Rand Paul: "There are no rich. There are no middle class. There are no poor"

[cynatnite]

Last night, Kentucky elected Rand Paul (R-KY), the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), to the U.S. Senate. Speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Paul announced his intention to do anything it takes to shield the privileged rich and corporate America. Asked if he would end the $830 billion, unpaid-for Bush tax cuts to the rich and return tax rates for the wealthiest bracket to Clinton-era levels, Paul snapped and said such a move would cause a “second great depression” and declared that “anybody who proposes such a policy really is, I think, unfit to be making decisions.”

Paul then clarified his delusional worldview by telling Blitzer that “there are no rich” and “there are no poor.” In Paul’s mind, even taxing yachts would somehow punish the working poor in Kentucky. “We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people,” concluded Rand:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/03/rand-paul-plutocracy/

[raccoon]

1. What a dip. A delusional dip. nt

[YOY]

2. They've elected Andrew fucking Ryan...

n.t.

[Arkana]

18. Lies! Lies of the PARASITE!

[Statistical]

25. "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?"

"No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.'
'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.'
'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'

I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well."

The teaparty nuts are going to turn the US into "rapture".

[Arkana]

28. Oh God...complete with Splicers?

All the teabaggers are going to get crunk on ADAM!

[YOY]

34. They seem to like stomping people's heads enough to be so.

n.t.

[YOY]

31. Either "Rapture" or "Columbia" (or whatver the flying city ruined by nationalism in BS3 is called)

n/t

[ThirdEye]

45. Maybe we'll get lucky

And he'll follow Andrew's lead and build himself a "utopia" somewhere....else

[Fuzz]

3. That is one scary way to think if you are legislating for the people.

"We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people."

Fuck that.

[guitar man]

10. What a dipshit

Who does he think shops at places like Dollar General and Dollar tree etc. What an asswagon!! :grr:

[DBoon]

19. "We are all serfs. Everything we have we owe to our Lords"

he likes his neo-feudalism a lot

[EOTE]

4. Ummm, so there are no rich, yet we all work for rich people?

So I guess in Paul's mind, nobody works? Unemployment is 100% because rich people don't exist? The dumbfuckery is mind-numbing.

[Poboy]

24. You hit on the exact betrail/deception.

The first part co-opts a feeling of unity. We are all the same, to blunt any recognition of class and disproportion, but then the second part goes for the kill by suggesting we owe the rich our jobs and existence.


Con job of platitudes.

[Democrats_win]

5. Rand Paul is vomit.

[highplainsdem]

6. There is no Rand Paul brain. There is no Rand Paul conscience.

[dipsydoodle]

7. blah blah

we are all Berliners..........

[highplainsdem]

8. Just call him Rand Pap.

[sofa king]

9. So... he's been a Socialist all this time?

That makes sense, seeing as the Tea Party handed us the Senate and a dozen blue dogs were permanently retired. This is the best Democratic electoral disaster I've seen in twelve years.

And I've seen a lot of them.

[wilt the stilt]

11. It's really an aristocratic view of society

very close to serfdom.

[Hannah Bell]

33. close?

[JoePhilly]

55. "Let them eat cake"

[proud patriot]

12. I work with disabled children

they are not rich . I guess I better only serve the rich in his eyes . Well FUCK THAT !

[Ikonoklast]

13. Kentucky will rue the day they elected this impostor.

Paulo will do NOTHING to help his constituency, as he doesn't think that is what he was elected to do.

Typical childish Randian political world view.

[kestrel91316]

14. "There are no poor." We need to make sure this sticks to him like glue.

[Kalyke]

20. I guess these Kentuckians aren't poor, then.

They LIKE living this way. :eyes:

[Gormy Cuss]

39. In the first two shots, nothing says they're poor, just 'getting by"

probably without government handouts that they clearly do no need. The guy living in the crate, well he's got two dogs to feed so clearly he's not making wise choices with his money.


At least that's the way I've heard bat-shit crazy conservatives interpret similar photos.

[GoCubsGo]

54. In the first two shots, I thought it was South Carolina

There are places within a few miles of me that look EXACTLY like that. Same ugly, falling-apart, brown double-wide. Same trash in the yard. I think ol' Randy needs to live a few days in one of those "not poor" homes.

Disgusting, arrogant sack of shit.

[BootinUp]

15. He forgot to say there are no peasants or lords. nt

[glen123098]

16. The following two pictures are the same

I don't notice a difference. Do you?

[socialshockwave]

17. I don't understand...

...how this guy managed to get elected. He seems more brain dead then someone who is really deceased.

it seems like he thinks that we operate like a feudal system - lord and peasant. Knowing the Republicrats and Teabaggers, that's how they want stuff to be done: Those who live comfortably and those who struggle to survive.

[bobbolink]

21. So, where are all the DU Ron Paul fans now?

They used to be very vocal here..... yoohoo... where ARE you?

Kentucky now has representation from a blind ophthalmologist. What a coup.

[glen123098]

23. Ron Paul is a better man than his son.

I disagree with him on about everything, but at least I see that he sticks behind what he believes in. Rand Paul sold out on nearly everything to get elected.

[bobbolink]

26. Ah, good, you're still here. I would hate to be disappointed.

I could remind you that * stood behind everything he believed, too, but I wouldn't want any of your circuits to overload.

[glen123098]

41. George Bush is a war criminal. Ron Paul is not.

Look, I'm no Ron Paul supporter, and I hate it that you seem you seem to assume that I am. But I support honesty in politicians, and I will say Ron Paul is a honest man.

[bobbolink]

43. You say you are not a supporter, then you say you support honesty and he is honest.

I hope you can get treatment for that whiplash.

[Poboy]

27. Ron is against the wars and runaway military spending. Rand is not.

Ron is consistent, Rand is a corporate whore.

[bobbolink]

Ah, good again. Glad to know some just don't give up.

I will repeat.... * was "consistent" also.

It warms the cockles of my heart to know that some are just never moved by what poor people are going through, and will cheer for those who would kill us off at every turn.

[Poboy]

38. Good lord. You know, you drive people away with your nonsense assumptions.

I've seen it happen with many people sympathetic to your cause. I'm on your fucking side, but go ahead and beat on me. You need a target. Go ahead, get it all out.

[bobbolink]

42. Its OK to "beat" me with acceptance of Paul, who would do away with poor folk, but I better keep my

mouth shut about it, eh?

Not a fucking chance. When you really learn to care about poor folk, you will see it differently. Until then, keep dishing it out. I know it makes you feel better.

[cynatnite]

30. Ron is anti-choice like his kid. n/t

[krabigirl]

37. True, but he would leave it to the states, whereas Rand supports a federal ban.

On this issue, they are both wrong.

[krabigirl]

36. Huge 2nd

[blurp]

22. Classless society, eh? Does he know he's now a communist?

[Javaman]

29. I'm always amused when the rich and fortunate make those claims. nt

[bobbolink]

32. I'm guessing that if you were in the shoes of so many of us poor folk, your smile of

amusement might fade a bit.

[Javaman]

35. I hope you weren't directing that at me.

I'm very much a part of that poor folk class.

[Poboy]

40. The poster needs a target, you are in its sights. Don't sweat it. Rational people know what you mean

[Naturyl]

50. Rational people also know "it" (as you call her) is right.

Both Ron and Rand Paul want to do away with the poor.

There is NO excuse for any progressive to have any good feeling about Ron Paul, ever.

Rand is his father's son.

[Javaman]

52. Where did I say I supported that asshole rand paul? Look at my origainal post...

I point out that the rich always make those kinds of claims. The always like to make the blanket statement of there being no classes.

That serves them best.

I honestly don't see how my original post could be taken any other way.

This is bizarre.

[tech9413]

44. Tell you what Rand, you live on $10K for a couple of years

and tell me how it feels. I used to have a household income above $300K and went down to living on my bank account after divorce and quitting my sorry assed job. I spent almost a decade getting by on about $10K a year. I consider myself one of the lucky ones, I had savings because I had a good job and my ex did pretty well also. If I were just getting by for the last 30 years and didn't have the chance to save, I'd be living in a van down by the river.

[Javaman]

46. wrong thread. nt

[Naturyl]

47. Haha, thanks for the memo, Rand.

There are no rich and no poor. Wow, good to know. Based on that silly thing called REALITY (with its well-known liberal bias), I was in danger of thinking otherwise.

[ellie]

48. Fuck Rand Paul

[Initech]

49. WTF is wrong with Kentucky that they allowed this monster to get elected?

[the redcoat]

51. I dare him to say that in Camden.

He knows exactly what he's saying. There is no possible way anyone could be this stupid.

[Hubert Flottz]

53. The more this fool talks the less he will matter.

[lunatica]

56. Rand Paul has already proven himself to be a coward with Rachel Maddow

If he thinks he's going to be coddled by the media and his fellow Senators he's as crazy as he sounds.

[Paulie]

57. He will be a one man filibuster. Giving cover to the NOpublicans

Not one piece of anything including the appropriation bills will move in the senate. Will make the previous senate NOpublicans look like pikers.

Are there any slightly sane R senators left who can switch parties? :-)