I have been a big opponent/basher of yours for a while.
Like you, I worked on Capitol Hill and dreamed of running for Congress. I won't bore you with the details.
I knew if I ran for office I'd have to push something other than Congressional staffer to convince people to vote for me. It worked for you though, and apparantly, you've taken the lack of private sector experience as a policy-making negative, even though you have no real private sector experience of your own. Of course, I did not have any extensive business experience (waiter, gas station, cook, security guard, fast food employee, etc.) to make me feel that I had the cojones to disrespect any President for not running a business. (you know like Eisenhower or Reagan ---- no, I do not give people credit for being life-long members of the military, cause it's not a business; and no, Reagan was an actor and basically an employee ---- not a business executive or owner)
I am pretty sure, Obama practiced law privately for some time and you know, you gotta pay a secretary and maybe a paralegal and you need to pay rent and other bills....okay, maybe not a business to you but it's a business and if I remeeber right ---- 90% of businesses have like fewer than 5 employees.
Anyway, Paul, sorry about the above rant.
My problem with you is you think you got here by yourself. You and Ayn Rand are the worst kind of free-riders. You know how we mocked those crazy Tea Party activits with their silly signs ["NO GOVERMENT RUN HEALTHCARE" with the littler message in the poster saying "Keep your hands off my Medicare"] I mean, we, liberals of course, want to shake them and say "Medicare is Government Healthcare".
Paul, you've been sucking at the Government teat, since you were were...what 23? I bet you even got government loans and grants. Christ, Paul, your Alma Mater (Miami of Ohio) was built by Government money and was basically one of the first, if not the first, land grant college in America. Elected to Congress at 28 ----- that's a sweet government gravy boat for you!
Now I know, you worked for some GOP organizations, and gee, that's swell. Did you listen to the GOP debates, how your running mate leaned into Rick Santorum for sucking at the government teat and basically spent a life living off the government? --- JUST LIKE YOU, PAUL.
Sorry, ranted again. I have no expectations that you or Ayn would ever understand, and I will grant you you have a constitutional right to complain about the government regardless of who ultimately pays for everything for you.
I would remind you of the sage story, told often, by Senator Fritz Holling (D-SC): "A veteran returning from Korea went to college on the GI Bill, bought his house with an FHA loan, saw his kids born in a VA hospital, started a business with an SBA loan, got electricity from TVA and, later, water from an EPA project. His parents, living on Social Security, retired to a farm, got electricity from REA and had their soil tested by the USDA. When his father became ill, the family was saved from financial ruin by Medicare and a life was saved with a drug developed through NIH. His kids participated in the school lunch program, learned physics from teachers trained in an NSF program and went to college with guaranteed student loans. He drove to work on the Interstate and moored his boat in a channel dredged by Army engineers. When floods hit, he took Amtrak to Washington to apply for disaster relief and spent some time in the Smithsonian museums. Then one day he got mad. He wrote his Senator an angry letter - "Get the government off my back", he wrote. "I'm tired of paying taxes for all those programs created for ungrateful people!"
Paul, you are just like that guy. The only difference between you and a guy in the homeless shelter or a family getting welfare and food stamps is you are getting more. I am glad you are running. Prepare yourself for the VP Debate with Joe Biden. I had him as a law professor ---- he's pretty smart for a guy who hasn't worked in the private sector since you were two and filling diapers.