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Rand Paul returns to Congress after beating coronavirus and gives a fiery speech against 'draconian' lockdown
The Blaze ^ | April 23, 2020 | Carlos Garcia

Posted on 04/25/2020 6:13:54 AM PDT by Twotone

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To: Twotone

Don’t we know? Bread lines are good for a country! Feel the Bern.

Luckily that goof is out. However, Sanders’s wish looks to be coming forth. So sad.


21 posted on 04/25/2020 7:18:28 AM PDT by Deepeasttx
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To: thirst4truth

He recently told us our portfolio has done the best of all his clients

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He probably tells all his clients that.


22 posted on 04/25/2020 7:18:52 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: RckyRaCoCo

And that was one of his more “lucid” moments.


23 posted on 04/25/2020 7:20:52 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Twotone

He said that on the Senate floor when the other 99 members are hiding at home. Until Congress is willing to return to D.C. and return to their offices and meet on the floor of their respective chambers then their call to reopen the country is the height of hypocrisy. Why should other people do what Congress won’t?


24 posted on 04/25/2020 7:21:33 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Looking at plots talk show host Chuck Harder put out 35 years ago...
We went over $1T in 1982. I was mad at Ronnie...but nothing like I’m mad at Congress in 2020
Chuck asked:
*The 30-year failed policy of “Free Trade” has exported out jobs, industry and factories offshore.
*A “Service Economy” simply shuffles existing money...compared to a poker game...Such an economy cannot create money to pay a debt unless inflation takes place.
*An “Industrial Economy” creates wealth by making a thing of value from raw materials.
*Our National Debt is backed by the “Full faith and credit of the American people.”
*Ask your leaders : “Where will the money come from to pay our national debt?”
*Stop our financial bleeding while there is still time.


25 posted on 04/25/2020 7:21:49 AM PDT by snoopy 'n linus
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

This is why markets (of all forms) should represent reality and not be artificially inflated with debt. It gives politicians cover to be witless tyrants, while all the costs of it come on next generation.


26 posted on 04/25/2020 7:25:06 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: Twotone

Hopefully President Trump won’t trash Rand for speaking truth on this!


27 posted on 04/25/2020 7:25:28 AM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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To: golux

This is true. Government becomes the only player left to turn to. That said, it will be interesting to watch the Left continue to try and spend more money with the skyrocketing debt we have. There’s no headroom left to pay for their utopian schemes.


28 posted on 04/25/2020 7:25:44 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: teevolt

while all the costs of it come on next generation.

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Everyone knows this except for the next generation. They’ve been had big time and they still haven’t figured it out yet.

Their trusted “teachers” told them government spending is good. Man, are they in for a rude awakening.


29 posted on 04/25/2020 7:29:38 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: snoopy 'n linus

Chuck Harder had a great radio show. Used to listen to him on radio station out of Big Bear, CA.


30 posted on 04/25/2020 7:34:30 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Twotone

“Fiery”? No

Pipsqueeky? Yes


31 posted on 04/25/2020 7:46:33 AM PDT by CharleysPride
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To: snoopy 'n linus

The FIRE economy is great for the fat cats, but it is killing us. But the Fed Gov is just a dumpster fire and has been for decades. This ends very badly.

I don’t think people really realize we have added $35 trillion to the national debt in only 30 years. The rate is accelerating. With that debt, the prime interest rate will never be allowed to go much above zero again, causing bubble after bubble that require more goverment bailouts. If we hit $40 trillion by 2025 or so, how much longer after that before we hit $50 trillion I don’t know if we will ever again see a budget deficit less than $1 trillion each year. I don’t see it going forward. The next time we have a 1/2 tillion dollar annual budget deficit, I am going to throw a party.

They are flat killing us.


32 posted on 04/25/2020 7:51:46 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: attiladhun2

For years Chuck’s show followed Rush in the local market. Looking back, Chuck was right a lot more than he was wrong. Globalists and elites? He was spot on and ahead of his time. Face on Mars? Well, at least Richard Hoagland’s visits to the show were entertaining.


33 posted on 04/25/2020 8:08:44 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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To: Twotone
"Had we practiced sound budgeting in the past, we would have been better, significantly better positioned to weather this storm."

Amen. At this time, there should be no spending increases without (at least) an equal amount of spending decreases.

34 posted on 04/25/2020 8:10:42 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Twotone

bttt


35 posted on 04/25/2020 8:24:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Twotone

Nobody’s talking about hyperinflation, but that’s my real fear.

By the time the economy returns to “normal”, we may need a wheelbarrow full of worthless money to buy bread & other basics, like in Germany post-Versailles Treaty.

We’ve already seen wages plateaued at 1980 levels for the past 20 years, while housing & university costs skyrocket.

Now this.

The post-corona economy may well push millions more into homelessness.


36 posted on 04/25/2020 12:26:37 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: cdcdawg

Civilizations on Mars were kookzone stuff for sure. He was also a bigtime treehugger. But he was great to listen to in those pre-internet days to get info the MSM would not delve into.


37 posted on 04/25/2020 12:32:35 PM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: Socon-Econ

Let my people go . . . Back to work!


38 posted on 04/25/2020 12:43:07 PM PDT by Blue_Spark
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To: Twotone

I hope Rand Paul gives a big hug to the “squad”.


39 posted on 04/25/2020 7:05:47 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Codeflier

We have both, we prefer in our possession.


40 posted on 04/26/2020 5:48:52 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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