When a friend has news to deliver to another, most use the method of giving the good news first to soften the blow of the bad news. According to some, Kentuckians were given the bad news first Election night, when Republican Dr. Rand Paul was announced as Kentucky’s elected U.S. Senator.
Dr. Paul faces great scrutiny about his opinion of minorities and their civil rights and “bashing” the unemployed. This summer during the debate over the extension of unemployment benefits, Lexington radio station WVLK-AM reported that Paul said:
It’s time for America’s unemployed to face facts and stop holding out for jobs similar to the ones they’ve lost… 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. Nobody likes that, but it may be one of the tough love things that has to happen.
On Dr. Paul’s election website, he selects 16 issues to comment on and not one of them was about jobs creation. At his victory speech, Dr. Paul said, “Government does not create jobs. Individual entrepreneurs, businessmen and
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