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Paul Ryan, the celebrated Republican idea man, delivered a speech today entitled “Restoring the Promise of Upward Mobility in America's Economy.” Upward mobility is a vital concept for Ryan. He is the author of a plan that would, as budget expert Robert Greenstein put it, “produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history.”
Well it is good to know Ryan thinks we can't afford to help the poor, but we can afford to help the rich, the people who really need our help in this country obviously.
President Obama made an important contribution today to efforts to address the nation’s long-term fiscal problems, proposing a plan to reduce deficits by about $4 trillion over the next 12 years and meet the essential goal of stabilizing the national debt so that it rises no faster than the economy
maybe Robert Greenstein would be so kind as to point us to this phantom bill..
Well it is good to know Ryan thinks we can't afford to help the poor, but we can afford to help the rich, the people who really need our help in this country obviously.
Clearly following along with the discussion is pretty tough for some people, which is pretty sad considering your the first one to respond..
Giving people jobs helps the poor.. NOT welfare.
Good to know you support policies designed to keep the poor poor.. How kind of you...
Ryan cites the case of welfare reform frequently. To him, it proves that large cuts to programs that help poor people of any kind at all are not only harmless but will help the poor. “The welfare-reform mindset hasn’t been applied with equal vigor across the spectrum of anti-poverty programs,” he says. Thus he proposes enormous cuts — to children’s health-insurance grants, Head Start, food stamps, and, especially, Medicaid, which would have to throw about half its current beneficiaries off their coverage under his proposal.
Oh and the same fool was "Impressed" with Obamas 2011 budget proposals, the one that NOT ONE Democrat even supported, and expected it to create jobs and reduce debt, and supported closing loopholes.
This is a plan that provides measures to create jobs in the short term, but then focuses in on substantial deficit reduction as the economy recovers. It achieves the goal that every bipartisan commission over the last two years has said is the key, to get the deficit down to the point where the debt is no longer growing faster than the economy. It does it in a balanced way. And it's not some big liberal high-tax plan. One fact shows that. It has somewhere between half-a-trillion and three-quarters-of-a-trillion less in revenue increases than the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission plan and the Gang of Six plan, both of which had Republican senators endorsing them.
Ryan cites the case of welfare reform frequently. To him, it proves that large cuts to programs that help poor people of any kind at all are not only harmless but will help the poor. “The welfare-reform mindset hasn’t been applied with equal vigor across the spectrum of anti-poverty programs,” he says. Thus he proposes enormous cuts — to children’s health-insurance grants, Head Start, food stamps, and, especially, Medicaid, which would have to throw about half its current beneficiaries off their coverage under his proposal.
blah blah blah.. the same fear bull **** was proclaimed by left wing kooks when reforms were passed under Clinton..
Only an idiot of Ryan's caliber would manage to beg for stimulus then forget he did it.
Only an idiot would vote for Obama.
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