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Belmont31R
01-12-12, 17:52
Good on him, and shows our government can do with less tax money and deficit spending. We tend to just throw money at offices and departments and don't really carefully track how each dollar is spent.



Sen. Rand Paul says he's fulfilling a campaign promise by giving back $500,000 of operational funds to the U.S. Treasury.

Paul said the U.S. Senators are appropriated $3 million a year for their office budgets and he's been able to save nearly 15 percent of his annual costs. He hopes to set an example with his frugality, he said.

"We look at all of our office expenses. We look at the coffee pot to the computers bought and we try to buy things as if it were our money we were spending, or your money that we were spending, and our goal is not to spend all of it, our goal is to save some of it," Paul said.

If Congress offered incentives for lawmakers and staff to cut budgets, Paul estimates the U.S. could save $130 million annually, he said.

Paul will continue finding cost savings but the amount may decrease each year as staff members earn raises, he said.

"We've done a lot of things that I have not necessarily won the battle for. This is the one thing I have control over and that's my office budget and I wanted to show the people of Kentucky that I have been frugal with their money and that I wanted to bring it back. And I'm very happy to have these taxpayers here to receive some of their own money back," he said.

Over his six year term he could give back over $1 million, he said.

http://paul.senate.gov/?p=news&id=418

Moose-Knuckle
01-12-12, 18:03
He just made all the others look like the fat cats they are. . .

Eurodriver
01-12-12, 21:10
He just made all the others look like the fat cats they are. . .

They don't give a damn.

http://stoopidpoliticians.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/babs.jpg

HES
01-12-12, 21:36
At this point I think his dad is the stalking horse for Rand's 2016 run for the white house. I like this guy a lot. As much as I like his dad, Rand is more electable.

SeriousStudent
01-12-12, 22:20
Hot damn, that is my kind of guy!

And God bless the folks in Kentucky, for being smart enough to elect him.

I have always said that zero-based budgeting is the only way to make this thing work.

Irish
01-12-12, 22:23
At this point I think his dad is the stalking horse for Rand's 2016 run for the white house. I like this guy a lot. As much as I like his dad, Rand is more electable.

I couldn't agree more. Ron's laying the groundwork and getting Americans thinking about freedom again. Great news!

variablebinary
01-13-12, 01:48
I couldn't agree more. Ron's laying the groundwork and getting Americans thinking about freedom again. Great news!

This is why Ron Paul is not going to break from the GOP and go 3rd party.

Notice that Ron Paul is quite polite to Romney as well.

The groundwork is being laid for President Rand Paul in the next 16 years or so.

chadbag
01-13-12, 02:04
This is why Ron Paul is not going to break from the GOP and go 3rd party.


Yeah, he already tried that. He was LP candidate for President in 88 (I assume you already knew that)

Interestingly he endorsed Pat Buchanan in 92...



Notice that Ron Paul is quite polite to Romney as well.

The groundwork is being laid for President Rand Paul in the next 16 years or so.

Hope so!

variablebinary
01-13-12, 02:43
Yeah, he already tried that. He was LP candidate for President in 88 (I assume you already knew that)

Interestingly he endorsed Pat Buchanan in 92...



Hope so!

That was awhile ago. I think Daddy Paul knows his chance to change this nation has mostly passed, and only his son is positioned to pick up the standard to drive on.

Ron Paul breaking away would 100% sink Rand.

Jer
01-13-12, 11:17
Ron Paul 2012!


Rand Paul 2016!

J-Dub
01-13-12, 19:00
I personally believe Dr. Paul has known this fact for some time now. He is just furthering his message. Spreading the word about TRUE CONSERVATISM.

He's laying the ground work for his son.

Heavy Metal
01-13-12, 20:48
This is why Ron Paul is not going to break from the GOP and go 3rd party.

Notice that Ron Paul is quite polite to Romney as well.

The groundwork is being laid for President Rand Paul in the next 16 years or so.

This is exactly right.

HES
01-13-12, 23:52
I personally believe Dr. Paul has known this fact for some time now. He is just furthering his message. Spreading the word about TRUE CONSERVATISM.

He's laying the ground work for his son.
One part that I have to disagree with. If you look at his positions Ron Paul is an old school liberal. In fact by being politically orientated as he is he winds up pissing off a lot of the modern conservative republicans. By old school I'm talking 18th century liberal who was committed to personal freedom, not the liberals (aka socialists) of the last 110 or so years.The classical liberal has been christened the Libertarian.