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Rand Paul at FreePAC: ‘Government Doesn’t Do Anything Very Well’

Rand Paul at FreePAC: Government Doesnt Do Anything Very Well

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) (AP Photo/David Kohl)

Tea Party-favorite Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) opened his speech at FreedomWorks’ “FreePAC” event with a joke:

“You may have heard about — there was a little girl and she said she wanted $100 and she said she’d do good things with it. And so she wrote a letter. She said, ‘Dear God, I’d like 100 dollars, I’ll do good things with it. So, she sent it off and the postmaster got it and he didn’t know what to do with it so he sent it to the president. The president said to his secretary, he said, ‘oh, that’s so cute, send her five bucks, that will be a lot of money to her.’”

“So she wrote a thank you, she said, ‘Dear God, thanks for the five bucks but next time don’t send it through Washington, they stole 95 percent of it.” After hearing the punch line, the crowd went wild.

Paul spent much of his time on stage blasting the Supreme Court and President Obama’s health care overhaul.

“Government doesn’t do anything very well,” he said, prompting laughs and cheers. “It’s not that government is stupid, although that’s a debatable question.”

Paul went on: “Now I don’t know if anybody here was unhappy when the Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare,” he said, drawing boos. “I was a little bit unhappy.”

He also clarified his position on Obamacare after he said the Left slammed him for saying that just because the Supreme Court deemed the health care law constitutional, doesn’t mean it is.

“What I meant was: I still think it’s unconstitutional,” Paul quipped. “We need a better Supreme Court is what we need.”

“George Will got it exactly right, George Will said that the case against Obamacare is the last exit on the highway to unlimited government,” the senator said.

Later in his speech, Paul said President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” remarks offended him personally.

“I took this as a personal insult,” he said to applause. “We’ve all got roads, we’ve all got public schools. You know, I don‘t want to sound like I’m bragging but I feel like I earned some of the success for going to medical school.”

He then referenced this tweet in his speech:

Rand Paul at FreePAC: Government Doesnt Do Anything Very Well

(Source: Twitter)

“The family that runs the American donut shop in Bowling Green, the Vietnamese first generation immigrant family that gets up at 4 in the morning and makes donuts and works their butt off… You think they don’t deserve it?” Paul asked.

There are a lot of people who may refute that.

Watch some of Paul’s FreePAC speech here:

Comments (89)

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  • Passerby
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:31pm

    Must be a bunch of stinking liberals to let baby murdering, America bashing Libertarians participate.

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    • Buckeye4ABO
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:06pm

      Are you one of the trolls in federal employ, or are you doing this for free? I am exceedingly libertarian leaning, love Rand Paul, and yet VERY Pro-Life.

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    • Passerby
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:23pm

      Than you aren’t a real Libertarian. They most certainly are NOT pro-life. They are extreme degenerate social liberals. Most will argue they should be able to have sex with their children, if they aren’t lying.

      And they bash America more than Nancy “Saddam’s Little Helper” Pelosi.

      And they spit on the Bible.

      How are they more Conservative than Nancy Pelosi? They are more anti-Christian greedy? That alone matters?

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    • freeberty
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:42pm

      Buckeye,
      Being relatively new to the website, my observation has also been that most of the anti libertarian venting is done by those that would stand the most to lose. The best thing to do with these parasitic leeches is to put them in the same category as an urban broodmare, more then likely that‘s were they’ll end up. You wouldn’t waste your time arguing with one of them, so why argue with some union government welfare queen/thug that has no idea how absolutely unnecessary they are in a free market society.

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    • acidovorax
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:14pm

      PASSERBY, as a libertarian, I can say you have no clue WTH you are talking about.

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    • Buckeye4ABO
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:24pm

      Getting Libertarians to agree on anything is like “herding cats”. That’s part of the beauty. Consider me an independent conservative.

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    • k8ti
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:31am

      WOW…Passerby! You have been EXTREMELY misinformed or misguided at to what a Libertarian is! Libertarians basically think government should be hands off almost everything…except what is clearly stated in our US Constitution (which is VERY limited government). Libertarians believe Americans know better for their own lives, and should take responsibility for it. That government messes things up by getting in our way. Libertarians are almost ALWAYS pro-life because they believe the unborn baby has a right to life. Rand Paul is a Christian (so his is father Ron Paul). Libertarians would be equal what our country’s founding fathers beliefs were! You need to do more of your own research.

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  • thx1138v2
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:22pm

    United State Postal Service

    Amtrac

    Crumbling infrastructure that was built with taxpayers’ money but not maintained because the money was used for paying government employees that produce nothing but rules and regulations.

    Government established the Department of Education in 1970′s and students abilities have gone downhill ever since. To the point where we are now “average” and behind South Korea, Funland, China, and Canada with spending per student the highest in the world. As a percentage of GDP we are 37th in a list of 132 and as the GDP goes down the ranking goes up.

    General Motors – the only sales of their miracle green car are to the government – fascism anyone?

    etc, etc, etc

    So what modern government builds is always – always – always a failure. Just like their failure to uphold the constitution.

    So go ahead, Mr. Obama – look at what government (federal, state, and local) builds.

    I‘m sure glad I didn’t build those things. I’m NOT glad you built those things with my money.

    Get out of the way! Just get out of the way and _we_ can have a country to be proud of whether or not you or your wife is proud of it. Speaking of which, are you proud that poverty levels have reach their highest since the 1960′s? That’s your goal? Sure seems like it.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 11:08am

    My first thought was that the government does a pretty good job with defense. Thanks to the men and women of our armed services, we are certainly the best in the world. But when you look at the boondoggles and waste in the military, government doesn’t do a great job with that either.

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    • TrueSoundsOfLiberty
      Posted on July 28, 2012 at 4:07am

      Really? They do a good job with defense? The Republicans should be up in arms (no pun intended) about the waste in defense spending. Think about all the billions of dollars spent on military contractors just so they can develop and build drones and other toys that they can spy on our own people with. You can’t tell me there is a drone collecting info on terrorists while hovering 40 feet off the ground in Pakistan.

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  • pap pap
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:44am

    “Government doesn’t do anything very well,”

    Government workers don’t get paid based upon performance (kind of like being a weatherman) and so they think their job is just to get campaign contributions. If you look at history the gov’t has never done anything as well as private business can do it. It won’t be long before the Post Office is history because of this.

    I live in Pennsylvania and we have “Wine and Spirits” stores run by the government. Private industry can do this cheaper and also provide more tax revenues to the state but it’s all about control just like any other government function is.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:41am

    If this guy can get some executive experience as governor or accomplish many more great things as senator than he should run for president. probably a few terms for him to do either. he sure would be good for majority leader after a couple of terms.

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    • Passerby
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:33pm

      Yep, someon that blames 9/11 on America is a Libertarian alright.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:26pm

      Well the CIA trained them, many advanced warnings and they were ignored and the criminals and even the goverment, said reasons for the attack, it was either blowback from foreign policy or that and an inside job.

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  • joey g
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 9:20am

    it was Awsome …just awsome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:44am

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe…”Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program”. (Pelosi).
    http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/12/27/top-10-most-outrageous-quotes-from-nancy-pelosi/

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    • ComradeAdam
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:49am

      Well, if by ‘jobs’ you mean paychecks and if ‘program’ is refering only to government programs. And you are not counting the jobs destroyed to make those paychecks, then yes, she is 100% correct.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:42am

    Obamacare = mass taxes (IIRC 10 tax requirements) on everyone…including the poor…the sheep are still asleep!!

    Still amazes me that it was partially funded in the original bill…totally wrong and the clowns in congress say they missed it…hell it was easy to see…the title was APPROPRIATIONS!! I guess they don’t know how to search a pdf file, eh?

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:27am

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe….you can spend your way out of debt.

    “We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession”, the Democrats’ third-ranking House leader, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House majority whip.
    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/79039-clyburn-weve-got-to-spend-our-way-out-of-this-recession

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    • ComradeAdam
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:55am

      Well if by ‘spend’ you mean….err if by recessi… umm.. ok I got nothing. Where do they come up with this crap? Its barely even a coherent thought process.

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:23am

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe…..that the United States does not currently have a have a deficit problem, every economist in the country knows that. (AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka ).
    http://www.ihatethemedia.com/afl-cio-trumka-no-deficit-problem

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  • JohnLarson
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:00am

    If you guys don’t like government, move to Somalia. Have fun.

    There‘s no strong nation that doesn’t have a strong federal government.

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:40am

      I’m not opposed to a federal government that acts within the confines of the Constitution.

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    • Kevin The Elder
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:52am

      @JohnLarson says: ‘There‘s no strong nation that doesn’t have a strong federal government,‘ to which I would respond that there is not a land in this world whose peoples are being slaughtered that doesn’t have a strong government!

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    • Levendiman
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:09am

      Here’s how it works. The government passes thousands of rules and regulations. Those rules and regulations, some good and some bad cost the businesses money to comply with. It also costs money to manage them so government adds departments and employees that cost money so taxes go up. This hurts business so the government creates other rules and regulations to try and help businesses, those also cost money to run so the government adds departments and people so it needs more taxes that take the money out of the economy to feed the beast they are creating. You can look at every single government department and position on any level, local, state and federal and yo will find the most convoluted conglomerate of inefficiency you could ever imagine. Nothing but wasted money. AND all those employees get paid with benefits for the rest of their lives after 20 years. Totally unsustainable and that’s why you are starting to see bankruptcies through out the country until finally the country is bankrupt, just like Greece. It puts us in the position of borrowing 40 cents on every dollar spent. As liberal or left as you may be that math would not work in your house hold nor does that same math work for the government. $16 Trillion in debt with $60 Trillion we owe to pay for all those worker’s pensions and benefits for the rest of their lives. There are more people in the cart than pulling the cart. Eventually the people pulling just cannot pull any more. No one is saying get rid of the

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:23am

      JOHNLARSON, In a way I disagree, and yet agree somewhat. This nation was not built upon having a strong CENTRALIZED government. It was designed to be a true Republic. Take a few minutes to watch this video for a bit of a lesson.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:26am

      @JohnLarson

      If you guys don’t like freedom, move to Iran, Venezuela, China, Russia, etc. ad nauseum.
      There no free nation that has a tyrannical government.

      The biggest difference between our two statements(besides the fact that yours is false and mine is true) is that this country was founded and successfully became the strongest nation on earth, based on MY statement.

      It‘s only in the past few decades that we’ve slid so far down the slope of Tyranny, that we now look like Socialist Euro trash instead of American Freedom.

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    • twowarvet
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:30am

      JOHNLARSON,
      Really? Is that what you have to say. You have proven your inability to understand or blatant unintentions to admit that if a person backs a Constitutionally limited government, that they are not opposed to government, but rather government that has exceeded its legal limits. Last time I looked the oppostie of total government (left wing; communism) is lack of government (right wing; anarchy). So, unless a Constitutionally minded individual is advocating for zero government, they are in fact the only true centrist in the discussion. Sorry bud, no anarchists here.

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    • toiletclogga
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:48am

      Millions of dead Russians and Chinese would disagree with you.

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:58am

      Mr. RJJinGadsden, The nation was built on the idea of a strong federal government

      The Federalists won
      The Anti-Federalists lost.

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    • FlagWavingPatriot
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 8:22am

      The federal government no longer exists to merely address issues common to the states, as originally intended, rather it now exists to dictate and control nearly every aspect of American life–in fact it fights the desires of the states it was commissioned to advocate for. The federal government has grown too big and operates outside of its authority. America can be saved, but it’s going to take some extraordinary folks to do it–folks that can put the nation in front of their personal greed.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:08am

      Oh my goodness, that old chestnut? Wanting smaller government is not asking for anarchy. What you’ve just done is made a classic PoliSci 101 blunder.

      I don’t want a “strong state”, I want a free state. Take your desires for a totalitarian nation and shove them.

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    • Passerby
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:39pm

      If we got rid of all government, even without foreign enemies, armed gangs would spring up instantly and be the new government.

      And no, your gun cabinet wouldn’t do you a bit of good.

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  • hugo65hsv
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 5:51am

    I couldn’t agree more with what Rand Paul has said… Regan pointed out that it cost the taxpayer $2400.00 to get a government recipient $800.00 in benefit… Newt pointed out that welfare recipients received 20 cents on a dollar for every taxpayer dollar spent on Welfare.. Woodrow Wilson dreamed of an America made up of Administrators.. Obama wants to improve the economy with more teachers, police and firefighters and of course Obama care Administrators.. How do you think that’s going to all work out..

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    • Passerby
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:42pm

      Wash your mouth out with soap, Reagan wasn’t a baby murdering, America bashing Liberal/Libertarian, he was a Conservative.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:23am

    Government won WW2? They didn’t do jack diddly poo! Sat on their dead asses and pointed fingers. In fact, their inaction damn near cost us our own sovereignty! The men and women that had a strong conviction, belief in GOD and had faith in their fellow country men won that war!

    Furthermore, I have to disagree with Rand, that the government doesn’t do anything well. They do one thing in particular very well, two if you think of the reaction

    1) They know how to screw our lives up.
    2) They sure as hell know how to P.O. a lot of people at once!

    They do both of those too damn well! The sooner we turn this mess around, it couldn’t be soon enough!

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  • ocrick
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 3:50am

    Does that include the Armed Forces? Phony Christian Repub Chicken Hawk…

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:25am

      Yes, they even managed to screw that up with metro-sexual glam boys running around in our service uniforms, making a mockery of past soldiers that put their lives on the line for this country. Yes, they screwed that up eventually as well.

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    • freeberty
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:02am

      Yes, the military has become just another welfare jobs program, with corruption and fraud among the military contractors and sub-contractors

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 7:05am

      The men and women fighting are outstanding people. The guys who spend thousands of dollars on a hammer, not so much.

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    • acidovorax
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:21pm

      It most certainly includes the military. Too many hold this schizophrenic view that government is inept, inefficient and corrupt in every area EXCEPT the military. This is simply romantic nonsense. Our military is nothing more than a department of the State and as with all areas of the State will be affected by it’s inherent problems.

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  • CrismaFire
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:33am

    The government can’t help America except like President Regan said to get out of the way. The government can’t help America any better then trying to force a rose open. It will destroy the rose. We need to shut down at least 65% of our Federal Government. Give no money out unless America revives goods or services. Trash welfare, don‘t work then don’t eat. Hunger is a great job motivator.

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  • fastfacts
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:31am

    Here is his whole speech if you weren’t able to see it. A speech for all Tea Partiers to remember: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/july/freepac_speech_paul.html

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  • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
    Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:41am

    The article says:

    ““Government doesn’t do anything very well,” he said, prompting laughs and cheers.”

    Rand Paul supposedly believes this … but he’s going to support Romney, a guy who actually DOES believe government interventions help the economy?

    See here.

    Mitt Romney Open To Value Added Tax (VAT) !
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsMIa6E_KUk

    And here.

    Romney supports automatic hikes in minimum wage
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/01/romney-supports-automatic-hikes-in-minimum-wage/

    Rand is a severe disappointment.

    And Rand is completely wrong in his belief that Romney is against the Federal Reserve. Romney ACTUALLY thinks the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke are doing a fine job. You have to see this for yourself, it’s so incredible how wrong he is!

    Rand Paul Is A Horrible Liar & Ron Paul DO NOT Endorse Obamney !
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g5e1-7fLFs

    By the way, Ron Paul DOES NOT want to see our monetary system controlled by Congress, as Romney supposes. Ron Paul understands that it‘s central planning of the money supply that’s the problem – whether it’s done through a private cartel or by government.

    And no, the Constitution does NOT delegate to Congress the power to control the money supply.

    See here.

    “What is Constitutional Money?” with Edwin Vieira — Ron Paul Money Lecture Series, Pt 2/3
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gMkKmQSW4

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    • GrayPanther
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:41am

      Your rant will not help Ron Paul or the conservative cause. Ron Paul supporters have disrupted Republican state conventions in hopes of having five states support placing Ron Paul’s name into consideration at the National Republican Convention. This act has failed and hopefully a President Romney will take the Paul view of the federal reserve into the administration and restrict their un capitalistic methods. Ron Paul is right on his fed views but he is wrong on many others. Wake up!

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  • marine249
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:59pm

    @HUMBLE

    You might be an economic illiterate — if you belive in B.O. and think
    he has done any thing good for this country or you belive that he has
    a clue to whats going on.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:26am

      The government doesn’t do anything well? Really? The government won WWII. Yes, that was that the American people to be sure, but the Government managed the operation, including the Manhattan Project. Let’s see, first railroad, then interstate highways. The government did that. Other roads, highways, bridges and other things that allow intrastate, interstate and foreign commerce, yeah that was the government. The street in front of your house, the stoplight that prevents accidents at the intersections you drive through, the stop signs, the drainage systems that keep your neighborhood from flooding, the phone lines, the gas lines, the water lines the sewage line, the police, the firefighters, the park rangers, the people who rescue you when you’re in trouble, the people who keep your food safe, your medicines safe, etc. I’m getting tired of listing thing the government does that you take for granted. Go to another country, where even drinking the water is not safe, and you’ll gain a better appreciate of what the government does for you.

      No, the government isn’t good at everything. Agreed. But when you walk out your front door tomorrow, and see the street you drive on, the electricity and water and gas that comes to your house, the safety standards built into your car, the fact that you can see the sky (unlike in China) and breath fresh air, you might think twice about saying the government doesn’t do anything well.

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:45am

      They sure are good at spending other peoples money.

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    • scuba13
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:54am

      Obama does a great job running guns and getting ICE and Border agents killed.

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    • KC1
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:09am

      You might be an economic illiterate if you believe…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2t0LjX1gBA

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:18am

      @jzs,

      “The government won WWII.”

      The Progressive FDR provoked our involvement in the first place. Yes, he set us up.

      See here.

      Did FDR Provoke Pearl Harbor?
      http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan198.html

      And here.

      Backing Japan Into a Corner
      http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/backing-japan-into-corner.html

      And here.

      Ron Paul as a Stooge for Adolph Hitler
      http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block190.html

      “Let’s see, first railroad, then interstate highways.”

      See here.

      The Truth About the “Robber Barons”
      http://mises.org/daily/2317

      “Most business historians have assumed that the transcontinental railroads would never have been built without government subsidies. The free market would have failed to provide the adequate capital, or so the theory asserts. …”

      “… the subsidies were not needed to cause the transcontinental railroads to be built. We know this because, just as many roads and canals were privately financed in the early nineteenth century, a market entrepreneur built his own transcontinental railroad. James J. Hill built the Great Northern Railroad “without any government aid, even the right of way, through hundreds of miles of public lands, being paid for in cash,” as Hill himself stated.[2]”

      And here.

      Monderman (1of10) – Drachten Eye Contact
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo3KWHqmDhA

      And here.

      Anti-Trust and Monopoly (with Ron Paul)
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4gRRk2i-M

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:27am

      @ JZS

      You are way off point.
      No were in my post did I say that the goverment
      has not done any thing good. When it does the
      jobs it was set up to do, in many cases it does a
      good job. ie WW11, roads {not the post office and many other
      things it has taken upon it self} BUT one thing stands out the
      goverment did with your, mine and a lot of other peoples tax $.
      If you would reread my post, I said if you belive B.O.has done
      anything good for this country or if you belive he has a clue to
      whats going on.A one word answer will due. I will help you out.
      The word is NONE.

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    • zipzap
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:32am

      JZS is missing the point completely. The argument isn’t whether the government does ANYTHING. We know they do things. They pass laws burdoning every private activity they can identify and name. They raise the cost of living. They destroy whole industries with the stroke of a pen and make ghost towns out of thriving communities. They decimate the spirit and hope of entrepreneurs whose newest and greatest ideas are shot down in flames by a dullard in a suit inside the beltway. They make EVERYTHING harder and NOTHING easier. They obstruct, constrict, deny, strip, devalue, confiscate, and prohibit. They take everything great and leech as much money from it as they possibly can. Does the government make clearner air? NEVER. They simply prevent private enterprise from operating until PRIVATE ENTERPRISE invents a workaround to the unaccountable bureacrat’s latest obstacle. Even the government’s greatest successes are without fail multiple times costlier than any and I do mean ANY private company accomplishment of the the very same thing. Why? Because the government fails to regulate the one thing that our costitution demands they regulaate, and that is THEY FAIL TO REGULATE THEMSELVES.

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    • KC1
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:38am

      JZS
      You act as if the horrible conditions of our infrastructure, bankrupt status of public sector pensions and the corrupt USDA are examples of Govt success. Next you will point to SSC and Medicare as examples of the Govts ability to manage a budget.
      Even the few responsibilities the Constitution gives to the Federal government they cant get right.

      You JZS should move to China like you suggested to us and see how great an all powerful Govt can be. Notice how your precious environmental causes dont seem to take in a country with a centrally planned economy?

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    • jdtanker
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 1:52am

      @JZS

      Also, we are the government! We paid for those roads and We paid for those wars with money and with blood! The government doesn’t own the roads, We the American people do. And We the American people won those wars.

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:00am

      @JZS
      I tried not to post this.

      Open mouth.
      Put foot in.
      Close mouth.
      CHEW>

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:45am

      marine249, you’re right in that President Obama has been able to pass very little legislation now that, thanks to Republicans, it takes a 60% majority to pass any legistlations, which probably has the Founders rolling over in their graves. Republicans won’t even vote for bills they championed in the past because it would look like President Obama “did something. “You’re right, President Obama can’t pass any legistlation now, and so he hasn’t done anything.

      But Obama has done nothing? Have you forgotten about all the terrorists who have been killed? Is your memory a little selective on that? If you have a child born with a medical condition do realize that now your insurance can’t refuse to pay for his treatment when they could before. If you develop a health problem do realize that now your insurer can’t drop your coverage just because you got sick? Do you know that your insurer will now cover your child up to age 26? Did your realize he‘s giving employer’s a credit of $5,600 dollars for businesses who hire vets and $9,600 for hiring disable vets?

      Despite the Republican efforts to subvert the Constitution, and block every piece of legistlation the President has tried to pass, he’s accomplished a lot.

      Can you tell me what the Republicans want for our country? You can’t, because they have no solutions. Unless you count taking money from you and giving it to their rich donors as a solution.

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    • Raven249
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 4:25am

      “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
      ~George Washington

      “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
      ~Thomas Paine

      “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
      ~Patrick Henry

      10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
      The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:43pm

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe….you have to pass the bill to see what’s in it (Pelosi).

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:41pm

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe….food stamps are good for the economy. (Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack).

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:40pm

    You might be an economic illiterate if you believe unemployment is good for the economy. (Pelosi)

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:36pm

    Gov’t does military well. It CAN do infrastructure well when it chooses to. But other than those, Paul is right — gov’t is not the entity you want providing goods and services at reasonable cost.

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  • SimpleTruths
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:26pm

    @black9897
    Sure, let’s just go back to hunting and gathering, sounds like a great plan.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:33pm

      You think the only reason we arent hunter gatherers is because of government?

      I think Rand Paul’s point was government needs to be out of healthcare. Lets not repeal and “replace”. Lets just repeal Obama/Romneycare.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:36pm

      It is a good plan unless of course you are a lazy government dependant slug expecting to continue to live off the taxes confiscated from the labor of someone else

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:37pm

      I think he means BIG GOVERMENT.
      Let’s go back to what the founding
      fathers set up. Not this B.O. form
      of goverment. Do you get my call.

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  • The-Real-Enrico
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:14pm

    Where is Brother Winston Smith? I can’t wait for his Rand Paul and freedom works bashing!(sarcasm)

    I can see it now-

    “Truth: Rand Paul is a neocon marxist and a muslim.

    Truth: Freedomworks hates freedom and supports Obama, George Bush, Hitler and Satan.

    False: I am rational etc.

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:23pm

      The Brother Liberal is busy firing up a couple more bong’s, just to deal with the pain. All medical reasons of course.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:46pm

      I’ll fill in for Brother here:

      If you compare Rand Paul to Ron Paul, he absolutely stinks.

      If you compare Rand Paul to all the other idiot US Senators, he’s a genius and a saint.

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    • KC1
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 12:19am

      Well put MOMMA. Not to mention all Constitutionalist will have to keep a close eye on Rand since his recent endorsement of Romney, before ya know it hell be voting to raise the debt ceiling, expand the TSA’s budget and QE3. Lets hope a Romney nomination doesnt corrupt whats left of the true Constitutionalist in Congress.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 2:45am

      @kc

      I dont think we have to worry about Rand. He did what was best for the Liberty Movement. He like many of us realize there are so many dummies in this country they will blame the the Pauls for the loss.

      Trust me, I was angry about it, but after a few days and listening to Dr. Paul and a few other talk about I cooled off.

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    • justangry
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 6:55am

      Real Conservative. There’s a strong belief that weed is the best remedy for PTSD among some of your brothers. The VA is even coming around a bit on this a little bit. I’d suggest it only offers a short-term relief, but still better than what the pharmaceutical companies are pushing. Rember 18 vets a day.

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    • The-Real-Enrico
      Posted on July 27, 2012 at 10:29am

      @therealconservative Well I’d hope so. Whatever will help Brother I am fine with. I’m with Justangery.

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  • TheEDGE
    Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:03pm

    “Government doesn’t do anything very well.”
    Poetry! Sheer poetry!!!

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    • black9897
      Posted on July 26, 2012 at 11:14pm

      Thus why it needs to go. We can live just fine without it.

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