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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity

A catchy phrase for sure. Tough to argue. We would all, after all, love a path to prosperity, for ourselves and for our nation. When you hear Representative Ryan promise to reduce the deficit by 6.2 trillion dollars, you think to yourselves that finally government will shrink. When the gory details of his plan reach Main Street, the path won't feel so prosperous and the support for a nice slogan, will begin to face the realities of our lives. If you look at the plan there are the same tired assumptions about corporations driving job creation and the wealthy spending more on investment with the huge tax breaks and incentives that exist, even in the suggestions for tax law reform that he includes. When you hear the words about the poor and aged getting to choose their health plans through private offerings, this is code for significantly eroding the only health plans that work in our country with some degree of efficiency. Yes, they are expensive and can be curbed, but Ryan believes in their dismantling and wants states to manage them. States, by the way, that cannot manage their own current budgets. As long as the assumptions driven by support for the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us prevail in Republican budget planning, we will have a path to prosperity for a small minority of our people. The rest of us will suffer the rath of their prosperity. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?

1 comment:

  1. The reason that we seem to be confused by such things is that most of us can't wrap our minds around the fact that the right wing believes that we are chattel. Chattel to use used for anything possible, to help a very few stay comfortable, Wealthy, indulged and Amused, until we realized that, we will remain susceptible to just seemingly independent libertarian jargon.

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