Welfare should be a temporary crutch, not a cure. If he really wants black votes by saying more people should get out of jail and go on welfare, his thinking is shallow. There are many other options for black Americans, I know for a fact.
I find Rand Paul to be scary. Saw the beginning of his announcement and found his supporters to be scary.
Its an increasingly creepy world.
Give the current oppressors a time machine and GW, TJ, and most of our founding fathers would have their doors kicked in with guns blazing.
Alcohol prohibition gave us Al Capone and the Kennedys!
Cannabis prohibition has given us Hussein and the Sinolas!
Do ya notice a pattern here yet?
Eric Garner's "harassment" is on the head of Deblasio who ordered the cops to go after the loosie sellers.
His death was due to his criminal history, poor health and resisting arrest.
Don't know where Garner got his cigs but black market sales of gigs in NYC are a huge source of funding for hamas and other terrorists.
I was done with Paul long ago.
We do have a prison industrial complex that is killing us and has to go. There are far too many “crimes” created by our metastasized governments.
However, on the other end of the issue, we need to end “life imprisonment” with a swift death penalty for ALL violent and perverse sexual felonies. Murderers, rapists and molesters need to be hung or shot within weeks not years of conviction.
Addressing both ends of the issue would help get things done politically.
Oh, couldn't we just deport all the criminals to Australia?
I wonder if the same people showing some support for Paul also agree with him that Voter ID laws are racist.
Paul’s outsized concern with Black criminals and illegal Hispanics as victims does not bode well for a potential presidency.
The cost to taxpayers for incarceration a prisoner is phenomenal. Prison should be for violent offenders. Drug addiction is a medical condition unless the addiction leads to a crime. People who commit crimes against property should be put to work on public projects like building roads or cleaning trash and made to pay back what they took.
I prefer Cruz or Walker, but even Paul is better than another DemocRat.
Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.
I, too, favor emptying the prisons. Prison is a social catastrophe, creating many more crimes (by criminals whose criminality is greatly enhanced by their stay in prison).
Unlike Rand, however, I would accomplish reduction in the prison population by radical expansion of the death penalty and physical punishments.
I’m sorry...judging by the daily attacks on white citizens by people of darker skin tones, clearly, there’s not nearly enough people in prison.
Truthfully we do incarcerate too many people. We have too many laws. Almost everything is agains’t the law anymore. The US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. Its expensive and unnecessary. We need to fix the problem.
It would be very wise for a small-government candidate to work with Rand, and get his endorsement, and hopefully the majority of his supporters, at the right time during the primary season. Offering an excellent cabinet position or other support that would help Rand pursue some of his goals (eg getting the fedgov out of punishing legal medical marijuana businesses) should be on Cruz's mind already.
great.. turn all the criminals loose on the streets again, THAT will fix everything!
/s
(good grief, this idiot will get us all killed!)
GO AWAY PAUL!
Cruz or Lose
Great—the new way for indolent men to be supported by the government: commit a crime bad enough to send you to prison, but not so bad as to keep you there.
Ted Cruz 2016!
Sheeeeyit. Talk to any cop and he or she will tell you the most frustrating thing about the job is watching the perp they just arrested walking scot free while he or she is still writing the arrest report.
FURP.
Confirmed: he’s a flaming loony leftist.
Next!
I’m in favor of reducing the US’s place near the top of the incarceration rate by reevaluating sentencing policies but welfare for felons is insane. There is a difference between not shooting ourselves in the foot with excessive punitiveness and rewarding bad behavior. Cant Rand keep from shooting past reasonable positions and off the cliff?