Rand Paul: American Poor are Lucky

This vicious, inhuman motherfucker isn't funny any more.

This somehow led to a lesson Paul said Kentuckians should hold dear: Sure there are "problems" with the way America deals with the poor, but when they think about it, poor folks should thank goodness they're not stuck in one of those other horrible countries.

"The poor in our country are enormously better off than the rest of the world," Paul said. "Doesn't mean we can't do better, but we have to acknowledge and be proud of our system of capitalism, be proud of our American way."

One of the three poorest counties in the entire country is Owsley County, KENTUCKY, you worthless piece of shit.

Right now, this minute, there are poor people throughout Kentucky who are homeless, starving, sick and dying. I defy Paul to find a single person in Europe or Canada or even Mexico who is worse off than the poorest people in Kentucky.

From the Kentucky State Data Center:

The latest data is from 2007, which compared to today was a peak of economic security. Things have gone straight downhill in Kentucky since.

Poverty rate: U.S. 13 percent, KY 17.2 percent, Owsley County 44.4 percent.

Poverty rate for those aged under 18: US 18.0 percent, KY 23.6 percent, Owsley County 55.0 percent

On every single measure of poverty, Kentucky ranks as the worst or one of three or four worst states in the country. There are third-world nations who take better care of their poor than the United States takes care of the poor in states like Kentucky.

Rand Paul has just shit right in the face of every Kentuckian, and every American.

In my half-century of life I've heard some pretty terrible things uttered by American politicians, some of them Kentuckians.

I have never heard anything so cruel, so vicious, so insulting as the assertion that poor people in Kentucky should be thankful that they are poor in America, rather than socialist hellholes like Sweden.

The extremely poor in America may be slightly better off than the extremely poor in famine-prone North Korea or war-torn Afghanistan, but in Kentucky poverty is not relative. Poverty here is as rapidly lethal as it is in any third-world country on earth. Poor people without a non-shelter address can't get Medicaid, and in rural areas they have no way to get to emergency rooms in distant hospitals that use every trick in the book to avoid treating the uninsured.

Food banks are empty; charity has dried up; nobody's putting on concerts for the poor in Kentucky.

Rand Paul wouldn't last five minutes in the poverty one-fifth of Kentuckians suffer every day.

And where the FUCK is Jack Conway on this? He should empty his campaign account running this clip non-stop on every television and radio station and website in the Commonwealth. I'll even give him the script:

"Rand Paul thinks people in Kentucky who have lost their jobs, their homes, their benefits and their hope should just shut up and show some gratitude.

"I'm Jack Conway and I think people in Kentucky and the nation deserve good jobs at good wages with good benefits, and a Senator who will fight to make sure we have them. I'll be that Senator. I'm Jack Conway and I do NOT approve of Rand Paul insulting Kentuckians."

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....