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Rand Paul: American's wont pick crops for $8/hour when they can sit at home and get welfare
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Posted on 03/25/2013 8:13:54 PM PDT by JohnPDuncan

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has emerged as the key advocate for secure borders, keeping to the rules and an organized handling of the millions of illegal aliens now inside the United States says there is a clear goal that Americans should have for the newcomers: Make them taxpayers.

“What I’m saying is let’s get them work visas, normalize them, tax them, make them taxpayers,” the senator said in an exclusive interview with WND reporter Taylor Rose.

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“You can’t have open borders and be a welfare state,” he warned. The solution is a secure border – and a process where someone on a work visa doesn’t get welfare, or someone with a green card doesn’t get welfare.

Paul said there are glitches, too, in America’s social services. There shouldn’t be 60,000 new people on the roles of the disabled every month, he said. In other words, America’s safety net sometimes is just too generous.

The reasons some Americans won’t work for the $8 per hour for an agricultural field worker, for example, is that they would rather do nothing and collect higher government benefits, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: sickoflibs

What is a legalized illegal? I thought you had to be one or the other?


101 posted on 03/26/2013 3:46:53 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: JohnPDuncan

Re: the disability scam (this article looks at one county in Alabama where one in four adults is on disability: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/), at least nine out of 10 such cases could take back an Indian outsourcing job by doing call center work from home—and probably six out of 10 could do more than that.


102 posted on 03/26/2013 3:49:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: goodtomato

Hello: we’ve got millions and millions of college students that we’re paying to take asinine classes. They could at least work through harvesting and still take classes without us having to pay so much.

Just think: it would be like a months-long spring break once you get all those college kids together in a remote area.


103 posted on 03/26/2013 3:53:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: JohnPDuncan

Mitt Romneycare didn’t lose because he hurt illegals’ feelings. Jeesh!

Even Sen. Amnesty Rubio lost the non-Cuban Hispanic vote in FL. Lef-leaning voters are left-leaning voters, whether they are still in their native Latin America or they’ve broken into the US.

Stop giving them jobs and welfare and most of them will go home. We can easily kick out the rest.


104 posted on 03/26/2013 3:56:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: dalereed

Survival of the fittest. Where’s the Evolution?


105 posted on 03/26/2013 4:01:06 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: JohnPDuncan

Then take away the welfare.
We don’t need the illegals while able-bodied adults are sitting on their asses.


106 posted on 03/26/2013 4:14:53 AM PDT by Little Ray (No "Comprehensive" Immigration Reform. Fortifiy the Borders First.)
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To: JohnPDuncan

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107 posted on 03/26/2013 4:18:35 AM PDT by jimsin
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To: Aetius
Do libertarians ever stop to think about this?

Slight alteration.

108 posted on 03/26/2013 4:19:40 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: JohnPDuncan

“They not going home.”

Sorry Rand, but take away their welfare and their jobs in the US, and they WILL go home, and the economy of Mexico is doing MUCH BETTER than ours, so there are jobs to go to.


109 posted on 03/26/2013 4:21:38 AM PDT by BobL (Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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To: jimsin
RAND PAUL
Eric Cantor Kevin McCarthy
Paul Ryan
Duncan Hunter
Ted Cruz

Let's see. Cantor and McCarthy are House Republican 'leadership'. Ryan is infected by Romneyism.

That leaves three and you've got them in the wrong order. If any of these three decide to run, I'll take Cruz.

110 posted on 03/26/2013 4:24:47 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Blather. Reince. Repeat.)
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To: JohnPDuncan

AND also ...it’s a good thing MESSERS mcconnell and boehner are RIGHT in the middle of this thing as well ...just like always ....these tigers are loudly just a-sluggin’ away backin our YOUNG GUNS in our behalf huh? HUH?


111 posted on 03/26/2013 4:25:50 AM PDT by jimsin
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To: sickoflibs

Last summer in Michigan the fruit crops failed so all the “migrants” were given welfare. Now growers are bringing in more migrants to work this year because its too hard to round the old ones up.


112 posted on 03/26/2013 4:30:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: JohnPDuncan

This is EXACTLY why you see no Americans working on cruise ships. The pay is less than you would make sitting on your a$$ sucking on the USA golden teat.


113 posted on 03/26/2013 4:35:55 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: JohnPDuncan

Don’t they’ teach the us’e of apo’strophes’ in school’s’ anymore?


114 posted on 03/26/2013 4:54:10 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: JohnPDuncan; Jane Long; AuntB; Liz; JCBreckenridge; SoConPubbie; cripplecreek; Tennessee Nana; ...
RE :”Did your grandparents apply from Europe to be citizens or did they turn up ILLEGALLY and then apply?”

My grandparents came here legally then later applied for citizenship.

If illegals want to be able to vote HERE like I do then they can leave voluntarily and then apply to come here legally outside the US like everyone else does, like my grandparents did.

Just because my grandparents followed the legal process and waited in line doesnt mean they were rounded up into concentration cames, as your silly analogy goes.

Rand paul is pretty dishonest claiming he wants to eliminate all those programs after admitting he thinks that illegals should be able to vote.
If Rand thought they would support that at all he would have mentioned his 'plan' in his outreach speech to Hispanics the other day.

But maybe Rand is just like dad, he wants a permanent Dem majority so he has no responsibility. Voting illegals will do that for sure.

115 posted on 03/26/2013 4:58:59 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: JohnPDuncan

FWIW:

Paul would have made his point better by saying something like: why work for $8 hr, when you can littterally sit home and take in $32,000 plus a year in benefits and cash from our misnamed ‘social safety net’.


116 posted on 03/26/2013 4:59:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: dinodino

I have no idea why on earth we give welfare out anymore, to ANYONE, for ANY REASON!! It has got to stop. It has to be taken away from Democrats in some way. It is a magnet for every freeloader on the planet — and every freeloader here.

How can we abolish it? How can we end the Earned income tax credit? That is also a colossal scam. Saw the posters at work the other day ...it literally advertises itself as a way to “increase your income” if you are a “hardworking family.”

Well, WE are a hardworking family, too. We are up at the crack of dawn, every single day. We worked out way through college, rarely take vacations. But since we can do a higher level of work, the only way WE increase our income is to work harder and learn more skills.

Why is it one rule for one set, and welfare for the other?

End the welfare. End the earned income tax credits. End disability for everyone who breaks their little finger. End the giveaways of OUR hard earned money!!


117 posted on 03/26/2013 5:03:51 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: sickoflibs
I would say that mine came here legally. This is from my great grandfathers "Declaration of intent". He spent 3 or 4 years in St Catherines Ontario while waiting to cross the border.

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118 posted on 03/26/2013 5:07:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: sickoflibs

“admitting he thinks that illegals should be able to vote.”

False.


119 posted on 03/26/2013 5:09:47 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: JohnPDuncan
by then you’d hope they would learn about the US constitution, free markets and that the GOP is the party of jobs and prosperity

Unlike the majority of Americans.

120 posted on 03/26/2013 5:11:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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