Rand Paul

And this is what some people on the left complain about.

Able-bodied people, if they get something, should be very, very temporary, if at all.

Yes, I agree.

So then all the programs have to be reevaluated.

Like when I first moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1993, one of my patients was head of the local welfare.

And there was a local welfare department, and there was some real degree of the people had to come in on certain deadlines.

They had to prove that they were looking for work or why they couldn't look for work.

And there'd be some people that still have four kids at home will come back and won't be able to work again.

But the able-bodied people come back in six weeks, and she would show them, here's the newspaper.

Here's a job.

I want you to go here tomorrow.

And she'd make them do that.

And not because she hated them.

She worked with welfare because of the beneficial part of it.

But we've gotten away from that.

And so if I propose something like that, it's like, oh, you don't like the poor.

No, I want them to become rich.

But we also do have, and this is a fallacy, people are moving up and down from rich to poor all the time in our country.

20% of the people born in the bottom 20% make the top 20%.

60% of the people who make a million bucks this year will not make a million bucks next year.