Is the Country Ready This Kind GOP Platform and Agenda

         

All Basically Sing from the Same Sheet of Music

(flat and sour notes included)

(Jindal, Perry, Cruz, Paul, Santorum, Christie, Rubio, Carson, Bush III, Walker, 

and a ton more in the wings)

Rand Paul Announces his 2016 Plan and Platform (coverage by Vox.com):

1.  Repeal the ACA (Obama-care).

2.  Partially privatize Social Security (let Wall Street investors run the whole shebang).

3.  Move Medicare to a premium support (read: vouchers and hope the money is there when needed).

4.  Block-grant Medicaid and SNAP (food stamp program) to the states (so, when the money is gone, people are not allowed to get sick and must eat only two meals a day).

5.  Cuts of 20 percent or more to NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the EPA.

*  6.  Cuts of 60 percent or more to the National Science Foundation, the State Department, and the Interior Department, 

*  7.  Totally eliminate the Departments of Energy and Education (now that's real forward looking isn't it??).

* Think hard and deep about #6 and #7, and the serious impact across the whole country for everyone!!

Paul announces with a weak joke – one surely for the history books, saying, in part that he is running as “a different kind of Republican, and a different kind of Paul.”

Ha. I still can't stop laughing. He will be a money-raising machine just like his old man to be used to grow his base and have all the funds needed to stay in the senate as long as wishes while running for the biggie every 4 years, too. 

Worth remembering: “The die is cast” (L. Alea est jacta) ….Julius Caesar: 49 B.C. announcing his march on Rome.