Maybe he is cut out to be President. Devolve it back to the states. Amen. http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-federal-government-shut-the-damn-thing-down/ Speaking at the American Spectator Gala in Washington D.C. last night, Sen. Rand Paul delighted the crowd with a strong anti-government speech. He began with a defense of the government shutdown in 2013, pointing out that many Americans in “fly-over country” didn’t really care, and only a third of government was shut down at the time. Paul blamed Obama for shutting down national parks and national monuments to raise public concern, praising World War II veterans for ignoring the barriers placed in front of their monument in Washington D.C. “I tell people who don’t understand America, don’t understand that we need to shut the damn thing down, I tell people the image you need to remember is when the World War II veterans got off their bus, took their wire cutters, cut the barricades, and threw them on the lawn,” he said. Paul and his wife Kelly attended the annual gala, seated at the same table as David Koch, one of the two billionaire brothers who serve as philanthropists for conservative ideas. After highlighting more incidents of mismanaged government spending, Paul pointed out that leaders in Washington D.C. can not be trusted to properly run the country. “Everything in Washington is broken, nothing works here,” he said. “We can’t run the post office, we are not to be trusted with money. Congress is not good with money, we shouldn’t be trusted with almost any responsibility up here. Most of government should be shut down and devolved and sent back to the states.” Paul criticized Obama for his “usurpation of power” pointing to a “collapse” of the separation of powers and the checks and balances enshrined by the Constitution. “The Constitution isn’t about restraining you, it’s about restraining government,” he said as the crowd applauded.
Yeah, shut it down. Seniors will love losing Social Security and Medicare. No Republican will ever hold public office ever again.
Boehner and McConnell see the problem as Ted Cruz, not Obama. They are desperate to avoid problems with Obama so they can get back to the lobbyists' to do lists.
simple minded responses from a simple minded big govt loving leftist. of course he does not mean shut it all down.
or you could stop being a douche and quote him accurately. “Everything in Washington is broken, nothing works here,” he said. “We can’t run the post office, we are not to be trusted with money. Congress is not good with money, we shouldn’t be trusted with almost any responsibility up here. Most of government should be shut down and devolved and sent back to the states.”
That was a quote. Be that as it may, perhaps you'd care to explain how the individual states are going to pay for all that the federal government does. Start with Kansas and Louisiana.
They won't have to pay for it because a good bit of what the federal government does is unnecessary. You could do away with the departments of education, commerce, ag, HUD and labor for a start. You know, start with the ones that are not constitutional to beginwith. Homeland Security is a mess. Clearly it was a bad idea. Devolution to the states has two beneficial aspects. One, they will only do what they are willing to pay for. Two, they can experiment and design proigams for their state. No more one(liberal) approach being forced on all.
As I said earlier, "Yeah, shut it down. Seniors will love losing Social Security and Medicare. No Republican will ever hold public office ever again."
Rand Paul has zero chance of becoming president and can be safely ignored. His dad broke him with severe indoctrination. Starting with his first name, lol.