Posted on 06/03/2025 9:04:13 AM PDT by RandFan
@RandPaul
Kentuckians sent me here to fight reckless debt. I will not support a $5T increase to our deficit.
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There are 4 GOP people skittish about this in the US Senate he says and that he's just the most vocal.
Rand says in terms of solutions he's willing to borrow money if they're willing to change habits and REFORM and make real cuts year on year (his Penny Plan budget or along those lines).
Over to you folks.
I can’t blame him on the debt increase. This insanity has to stop at some point.
I realize Rand Paul excites you to the point of climax, but could you possibly learnt to control your trembling fingers to avoid posting the Thoughts And Words of your Beloved Master TWICE? Thanks.
Rand Paul is a darling of CNN and MSNBC - that’s a big clue as to who he really is...
It displayed an error actually and I immediately asked them to remove it
It was not my fault
This is Fox news! :P
It’s not a debt increase. Stop. It’s an increase on the debt ceiling. Without it we default on our debt and our economy crashes. Rand Paul has been in the Senate for how long? How many bills has he put forth to stop spending? The guy is an economic moron.
Our only way out of this is to grow our way out and ankle biters like him do nothing to help that.
He is saying he will vote to increase the debt ceiling for 3 months to the tune of 500 billion in order to buy time and something less objectionable
He wants reform and the penny plan or version of it
He’s an ass.
Trump’s economic choices work because they’re an integrated working system.
It’s like a young man coming up with a plan to save his family from debt and part of the plan is to get the car fixed - and his mother in law (who doesn’t understand anything beyond ‘stop spending) tells him NOT to fix the car. He explains the fix is needed so he can get to his job but she’s fixated on on only one thing - like Rand Paul.
Rand has a point. But No one is listening. Disapprove of Trumps attack.
If this negotiating tactic by Rand results in the Republicans putting real spending cuts in the Big Beautiful, he’ll have my thanks. Think about how many of us FReepers were hoping the Big Beautiful had all of the DOGE cuts, only to be disappointed when the details came out. Rand is the someone loudly reminding Congress why MAGA put them there.
It was six pennies last year. Should be more than that now.
The hole is getting bigger
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But yeah, you’re right
He’s against tariffs too. How does he recommend we keep the economy going and balance the budget? He’s empty! Nothing!
If you cut spending to nothing, it shuts the economy down. You have to spend it in the right areas to get people working and paying taxes. That increases revenue. Trump is good at where to invest our money but I don’t like all the additional military spending.
FOX Business - but check out CNN today...
CNN’s talking Rand up like he’s a ‘Republican willing to bash a Republican’... their favorite kind of Republican - a John McCain.
Rand needs to get with the program - Rand’s not the elected President - he’s not part of the administration. Rand’s not ‘the coach’ he’s a team player and he needs to remember that.
“I can’t blame him on the debt increase. This insanity has to stop at some point.”
I agree. Doesn’t matter who is in office this has to stop.
China and Japan both dumping US Treasuries and nobody wants our 30 year bonds and I can’t blame them. The $37 trillion debt is basically unpayable and it remains to be seen exactly how we intend to handle it. Maybe partially gold backed long term Treasuries? Personally I think we’re screwed so I’m holding my money primarily in precious metals. Europe is in even more dire straits than us which is why they are pushing for war with Russia. Our “deep state” apparently wants war with Russia too otherwise that latest drone attack on Russia’s strategic fleet wouldn’t have happened. Scary times.
This has been repeated ad nauseum that the DOGE cuts need to be codified in a recission bill. Rand is lying and grandstanding. MAGA wants the bill and put Trump in, not Rand.
“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said on Tuesday the DOGE cuts must be approved in a separate package because it deals with discretionary spending, meaning the annual costs authorized by Congress through the appropriations process.
Meanwhile, the reconciliation package can only tinker with mandatory spending, referring to costs that are required by law and are not annually approved by lawmakers.”
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/05/28/mike-lee-wants-to-codify-doge-cuts/
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