Last week Rand Paul said on Rachel Maddow that individuals and businesses should be able to discriminate on the basis of race or disability however they see fit with no recourse. I then uncovered a 2002 letter Paul wrote detailing his belief that essentially said private housing owners should be able to discriminate.
That raises major questions. Take, for instance, Paul’s June 30, 2008 appearance on Kentucky Tonight during which he said private organizations and businesses should be responsible for the needs of the people, not government:
In Paul’s world view, this would mean said organizations would really be able to take care of the people in need because said organizations could choose not to help if somebody’s black or disabled. Catch 22?
During that same television program, Paul went on to say that he believes providing religious organizations with government money was a bad idea:
Which kind of contradicts what he said in the earlier clip about giving money to a Presbyterian charity that helps children.
5 responses so far ↓
1 UK Alumni // Jun 2, 2010 at 3:41 pm
In Paultopia, businesses provide clean food and medicine… after they’ve poisoned and killed thousands while the market ‘adjusts’ itself (only once) to weed out the bad actors.
In Paultopia, children get the best education money can buy… provided they have money. If not, they can work in the mines or in the fields.
In Paultopiam non-violent crimes are not crimes… Theft and fraud just prove that the indivdual was too youg, too old or too stupid to hang on to their money.
In Paultopia, there are no earthquakes; tsunamis; floods; forest fires or volcanos- much less man made disasters like oil spills and nuclear power plant meltdowns. Because Paulians don’t have a fire department; FEMA; NRC or any other big government agency that could handle it anyway.
The sun always shines in Paultopia.
2 BG // Jun 2, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Wow. That’s some cutting edge stretch!
3 Suzanne // Jun 2, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Precisely the kind of illogical hypocrisy that leaves social services underfunded and nonprofits on the cusp of bankruptcy – which means people in need do not get services.
4 Lisa Graas // Jun 3, 2010 at 8:30 am
BG, I think it’s a stretch for you to characterize Jake’s commentary as a stretch. Jake, have you noticed, there are a lot of Paul supporters who don’t really like it when you demonstrate how these things would necessarily play out in practice. I’m not understanding why so many people don’t use even the most basic analytical skills to put the proverbial ’2′ and ’2′ together and consider the result. It happens on the liberal side, too. We call it ‘knee-jerk’ liberalism, but there’s a lot of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction coming from the right these days, too.
5 Rand Paul Sucks // Jun 3, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Rand Paul keeps blaming the “liberal” media, whatever the frick that means, but in reality he should be blaming the flaws of his viewpoints. It’s fun to imagine utopias of your own making, but our society has shown time and time again that the free market left to its own devices tends to favor the wealthiest who do their damnedest to skew it in their favor. What irritates me the most is that so many people who will NEVER benefit from a Rand Paul point of view seem to gravitate toward him and others like him on the right. The Republicans don’t care about the working man no matter how much they like to act as though hard work will turn everyone into billionaires.
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