- The U.S. media continues to promote Habsburg fascist
Senator-elect Rand Paul - an eye doctor with even less traceable experience
than Obama had when he entered the U.S. Senate - as both the representative
of the "wave" election, and the epitome of the new Senate. Paul
spent another Sunday on talk-TV, this time on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation."
He demonstrated the necessity of Lyndon LaRouche having marked him for
rapid political destruction.
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- Paul claimed immediately that cutting the Federal budget
drastically, including Social Security, Medicare, and military spending,
was the only way to create political consensus above parties. "I like
the fact that they [meaning Obama] created the debt commission," Paul
said. Host Bob Schieffer then began to ask him, point by point, about the
recommendations for $3 trillion in total cuts just released by that commission's
co-chairmen, Alan Simpson and Parker Bowles.
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- Schieffer: What about the 15% gas tax increase?
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- Paul: No, I don't want to raise taxes. I want the private
sector to have more, and I want to shrink the ineffective sector, the government.
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- Schieffer: What about the raising of the retirement age,
eventually to 69?
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- Paul: We have to do that, and we have to do it much more
quickly than they recommended. We have to move it [retirement age] up decades
prior to 2050. Maybe we should have means testing for Social Security and
Medicare. No use writing government checks to people who don't need it.
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- Schieffer: What about cutting the Federal work force
by 10%?
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- Paul: Absolutely. And we also have to make pay more competitive;
now, he claimed, people in government get 2:1 what private sector employees
get.
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- Schieffer: Does that include military pay?
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- Paul: Not for average soldiers, but for contractors,
for military healthcare. We should look at reducing military retirement
benefits.
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- Schieffer: Extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich?
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- Paul: Make them permanent.
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- And finally, Schieffer reminded Paul that he had not
only defended BP against government pressure after the Gulf oil spill;
he had also said about this year's Kentucky mine collapse which killed
20 miners: "Accidents happen."
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- Rand Paul: Yes, that was a mistake, my wife told me I
shouldn't have said that.
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- The imperial fascists' next escalation comes on Wednesday,
Nov. 17, when Wall St. senior and Felix Rohatyn pal Alice Rivlin will announce
recommendations for cuts likely to be more drastic (and more immediate)
in Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid, than those of Simpson/Bowles. Rivlin
heads a bipartisan murder group sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center;
she was also appointed by Obama to his Catfood Commission, which Habsburg
fascist Rand Paul is so happy about.
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