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

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:

"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: