"...the selection of Ryan is swinging for the fences.
It is desperation and an attempt to shake things up substantially
in the hopes of energizing a splintered and unimpressed Conservative base.
...there is the very pressing and disturbing votes of the Bush legacy.
Specifically Ryan's support of: TARP, Medicare Part D
and No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
...Medicare Part D tacked on hundreds of billions
(half a trillion as of today per year) to the debt
and was passed in the House
in a manner very reminiscent to ObamaCare and TARP
is an egregious disregard of the free market system
and should make any citizen sick to their stomach.
...Medicaid alone is now responsible for a quarter of many State budgets
and continues to financially drain the Federal and State coffers
at an alarming rate.
...the courage and bravery amount to a spending freeze.
...Ryan's plan spends MORE on Medicare than Obama.
...he is slowing down Medicaid to HELP granny.
...Ryan's plan does absolutely nothing for Social Security.
...the national debt.
...the end result is that the speed at which our fiscal apocalypse arrives
is merely slowed down by a teeny weeny bit.
...We have a budget from an individual
who thought there was nothing wrong in forking over a blank check to Wall St,
nothing wrong with expanding Medicare by half a trillion
and nothing wrong with growing a department
that Reagan's campaign promised to eliminate.
Why did Romney do this?
Romney and Ryan represent exactly the same problem
The images you see up above and the Ryan record is the status-quo.
Romney is counting on the ignorance of Republican base
to run with the facade of Ryan's conservatism.
...we all know what happens
when politicians threaten the sacred cows of entitlement spending.
They get destroyed.
Barry Goldwater was America's last libertarian-Republican candidate
and he was obliterated because he dared to speak up against Social Security.
Barry's loss paved the way for the great society
and the invention of Medicare and Medicaid.
...Americans refuse to accept changes to entitlement programs,
despite their clamoring for someone to fix our debt.
Neither Ryan or Romney are willing to actually cut anything.
Romney's campaign is ignoring the lessons of Barry Goldwater
and going all-in on an individual that has consistently voted for awful legislation
and whose budget is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
A move that can be summarized in one word: desperation."
2 comments:
Abner:
Your points are well taken.
However, you may gather insight regarding Ryan through the link below which is the House Budget Committee web site. You might want to bookmark it.
http://budget.house.gov/
Moreover, you also might consider this political economy proposition regarding your critique above: no politico, not a one, is going to meet any one individual’s exact wants, needs, views, ideology. No perfect matches exists. Hence it’s really a question of do most or the majority of views of a particular politico match a particular individual’s views. Hence your critique, if its point was to enlighten, would need the entire list of views of a particular politico, no just those views you find disheartening. As the critique stands now, it appears as your “expert opinion” rather then disseminating information for the use by and for the wisdom of crowds.
Good article. Thanks.
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