteers are sometimes rewarded – with jobs.
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Keatonc333
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:04pmGood job Paul! I wish he would start working on Kentucky though, his home state.. they currently take over one and a half times as much money from the government as they take in… That’d be a huge help to our deficit!
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Fek Man
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:53pmAnd what state do you live in? Chances are the state you live in is the same. There are only a few states that actually pay more to the Fed than they take in.
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GhostOfJefferson
Feb. 21, 2013 at 3:36pmKeaton
Did you ever take a civics class? State government controls what’s spent at the state level.
Second, your fallacy (which you know, but I’m aware you won’t stop repeating) is that if you earn $100,000 in NYC, and earn $45,000 in Kentucky, and you live the same lifestyle affordability wise (meaning, they’re equivalent incomes given the local economies in question), then the person in NYC will look to have “contributed” more. In reality, if you measure by man hours worked, your blue states are sucking wind, bad. But of course, you won’t, it would blow your narrative and your dogma.
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DIR
Feb. 21, 2013 at 5:34pm@GOSTOFJEFFERSON
That’s not the only thing blowing (K333) his narrative. It includes a chatty cathy doll with a vacuum attachment.
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tonypro
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:04pmThis is better than most, but I would love to see an itemized statement of what was spent on what. That would be the tell-tell if they are in fact being frugal.
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shorelineliz
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:04pmSomebody make this dam man President already!
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Keatonc333
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:09pmI hate to be that guy… but come 2016 he wont stand a chance… he voted against the violence against women act, the sandy relief fund, the fiscal cliff deal, and opposes immigration reform.. That is all the democrats will need to paint their picture.. and he will lose the women and hispanic vote and thus the election.. and theres still 4 more years of bills to vote on.
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Fubared
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:49pmLil Keatie when have you noticed a single individual-aside from the token lefty troll- actually concur with jack Shiite you have said? I hate to be that guy, but your drivel in 2016 will be as irrelevant then as it is now.
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Keatonc333
Feb. 21, 2013 at 7:20pmfurbred… romney lost the election based on one sentence.. you dont think the democrats could repeat that with his abysmal voting record?
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media-bias-steals-elections
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:03pmApplause!
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Zipit
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:02pmGood for him! Now, let us see the list of everyone who overspent their budget!
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thibx
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:00pmwhy are they getting 3.5million? the whole damn place up there makes no sense. what does the others do pocket it?
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walnutportconservative
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:00pmThis is old news Glenn, I think I saw this on the NBC 11:00 news before I went to bed… yawn…
Big deal, a million here, a million there!!! Big deal. What difference does it make?
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John.Galt
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:13pmNone. Just like you. You make no difference. Apathy reigns supreme. And soon millions will be starving, freezing and in the dark. America is over, killed from within by moral decay and loose fiscal policy, just like civilizations past… Rome, Greece (present and past) being fine examples.
To all the lib-tards out there, ENJOY YOUR STARVATION!
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Landon410
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:16pm100 senators, 500,000 returned each years, that $50,000,000 a year, and since its in vogue to talk about 10 year periods thats $500,000,000 in 10 years
now what type of budget does each congressman get? lets cut that by 15% and see what it equals
congressman each get around 1.4 million x 435 = $609,000,000 x 15% cut = $91,350,000 x 10 years = $913,500,000
so……. whats a million here a million there? its $1,413,500,000 over 10 years
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spirited
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:19pmIf we took Rand Paul’s 600.000
and multiplied it
8^>by Barack Obama’s 57 states
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Landon410
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:42pmif they you look at the numbes i have above…. its like obamacare math 10 years of 15% cuts for 1 year of obama spending
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BehindTheMouth
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:07pmIt adds up stupid
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BehindTheMouth
Feb. 21, 2013 at 2:08pmAlso, you didn’t see this on NBC because the main media would not of carried it. So go away and never come back. bleh!!!
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wilbstal
Feb. 21, 2013 at 11:58amThis is why I will vote for this guy he can balance his check book. I never saw a Liberal that could balance anything all the do is spend and waste cash
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hi
Feb. 21, 2013 at 11:57am“But we want free stuff, not fiscal responsibility>”
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walnutportconservative
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:01pmGive it to me Paul. I deserve it. What will you buy me with that money Paul?
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Margyt
Feb. 21, 2013 at 11:56amGreat stunt. If everyone in government (not just congress) would do the same thing, we really could start making change. Every non-essential program should go. Everything else should take a cut…not just in growth but a real cut.
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Blivit
Feb. 21, 2013 at 11:56amhow much did printing that giant check cost??
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spirited
Feb. 21, 2013 at 12:14pmAre ya serious?
A small photo or an 8″x10″ sheet of printed-on paper
can be enlarged to poster size
~> for about $20.00 (as in twenty dollars).
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