JUST IN: Rand Paul Rips "Wasteful" Government Programs Amidst Rise In Debt, Warns Of Repercussions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2021
- On the Senate floor this morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) listed a series of "wasteful" studies and government programs in a speech against further debt spending.
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Too bad we don’t have more men like Rand Paul in Congress.
You mean hypocrites? We have plenty
Where was Paul when Trump was racking up debt?
Defense spending waste is the hugest problem
Paul supports sending billions to Israel and it results in Palestinian children dying. These studies are waste but they're like 300k a pop. A molecule in the bucket compared to the bs Rand funds.
@@blouptqy Fuck both countries. Forget about foreign countries and focus more on here.
Rand is really starting to live up to his old man. Thanks Ron. Thanks Rand.
@@Polly_Ticks just woke up, tired from getting things done on the farm, read it wrong. We all make mistakes.
ya good folks
@Que Pasta Don't bother explaining? Guess ya had to be there
@@jeannetteellis2034 All good .. :)
@Que Pasta gotcha, it was a friday night q.p. my trip up just reviewed and agree with you compleitly since we are now adding an 'i' ha ha kidding. Cool name que pasta.
No, this won't ever be publicized, this kind of spending has gone on for years, and is beyond ridiculous
Wow, I would have thought that commissions already existed that would dictate how to better spend government money. How has this gone unchecked for so long!
Watching a senator harangue to an empty Senate chamber, explaining how we waste taxpayers' billions, is all we need to know about what a disaster our Congress has become.
These politicians need to ALL be required to be present. That’s what they are paid to do.
@@mplsmaven9404 they're too busy fundraising for the political party duopoly
All part of a web of lies the federal govt feeds us. There is no such thing as taxpayer dollars. It is an excuse to not fund programs that people desperately need, why would they do this? Look at education for example. If you don't fund public schools, that leaves a space for for profit charter schools to come in to reap profits. Same for Big pharma, same for healthcare. Taxpayers don't fund the federal govt. The federal govt does not spend tax payer money, all govt spending is paid for by entering in numbers into bank accounts.
@@henrygustav7948 Charter schools are way better then public schools on average. If government didn’t zone school and gave money depending on performance and such we might see public schools turn it around. Most government funded things are full of corruption department of Ed/California’s high speed rail/Ffs I saw a bathroom government built in a park that cost millions... there’s so many examples of this shit.
@@rawr6266 I'd have to see some stats on that, but it IS the Governments fault no doubt. They should be fully funding public schools period. They don't because that gives them an excuse to open up Charter schools many of which operate at the same level or underperform. Yes govt funded things are full of corruption, so are privately funded things. The difference is the with Govt at least we elect those people. There are tons of examples of neoliberalism all over, defunding and cutting Govt spending so that private actors can have a market from which to profit off of. That is why we don't have healthcare, its why we don't have fully funded public schools, its why we have unemployment. Making life difficult, making getting healthcare difficult, making getting a job difficult is all a part of policy of control because that means you are more willing to take on the crap jobs, willing to put up with employer abuses, willing to take low wages. This is called neoliberalism and we have had it for decades.
The federal govt can provide the money to states to fund all their priorities and needs if they wanted to. Its all by design and none of it is necessary.
Thank you, Rand Paul for actually doing you job. You are appreciated by the America people. God bless you and your family!
I think Rand Paul is doing a good job.
Well said
I think he’s the only one that is.
Rand Paul is doing a fantastic job! He should be president and I will vote for him
Rand Paul & co. should be passing legislation to remove these perks, prevent future frivolous expenditures, & defund these wasteful agencies. THEY are the ones who allocate the money into the bills, THEY are the ones who can take it out. Responsible stewardship over the public's money is their JOB. The more fiscally responsible Congresspeople should get a line item veto, to enable them to challenge & remove such items when they are hidden in unrelated legislation, & place them in a separate bill called "miscellaneous appropriations of taxpayer funds" & then force Congressthieves to vote for or against THAT on C-span. The problem is we elect them & then turn over the entire US Treasury to them, to do as they please without any restraint at all. Then when Rand Paul spends an hour bitching & bloviating about it, and nothing more, we orgasm. Oooh, at least one guy is "doing something." No, he's really not.
@@ajcarr1965 Technically, it ought not fall on Rand Paul to do something. Technically, we the government-school-indoctrinated sheeple could also be doing something about it. The first thing we could be doing, is, "no longer being part of the problem." Unconstitutional laws can't strangle the economy if they can't be enforced. To that end: "Jury Nullification: The Evolution of a Doctrine" has 3/4 of the answer. The remaining 1/4 is "run for state legislature and sheriff and win," after reading and understanding that book. (If you don't understand the book, then don't run. Understanding that book tells you whether you're "candidate material.")
"The American people are only with you because they do not know what you are doing."
Well said!
"We get to do whatever we want using as much of your tax dollars as we want but if you do anything we don't like, you are going to jail" - The Federal Govt
Exactly. If they decided to take $100 from you last year, you had to pay it. If they decide to take $101 from you this year and you don't want to give them the extra dollar, you are stealing from them. Square that circle.
@@marryswanson1193 so what? We just abolish government? Ur comment has no real point behind it. No duh, people in power have power. We need good people in power dummy
@@fireman1226576 no it's more, restrict the government from going over a percentage of the gdp, every year. From there, the government will either dissolve or ideally get more efficient.
The issue really was never the spending, it was the spending for what we get.
@@thebigbrownrat2669 there’s missing context I was replying to someone. Regardless that’s impossible in our current system so might as well file that one under pipe dreams
You remember the old saw about "the consent of the governed"... If you do anything that shows you don't consent or withdraw your consent you will be prosecuted and jailed.
Can you imagine what the founding fathers would say about this? Our government is beyond irresponsible.
The are crying for America
They would say:
A. No Taxation!
B. Every election must have A section where people can have "do no trust section name: __________" if he/she gets the most votes their entire salary for the past 4 years is to be returned to the people's budget. I guaranty the idiots in Washington would work their tails off just not to end up on that list.
@@maxgrind438 I don't know what they'd say, but I'm sure they would shoot first and ask questions later...
@@maxgrind438 I have a great idea how about we freeze all the governments payroll and freeze their companies assets shut them down for almost 2 years and pay China back
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Love Rand Paul he's not afraid to ask the hard questions.
Agreed, but it doesn't get stopped or changed.
As I've said before Rand I's Kentuckys version of Wyatt Earp
I need 1 million dollars to study why a cat coughs up hairballs.
But does it cough up more hairballs when it's on cocaine?
@@herbiehusker1889 thanks for the money but we dont know
I need a couple trillion to build a better millitary than space force & its useless satellite systems & drones. I believe we can physically hold China to account. Wonder Russians are way smarter than Americans think this is straight funny!!!! There is nothing there I’m sure everyone is pulling out their assets away!
Oh yeah the world is straight laughing & democrats currently! & conservatives meanwhile you want the republicans to what? Be the laughing stock also lol
@@herbiehusker1889 lmao
@@thequestionoflife2118 bro why do you people type such fragmented and unintelligible nonsense?
I LOST MY SHIT when he said "It's A LOT OF ANTS"
omfg
I need $1 million to study why I don't trust the government.
You can just ask the average person and you will get your answers, I want to know why they spent 8 million on seeing the effects falling trees have on the environment and why they need to count the fish in the gulf of Mexico for 8 million.
Pennies will prove that theory. 🤗
Is that all. For that study should be 1.4 billion dollars.
I want in on this study but we need a much larger budget.
Why not 6 trillion?
Wow this is insane. No wonder why we are struggling
Add in the rediculous raises this pack of vultures gives themselves every couple of years, and the reason America is over becomes crystal clear.
The worst is that depending on the interest attached to the trillions of dollars there wouldn't be any way to get rid of it for centuries! With no way of getting out of it.
@@private2725 correct, sir! New exponential spending can’t help but equal socialism further out just due to tax burden wing so high as to leave the public still holding a hand out to the Government. Especially now, when so many no -necessities are deemed vital by the brainwashed.
All planned
I wonder how many of these disrespectful people that's on the floor that's on drugs
No wonder Rand Paul can’t win a presidency. He has a brain and tells the truth!!!
Desantis/Paul 2024. Done.
The empty seats around him, and the background chatter with multiple calls to order, truly speaks volumes...
I think he's saying order because people are clapping 31:13
@@Holey_Moley he said it earlier than that too. People were just chatting like a bunch of bratty school kids who can't pay attention
There's Rand Paul then the rest of the worthless politicians. Neither party is for we the people any longer.
Thank you for all your research showing all this waste. It is disgusting how much waste.
Only because you are a sheep, Shery 😂 Why are you believing politicians?
This is one of the best testimonies to reckless Govt spending I have ever heard. Bravo !!
And the abuse of animals. Imagine those poor lizards tortured on a treadmill all day long while mad scientists examine their wasting ligaments?
And just imagine that NOTHING will ever be DONE about it EVER.
Wasteful spending will keep going to for another 50 YEARS.
@@AlternativeHomesteading at first I thought he was joking.
@@almightyfolkks7454 didn't realize "ever" = 50 years....
@@almightyfolkks7454 ima live forever! Lol
One of the best senators. Always love listening to him.
Rand Paul is a joke.
@@bgvo4373 a very objective reply
@@vladua491 kinda, but I’ll be the first to the first to say it’s subjective, though I’m certain most people agree with me. He downplayed the pandemic even after catching the virus like an idiot, he thinks he knows more than Dr. Fauci, he’s ignoring the fact that the debt goes up when Republicans are in charge, and he’s a transphobic, homophobic bigot.
@@bgvo4373 let’s not talk about the credibility of Dr. Fauci now 😂 he’s in communist China’s pocket. Crazy how people call every republican all the names while not calling out China that is currently involved a genocide, not to mention all the other human rights violations.
Rand Paul has the least amount of compassion or empathy than any senator ever elected… And this speech hes giving right nowIt’s complete bullshit because he voted For the Trump tax cuts And which cost our country $2.1 billion end it was not to help struggling people or fix our roads or create job, nope the one thing that rand Paul was OK with letting our national debt go up for was putting money directly into the pockets of the people that are already rich… Help the poor, no thanks… Fix the infrastructure, no thanks…Education? No thanks… healthcare to people who can’t afford it, nope… Give money to rich people who don’t need it, ding ding ding yes!
Damn, if he is telling the truth then we need to fire everyone out of our government.
He is telling his truth. Which is all a bunch of horseshit. I am sure he believes in his own horseshit.
@@henrygustav7948 None of what he has said has been horseshit though. I actually remember doing research on some of these programs, and hes right. Debt rises, spending rises, It never changes. And it's annoying that it never does, because I actually hope to have kids, I try to think of the world they will grow up in, praying america is still kind of rich when they grow up. I can only hope video's like this raises some sort of awareness to people. I don't want america to be an economic rome downfall #2. It doesn't have to be if we have a competent government that keeps our currency and markets worth something. And our deficit low. If not, I hope the government really does get overthrown and manages to get some of the debt erased (assuming our military is still the strongest at that point, and we don't get attacked or prevented from doing so by our debtors.
@@mayakuma All of what he is saying is horseshit. I actually studied federal finances, money and economics, studied Modern monetary theory for years and learn from alot of great economists. What he is saying is ignorant and completely false on many different levels.
1. What is debt what is money?
2. Universal truth undeniable by anyone, one's spending is another's income. The Federal govts spending is the economies income. Without Federal spending, we in the economy will have no income and if we in the economy have no income then we can not spend as well. If we can not spend then others have no income. Which means recession/unemployment. Spending is what keeps our economic system alive and he wants to CUT spending?
This video is not raising awareness, it is propagandizing people with FEAR porn.
@@mayakuma Govt debt, public debt is not a problem. The real problem is private debt, mortgages, student loan debt, credit card debt, corporate held debt that jeopardizes our economy NOT Federal govt debt.
@@mayakuma The US dollar is a debt, US treasuries are a debt. All debts have 2 sides to them an asset side and a liability side. What is a liability of the Federal govt is an asset to those who hold the federal govt's liabilities. Those liabilities are transferrable debt instruments as ALL money is. US treasuries are debt instruments that pay interest. The US Govt can create as much or as little as it wants to. Erasing our debt means to erase our money supply and to throw our economy into a recession/depression.
This needs to be on a loop on news channels ... expose the absurd spending , I’ll be keeping this one . Thank you senator
You can do that yourself, grab this link and share it everywhere, everyday.
Rand Paul should be in charge of oversight when it comes to Covid!!! He’s honest, gives you the facts and has a educated opinion!!!
“Wasteful Spending”. That’s exactly what that is. We as “Tax Payers” should get that money back.
I agree with you. We need to give TRILLIONs in reparations for both slavery, Indian genocide and imperialist conquest of Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Make PR and DC states and give them 2 senators each! Merge the Dakotas and the Carolinas to remove their Senators!
@@americanhero8606 That would be wasteful spending on an insane scale. Let's hope no one could be that stupid or ignorant
@@americanhero8606 no the issue with reparations for slavery is that not every African gets the reparations, and more so the ones that actually suffered are no longer alive. Even the Civil Rights movement has a limitation to who gets the money. Native American tribes deserve it more for the constant breaking of treaties and genocide. Puerto Rico I agree should be a state but not DC. DC is a Federal territory that is meant for the Federal government. It is designed to be a separate entity from the other states also DC is too small for it to be a state in my personal opinion. I am aware that you and many others disagree.
I want a refund for all of the cash they wasted on that stupid fucking wall the Mexicans are still climbing over and tunneling under.
@@nastyanon4122 they aint tunneling under it, but they are climbing it
The money’s not wasted, they enrich themselves, friends, families and business interest!
You're not wrong but it's still a waste of money
I consider that a waste and a crime.
@@leovang3425 pretty sure he's being facetious/sarcastic
@@bigbirdmusic8199 I know but he isn't necessarily wrong
This is just disguised as free money for friends. Theft of taxpayers money.
Thank you for speaking out for us sir. God bless you and your wife. I pray he will put a hedge of protection around you both.
Senator Paul one of few voices of reason.
... you’re joking, right?
I love how Everytime there's a politician calling out the government I never see the video right away I see you TH-cam 😂
It's a miracle we see it at all...Google is owned by a liberal, corrupt, manipulative company that does what it pleases without any regard for the people and their 'rights'.
@@TheEthikos or you can literally just watch cspan like the rest of us, what were you expecting, full congressional proceedings on prime time?
also google has the first amendment right to put exactly what they want on their website and nothing more
if you don't like it, make your own website
but far-right morons somehow can't even manage that LOL
@@TwoTreesStudio The fact they exclusively suppress right-leaning videos (and with bogus or blank reasons no less) is what people complain about. I'm aware you don't come to TH-cam for this content, that's completely separate from my comment. Again, instead of just being a biased right-hating liberal, think about the state of things and how *all* big tech censors an enormous amount of people on the right, and virtually nobody on the left. It's common knowledge...again, think critically and for yourself.
I love how you say "it's common knowledge" (appeal to majority opinion) and then in the same sentence "think critically and for yourself" (warning to avoid blindly following the herd). In my critical opinion, there's no evidence of some big tech conspiracy to censor conservatives. But even if there was, Google and every other website has a first amendment right to do it. If you don't like it following the rules on someone else's website, go make your own instead of being a little bitch about it. Conservatives are the ones who went and killed the fairness doctrine anyway, so IDK why the sudden change of heart and push for govt regulation of online forum moderators from the right...
Not even Rand’s peers behind him care enough to be polite.
I wish there were two cameras, one for this angle and another for looking at everyone else... to see their blank reactions.
Lol
Paul if you Republicans would have use your brains we wouldn't be in this mess. No jobs, food prices is so high , PGE is up a $100. Gas is off the roof. Before the Republicans got in office we was find. Now don't tell me S- you guys love to keep people down.Who elected so many dumb republicans.Let get it right come 2024.
@@corawoods4488 LOL i think you might be confusing Republicans with Democrats. Most of the stuff you mentioned started with Biden. In all truth though, it is one party against the people. The political party propaganda is just to distract us.
@@corawoods4488 lol
There are no blank stares in the audience, because the 'audience' isn't even there.
Chairs are empty, no one's home.
The politicians spend money from corporations to get elected, and then ram through 'legislation' and spending that only helps the corporate donors.
Most of the corporations would've gone bankrupt ages ago had there not been such fantastic 'business' opportunities created by the government. And the only reason that these 'businesses' don't really have any competition is because of all the regulations for 'safety' of some kind created by the very corporations as a point to heavily limit and restrict any up-and-comers that could compete with them.
It absolutely makes my blood boil to see the wasteful spending of our government!
Yes...but why would anyone think that this wouldn't be the case since it's always been the case. Axiomatically, people in government aren't connected to the pain of production - and its this pain that tells people to be careful, don't spend, save.
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What do you bet they are funneling the money back into their own pockets? They probably call their friends and say, "Hey Dr. SwampCreature, do you want to make some money with me?
Answer: "sure"....
"OK you make up something stupid I can fund and we'll spit it 50/50.
And all the good that should have been accomplished.
Makes me want to pay higher taxes for sure! The insane are running the asylum!
I wanna know how many researchers on that study had the last name "Quail."
Or Gore
Rand Paul is one of the strongest medical advocates for the American people.
Yeah he makes a pretty convincing case that we need better mental health services.
Rand Paul is the sort of man I follow and stand behind. I have liked his no nonsense approach since I first heard him speak.
Me too
That's it? You like his no-nonsense approach? He doesn't need to know anything about government as long as he approaches things with no nonsense?
@@donyoung7874 Hey lefty, Rand has been calling out this bs for years. Go back to Fox News and troll there.
@@donyoung7874 do you get paid to troll?
Rand has a rubber glove for the small hats
Keep at it! Senator Paul. My children and grandchildren need you to stand in the gap! (since my representatives in Indiana are not speaking up!)
That cocaine poster should be a meme. WE NEED TO SPREAD THE WORD!
Line up for your line
Yip
Look for alternative news sources Forbes is garbage cause it takes ad money.
Yeah it should. First of all that study ended 10 years ago and is based on real science… sounds weird but true. secondly, look at the figure given: $356,933.140.
It’s not even a real actual number.
What are you trying to say?
If Rand Paul keeps this up he should be the president of the USA!
He cares for this counrty. The ignorant masses will never vote him in. Instead we get the cheeto and the Alzheimer's patient....
he is the most qualified republican to be president but he lost twice because he's too underhanded in the way he manages campaigns.
Other politicians will never allow it.
Hahahaha
Just Love it 🤓!! God Bless You Rand Paul 🙏!!
God be with you Rand . Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for pointing out so much TRUTH
Rand, this U.S. Senate speech of yours is brilliant. Please keep fighting the good fight.
I think we need to go back to paying ALL politicians 30 thousand dollars a year AND NO RETIREMENT AND NO PENSION AND THEY MUST PAY OUT OF POCKET FOR THE SAME OBAMA CARE EVERYONE GETS.
I totally agree with you SEN, Rand Paul!! Thank you!!💯👏
These ridiculous nonsensical studies sound like a front for political payoffs.
Bingo
Exactly!
They likely are.
its basically just money laundering
Exactly, I mean why didn't they just ask Neil Armstrong what he said? LOL
I think he's still being way too generous "calling them wasteful government spending".
What he's describing the tax payer money getting laundered, aka corruption.
Thank you for sharing this information. These spending bills are ridiculous!
"Wasteful" and "government" go together like peanut butter and jelly!
"Corporate handouts" and "government" go hand in hand.
And it's not OK.
When political donations are rewarded with lobbying access which endorse this waste, often sub contracted to those donors, you can join the dots in a very corrupt system. Big government and big corporations share the same wasteful excesses but size covers their inefficiency.
Great & memorable comment!
the only WASTEFUL to republicans is when the money ends up in YOUR pocket! Want to stop WASTING MONEY? END YOUR LITTLE PRECIOUS DRUG WAR...
Glad Rand does these presentations.
This kind of spending is what makes me throw up a little in my mouth e everytime I look at a pay stub and see what I send these leaches every payday.
If I got 700k, I'd be able to secure my life and home, and I would still work my job and pay taxes and be a good citizen. Damn these useless studies. Also, stop drugging the quail!
And the headline will read, "Rand Paul seeks to defund U.S. scientific research capabilities.
The media are the enemy of the people
When this is the kind of "scientific research" we are paying for I would GLADLY defund as much of it as I can.
I can see it now on CNN
That’s exactly what he is doing… Why wouldn’t a headline read that?
How much do you think he spent on all of those professionally printed visual aids? Wages for an assistant, graphic designer, printing, transport, etc.
@@willstinson-kellerwilliams1501 a whole heck of a lot less than we taxpayers paid to research lesbian rattlesnake rocketry.
Senator Paul thank you for your honesty you say
Straight from the heart.
Love it.:keep up the great work..
minute 5:50: "it's a lot of ants". Hilarious!!!!
You'd think elected representatives wouldn't have to be told to be quite when a colleague is speaking during a session. It's like people never grow up.
I want a million dollars so I can study why water is wet lol. He's right. Stupidity is rampant in Washington
Or how about the study of the flow of ketchup 🔥such sinful and wasteful spending. It’s starts locally👁👁 pay attention to your cities and Counties budgets. 🙏Continue to drain the swamp with DC. Thank you
@@favpleasure lol. Did you ever hear the equal of what they give money for? The worst of it is we the working tax paying public are paying for this crazy stuff. Here we are struggling to buy gas and get to work to provide for our family and they hand our money out like it was free candy to every idiotic thing that comes along
every member should be required to be seated and hear every memeber.
Actually stupidity is rampant in the entire country
WE, The People ( the tax payers) and our children and grandchildren are who will be repaying these debts NOT the government!!
One sane voice out of 535 Congressmen. One must become 535.
Mike Lee and Thomas Massie are the other two that vote for net savings every year. Justin Amash was too until he decided to change parties and lose. Still shaking my head at that.
@@roymercer22 Yes, I was exaggerating a bit. Mike Lee is very good too, and a few principled Members of the House. But none are as direct as Ron Paul, and now Rand Paul.
Where are the quail getting coke from and what are they paying with? That's a more valid question to study
ikr lol
You know that coke is extracted from coco leaf which is then used for to make coca cola. Where does all the bi product go to???? 🤔🤓
If you had read the study, you'd know the quails are fucking for blow, duh. That's just SCIENCE
Thank you Forbes and Rand Paul
I like to listen senator Paul. He talks straight, easy and on point. Especially to Fauci. Shutting his mouth so he can't talk back. I like it.
Love s. Paul
Where was Paul when Trump was racking up debt?
Defense spending waste is the hugest problem
Paul supports sending billions to Israel and it results in Palestinian children dying. These studies are waste but they're like 300k a pop. A molecule in the bucket compared to the bs Rand funds.
Find out why they spent 28 million on gender studies in Afghanistan? The GOP did that.
Congress allows this to continue year after year. We need to have term limits and remove these criminals.
Back in the 1990s the state of Washington had a ballot question on term limits, it passed handily, however all but one incumbent got re-elected. Says a lot about the stupidly of the majority of voters.
That's what Trump was undertaking and doing as we speak..... DRAINING THE F-SWAMP !!!~
I say persecute them criminals should not get to retire with the money they stole or the lodge that they ruin in the process I know that there's judgment but I can't wait for what is happening now Lord come soon
No. We need to simply hold them to the oath they take, the paycheck they recieve, and their duty to actually b public servants. When someone like Newsom, de Blasio, whitmer, or biden actually intentionally make stupid, unconstitutional, anti American, and/or dangerous decisions, then we recall, impeach, and/or arrest them. If they force covid patients into nursing homes, they go to jail. If they tell citizens they aren't allowed to go to work, they get removed from office. If they say they want to confiscate firearms from innocent Americans, we remove them immediately. Not wait for an election, immediate removal, with prosecutions when they break the law....every single time and every single criminal.
Congress gives themselves a raise every year. Not to mention mandatory vacations. I don't hear Rand Paul complaining about that wasteful spending.
Thank you Rand Paul for exposing the ridiculous exhausting wasteful spending of our government ignorance.
They need to mess with parli procedures, there needs to be accountability for people who interrupt this stuff
Thank you Dr. Paul for exposing this idiocy. I cannot believe our tax dollars have been paying for this crap… quails on coke? Wtf corn pop!
Are you actually serious? You don't think he spends your tax dollars also?
Wow you people are so gullible
Thank God we have Rand Paul! Though... They have no shame.
Holy cow we need to clone this guy cause he actually earned his money. Or at least his intern did lol.
Spending and our deficit wouldn't be so damn high if Rand Paul was the only one who could approve spending bills.
He really doesn't like wasteful spending.
Hes a libratarian in name only. He's ruby red republican that spent trillions the last 4 years and 16 years ago.
@@earthlingsareinsane7193 but he still takes 176k a yr and last 10 years he only voted no except military and israel.
well tell his intern to go back to elementary school then. That number is not a real number. Have you ever seen .140 cents? Rand doesn't even know how to read a study, but that is why he failed his med board exams. And this study is not even a recent one. He either cheated, stole the wrong speech, or made it all up. I don't trust this slimy politician.
@Louise Bozagie same here, but keep in mind that some uni degrees actually specialize in emotional intelligence, and I would even say the one benefits the other.
Look how tired he looks. Look at the bags under his eyes. That’s Rand Paul taking the time and putting in the work in order to bring this to our attention and accept responsibility on both Parties. This is who this Country needs to make America great again. I really hope he runs for President. 💯
My. God, this is unbelievable can you Imagine studying this kind of stuff and being paid for it...it is totally ridiculous..ONLY IN AMERICA..
Greatest country in the world, i wonder who ran off with the 60 million? Hunter Biden?
The same shit goes on in Sweden to.
I can safely tell you the entire West, heck maybe the entire world does it. It's how politicians enrich themselves off of their government jobs...
I would not limit any kind of corruption to just America. Anywhere there are politicians there will be the type of person who will be attracted to the many ways that they can profit by manipulating the system(s) to their advantage. Just take a closer look at the EU and Australia! Also Germany has had their share of corruption exposed from time to time. Of course the most "notorious" if you can call it that ... was of course, Hitler! In Other briefer words - one doesn't have to look very far into the present, the past and possibly projected into the future ( although I hope not) and as I implied at the start of this - wherever you find politics and politicians you will find people (greedy people) who will take advantage of any system that doesn't have enough "checks and balances"
to prevent this from happening. Over and over again. So, in closing, I'll point out that "Only in America"
is rather short sighted.
God bless Rand Paul (of Kentucky) and I 🙏 pray - God bless America 🇺🇸!
The same people that is screaming racism in our faces...
My goodness my 6 year old granddaughter could figure out how wasteful this is! Thank you Sir 🙏
This should be mandatory to be watched in every american school class at least once.
And there is confusion as to why people don't have trust in the government????? Gee, wonder why?
"Don't spend money that you don't have" Thomas Jefferson.
USA borrowed to fight World War II:
Taking part in this war was very expensive for the U.S. Not only did the U.S. pay for its own military, it also lent money to Britain and other countries fighting the German military. The estimated cost for the U.S. was $323 billion. To help pay for the war, the U.S. took on more debt, borrowing about $211 billion.
And they want to tear his statue down.
@@robertschwab4503 and that justifies uncontrolled spending and having a lot of debt because....?
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
- George Washington to Thomas Jefferson
@@robertschwab4503 kinda right but as dark as it is to say the usa only escaped the great depression BECAUSE of joining world war 2 it woke the sleeping giant and let america restart and reman its industry and economy but the problem was the goverment didnt see the debt as a big deal and put off paying it off in order to let the country enjoy its prosperity after a long time of darkness but that is what allowed the debt to climb to modern insane numbers everyone just passes the responbility of actually paying of the debt to the next guy then he does the same to the next guy etc etc
Not only do we as a society need to apply this mindset to government spending, we need to extrapolate it to nearly every business and institution. Cut your costs, keep your costs down. make products affordable again. (college especially)
Thanks for posting and sharing content like this.
We need more people like Senator Paul in the Senate and Congress.
you can't be serious?
@@OOPS2468 Who do you support? AOC? A planned parenthood baby? 😂😂😂. I'm pretty sure babies from planned parenthood don't make it alive into the world.
Well he is one dumb person, did he just notice this waste? And you want more people like him.
There’s a few things I like about him but “C’MON MAN, ARE YOU A JUNKIE”? He stands there talking about “wasteful spending” while he’s putting up useless poster boards that costs at LEAST $50 dollars each (something he does all the time). He’s never concerned about wasted money when the republicans are in full control. Just like the left that complains about spending when republicans are in control. Neither party talks about wasted money when they’re the ones wasting it. Government has been throwing away BILLIONS every month for DECADES, and it only gets worse every single year. I do like Paul (mostly), but there’s a lot about him that’s completely hypocritical. Like wasteful spending that he himself has been a part of for YEARS. He’s only bitching about it right now cus it’s the opposition that’s doing it. Next time republicans have total control, he’ll be disregarding all that, and complaining about how “democrats are holding back our progress”. It’s typical left/right rhetoric that is used to distract us while BOTH parties continues to screw us all over. If he REALLY wanted to help cut costs, he would work with congress to get a new bill rolling to pay every politician the minimum wage from the state they “represent”. There’s TONS of other ways they can cut costs to a fraction of what things are now too. But that would mean less pay for him and all his ilk, and taxpayer funded travel expenses, meals and all the other day to day things we pay for. Then he’d work to get rid of their retirement plan that pays them WAY more after a few years of “work” than 90% of the population makes working 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job. Then there’s the left over yearly budget that gets used on spending sprees that BOTH parties do every year, cus if they don’t use all that money at the end of the year, they don’t get that much for next year’s budget. It was around 80 BILLION left over last year. That could have gone towards restarting the economy, but they all decided to use it for more unnecessary projects and to give themselves some bonuses for “a job well done”. I’m not a fan of either party, but I like the dems LESS than I like republicans. BOTH sides are corrupt to the core and they have been for several decades. They’ve been working together hand in hand since before most of us were even born, to ensure no third party wins any bigger elections, so the people wouldn’t see just how BADLY the two main parties have been screwing us over. The only REAL difference between the two is, democrats screw us and tell us “it’s for our own good” and their media cohorts twist it and convince all their voters it’s the truth. Republicans screw us and tell us “it was the democrats” and fox “news” tells all their viewers “democrats did this” while ignoring what republicans did. This 2-party SHAM they’ve got us trapped in is destroying the country. And it’s all so the two parties can continue lining their pockets and keeping us all divided and only voting for D or R. None of these people REALLY cares about average people. If they did, they would surely be showing it in some way or another. But it’s nothing but “us vs them” BS that’s designed to keep all of us at each other’s throats and distracted so they can continue with business as usual.
Sure, Paul certainly seems to “care” more than the average politician, but if it comes to the republican party or the people he “represents”, he’ll choose the party every time. They all will. The sooner we all get that FACT in our heads, the sooner we can ALL unite together and vote in third/fourth/fifth party candidates and have others try to fix all the damages the two main parties have caused for all these years.
@@jeffw6692 You are very correct.
Why is there two dudes talking in the back in a presentation that is so serious that this is one of the reasons there is an existential treat to our Nation, they walk behind Paul laughing talking like is just another day, people need to remember this when our enemies attack this nation like a piñata.
Disrespectful behavior by the 2 gentlemen in the background. The question is who are they and why could their conversation wait. Rude.
First thing I noticed
They are two socialist Democrats talking about the expensive lunch there going to eat on the taxpayer dollar. They Just Don't Care
The guys are in the background are talking because nobody is talking about increasing surveillance on Americans.Or taxing them further.If that were the case that whole room would be filled with thunderous applause.
Nobody else even bothered to show up.
Love it. This man has gone off the deep end exposing the absurdity of wasteful spending.
Disgusting, very few people there to hear and the few that are there are just chatting it up, walking around, talking on cell phones! Stuff like this should be aired as a public service announcement on television so the entire US sees it
The constant "Order in the chamber" really shows the characters of our politicians.
You should watch British and Canadian House of Commons. Crazy.
School children trying to win a popularity contest
Thank you very much Senator Rand Paul. We appreciate you!
This guy is amazing. Spread the word
$700,000 for autism research squandered. As a parent of 2 kids on the spectrum this is incredibly difficult to know. It makes me want to cry uncontrollably. We need these bastards held accountable.
Rand Paul, obviously we need 200 senators like you.
God bless you and your family
Even 99 like him would be great🤣
Why on earth would you celebrate an anarchist like Rand Paul in government? That makes as much sense as tapping an arsonist to serve as your town’s Fire Department Chief.
Rand Paul, the entire GOP and most of the Democratic establishment in Congress are crooked traitors/sycophantic robber baron minions, nothing more.
As well as his father.
Amen... ❣🙏🕊🔥💯🇺🇸
@@ShadyCool you are truly mistaken. He's LITERALLY trying to STOP dumb expenses. He wants it to go US. Don't understand how you don't see that
Give 'em hell Rand
Thank you Ron !!
Here we are...talking about this...instead of Universal Healthcare. Unbelievable.
The spending described by Senator Paul is inexcusable!
The money you spend on shoes is inexcusable
That so called gas station is a disgusting use of the word! Its not a gas station where cars pump gas into their tanks! Thete is no gas station for people to pump gas and by some potato chips and soda. This Paul is using the term gas station and even acts confused because the cars dont run on natural gas. The reality is that money went to the restoration of a massive natural gas drilling and pipe lines to distribute that natural gas to be piped into to a nearby city of hundreds of thousands of people. It provides natural gas for heating and electricity production for a city near by and produces enough natural gas to pipe in and truck out massive amounts of natural gas to increase the standard of living in the region.
We are the ones that bombed the massive natural gas extraction operation in the first place. So this vast natural gas field has nothing to do with a natursl gas station that fills care with natural gas! That is beyond a lie. Even more absurd is the fact that most of the money was provided by private investment in this massive natural gas extraction and distribution operation because it is a fantastic investment. If you crunch the numbers the Pentagon spent 3 million dollars. The military spent 3 million dollars on what was a 500 million dollar price to get the massive natural gas field back to full production. 3 milliom on a half of a billion dollar restoration is a tiny amount pf money considering hundreds of millions of dollars wealthy Americans and Europeans invested in it. The claim that 30 soldiers were needed to protect a tiny little natural gas station sounds really stupid since cars dont run on natural gas! The truth is 30 afghani soldiers have to be protecting the massive natural gas extraction and distribution facility at all time there is no gas station though there is a pressurised natural gas system so semi trucks can fill their tank with natural gas and then truck it into small towns and ligjtly populated areas to sell so these small communities can power natural gas generators. This 500 million dollar investment with private money that will yield massive profits for the investors has nothing to do with a gas station and the 30 soldiers for security is for a vast network of pipelines and massive storage tanks. It is a prime target for terrorist to blow up so the 30 afghanis soldiers are critical to protecting a natural gas infrastructure and field. Then to add injury to insult our military paid only 3 million dollars on a facility that once operational would reduce dramaticly the costs of the military to operate in areas that had no way of producing electricity. Its all part of a huge huge plan to modernize the energy production in the entire region using private capital from billionaire investors . The military now spends many millions less by contributing the three million to the project. Every thing these republicans, pretending to be fiscally responsible, is based on lies, exaggerations and outright bizzare claims about a non existent gas station that only has natural gas which is useless for passenger vehicles that this republican just said doesn't make any sense because cars don't run off of natural gas. Republicans have a thing for being lied into becoming angry enough to want to kill there fellow americans and over throw the government based on totally fabricated claims. Im sure Rand Paul believes what he is saying because he got his information from people that lied to him about but republicans could learn a lesson or two from AOC! Research Research Research before committing ones self to any kind of story or claim that one has no knowledge of except for the story they are told.
Rand has a polite way of saying racketeering
The government is a very large and powerful mafia.
Best part is when rand asked how much time he has and the guy answering, clearly annoyed, "28 and a half minutes." Lol he apparently really feels every half minute of this
Paying people more in wages raises their self esteem .You want people off unemployment you pay them more,simple as that.
"Their self-esteem comes from being proud of their work." Their work needs to be worth what they are being paid or they will not be paid.
Our economy is based on MERIT not self-esteem! If I was a business owner you had better believe that I would be trying to find ways to maximize my profits. The low IQ minions always get less. Always. That is the Natural Order of things. Your High IQ sales reps get MORE because they are the ones making money for your company.
If the government honestly cared about eliminating debt, they would have done it decades ago.
Wow! See how they are destroying our nation! Ron Paul just laid everything out! I know the left are not repulsed by it because that’s their life! Lord help us and save us from these deadly politicians!🙏 God bless Ron Paul
It was cleared during pres Clinton term he was the last old school Dem. Now the Dems have turned their back on the country.
Dept is what keeps the world turning.
We had a candidate in the early 90's but people said he was boring, and he dropped out once (I think from pressure from either side). Had someone like him would have been elected I believe our nation would have been much better off. Instead I believe we got Slick Willy.
EXCATLY right. Before it got out of hand
Rand Paul is literally by himself on this hill.
Time for America to write their Congress people in support of the Senator Paul's report and let them know we plan to watch them.
@@kfost4129 in starting to think it’s too late which is why so many went ahead and committed treason..
I think there might be a couple more but it’s because rand Paul leans libertarian.
It's time for America to have a all black congress that how you make America great
Calling they crooked ass out they is the real criminal of the world don't no one called they ass out let them would been my people drag us to the mud
Replacing things that are still functioning, and were hardly ever used to begin with, is a staple of every government agency
I'm largely liberal, but he makes a lot of good points. A big reason why I am frustrated with politics is the amount of waste. I want healthcare for all, but I don't trust the government to adequately produce an efficient and working program that actually benefits the public. He even points this out: I'd love if we spent money studying deadly diseases, but we just aren't. It's so incredibly frustrating.
He is fearless leader of our country ! We need more good worker for Save America ! 🇱🇷
Where was he when trump was running up the debt? cheering him on!
No, actually he called it out.
@@kop7866 he called Trump out.
@@Profligateslayer Bob Corker was the only republican who voted against the tax bill trump passed in 2017
@@sdeedenzacker Bob Corker was the only republican who voted against the tax bill trump passed in 2017
Right there it shows the WHOLE OUTFIT IS CORRUPT!!!!
We need more people who care about things like that... giving money to countries where our own people are starving, we need to stop this.
A major impetus behind wasteful spending is a mad rush to spend all that is left before the end of a fiscal year so that a government won't see a budget cut. Stop wasteful government spending by citing a government agency for a specific amount of wasteful spending and then subtract that amount of money from their next fiscal budget spending amount.
vets are homeless and but lizards are getting exercise
if you were in the military thank very much for fighting for my rights and also so that i can wake up every morning.
Non verbal language says so much!
Grow up, nobody cares about those, the veterans already were used so they are useless and the homeless don't pay taxes, good luck getting people like Ted Cruz or Mitch McConnell to care
Senator Paul, You are such a fighter for what is sane and reasonable. Thank you for your service..
You should really look into his B.S. before supporting him.
It's pretty funny you fall for the lies so easily when you could check for yourself
This man is one of the few people in government who genuinely cares about the common person with him being an actual medical doctor he is so much smarter than 95% of government officials. I wish rand was president he would get so much done for the regular person.
Question: How do other countries deal with debt? It seems every other country has free education, free healthcare, child care, more free time for workers etc. are they having major issues? Yet the USA has way more money and cannot provide basic healthcare for its citizens, can someone explain why?
Pretty simple actually. Countries with more free social programs tend to have higher taxes. You have to pay the doctors, educators, and child care services somehow.
@@Ashnal well obviously, but are they in financial turmoil? The USA makes it seem like we will die tomorrow if we keep spending, but at the same time we don’t want taxes, because they say it will kill the middle class and destroy millions of jobs and if we raise taxes we will all be poor and businesses will leave. So have businesses left the other nations or is the USA just lying to its people about social programs and taxes; that those things are “Evil” and “Communist” if you even say socialist in the USA most citizens will say it’s evil
@@redstarfarms2778 Yes, companies leave countries that have too high taxes.
I'm in Sweden and we pay 80-90% in taxes.
I think that our system is good for economically irresponsible people and vice versa.
However since we are having a huge influx of migrants that doesn't work, the system will definately collapse sooner or later.
This system depends upon having a high trust society and high work ethics.
Swedes a few years back took pride in working and it was shameful to be on welfare, this is changing rapidly these days.
@@labanlabansson6147 but USA has one of the lowest corporate tax rates at 21%, with most other countries like Mexico, Canada, Germany, France, being up in the 24-30%
@@redstarfarms2778 Ok. So if you raise taxes to 100% we can agree no companies would exist. If you have 90% tax, some would exist, and so on.
And it also depends what you get for your money. I dont mind as much to pay high taxes if my kids go to great schools and my grandfather is taken care of.
However, if i pay high taxes and the money is just redristributed to people not interested in getting a job, i do mind it. Or if the money is spent on just keeping a huge pile of bureaucrats fed, i also do mind. Companies are responsible to their shareholders not the state. If they make more profits by moving to a lower tax country, they do.
Those two behind Sen Paul need to sit down or move away. Senator Paul is one heck on a roll. So much respect for him.
@Fifth Boy it figures. They MUST be the 1st to be removed. !!!!!!!