Rand Paul - Yay

Posted by Wonky 8 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 11 months ago
    hey wonk. are you overjoyed or underwhelmed?
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    • Posted by 8 years, 11 months ago
      I'm glad he's officially joined the race. I think he brings quite a bit to the debate. I don't see redundancy between him & Cruz because for some odd reason I'm periodically overtaken with the desire to smack Cruz.

      Honestly, I retreated from politics for a while. I did read Greg Gutfeld's "Not Cool" (enjoyable as ever) and Sharyl Attkisson's "Stonewalled" recently, but both just reiterate existing concerns.

      Rand Paul's formal entry into the race has me excited to catch up and see how the GOP is evolving in real time (maybe I have a man-crush on him).
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    • Posted by 8 years, 11 months ago
      I know his book has inspired some of your writing. How do you feel about him as the big cheese?
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      • Posted by khalling 8 years, 11 months ago
        couple of things. he did a few moves that surprised me (bad). One the re-vitalization projects. Is going after the black vote there? the other was the legislation he came out with recently that says life begins at conception. for me, it will be the ones who keep on an economic message. I generally like to pick a governor. but it's not set in stone
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  • Posted by $ Terraformer_One 8 years, 11 months ago
    You Americans need to raise the issue of the United Nations(UN).

    I have been looking at how badly Australia has become as a signatory to various UN policies.
    The LIMA DECLARATION (1975) was created to transfer 25% of the world's industrial capacity to developing countries by 2000.

    I have discovered that Australia has lost 98% of its industrial capacity since signing that treaty/agreement.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 11 months ago
    My favorite lines: :)

    The Washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped.

    We borrow a million dollars a minute. This vast accumulation of debt threatens not just our economy, but our security. We can wake up now and do the right thing. Quit spending money we don’t have.

    We need to go boldly forth under the banner of liberty that clutches the Constitution in one hand and the Bill of Rights in the other.

    My plan includes economic freedom zones to allow impoverished areas like Detroit, West Louisville, Eastern Kentucky to prosper by leaving more money in the pockets of the people who live there.

    Currently some $3 trillion comes into the U.S. Treasury. Couldn’t the country just survive on $3 trillion?
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    • Posted by Mamaemma 8 years, 11 months ago
      "Economic freedom zones? Is that serious? Jeez, why not make the whole country an "economic freedom zone?
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      • Posted by Mitch 8 years, 11 months ago
        I agree with Mamaemma 100%, let’s make the whole country an Economic Freedom Zone!!!
        The problem we have today was caused by a government that governs selectively, only some rules apply to some groups of people. We need true economic freedom for all, not just Detroit, West Louisville or Eastern Kentucky.
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        • Posted by 8 years, 11 months ago
          I totally agree, but how on earth do you sell this to congress? It'd be almost as crazy as trying to get the votes to eliminate Social Security over the next 5 years. What's wrong with an irrefutable demonstration of how economic freedom causes an explosion of productivity in a small area and then extending the model outward?
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      • Posted by 8 years, 11 months ago
        I see it like a magnet school. When businesses, entrepreneurs, and hard workers flock there and prove the concept, it can't help but become the national standard. Would you prefer that we experiment with the entire country with half-baked ideas like Social Security and Obamacare?
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 11 months ago
        It will be a stretch for one president to pull off a full-fledged economic freedom zone. A campaign promise to do it for the whole country couldn't be kept.

        As Wonky says, when it works some of it will be replicated.
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