If the sole purpose of this is to have prepared meals and nobody else is providing them, we could privatize Meals on Wheels and let food stamps buy the thing and save $2 billion, and then we really would be saving money.
Rand Paul: “If the sole purpose of this is to have prepared meals and nobody else is providing them, we could privatize Meals on…”
On the recordJune 20, 2011
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Rand Paul suggests privatizing Meals on Wheels to save costs.
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