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Rand Paul returns unused money from office budget to the government
American Thinker ^
| 02/22/2013
| Rick Moran
Posted on 02/22/2013 7:53:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
But Ron Paul should have returned the Stormfront money?
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posted on
02/22/2013 9:27:51 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: DouglasKC
Wow...unheard of. And if he returns 600,000 how much of a budget does each freaking congressman and senator get???
No kidding! If he said that $600K was 20% of his budget, wouldn't that be $3 million?
Good for Rand!
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posted on
02/22/2013 9:33:54 AM PST
by
Girlene
To: faucetman
This is Rand Paul's biggest obstacle. People thinking he's his dad. Quite a few on FR will be leading the attack. The GOP shills on here will be ready to pounce.
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posted on
02/22/2013 9:34:27 AM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: DouglasKC
RE: Wow...unheard of. And if he returns 600,000 how much of a budget does each freaking congressman and senator get???
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According to the article: The $600,000 reflects more than 20% of Paul’s annual office budget, according to a press release. You do the math.
$600,000 is 20% of $3,000,000. That’s just OFFICE BUDGET.
Doesn’t include the others budgets — Personnel, interns, fact-finding missions, studies conducted, etc.
To: SeekAndFind
The pentagon could do exactly this same thing and the number would be more than the extra money they are being given this year.
They promised extra money and now they don’t want give as much extra money.
Rand’s example proves they didn’t need to promise extra money to everyone, that the amount they had was already too much.
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posted on
02/22/2013 10:24:08 AM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
To: SampleMan
Its a rare CEO that has the office budget of a U.S. Representative. Id love to see a true itemization of how some of them spend that budget.
That would be a nice little rule that Boehner could have placed into the House rules. "An itemized list of expenditures must be supplied to every constituent of your district on an annual basis."
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posted on
02/22/2013 11:09:02 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
(Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
To: SeekAndFind
$600,000 is 20% of $3,000,000. Thats just OFFICE BUDGET.
And that's just ONE Senator. Multiply by 100 and you get $300 MILLION just for Senators' budgets! Add to that whatever each Representative gets and WOW!!
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posted on
02/22/2013 11:24:21 AM PST
by
Eagle of Liberty
(Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
To: SeekAndFind
I wonder what Jesse Jr. would have done with the money. Another remodel? 30-day world cruise? Ferrari?
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posted on
02/22/2013 1:39:59 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: SeekAndFind
He may indeed be the only chance we have to stop out of control statists in the 2016 election.
To: pythonjavaawk
He may indeed be the only chance we have to stop out of control statists in the 2016 election. I like Rand. I wish Cruz had a couple more years under his belt for 2016 - if he's even eligible. Governor Walker just disappointed today me with his cave on obamamediscare. I was hoping he would run, but now, meh...
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posted on
02/22/2013 2:51:12 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: faucetman
First of all, Cruz can not do it. As a diehard Constitution lover, he’d be the first to say that, because of his Canadian birth he’s not NBC.
Not knocking Cruz, he’s my man!
In 2012 Rand needed some years more in grade. In 16 if he keeps nipping their heels like recently, he would be a force for the left to fear.
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posted on
02/22/2013 10:39:48 PM PST
by
X-spurt
(Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
To: Eagle of Liberty
And that's just ONE Senator. Multiply by 100 and you get $300 MILLION just for Senators' budgets! Add to that whatever each Representative gets and WOW!!Socialism Is Legal Plunder - "The Law", Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
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posted on
02/23/2013 12:42:13 AM PST
by
PGalt
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