Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
Boy, Rand Paul is fitting in very nicely in the hypocritical Republican Party of Kentucky. You know, the Republican Party that is against any government spending unless of course that spending is going to Corporate Welfare for the greediest and least patriotic among us as they outsource our jobs and cut wages. In the case of Rand Paul, he wants to slash government spending except of course the government spending that has made him rich.
Yes, Paul is calling for slashing government spending that goes to benefit you, but when someone threatens his own right to slop at the government trough, that is where the mad doctor draws the line. You see as an eye doctor Paul has become quite fat at the expense of government programs. Far from "cutting waste" he even requested more money from the government than was allowed, causing disputed payments:
But as a Bowling Green eye surgeon, Paul built his medical practice on payments from Medicare and Medicaid, the massive government health care programs considered to be leading contributors to the national debt.
Paul, the Republican nominee, has been paid $130,461 in Medicaid funds since 2006, about one-third of the sum that he billed the program, according to the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which administers that program. Doctors' Medicaid billings often are disputed in part, leading to smaller payments than they requested.
http://www.kentucky.com/...
And while he calls for the abolition of the Education Department to help educate children, wants to cut government programs that help the unemployed, disabled and would allow business owners to discriminate not surprisingly as a true Kentucky Republican hypocrite there is one group he thinks should be subsidized by the government:
"Physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living," Paul told supporters in Louisville in May, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Just like the tea-baggers who nominated him and want to "keep government hands off their Medicaire" so goes Rand Paul. While he wants to cut any program that helps the poor, unemployed, farmers, the disabled, and practically anyone else, his own funds leeched off the government are just fine and dandy.
This was not lost on the campaign of Jack Conway, the only candidate in this race who has actually SAVED the taxpayers money, not hypocritically taken it from them:
"Medicare must be preserved and, as attorney general, Jack Conway has built a strong record protecting Medicaid by increasing fraud collections by 600 percent," Conway spokeswoman Allison Haley said.
"On the other hand," Haley said, "Rand Paul is once again displaying his hypocrisy by advocating cutting scholarships to our children, aid to farmers and nearly every other government program except the ones that line his own pocket."
Be careful what you wish for Kentucky, it might come true. If Rand Paul is elected he will fight against the programs that benefit you and for the money that flows from the government into his own bank account. He will hypocritically dole out Corporate Welfare to those who outsource jobs and slash wages while leaving our poor, disabled, and Kentucky farmers hanging out to dry.
In that sense Rand Paul is going to fit in quite nicely with the greediest and least patriotic among us.
Go here and help keep the selfish, hypocritical greed of Rand Paul out of the United States Senate:
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