[Video] Rand Paul on CNN w/ Wolf Blitzer following SOTU address

[jct74]

update:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4vBMrhi-Y

 

[jct74]

on now

 

[StateofTrance]

HE KILLED IT! A++

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Not too eventful. Wolf tried to nail him down on disagreeing with minimum wage. He finally just said that this might not be the right time for an incremental increase.

 

[Bergie Bergeron]

Wolf: Minimum wage, minimum wage, minimum wage. But wait, what about minimum wage?

 

[jct74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4vBMrhi-Y

 

[LibertyEagle]

Man, Wolf was trying really hard to get a sound byte. Good job, Rand!

 

[WD-NY]

Woah - Rand is/was in #FrankLuntzFocusGroupMode tonight

 

[Crashland]

Wolf was really digging for an answer on the minimum wage. Paul never actually said it, but everything about that interview screams that he doesn't support any minimum wage. He did a good job dodging the issue here but he'll have to tread very carefully. Unless he has a plan on how he can actually convince people (especially the middle/lower class) that the minimum wage is harmful, or unless he has a policy idea up his sleeve to replace it with that people might subscribe to, it's best to steer clear.

 

[tsai3904]

recent video of Rand on minimum wage:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_6XpKDhhk

 

[Tod]

Local paper:

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[h=1]FACT CHECK: Less than meets eye in Obama speech[/h]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised to clear red tape away from highway projects that actually are stalled because there’s no money for them, not because rules are in the way. He’s ordering a higher minimum wage for a sliver of the workforce, which affects no one now and not many later.

Going it alone — without Congress making a law — just doesn’t go as far as Obama made it sound at times Tuesday night in his State of the Union speech.
And when he talked about his health care law — a source of Obama misstatements in the past — he hit another fact bump......

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com...0/FACT-CHECK-Less-than-meets-eye-Obama-speech



Yeah, yeah, Mr. Obama, things are swell and would get even better if only you had FULL POWER to implement your plans... /s

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Man, Wolf was trying really hard to get a sound byte. Good job, Rand!

Wolf was really digging for an answer on the minimum wage. Paul never actually said it, but everything about that interview screams that he doesn't support any minimum wage. He did a good job dodging the issue here but he'll have to tread very carefully. Unless he has a plan on how he can actually convince people (especially the middle/lower class) that the minimum wage is harmful, or unless he has a policy idea up his sleeve to replace it with that people might subscribe to, it's best to steer clear.

They have already used it on CNN and MSNBC.

 

[Brett85]

I think that Rand is ultimately going to just have to give a more straight forward answer to that question. I don't really see why he couldn't frame the issue in terms of federalism and just say that each state can set their own minimum wage. I don't think that would be viewed as that extreme.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

I think that Rand is ultimately going to just have to give a more straight forward answer to that question. I don't really see why he couldn't frame the issue in terms of federalism and just say that each state can set their own minimum wage. I don't think that would be viewed as that extreme.

Exactly, stressing the Constitution's strict limits on federal power was Ron Paul's main method of mainstreaming the expression of principle, since everybody is supposed to agree with following the document. The strategy behind pushing the minimum wage is to put politicians who oppose it on the defensive. Rand wants to finesse that framework with spin about it increasing unemployment, but that's an argument that doesn't change the framing. Pointing out the federal government doesn't have the authority to do it short circuits the framework and would put the statists on the defensive ("why are you guys violating the Constitution?").

 

[FriedChicken]

Exactly, stressing the Constitution's strict limits on federal power was Ron Paul's main method of mainstreaming the expression of principle, since everybody is supposed to agree with following the document. The strategy behind pushing the minimum wage is to put politicians who oppose it on the defensive. Rand wants to finesse that framework with spin about it increasing unemployment, but that's an argument that doesn't change the framing. Pointing out the federal government doesn't have the authority to do it short circuits the framework and would put the statists on the defensive ("why are you guys violating the Constitution?").

I agree with this. Except that Ron should have used this argument much better/often than he did. Sometimes I remember in debates he would try to explain the libertarian position instead of the constitutional position ... which would have been a lot easier in a 20 second window of time.

However ... people have really short attention spans. Its hard to explain anything to the masses - especially with all the demagogues purposely trying to distort the meaning.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Exactly, stressing the Constitution's strict limits on federal power was Ron Paul's main method of mainstreaming the expression of principle, since everybody is supposed to agree with following the document.

My answer to the question of minimum wage:

Everyone should be able to get good pay for doing good work. I want them to get paid more than minimum wage. I want people to get paid as much as possible. That is the goal. The best method of achieving that is to have a strong and thriving economy. What constitutes good pay varies greatly depending upon the area and the cost of living. This leads to questions as to whether a minimum wage makes sense at the Federal Level. It might make more sense from both a practical and Constitutional perspective to have this issue decided at the State or local level. That is more of a legal and academic discussion though. The simple answer is, yes, I want people to be paid well. I want them to be paid more than minimum wage.

 

[Crashland]

My answer to the question of minimum wage:

Everyone should be able to get good pay for doing good work. I want them to get paid more than minimum wage. I want people to get paid as much as possible. That is the goal. The best method of achieving that is to have a strong and thriving economy. What constitutes good pay varies greatly depending upon the area and the cost of living. This leads to questions as to whether a minimum wage makes sense at the Federal Level. It might make more sense from both a practical and Constitutional perspective to have this issue decided at the State or local level. That is more of a legal and academic discussion though. The simple answer is, yes, I want people to be paid well. I want them to be paid more than minimum wage.

The minimum wage is essentially a tax on cheap labor. While increasing the min wage might be good for the majority of people making less than $10, it will undoubtedly push the least productive labor of that group out of the workforce altogether. Increasing the minimum wage encourages businesses to find ways to automate those min wage jobs that offer little added value, which increases unemployment. The question though is, is that a bad thing? If you can find a way to take those people and find jobs that are inherently more productive, or if you can take those people and find a way to train them for a more productive job in the economy of 2014, then that could work rather well.

In any case though I agree the best way to approach it is probably the federalism argument. Careful how you word it though. The phrase "states rights" is a buzzword and is a huge turnoff to minority voters.

 

[K466]

OMG. I am appalled. What good is Rand Paul going to be if he cant even defend liberty and free markets in the most basic of ways? He can't even come out against minimum wage. And after 2.5 more years of campaigning, how much further will he have drifted away from liberty?

That's it, there goes my last bit of hope for Rand Paul. I'm done with him, unsubscribing from his stuff right now. He has been given a bully pulpit for liberty and he isn't using it at all.

 

[Crashland]

OMG. I am appalled. What good is Rand Paul going to be if he cant even defend liberty and free markets in the most basic of ways? He can't even come out against minimum wage. And after 2.5 more years of campaigning, how much further will he have drifted away from liberty?

That's it, there goes my last bit of hope for Rand Paul. I'm done with him, unsubscribing from his stuff right now. He has been given a bully pulpit for liberty and he isn't using it at all.

This is a bully pulpit? It's nothing right now compared to when you are the president. You only have so much political capital to spend and if you don't allocate it across the issues where it is most effective then you won't win the election. I would rather have Rand pick and choose the liberty issues that will win the election, not go 100% on everything and suffer the same fate as Ron's multiple failed runs. Being against an increase in the minimum wage is really not such a terrible way to position yourself when you have both a GOP nomination and a general election to win. No one in the GOP field is going to flank him from the right on that issue.

 

[T.hill]

Rand talks about how he thinks there should be a safety net like he always does in a recent video, Im not sure if its this one, but he said something new that stuck out to me. He said he believes in a more localized safety net or basically a state level safety net, did anyone notice that and direct me to that video if you could?

He does say something similar to that here, but I dont think it's this video.