Hungry Old People: Rand Paul vs. Bernie Sanders featuring Al Franken

Bits and pieces of a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee on senior hunger. This is not a partisan video and simply meant to recap one of the more entertaining committee hearings in a jocular way. For a lighthearted blog on Senate hearings: http://brokenpeanutjar.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/randsandken/

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[jayfarrock]

id be pissed if i was the guy sitting with that chart in my face

[Guambahjohn]

@jayfarrock I think it is a Rand Paul staffer or intern.

[HayastanArmenia]

@TheBoxingCannabyte (pt 3) information and i learn almost no life skills. i'd much rather have my parents not throw their money away at such shitty education and instead pay a bit more for a more thorough, useful, interesting education (a private one). thats why i think private industries can handle things much, much better than govt. sorry for the long response, you just said it doesnt make sense to you lol.

[HayastanArmenia]

@TheBoxingCannabyte (pt 2) for three reasons: 1. if people have to pay for these things and rarely use them, they are getting their money taken for no reason. 2. govt is made to protect people's rights or property; you do not have a right to someone else' time or services, therefore education, healthcare, and all other services are not rights. 3. govt cannot be trusted to monopolize all these industries. i go to public school right now. it is absolutely awful. only 2/8 classes teach me useful

[HayastanArmenia]

@TheBoxingCannabyte in a true capitalist society (anarcho capitalist society), if police do not get tax money and rely on customers to earn their living, they will have to accept all races. if they turn down a minority, they will not only be deprived of that minority's money but they will be boycotted by people who are against racism. if you own a business, you must be equal to all kinds of people to succeed. letting govt handle things like education, healthcare, law enforcement etc. is flawed

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@Neosaiga, and were able to finish. The rest came home drained, in debt up to their eyeballs. And 5 of them get whatever they want and are spoiled ass-clowns (not a one of them doesn't have their heads up in the clouds). They either vote republican or don't care about politics at all, and every single one of them is in the top 1-3% because of mommy and daddy. I have no problem giving some of the little I have so you and your family can have health care. Why does that make me a bad guy?

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@Neosaigo, you hit the nail on the head. There are some bullshit studies released saying that they "ration out" health care (even if that's true it's still better to have maybe 1 million people having to face rationing over 30 million who simply can't afford shit), or that cancer survival rates are lower. yet we are 38th on quality of life mainly because of the price of education and medical expenses! I'm 25, out of 60 friends I kow, maybe 20 have stable jobs. Only 10 have gone to college

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

like it or not, modern day societies do best when we don't allow corporations to get "too big to fail" when we have a social safety net, when we aren't appealing shit like Roe V Wade. Ron Paul has my support on a few things: Ending the drug war, prison industrial complex, legalizing drugs. Give me a valid argument for why black people would've recieved rights naturally through capitalism. Please, I'm genuinely curious. Because this stuff doesn't make any sense to me.

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

-a fucking panacea for societies problems. I don't know if you're one of those people who flips shit every time you here the world "Social, socialized, socialist" but you sure sound like it. Thomas Jefferson wanted the constitution re-written every 17 years to account for the technological growth. We can't be reading the Constitution like it's some infallible document! It isn't! It was written by rich, white slave owning men. Who happened to be brilliant visionaries, but men nontheless

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@jneil2007, What is bankrupting this country is our massive defense budget, our continious corner-cutting in education, the ridiculous price of college. This insane idea that people in Germany, England, and Canada have lower survival rates of cancer because of socialized medicine when there isn't ONE bankruptcy in any of those places for medical emergencies- this insane idea that 18 year olds should wrack up 100k bills for simply wanting an education-all capitalist ideals. Capitalism isn't

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@jneil2007,

Also, I've been asking and asking Ron Paul supporters (not economists, not asking for references, I want YOUR opinion) on why and how the gold standard would work, on why and how a bottom line of for-profit businesses in insurance companies are better off denying people coverage based on pre-existing conditions. On why/how people who are disabled should be taken care of. This idea that we should have to go around finding charities to survive is absurd!

[TheBoxingCannabyte]

@jneil2007, How about we actually follow models that are WORKING in other countries. Socialized medicine and education work because we the people have a say in it. The LAST thing I want is a state deciding what women's abortion rights are because RP wants to appeal Roe V Wade. He also believes that we never needed de-segregation laws because capitalism would've solved that. Explain to me if money=motivation for medicine and education, then why are countries with socialied versions doing better?