It is, as it always was, just about giving a bunch of money to the rich by gouging working people. He’s talking about giving people money they didn’t pay. It’s a welfare transfer payment. How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?
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“Yes, I do want to rebuild the American military”.
Paul says schools will someday hire private companies that provide top quality online courses – and he believes the current public school system prevents such innovation. And here’s what I don’t understand – if you invest that money in a piece of equipment, if you invest that money in a business, you get to write it off your taxes.
Rubio fired back, saying he was proud to invest in children or “the future of America”.
“But if you’re not going to respond in a no-fly zone strategy”, Neil Cavuto, one of the moderators, asked, “what would yours be?”
Rubio: I know that Rand is a committed isolationist. I’m not. I believe the world is a stronger and a better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
PAUL: Marco, I don’t think we’re any safer.
“How is it conservative to add a $1 trillion expenditure to the federal government?”
Paul: How is it conservative?
Rubio, facing a clearly unexpected challenge to the widespread Republican notion that you can cut taxes and eliminate the debt without cutting a dime on Republican-cherished budget items like the military, got flustered and tried to deflect with fifth grade debating tactics.
In a speech just short of 30 minutes, the US senator from Kentucky ticked off a list of concerns that seemed tailored to the college crowd: government surveillance and overreach into personal financial records and online activity. “You can not be a conservative if you keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for”.
“We do think we have an appeal that will go across party lines”. “Not the job of being president or the job of being a senator or the job of being a congressman, the most important job any of us will ever do is the job of being president”.
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“The government, it’s none of their damn business what you do with your credit card”, Paul told a group of about 200 people gathered for a “Stand with Rand” event on the University of Minnesota campus. “I’ve heard enough. I don’t want to hear about billionaires, I want to hear about the dirt”, said Hawaii resident Ron Horoshko. I spoke to a general two weeks ago, he said-he was very up on exactly what we’re talking about. We can’t grow our economy if the global economy is under threat from the likes of ISIS and China, and only more spending on defense can stop them. You think defending this nation is expensive.
