General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo I understand this correctly?
Rand Paul had no reservations about voting with the Republicans in favor of the huge tax gift to corporations and billionaires, which will add 1.5 T dollars to the federal deficit over the next ten years.
Now, all of a sudden, he is squawking about deficit spending? Is it because he dislikes deficit spending altogether, or is it just spending on social programs that aid the poor, the elderly, and institutions like public schools, that he is against?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,111 posts)cornball 24
(1,481 posts)Takket
(21,649 posts)the "fiscal conservative" is a myth invented for the sake of low information voters.
Rethugs spend FAR more than democrats the difference being they want to take money out of any program that helps anyone they don't like (I.E. minorities) which is where the "fiscal conservative" cloak comes in, and dump it into making the rich richer and the military bigger so we are 11 times more powerful than any country on earth instead of only 10 times (I.E. funnel money into defense contractors that lobby them to make them richer building weapons we don't even remotely need to protect us).
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Fraud.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,664 posts)pandr32
(11,635 posts)Rich people getting handouts and help is acceptable. Anyone else...nope.
FSogol
(45,562 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)thus the hypocrisy you rightly point out OG
DavidDvorkin
(19,499 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)the poor aren't dying soon enough, and what little we middle class people have, he needs to steal for his owners. In a few hours, he will be ignored, like most humans who have contact with him try to do. Except that neighbor, who seems like a better person on a daily basis.