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Ohiogal

(32,122 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 11:58 PM Feb 2018

Do 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?

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Do I understand this correctly? (Original Post) Ohiogal Feb 2018 OP
Yup! Ferrets are Cool Feb 2018 #1
"RANT" Paul! cornball 24 Feb 2018 #2
republicans love deficit spending far more than democrats Takket Feb 2018 #3
Hope Rand Paul has miserable "golden years". democratisphere Feb 2018 #4
I think you answered your own question MustLoveBeagles Feb 2018 #5
Yep pandr32 Feb 2018 #10
Rand is a major hypocrite. N/t FSogol Feb 2018 #6
Absolutely FS Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2018 #8
I stopped listening to him with that hot mic deal - remember ? - he's all bullshit Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2018 #7
He's a hypocrite and a jerk, and he thinks that "a" is a preposition. DavidDvorkin Feb 2018 #9
He's just impatient Corgigal Feb 2018 #11

Takket

(21,649 posts)
3. republicans love deficit spending far more than democrats
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:04 AM
Feb 2018

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).

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
7. I stopped listening to him with that hot mic deal - remember ? - he's all bullshit
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 12:12 AM
Feb 2018

thus the hypocrisy you rightly point out OG

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
11. He's just impatient
Fri Feb 9, 2018, 01:55 AM
Feb 2018

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.

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