"The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul"

[applegrove]

The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul

By CHARLES M. BLOW at the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/opinion/blow-the-appalling-stance-of-rand-paul.html?_r=1&

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Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, said Sunday on Fox News: “I do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they’re paid for. If you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers.”

This statement strikes at the heart — were a heart to exist — of the divide between conservatives and liberals about whether the social safety net provides temporary help for those who hit hard times or functions as a kind of glue to keep them stuck there.

Whereas I am sure that some people will abuse any form of help, I’m by no means convinced that this is the exclusive domain of the poor and put-upon. Businesses and the wealthy regularly take advantage of subsidies and tax loopholes without blinking an eye. But somehow, when some poor people, or those who unexpectedly fall on hard times, take advantage of benefits for which they are eligible it’s an indictment of the morality and character of the poor as a whole.

The poor are easy to pick on. They are the great boogeymen and women, dragging us down, costing us money, gobbling up resources. That seems to be the conservative sentiment.




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[mercuryblues]

1. oh

I thought he meant he was caught in an airport restroom.

I can't understand the logic that would deny a family a few hundred dollars a month, but support the millions corporations get a month.

[applegrove]

2. What gets me is the narrative he is running on what poor people's lives

are like. He is totally taking away their power and dignity by controlling their lives with his description of who they are and how they feel. It is what abusive men do. It is propaganda.

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

[freshwest]

9. Awesome post there.

[applegrove]

12. I know what it is like to be so targeted.

And thanks

[Trekologer]

8. That would be a wide stance

Which could be appalling too..

[Cha]

3. Rand Paul is a disservice to the People of America

thank you, applegrove

[freshwest]

10. Says the spoilt rotten silver spoon boy living on the taxpayer's charity. FU, Ayn Rand, Jr. n/t

[Cha]

14. Ayn Rand lives again through ron paul's little dipstick, rand..

[freshwest]

15. Yeah, we know why Aqua Buddha didn't go for the VAWA and pushes personhood laws, too. And then his

National Right to Work Law?

Yup, Ayn Rand's rotting corpse is proud of her spiritual kindred.

John Galt and William Hicks are likewise proud of he and his running buddies and their giggling over default so they could 'manage catastrophe.'

What arrogant shitheads.

[Thinkingabout]

4. If it is a disservice to the unemployed to extend their unemployment then it is also a

Disservice to give farm subsidies to those who ate not unemployed, tax breaks to oil companies who are not down on their luck, it is a disservice to have to replace a pension fund due to vulture capitalism.

[Marie Marie]

5. Collecting a Government paycheck while not believing in Government

is a disservice to the people you are supposed to represent Sen Paul. Go back to Lenscrafters or where ever it is that you came from.

[freshwest]

11. Hell yeah! Get your greedy hands outta my pockets, Rand! n/t

[Triana]

6. The poor cannot afford propaganda to prop up their pretenses (and typically have few pretenses)

in stark contrast to the wealthy and corprats who have (thanks to seemingly limitless corprat welfare we provide them with) plenty of money to prop up propaganda about themselves while denigrating the poor and destitute.

Limitless GREED. Steal from and scrape off the backs of 99% of Americans, then blame the ones you're stealing and scraping off of for being too needy.

Fabulous. What country.

[applegrove]

7. +100

[jmowreader]

13. It is a disservice for someone paid to be a Senator to not do senatorial work

Wasn't Congress in session one day of every three this year or some equally reprehensible figure?