'Tough love' can't ignore realities

Yesterday's Herald-Leader included this excellent editorial:

Rand Paul, the Bowling Green ophthalmologist who wants to become a member of the Senate Republican caucus, agrees with the [unemployment benefits] filibuster in Washington...

In Paul's case, that is a particularly hypocritical stance to take. Federal tax dollars, in the form of Medicare and Medicaid payments account for 55 percent of his business income.

He's fine with feeding at the federal trough himself. He just doesn't want others, whether they be unemployed or the farmers whose subsidies he wants to end, feeding by his side.