The White House sent Bernanke to the Hill to tell Congressional Democrats that stimulus and unemployment benefits are still necessary. Obama floated a $50 billion help package for cash-strapped states and came out with post-bipartisan aggressiveness last weekend. Nancy Pelosi has called out the GOP. Into this mix comes Rand Paul, libertarian opthalmologist:
As bad as it sounds, ultimately we do have to sometimes accept a wage that’s less than we had at our previous job in order to get back to work and allow the economy to get started again.
You have to admire the balls on the man. Not only do Americans need to lower their standards and take that Plan B job (the one that inevitably turns into Plan A), we must do so for the benefit of “the economy.” Said economy doesn’t have enough jobs to go around, and that is exactly the point: if we are all forced to take jobs we hate, put up with low pay and poor treatment, and do it with a smile, then we’ll be too busy scraping by to notice that guys like Paul are taking care of themselves quite nicely.
Because that’s exactly what Rand Paul is all about. Remember, he says that half his patients are on Medicare — and he’s opposed to cuts in Medicare reimbursement because “physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living.”
But what are the chances of seeing Paul challenged on that? Yeah, you’re probably right.
How long have I been telling you the teabagging phenomenon is about self-dealing? A long time.
