RAND'S NEWSLETTER UPDATE JANUARY 31, 2014 Please allow me to update you on some of this week's happenings in Washington, D.C. Dr. Rand Paul Responds to the State of the Union On Tuesday, President Obama gave the annual State of the Union address. This year's speech was no different from the last and was full of false promises. I issued my own response to the President's address because I believe that hope and change should not just be a campaign slogan. In his first inagural address, President Reagan said, "In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem." The crisis that existed when Reagan took office was very similar to the one we face today. Large numbers of people are unemployed and even more are dropping out of the workforce. We currently have a stagnant economy and an ever-growing federal government. We solved those problems then by coming together, and by implementing the right ideas....