Rand Paul to Detroit: You're Being Punished Because You Don't Worship the Rich
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Source: Huffington Post
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been reading Jack Kemp's Wikipedia page.
Kemp -- a former congressman, secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 1996 Republican nominee for vice president -- was famous for being a conservative Republican intent on reaching out to minority communities. When not one right-wing politician showed up at the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, numerous commentators said, "Jack Kemp would have been there!"
In the 1980s, Kemp pushed the concept of Enterprise Zones to combat urban blight and renew communities. The core of the idea is to -- you guessed it! -- cut taxes and lower regulation in "distressed areas." These zones tend to do well at nourishing large corporations when the economy is strong. Otherwise, "There is little evidence demonstrating that this concept is effective at generating new economic development at the local level," a 1989 study found.
Pushing lower taxes and lenient regulation may have made sense for Kemp -- before the lowest taxes and the most lenient regulation in 50 years led to the greatest economic crash in 50 years -- but to do so now shows that the GOP has learned nothing from the Great Recession.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-sattler/raud-paul-detroit_b_4415160.html
"The president plays this sort of thing of envy and he says to us, “You should not like the rich people, you should punish the rich people.” I say no, reward them. They create the jobs. That’s who we work for. Anybody here work for a poor person? So you want rich people to have more money so YOU can have more money." ~Rand Paul
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oh when will people realize what he is? how did we get to the point that we have such horrible people in positions of power? We really need to think about what we do in 2014 and 2016. every single person in this country needs to exercise their right to vote and vote these neanderthals out of their cushy little chairs! 
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