Rand Paul
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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.
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.
People are going up and down.
We have great income mobility.
And the reason you have to express that is otherwise you lose hope.
If you live in a poor area of town and you're a single mom and everybody tells you, you know,
Deer's never going anywhere.
That's when your reaction is, I might as well steal or sell drugs or something.
Instead, the message to our young people is, it should be.