Comments on: Rand Paul Revs-Up

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:21:07 +0000

Myron: My understanding of the Sputnic matter was that the Russians used it to show Russian missile capability. The US had lots of German missile scientists; but, our priority was using B-52s as bomb carriers. The Russians showed the world that, missiles as delivery devices were cheaper and just as efficient. We had to shift gears from Strategic Air Command (SAC) to creating NASA and our missile systems. It wasn’t a matter of lack of knowledge, but common sense. Wasteful aircraft, efficient missiles; unfortunately, for both sides, they forgot the lessons of Sputnic and embraced inefficiency in just about every other endeavor.
Back on topic: On another blog, in view of the economic problems of the world and especially the world, the view was that we, the middle class, were going to go out without a whimper. No one noticed the TEA Party or dismissed it out of hand. From where I stand, the TEA Party has lasted two years now and is growing more each day while firming up internally. Good politicians like Ron and Rand Paul, Michele Buchmann and others are helping it grow. What it will grow into is anyone’s guess; but, it and Paul is moving.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:07:18 +0000

Bowling Green DN sez

“A lot of politicians tell people what they want to hear, get elected, head to our nation’s capital and don’t follow through on those promises, but newly elected U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., doesn’t fit that mold.”

During the campaign, he often talked about balancing the federal budget, which is in dire need of being done, and Paul is following through with that pledge.

http://bgdailynews.com/articles/2011/01/30/opinion/our_opinion/opinion.txt

Is the message finally getting through to The District of Corruption ?

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:41:05 +0000

Rand Paul’s proposal to begin seriously cutting the U.S. spending spree is long, long overdue. I recall that Nick Gillespie of Reason showed nicely that the U.S. could balance its budget merely by cutting 4.5% per year for the next 10 years. Of course, the obvious problem with Mr. Gillespie’s suggestion is that the U.S. would be borrowing money (or attempting to do so) every year for the next 10 years, thereby drastically increasing our debt!

Whenever someone proposes real spending cuts, there will be well-organized opposition, as such cuts will directly impact someone’s livelihood. For this reason such cuts are extremely difficult to accomplish.

Best of luck to Sen. Paul; he’s certainly going to need it.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:29:41 +0000

Palin and Obama – what a pair (of schnooks) with their own pseudohistory of “Sputnik”.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/transcript/palin-obama039s-state-union-address-full-039wtf039-moments#ixzz1CUqLFKxl

I just read Palin talking how putting a metal ball with a radio into orbit bankrupted the Soviet Union. Then you have Obama saying how we had to understand the basic science of how to get the moon after Sputnik took place. These two are both HISTORICAL and SCIENTIFIC idiots! You could probably find two more intelligent people at a Bowling Alley.

Yes, the Soviet cost of empire (far greater than the cost of launching a small projectile into orbit) and their idiotic command-economic-socialistic system bankrupted them. As for the basic physics of getting to the moon, Barack, try ISAAC NEWTON!

Such is the state of “education” in the USA.

By: Mike Marks

Mike Marks — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:10:17 +0000

I for one am glad to hear Rand Paul is taking the bull by the horns. He is proposing policy alternatives that are based on:
1) common sense,
2) economic sense, and
3) the constitution.
Clearly Rand traveled to Washington with a clear set of ideas to move the country in a direction more in line with our founders and our history.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:14:25 +0000

“the Rev. Patrick Delahanty, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky.” I was unaware that the Catholic Conference was a (moral) branch of the US government. Learn something new everyday.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:15:04 +0000

Palin sez

Now — Rand Paul — there are so many good libertarian and conservative ideas already out there. We’ve just got to start applying those with the political will that is needed in Washington

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:03:02 +0000

I find Rev. Delahunty’s statement in the Business Week article to be MORALLY OBJECTIONABLE.

First: even in DC, chicken bologna costs $1 / pound which has enough protein and calories to feed a person for a day (OK – add 2 cents for vitamins) – so if there are 30 million poor x 365 days, one can probably feed all the starving masses of America for $ 11 Billion.

Second, it is morally objectionable to have forced altruism which is theft. If half the Catholic population of America gave $ 1 / day, it should feed everyone. So why does Rev. Delahunty insist on doing this by Internal Revenue Service gunpoint and by using Government bureaucrats instead of Catholic volunteers?

I’m happy that Rand Paul is proposing some real cuts instead of the usual Republican B.S. about “waste fraud and abuse” as if that was some spending line to be cut! Ethanol subsidies, the War on Drugs, HUD– even if these things were eliminated 25% / year over the next 4 years, it would establish the principle that (unconstitutional and financially ruinous) federal largesse need not be permanent. Obviously, the three enormous gorillas in the Terabudget are Social Security, Medicare, and “Defense”.