mother jones found some old clips
%uh Rand Paul when he was campaigning and they dug up some stuff that the
Republican base
is gonna absolutely despises
especially if slash when needed side to run for president
more like when he decides to run for president this is going to be a problem
so here he is repeatedly attacking Ronald Reagan
below my all and my
yes love them yeah
remembering the murmur promise to improve the room
I know I can't go home with my grandpa think you have to think I would like to
endorse
campaign on pam pam pam very close by
La Palma I don't know again today million dollars it all alone with my
view on this web hubbell
was a hundred million dollars and that this was the only time he got it locked
up
domestic spending with more rapidly easy didn't harm
you know we won in Raby regional manager have been much much needed dude
it was nothing personal against i think is a loss is used
just don't know the he had the energy in the follow-through to get what we needed
we have removed this concerns 14 now
you should rain was elected in nineteen eighty
personally asshole Graham Rahal 1981
all these pages right step forward: juke-r
passengers about 34 $36 billion dollars in debt
what turns out reading his first budget turned out to be a 110 billion dollars
in debt
and easy access to your data rose about Reagan's two terms
we were in charge in the range earned an explosion star
this last version the doses were horrendous and the republicans
during Reagan's two terms domestic step faster than Jimmy Carr
deficit exploded because domestic spending rose faster under reagan soviet
military
but domestic spending rose faster under Reagan and Jimmy Carter
we happened there are failings because we're not getting people
lest we become believable as a aryan while
yes Las because spending rose
more dramatically under a red I
are the sole Rangers are mars global
not necessarily always what it seems grazing
jimmy carter an attacking ronald reagan
if there was ever
a scene to the right-wing base that's it right there
but see this is one of the reasons why I actually
alike libertarians on some issues
of course it's a love hate thing that I got going on with them on some things I
think they're great on other things I think they're
absolutely insane but there's no doubt
that they're more educated they understand history better
and they're more intellectual then your
idiot a stab lish mint republicans who just totally live in a fantasy land
so let me show you this chart there was circulating before the 2008 election
that gives you the reality about the deficit
and which political party did better and worse so everybody listening on the
radio
it shows ronald reagan with the words fiscal conservative
boom $200 billion dollar deficit fiscal conservative
for George HW Bush boom $300 billion dollar deficit
tax-and-spend liberal for clinton
BOM $200 billion dollar surplus
George W Bush fiscal conservative it says $482 billion dollar deficit
and I had the picture mccain it says my friend you'll be pleased to know I'm a
fiscal conservative
issued a cute cartoon in a queue wave illustrating that tower
oftentimes the people who say that their fiscal conservatives they don't give a
shit
about the deficit they never did in fact
it there was a memo that was released under the reagan administration
where a lot a high-ranking officials had this idea
that the best thing to do is to do a whole lot a deficit spending
I so you pump up the private sector by doing government spending
and then I'll the economy or boom and then when you get out of office and a
democrat gets into office you immediately
blamed deficits that you caused on the democrats how nefarious is that
you do the thing that you're gonna say the democrats did in the blame them for
an
it hilarious but it's it's right-wing politics 101
now a to go a step further on this
I think those numbers in the chart were taken from the Middle love their
presidencies because the reality is even more stark
so George W Bush didn't have a $492 billion dollar deficit
bush's final fiscal year deficit was 1.2 trillion dollars
and up by the way what has Obama done if you add him into the mix
he has copped the deficit to $680 billion dollars
and the numbers trending down its post be five hundred billion dollars
shortly so what you see here's a clear trend the Democratic presidents are
better
with balancing the budget now look to be clear I'm not saying that even
necessarily an ideal goal biggest often times especially when the economy goes
south
it's not the right thing to do you're supposed to do deficit spending and
that actually helps the private sector and actually leads to
public deficits lead to private sector growth that's just a fact a reality
we talk about economics if you listen any new-age economist will tell you that
right away
so it's not even necessarily a good thing but the reality is that
if that's something you care about if that's something you care about that hey
we should try to balance the budget her
lower the deficit well then the democrats are better at the republicans
are that's a stone-cold
fact and you had a Rand Paul mentioning that
in giving the example jimmy carter verses ronald reagan
ronald reagan those were record deficits at the time and
record deficits but here's the thing the part a story that I love the most
the fax are now controversial
the fax are now political so there's a lot of speculation about what this is
this might actually destroy Rampal chance at winning the GOP primary
and that's true it might be but it's so funny to think that
just bringing up facts of history that approval
like you know that might disqualify you if you let the world know the two plus
two equals four
they might not like that name I vote you out