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Napoleon's Shadow
09-13-2011, 01:49 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA7uYBrh5I8&feature=uploademail

Napoleon's Shadow
09-13-2011, 02:03 PM
Reminds me of this


















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

jct74
09-14-2011, 03:03 AM
Good video. Rand spoke a few other times at the hearing, here are all the times if anyone is interested:

27:55-37:10
64:20-66:35
103:50-106:15

http://help.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=3e5bd514-5056-9502-5d93-de94ade7e693


Also, here is some media coverage:
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/public-global-health/181141-sanders-paul-clash-over-role-of-poverty-in-health
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/13/318259/with-record-number-of-americans-falling-into-poverty-rand-paul-says-the-poor-are-getting-rich/

bobbyw24
09-14-2011, 05:17 AM
Rand Paul, the subcommittee’s ranking member, rejected that view. He said correlating poverty with death in the United States is embracing “socialism” and that such a connection can only be found in the Third World.

“If poverty is a death sentence, it’s big government that has acted as judge and jury,” Paul said.

He said poor children today are healthier than middle-class adults a generation ago, and that poorer health among low-income families is due largely to such lifestyle choices as smoking. Obesity rates are also significantly higher in low-income populations.

“The rich are getting richer, but the poor are getting richer even faster,” Paul said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/public-global-health/181141-sanders-paul-clash-over-role-of-poverty-in-health