Posted on 01/04/2017 4:24:37 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will oppose the Republican budget resolution designed to begin the process of unwinding the Affordable Care Act, making him possibly the only member of the majority to break ranks.
In a speech scheduled for later Wednesday, he will criticize the resolution for assuming $9 trillion in additional debt over the next 10 years.
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Exactly. It is the ONLY solution to virtually every problem we have. Someone needs to take a stand for it. If it were up to me, everything would be privatized from schools to the police.
No. He voted against increasing the debt.
You had me at, ‘profligacy.’ ;)
They should use healthcare reform as a chance for bipartisan agreement. It’s a live grenade. If Republicans do what the left-wing statists did and ram it down the countries throat without any compromises or deals then it will explode in their face just like Obamacare.
Trade healthcare reform for something more important.
Ignored and forgotten by the media and public for months, he's now decided to be a rogue Republican to get back into the limelight.
He's a flaky fruitcake Libertarian which he masks very well with his calm and measured smooth-talking, his earnest demeanor and his boyish appearance. Inside his head is a feverish brain working constantly at self-promotion.
I hope President-Elect Trump slaps this twerp upside, downside and sideways....and consigns him to Elba for the remainder of his term.
Leni
He’s sorta like the GOP equivalent of Jim Trafficant.
That’s the dirty little not-so-secret of DC: Republicans are just as drunk on spending as Dems. Hence, more trillions in debt to come.
A lot of these guys are joyful because they see it as their chance to spend, not to reduce the size of government.
It remains to be seen whether Trump makes the connection that the solution to a lot of the domestic problems he cares about is to slash government and devolve more power to the states - and, even if he does, whether the pigs at the trough in Congress will go along.
Didn’t Trump start out as a kind of gadfly?
Why? Because this is Washington and it will be business as usual. Nothing is going to change.
They will keep wasting our money, cheating us at every turn and keep selling off pieces of America.
Elections will fix nothing. Until we have a few hanging from crosses or good old solid oak limbs it will be business as usual.
Yep - doing it like pulling off a band-aid and the Dims will control everything 4 years from now.
The FACT is if this Congress does nothing the debt increases by $9T over the next 10 years anyway.
The Watch is on for Obama’s $20T debt before he leaves office....
https://www.fms.treas.gov/fmsweb/viewDTSFiles?dir=w&fname=17010300.pdf
We that close....
Agreed.. can’t trust anyone.
I agree. I want to know why getting rid of OCare will cost a trillion dollars a year.
That strikes me as crazy.
If I get rid of my car payment, I owe them $0.00 dollars thereafter.
He is an eye doctor, and I’m sure there’s something in that Obamacare fiasco that benefits him. It’s why I didn’t like the candidates in the past elections pushing themselves as “doctors” and claiming to be conservative. Something in it for them.
Rand is shifty and opportunistic pretending to be a libertarian. Always has been that way.
Well, with your analogy, just because you get rid of your car (and your car payment), you still need a means to get to work. So replacing your car payment with uber fare or bus fare will still cost more than $0.00. If Congress was in charge of your situation they would replace it with a chauffeured limo, instead. :-)
Congress needs to come out and explain just what the 9 trillion additional spending is for and how they plan to justify such expenditures. Have they learned nothing from this election?
The bill includes setting the stage for repealing Obamacare but it does so in the context of the overall budget. The $9 trillion is the amount of additional public debt that the Republicans expect to incur over the next ten years (”additional” meaning it’s added to the debt already incurred). Obamacare is only a part of that.
The senator is just holding a petty grudge.
The senator is just holding a petty grudge.
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Anyone with an IQ much above dirt would oppose a debt increase. The population of NOT DUMB people does NOT include the majority of Republicans in Congress.
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