Dr. Senator Rand Paul

I especially like this from the piece:

"In addition to the sheer size of the spending bill, many Republicans strenuously objected to the fact that they were not even given the text of the bill with ample time to read it before voting on it. Reportedly due to delays with printers and technology, members of Congress were not provided with either a paper or a digital copy of the bill until almost literally the last minute. Among the "nay" votes in the Senate, Lee and Cruz specifically highlighted their inability to read the bill as a reason for voting against it.


After noting the absurdity of being asked to vote on a bill that he hasn't been given time to read, Lee also noted that the process by which the bill was passed did not allow for any amendments or opportunities to improve the bill. In a thread on Twitter, Lee said, "This process, by which members of Congress are asked to defer blindly to legislation negotiated entirely in secret by four of their colleagues, must come to an end. It won't come to an end until no longer works for those empowered by it. That can happen, but only when most members of both houses and both political parties stop voting for bills they haven't read — and, by design, cannot read until after it's too late."

This government is out of control, overbearing and aided by a citizenry that is out of touch and completely apathetic.

The only way things are going to change in this country is if WE THE PEOPLE change it.

And to do that, it means not continually voting for the same people over and over and over again, until they finally decide they are too old to stay there and collect a check for doing little or nothing.

You have to clean house regularly, to truly make a change.

Or don't do it and spend your time continually complaining about politicians on a hunting forum...

Maybe he shouldn’t of signed the bill that gave the wealthy and corporations a 1.7 trillion dollar tax cut before he starts ing about giving the American people a little bit of help. But I do agree with Trump that there’s so much bs in this bill it’s sickening.

So my new post on unconscious in the campfire to start the process of change. It will not happen until we the population change.

Ok I might be wrong here but I was under the impression that Rand Paul wanted to legalize marijuana? Is this true or not?

Yes. It's one of many issues where he took a more realistic position on an issue, although it wasn't the most popular view at the time.

I smoked a little of it on rare occasions way back when, but never was a regular or heavy user. That was a good many years before I heard of Rand Paul.

Even then, it seemed to me that the "War on Drugs" had actually been lost decades before, and that it had only resulted in the creation of a very lucrative black market for the contraband substances, which rewarded the smugglers and bootleggers of drugs in the same way that Prohibition had rewarded the smugglers and bootleggers of alcohol a couple generations earlier. Made much more sense to legalize it and tax it, than to ban it, creating the much greater profit margins that come with it being illegal, then spending millions of dollars and hundreds of lives of LE personnel in the unwinnable war against it.

Ive never looked @ marijuana any differently than I did alcohol as both are considered intoxicants in my book.

I've been around drunks and I've been around stoners, and I'd rather hang around a stoner than a drunk any day for one simple reason.

I've never seen an angry stoner, but I've seen plenty of angry drunks...

We spend millions of dollars fighting againts pot every year when we could create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue if we just legalized. Im not aware of anywhere that has made it legal for minors to smoke pot.

hunter xmax

Here's where you lost me. Let's not legalize weed, and outlaw tobacco, but leave my alcohol alone...

While I'm not advocating the use of any of it, I'll wager that alcohol has caused more misery such as domestic violence, and car accidents than tobacco and weed combined have.