Well….there is so much absurdity coming out or the trump regime that I am getting tired of writing about it…but, the thing I just read made me get up the strength to do just one more….in trying to justify the idiot trump’s budget that cuts PBS, NPR and many many programs that actually help people, trump’s budget director today came out and said “can we really ask a coal miner in west Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to help pay for these programs?”…now this is just another phase of this regime’s trying to destroy the sense of community in this country and our shared society…going back to the “I’ve got mine” that has driven the repubs for decades now…but the really sick thing is that they are going to ask that coal miner and that single mom to give up their health insurance to give the rich an $800 billion dollar tax cut…to “pay” for that tax cut…how can they ask them to pay for that tax cut? Because they are immoral bastards that are using the coal miner and the single mom as props for their thievery….impeach…
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No more money for defense…
Well…repub budget is out and guess what? Of course, they want to cut every program that benefits the middle class and poor here in the US so they can give more, and more, and more to the military/industrial complex. I, for one, have had enough of this continually increasing money for war while the rest of us can’t even get out roads repaired or get healthcare. The US spends more money on defense than the next 20 countries combined and you cannot tell me that this is necessary…the Russians, who the repubs are so scared of only spend about 60 billion a year on their military so why the hell are we willing to spend almost 500 billion on ours? It is time to stop building war machines and start building this country again before all of our bridges fall down and we stop educating our people…geez…
Who is Paul Ryan kidding?
Well…I am laughing my butt off at the “new” Ryan budget that is so much more of the same old crap that even the Murdock owned Wall Street Journal is panning it…how many more times does he think he’ll have to increase the tax cuts for the rich and gut everything else before he is successful? Again, this is the definition of insanity “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” and shows that the repubs are so delusional that they can’t even think of anything else to do…even though the American people (who generally have more sense than this idiot) soundly, roundly rejected this nonsense in the last election. Exactly who are these guys governing for? Oh, yep, stupid question….the same old folks that don’t believe in economics, or science, or anything they don’t hear in the echo chambers of the right. I just have one thing to say…”keep it up!” at least until 2014 when we can send Ryan and the rest of the austerity nuts back to the tea parties they came from. Geez…
Now there are two liars running…
Well…read a couple of good articles today in the Post and I think the Free Press and I am heartened that the media seems finally willing to do it’s job in questioning the ‘just trust us” crap coming out of ole Mitt’s campaign…where they lie, lie, and lie about what their policies are going to be if elected….first, though I wanted to get to the big lie the Obama cut over 700 billion out of Medicare to pay for the ACA and he is using that money to reward his political cronies…yadda, yadda…what ole Mitt doesn’t want you to know is that the 700 billion that will be cut out of Medicare is to providers of care, cost reductions that are far overdue but will not result in any reduction of care to anyone on the program…and the other lie embedded in this one is that it is only Obama that would propose something like that, but when you look at the fiction that is the Ryan budget…he counts exactly those same savings to justify more tax cuts for the rich. For anyone to see what the actual policies of a Romney administration would be, just take a look at Wisconsin and what ‘just trust us” did to that state with Scott Walker at the helm….these folks should not be taken seriously until they actually present more that vague platitudes, until they actually present numbers that can be scored by the CBO in a non-partisan way so everyone can see that ole Mitt’s plans would explode the deficit and allow the rich to steal even more…geez…
Let’s stop this “visionary” nonsense…
Well…just a short one about the plaudits that have come in for ole Ryan after his nomination…first, let’s look at the effect of his budget plan…and I am going to be blunt…to follow his plan…that won’t balance the budget until I’m long dead…in the 2040′s….we will need to cut 91% of all spending that is not military…yep, you heard it…91% of all government spending on everything that makes a government and a society, schools, safety nets, unemployment insurance, job training,….you get the idea…his vision is that the US will be a military with a little bit of government thrown in….and, to top it off…ole Mitt will pay less than 1% in taxes on his income…while you and I will continue to pay 30%….it you think this is the path this country should take…vote for these guys..if you do, you are all idiots…geez…yep, I said idiots…please comment…I’m waiting for it…
Romney’s gift to the Dems…
Well…just got back from ordering a part for the car and got the news that ole Mitt has picked Paul Ryan to be his VP candidate and I just can’t stop smiling…of any of the possible picks, this is the very, very best one for the dems…to pick the most radical, teapartier to be his running mate, it just makes it so much easier for the dems to pick up the independents who may have been listening to the fiscal nonsense that has been coming out of the campaign. In case you don’t remember, this is the guy that is the supposed “serious” one on the right who proposes just more of the same…tax cuts for the rich and program cuts for everyone else…Medicare will be gone, social security will be gone, healthcare will be gone if these idiots get elected and the polls say that over 70% of the people want none of that nonsense…so, thanks, Mitt….your gift will be appreciated…geez…
Just a couple of things…
Well…I did have a couple of comments to make and wanted to make them before I forget so here goes…there was an interesting article in the WAPO today that makes the clear and evident point that the dysfunction in Washington today is the repubs fault and the false equivalence that the right tries to make that the left is just as responsible is laid to rest by a clear argument…one that I have made here more than a year ago…but it is nice when your ideas get confirmed by other writers….you should go there and read it…I think they even do a better job that I have…the next thing I wanted to say is about the dustup that Paul Ryan had with the Catholic bishops and others in the Catholic church when he claimed that his proposed draconian cuts to the social safety net fit with Catholic teachings…at least the way he sees it….but the bishops landed on him with two feet and in no uncertain terms told him he was dead wrong…that giving tax cuts to the rich and corporations and paying for them by cutting every program that doesn’t benefit the rich is not what the Bible teaches…but, as the overly self assure repubs do, ole Paul kept up his attacks saying that he was a better judge of the teachings of the church on social justice than the bishops are….what a huge load of hubris from this idiot….geez….
I’m trying….
Well…it has been such a struggle lately to get these out but I am going to keep trying as long as it takes….I find it funny that the right has been taken aback now that Obama has figured them out and has started to fight back where he hoped for compromise in the past….and they are just screaming about his attack on the Ryan budget and the fact that he is using numbers against them…especially since they don’t believe in numbers at all, or they failed at math in high school, I’m not sure which. It is just like any bunch of bullies, when they get challenged, they sit there and try to turn the fault for the bullying back on the victim…but I’m not calling Obama a victim…he brought a lot of this bullying on himself by trying to compromise when the right had made it clear they would not compromise on anything….it’s like the right is surprised that he is not just rolling over and taking it and they don’t know how to react to it….being exposed as the party of no ideas must hurt…and I just love it…
The republicans are just not serious…
Well…I have been struggling lately to come up with topics that really mean something and I think the problem may be that I have stopped reading the newspapers in the morning….but I have made a little cash lately so maybe I should resume going out…who knows? The one thing that I wanted to deal with today is the new budget proposal put forth by Paul Ryan in the last week or so and the fact that it is just more of the same nonsense that he proposed last year…more tax cuts for the rich, more safety net cuts for the middle class and the poor, and exploding the deficit that the repubs say they are concerned about but their actions say otherwise. This document just reeks of dishonesty with the most egregious lie or omission being how to pay for the tax cuts for the rich and corporations that he wants…saying “trust me” with some vague statement that waste and fraud can be eliminated to pay for them but does not say where that waste and fraud lies….and the cheers on the right for this piece of crap have been long and strong with the self congratulatory pats on the back and the attack line that the repubs produced a budget when the dems haven’t…but I think a bad budget proposal like this one is worse than not doing anything…but I do thank ole Paul for pulling the cover back on what American would look like if the repubs were in control….now, all we have to do is vote these idiots out of office…geez….
Paul Ryan is still an idiot…
Well…just a short one on the new budget plan that ole Paul has put forth…I’m not going to bog you down with all of the numbers but just the two that define this mess that continues the repubs war on the middle class and poor….5.3 trillion dollars in cuts to programs for the poor and middle class…including gutting Medicare and social security…and guess who gets tax cuts? I’m sure you guessed it…the rich will get 4.3 billion in tax cuts…so, what this idiot has just said that we are no longer even going to pretend that we give a damn about anyone but the rich…and he justifies it by saying that anything that benefits the less fortunate will just take away their incentive to work and get ahead…never mind that the rich and corporations get much more in subsidies every year…does that mean that corporations will no longer have incentive to compete since they are getting corporate welfare? Oh, no….corporations are different since they are “job creators” so the rules don’t apply….as they don’t to the 1%…how did we get here? I am losing hope for our country if guys like this are allowed to stay in power…geez…