The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
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Paul: Social Security cannot survive without raising the retirement age to 70
“But it's not going to be around unless you raise the age to 70. That's the only way it sticks around.”
Paul: The Fed paid $188B in interest to banks not to lend
“We paid a hundred and eighty eight billion, the Fed did, in interest to banks not to loan money. Most of it went to five banks in New York, the big five, but 40% of it went to foreign banks.”
Rand Paul: Fauci privately admitted a 50-50 chance COVID originated from a lab
“In private, Anthony Fauci is saying, I'm fifty-fifty, whether this came from the lab or animals.”
Paul: An NIH foundation holds $1.2 trillion in Big Pharma vaccine revenue
“There's an NIH foundation that has 1.2 trillion dollars in it given from Big Pharma for their share of the COVID vaccine.”
Paul: Trump-style protectionism will make America poorer and risks economic calamity
“I think there will be many heirs and many people competing to be heirs of Donald Trump in the protectionist front. I don't think it's good for our country, and I think it will make us less wealthy, and ultimately could really lead to a calamity.”
Paul: The US middle and lower classes shrank because people got richer
“The middle class, 50 years ago, about 54% of the people were in the middle class, and now it's 51. Everybody's like, aha, the middle class is shrinking. Well, the lower class was like, 37%. It's now 33%. It's like, where did they go? They're being hollowed out…”
Rand Paul projects US will borrow $15 trillion over next decade
“We're going to borrow like 15 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.”
Paul: The new spending bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion
“Increase the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars. This is not only extraordinary, but unheard of. No conservative in their right mind would ever vote for this under Biden.”
Paul: AI impact is overstated and we are overbuilding data centers
“I think it's overstated that how great AI is going to be. I think it's going to be a lot of cool things, and I think some people are going to get caught. We're going to have too many data centers at one point, and I don't care how much electricity they're suck…”