Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "'I Think We're Destroying Our Country': Rand Paul Gives Blunt Take On Congress" video.

  1. He's a fake, you know.
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  2. ​ @ronaldosalazar1994  Really? What company's stock did he illegally buy or sell, based on what inside information?
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  3.  @sandie1112  For what crime?
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  4. You have no idea what a total shutdown would do.
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  5.  @Repdem  Right. If Rand Paul wants to cut Federal spending, let's start by cutting the budgets of Fort Campbell and Fort Knox by 45%, and see what Senator Paul has to say about that.
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  6. Yeah, let's cut spending. Start by cutting the budget of the Fort Knox Army Base in Kentucky by 45 percent. Let's see how Rand Paul votes on that!!
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  7. Yeah, it's legislative extortion and it's wrong. And the Republicans are gonna vote against it and be blamed for risking a default. Joe Biden is not senile; he's a very very clever, seasoned political warrior who knows everything and has seen everything. The Old Mongoose, the political counterpart to boxer Archie Moore.
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  8.  @theegyptianconqueror7100  In 2015, Senator Rand Paul fought very hard to PREVENT cuts in wasteful Federal military spending at Fort Campbell and Fort Knox - both of which are in his state (Kentucky). He wants to cut Federal spending in YOUR state and in MY state, but keep those greasy Federal pork-dollars coming into HIS state. He's a posturing hypocrite. An actor.
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  9. Yes. Even Rand Paul is part of the swamp. He talks the budget-hawk's talk, but in 2015 when the Federal government was cutting wasteful military spending IN HIS STATE (Kentucky), he fought against the cuts like any other pork-addicted senator. He wants to cut Federal spending in YOUR state, and in MY state, but not in HIS state. He'll never drain the swamp, because he IS the swamp.
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  10.  @efirce  No they're not. The dollar is still the lingua Franca of international finance. If and when the world abandons the dollar, it won't be a gradual thing. It'll be very sudden and there won't be any question of why it's happening.
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  11. Great idea. And then, the world will lose faith in the dollar, and it won't be the automatic go-to currency any more, and we'll have to pay for stuff we import using Euros, Yuans, and Yen. We'll be living like the Brits are living now.
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  12. Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? Look it up, you'll see, it's not there.
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  13. That's what they said in the 1970s: "we'll never be able to pay the debt!" Then the digital revolution happened, and the computer industry emerged.
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  14.  @davidjennische335  We already have digital currency. We have had it since banks first started using computers, back in the 1970s and 80s. Or do you imagine that when one government makes a big payment to another government, they ship truckloads of cash?
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  15. You wouldn't like living without the government. Your family would die of poison in their food, and you'd be the first in line trying to sue the farmers.
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  16. Then instead of a few very long bills, we'd have a very large number of shorter bills. No real benefit!
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  17.  @connorhill8889  Would we have been able to accomplish the Moon mission with only state governments working on it? I would say probably not, because the work had to be coordinated in a top-down way, even though much of it was done by local projects.
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  18.  @connorhill8889  Sure, it's easy to do something for the second time, when you don't have to deal with the risk that it might turn out to be impossible or non-feasible.
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  19.  @connorhill8889  The astronauts were trained in the (Federally funded) US armed forces; and, besides giving money to the engineers, the government also gave $ to basic scientists, who cannot be funded by profit-seeking private money (since basic science doesn't work on what WILL bring profit to its backers; it works on what MIGHT bring profit to SOMEONE, SOMETIME in the POSSIBLY VERY DISTANT FUTURE, most likely in COMBINATION with other bits of BASIC science funded the same way (government or charity and charity is not reliable). Please stop thinking like a kid reading comic books. A real-life program isn't like dreaming up an Iron-Man body-armor suit which also enables the wearer to fly or a radar-sense which enables a blind man to fight like a TaequanDo master. In real life, you have to work within the real rules - the laws of physics and the laws of economics. That means you can't solve real-life problems by saying magic words like "free market, free market, cut taxes, cut taxes". You have to engage the real problem and work with real laws of chemistry and physics, or the project won't succeed, and if you rely on economic fairy-tales, you won't be able to start.
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  20. RE: "What happens when Americans finally start knocking on their doors at their homes?" Those Americans will be shot for being dangerous trespassers, same as you would do if a visibly hostile stranger started knocking on your doors at your home. That's (most likely) what would happen.
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  21. No he's not. He's only pretending.
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  22. Of course, what she meant was "we have to pass it to see whether it will work".
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  23. RE: "What would happen if we all just didn’t pay our taxes, and put that money into building our families and local communities?" You'd get arrested and sent to prison. Next question, please.
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