Rand Paul Under Fire Over Comments Saying Poor in America "Enormously Better Off Than Rest of the World"

Rand Paul, U.S. Senate candidate, drawing from Soviet Union propaganda film, says the poor in America are "enormously better off than the rest of the world."

Rand Paul, U.S. Senate candidate is in the news again. This time, the Tea Party darling, says the poor in American are "enormously better off than the rest of the world," pulling this gem from an old Cold War propaganda film released by the Soviet government, in an attempt to criticize the free-market system. The film showed even impoverished homes had color televisions.

If the people of Kentucky care about who they send to the Senate to represent them, then Rand Paul shouldn't be that candidate. What an out-of-touch hypocrite! Of course, we all know that Kentucky is one of the most impoverished states in America, with as many as a third of residents live in poverty, according to Fox News.

"They filmed a building in the poorer section of New York with some broken windows and they said, `Oh, this is how the poor in America lives,"' Paul said at last week's forum. "But it backfired on them because the Soviet citizens looked at that video closely and they saw flickering color television sets in all those windows."

Paul went on to say that "the poor in our country are enormously better off than the rest of the world. It doesn't mean we can't do better. But we have to acknowledge and be proud of our system of capitalism." Source

If this is the best the Tea Party and the Liberatian Party could do for Kentucky, then they are in worse shape that I thought. Rand Paul and Michael Steele are the gifts that just keep on giving. Gee, I wonder why this isn't mentioned on the Drudge Report?