Why is Rand Paul pushing through a pro-life bill?
Why did he say he would abolish the department of Education?
The liberal Corporate media will have a field day with both of these.
Why isn't Rand Paul sticking to REAL issues and easy vote winners instead?
Abortion is not a Federal government issue - it is the business of the states.
Just over 70% of the population support abortion.
Rand Paul can be pro-life - he doesn't have to push it and lose public support over it.
We all know the Department of Education should be abolished because of the immense harm it is doing in NOT educating our children or giving them decent prospects to get a decent or well paid job in the future.
Most of the people that Rand Paul will need to attract (i.e. Indies) don't get why the Department of Education should be abolished and what an extremely bad thing it is. (See Appendix)
It is a difficult sell and currently a nett vote loser.
Why is Rand Paul even playing the twin party game?
Why is he even mentioning social issues?
The best weapon of the twin party system is to divide and conquer over social issues.
The way to win is to attract Indie voters.
And the way to do that is to concentrate on civil liberties and Corporate Welfare and tax cuts for the middle class to get bottom up spending going again, and tax cuts for small businesses.
Even hard core Dem supporters are now starting to recognise that Obama is as bad or worse than Bush on civil liberties and Corporate Welfare.
Why is Rand Paul playing right into the hands of the twin party system?
Why doesn't Rand Paul say things like :-
I will cut the price of prescription drugs and save money for everybody, including the costs of medicare/medicaid to the government.
Half of the large pharmaceutical companies are FOREIGN owned - cut their subsidies - America pays by far the highest prices in the world.
I am going to make Healthcare more EFFICIENT and more AFFORDABLE.
I will stop the near $1tn a year of government subsidies and bailouts to the big banks.
I will stop hiring mercenaries and use US troops instead.
Mercenaries cost about 5 times as much as US troops.
I can save over $100bn a year from the military budget just with this.
There is plenty of other waste in the Pentagon budget I will root out as well.
Like the $12.6bn annual cost until 2037 of the F-35 plane. Even John McCain called it a total waste of taxpayer money.
I will cut the size of the ballistic nuclear submarine fleet -it's still at cold war levels. We don't need so many.
That will save $2bn a year.
The project to develop new nuclear submarines will cost about $500bn over the next 10 years. I will stop that as well.
Why doesn't he say I am going to cut the taxes of the middle class not the rich.
Half of my spending savings will be used to pay for tax cuts for middle earners and below to get bottom up spending going again.
There are $1.3tn+ of savings I have identified so far.
Most of it is Corporate Welfare.
Some of it is Pentagon waste.
Some of it is in other forms of pure government waste - like foreign aid to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
The items above would garner 80%+ of electorate support.
There are lots of other things that he could say about civil liberties and Corporate Welfare that would garner over 80% public support.
His stance against the use of drones garnered widespread popular support - even amongst Dems.
Amongst the constituency he eventually needs to attract - Indies, the support must be very widespread as well.
How about some other easy items of civil liberties.
Like :-
Do you think the government should have access to your bank account details when you have committed no crime and without a search warrant?
That's what Obama is doing with his domestic spying program.
And Obama is wasting TENS of BILLIONS of DOLLARS a year collecting YOUR bank statements and financial transactions.
Why doesn't Rand Paul stop playing with social and controversial issues and go for easy wins (in terms of public support) instead?
Why is he playing right into the hands of the twin party system?
It will come back to haunt him.
The liberal Corporate media will have a field day.
There are a hell of a LOT of easy wins he could go for.
Why doesn't he start plucking the low lying fruit and build an unstoppable momentum in public polling?
Why doesn't he say these are the items of spending I am looking at right now?
They total well over $1.3tn a year.
There are huge amounts of very easy savings to be made.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html
Why doesn't he say - this is the level of madness we are now at.
CBO spending plans are for $6tn of annual spending by 2023, over $3tn of annual deficits, the National debt over $40tn.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cbo-projections-of-future-gdp-growth.html
Why doesn't he say I am looking at the absolute craziness of current government policies and I am going to COMPLETELY CHANGE them?
I am going to do some really big things to turn things around.
I am going to make Healthcare much more efficient and affordable - not waste even more billions like Obamacare does.
Other countries are TWICE as efficient as America is.
How would you like your Healthcare costs halved?
I am going to do some really big things to completely change the madness of this current government.
Lots of the items I am looking at are listed in here.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-government-is-being-incredibly.html
Appendices
Education policy
We all know the Department of Education should be abolished because of the immense harm it is doing in NOT educating our children or giving them decent prospects to get a decent or even well paid job in the future.
Contrary to popular perceptions social mobility in America is now in the worst 3 out of 20 large developed countries.
America is rapidly falling behind other countries and a lot of it is due to the current abysmal education system, especially for the poorer half of society.
Also contrary to popular perceptions, education standards have not improved with the vast increases to education spending.
Most of the people that Rand Paul will need to attract (i.e. Indies) don't get why the Department of Education should be abolished and what an extremely bad thing it is.
It is a difficult sell and a nett vote loser.
This is what I intend to do about school education policy - give it back to the parents.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/how-to-make-dramatic-improvement-in.html
This is what I intend to do about college education policy.
Stop loading our young people up with $10,000's of dollars of debt before they even set out in life, when the job they end up does not need a college degree - on the job training would be much better for well over half of current students.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-current-college-education-policy.html
I have made a start on the selling of radical changes to education policy in the words above.
Rand Paul said NONE of these words.
Military spending
Military spending is now TRIPLE what it was during the cold war and Obama is spending more the military than even GW Bush did.
Military spending needs to be drastically cut - we can't afford it.
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/military-spending-1962-to-date.html
If we don't cut military spending now, this is what our air force is going to end up looking like.
We won't be able to afford proper planes.
The American Air Force circa 2030.
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