http://youtu.be/8WnbR9Ncxjk
Fuck this privileged snotnose twerp, the son who rode on the coattails of his millionaire father:
New video has surfaced of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul not only defending the concept of poverty wages for hard-working Americans, but going as far as to claim that they are “the tough live that people have to accept” in order to get our economy out of the Bush Recession that his very own Republican Party’s extremist policies created.
Made during a Tea Party in Kentucky, his comments provide a glimpse into Sen. Paul’s extremely greedy and dangerous “free market” ideology, where large big-box retailers are free to enslave the working class with poverty wages, and if the workers don’t like being forced to rely on government assistance, well that’s just corporate America’s “tough love that people have to accept”.
Poverty level jobs won’t improve the economy. When people have more month left at the end of their money they do not go to the malls. They do not go to the movies. They certainly don’t buy a new car. The US economy is demand driven, and when their is zero discretionary income, there is zero demand.
Now it doesn’t matter how many widgets a ‘job creator’ manufactures, since there are only 400 people who can afford them (and they already have more than the can use).
Rand Paul’s economic views represent the core philosophy of the Republican Party. His are not fringe ideas when it comes to Republican thinkers. Listen to Christie or Rubio or Coburn or Bush or any other Republican mouthpiece. They all sound like Paul when it comes to economics. Where Rand Paul and the Republican Party part ways is on foreign policy. Paul is a non-interventionist. But on economics Paul, the rest of the Republican Party and the T-baggers are simpatico. Unfortunately, the right wing of the Democratic Party (Clintonites) also buy into this “stand on your own two feet” approach to economics. (See Slick Willie’s welfare reform legislation.) They, at least, offer a “safety net” of sorts.