Rand Paul

Actually, I think there were originally Meals on Wheels programs that were private and relied on private funding from churches and other groups.

Thank you for your testimony, Ms. Greenlee.

Should we not ask these questions, whether or not there is someone else to provide or what the means of the people are before we give these programs?

These are fundamental questions and not idle questions, in the sense that we have to ask these questions because we're out of money.

Perhaps the $2 billion we spend on OAA, if we subsumed that into another program and didn't spend it, that might be saving money.

The GAO recently issued a report finding that there are over 70 duplicate programs, 70 duplicate Federal programs, dealing with nutrition.

We should ask if private charity is also capable of feeding the hungry and do government programs crowd out private charity?

The consequences of malnutrition are devastating.

Ensuring that no senior citizen goes hungry is an important goal for our country.

We all have sympathy. We just have different ideas of how to go about addressing the sympathy.

I don't see anybody coming forward to any of these committees saying, 'oh, the problems are getting better, the war on poverty is really working, we have less poverty now.'

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.

You have to ask yourself, if you had $100 who would you give it to?

We must ask ourselves, if government is capable of ending poverty for seniors why haven't we succeeded?

I guess the problem I have is that when you say the market fails, it to me seems somewhat arbitrary.

We are also dictating that the small business loans are either women or minority owned, and they get preferential treatment.

What we do not see is the $100,000 you gave to them did not go to someone else.

I guess the question would be how good is the pizza.

This sort of arrangement, those people who are told no by the bank and then they are told yes by Government because Government decides, 'We like your project,' I guess that to me just seems somewhat dictatorial and contradictory to the…

Most people think this is making it harder to get capital.

The President wants to increase taxes on those who make more than $250,000. A lot of those are small businesses.

It is really about choice, and it is whether or not we are going to say that our choice is somehow superior to the market's choice.

If so, I guess we are kind of lucky the SBA is only giving out about 1 to 5 percent of business loans.

I am a great believer in the free market, and the thing about the free marketplace and capitalism in general is it is a place where you have voluntary interaction and people get to vote every day.

Do you think that Dodd-Frank is going to help with small businesses getting loans, or do you think it is going to hurt?