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Title: Rand Paul Proposes Boosting Defense Spending
Source: TIME
URL Source: http://time.com/3759378/rand-paul-defense-spending/
Published: Mar 26, 2015
Author: Alex Rogers / Zeke Miller
Post Date: 2015-03-26 15:29:51 by PnbC
Keywords: None
Views: 23
Comments: 2

His amendment would add $76.5 billion to the defense budget

Just weeks before announcing his 2016 presidential bid, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is completing an about-face on a longstanding pledge to curb the growth in defense spending.

In an olive branch to defense hawks hell-bent on curtailing his White House ambitions, the libertarian Senator introduced a budget amendment late Wednesday calling for a nearly $190 billion infusion to the defense budget over the next two years—a roughly 16 percent increase.

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If I were Ron Paul, I'd have a rotating device installed in my future gravesite just to get a head start on spinning in my grave.

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#1. To: PnbC (#0)

If I were Ron Paul, I'd have a rotating device installed in my future gravesite just to get a head start on spinning in my grave.

I was thinking pretty much along the same lines. Though Ron's general respect for everyone to do as they see fit might partially mitigate any such grave-spinning. (I.e. Rand can do whatever he wants).

Is it worth considering the remote possibility that Rand is just trying to fool the R establishment long enough to get elected, after which he would start doing some real good?

Probably not.

Pinguinite  posted on  2015-03-26   15:43:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: PnbC (#0)

If I were Ron Paul, I'd have a rotating device installed in my future gravesite just to get a head start on spinning in my grave.

One's already waiting, it's called a rotisserie.

Katniss  posted on  2015-03-26   20:39:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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