Rand Paul

And we have to have the idea that it's it's temporary and we're trying to get you to another place.

Right.

So food stamps, when they started, were really primarily for mothers, single mothers with many kids who can't work.

So mom can't work.

We didn't want them all to starve.

She has four kids.

And once you've had the kids, I'm not against that.

They're there and you got to do something with the kids.

But we didn't give it to...

able-bodied, you know, 21-year-old men who are in college didn't get it or able-bodied men who are out of high school didn't get it.

You didn't do that because they need to work and they still can work.

There are jobs everywhere for able-bodied people.

So we have to look carefully at all these programs.

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.