Rand Paul: “Thank you. This is here in Washington, about a mile from here. We call it a ``Streetcar Named Waste.'' Spending $1.6…”

“Thank you. This is here in Washington, about a mile from here. We call it a ``Streetcar Named Waste.'' Spending $1.6 million to study the expansion of the DC streetcar--and this is a streetcar that nobody is actually riding on. It is a ghost car. Nobody is riding on it. It goes nowhere. It goes about a mile, from nowhere to nowhere, and is much slower than walking. I walked, and I can outwalk it. We thought about filming me in a race with the streetcar to see who wins, me walking or it driving; once again, going back to some technology from hundreds of years ago that still requires wires to be running down the street, and it is really not a useful expense of government money. DC gets a lot of Federal money. Where else do they spend your money? This is one of my favorites. I just can't even imagine who spent this money. When I tell you, you will say: Certainly, that person was fired. No way. He works for the Federal Government. Nobody is ever fired in the Federal Government. They spent $700,000 to study what Neil Armstrong said when he landed on the Moon. Did he say, ``One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,'' or did he say, ``One small step for a man''? They wanted to study whether the preposition ``a'' was mentioned by Neil Armstrong or whether he said: ``One small step for man.'' Where did the money come from? The grant was originally supposed to be for autism. We can debate whether the Federal Government should be involved in that.…”