Debate Recap: Rand Paul on Income
Inequality and Military Spending, by Alice Greene, 11/14/15, Fox
During a Fox News recap following Tuesday
night’s GOP presidential debate, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke with host
Sean Hannity about the scuffle he had with Marco Rubio in regards to military
spending. “If you’re not a deficit hawk, you are weakening the country,” said
Paul, highlighting the fact that both parties are to blame for the nation's
current plight.
Rand Paul
explained during the debate that cities, states, and countries run by Democrats
suffer the most when it comes to income inequality.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity
interviewed Paul after the debate, commending his performance and agreeing with
many of his points. “That was a great line, but more importantly that’s really
true,” said Hannity. “Conservative governors have done a really good job of
taking deficits, turning them into surpluses; high unemployment rates, creating
jobs in their states. These cities run by Democrats, these states run by
Democrats, are horribly run...that needs to be pointed out I think more
often."
Paul reminded
his audience that income equality is not an issue that can be blamed on a
particular political party and has in fact become worse under Obama than it was
under Bush. The Dems actually have more trouble “governing over this
problem" than do Republicans, said Paul. He referred to the current income
equality argument as a “made up and concocted argument.”
“Both parties
are to blame,” says Paul. “There’s been an unholy alliance between Right and
Left. The Left wants more welfare spending, but the Right sometimes says ‘we
want unlimited military spending.’ And together they raised the debt ceiling
last week and they busted through the spending caps. So really there’s blame in
both parties and until we understand that we’re never going to correct the
deficit problem.”
Rand Paul was the
only candidate that night to mention the penny plan, which would limit
government by cutting spending. “I wish that was a stronger argument within the
Republican Party,” said Hannity. “And I think it’s one the American people
would understand because of the debt, the deficits, and unfunded
liabilities.”
Hannity fears
to cut spending “in the world of al-Qaeda and ISIS and Vladimir Putin with his
territorial ambitions, China and their territorial ambitions…I don’t think this
is the time to cut because this is a really precarious world we’re in.”
“I think you
can be conservative and be for a strong national defense,” said Paul, bringing
up the name John Lehman - the youngest Secretary of the Navy under
Reagan. Lehman believed in creating a bigger, stronger Navy by cutting
waste of bureaucracy in the Pentagon. “If you’re not a deficit hawk, you’re
ultimately going to be someone who weakens the country,” said Paul. “So to have
a stronger national defense – I’m willing to spend whatever it takes to defend
the country – but you can only do it if you’re not borrowing more money from
China. If we’re borrowing money from China, we’re just getting weaker.”
In regards to
Marco Rubio’s plans to spend $1 trillion in new military expenditures, Paul
asks, “How are we going to afford that? How’s the country going to survive
Marco Rubio’s plans to spend so much money?” Paul predicts a huge argument
between “Marco Rubio’s wing and my wing of the party over whether or not you
can do this from bankruptcy court."
"I don’t
think you project strength from bankruptcy court,” says Paul. “And I think
Marco Rubio’s plans, both his refundable welfare tax credits and the military
spending, would bankrupt the country.”
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