In December I posted a piece on this site titled, Why The Republicans Can't Win. That was long before Saturday, when Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan as his running mate. Prior to making this choice, Romney was running a nebulous campaign based almost entirely on a referendum against President Obama. That is no longer the case.
Although I find Paul Ryan's budget plan highly flawed -- unlike other Democrats -- I also respect him, because in contrast to his fellow politicians, he actually has a plan. My fellow Democrats are so obsessed with taking the right path (helping those in need) that they continue to disregard the rational path and refuse to properly address out of control spending.
When Lyndon Johnson helped implement Medicare, people didn't live as long as they do today: There were very few prescription drugs, no such thing as a heart bypass or an MRI, so unlike today, medical costs had a ceiling. Paul Ryan's message on today's spending is simple: We are on an "unsustainable path" to financial ruin. Ryan has spoken of reforming, rather than eliminating entitlements and if he is capable of properly conveying this message with a legitimate plan attached, then Mitt Romney has a chance to win the presidency.
As soon as Romney made his choice for a running mate, the Democratic party's first big mistake was to consider Ryan a gift to their campaign by labeling him an economic zealot in favor of "Social Darwinism." He is intelligent and articulate and (I believe) capable of creating a bi-partisan economic plan. Ryan's message is simple: If you want to save Medicare and other entitlements, you have to do something. Because he is outspoken and unafraid to take a stand, I believe that Ryan is the future of the Republican party and yes -- amazingly -- the future of American politics as well. Democrats seem to miss the irony that Ryan is the only politician in Washington who has actually been demanding reform and change.
Increasing taxes on the wealthy is barely a Band-Aid on the exponential growth of Medicare, social security and defense spending. If President Obama wants to defeat Mitt Romney and lead America back to prosperity, then it's his responsibility to stop the negative ads (he's behaving like a Republican) and deal with the country's most pressing issue -- economic reform.
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| Obama | Romney | |
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| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
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| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
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| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
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| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
Maybe he signed up as a Democrat decades ago, but he's obviously not one now.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/24/im-lifelong-democrat-and-might-vote-for-romney/?intcmp=related
You kiddn me! Just like Palin, hukkabe, Savage, Limbaugh and the others over at that dump! He is looking for action. Look at his articles (he actually has a few great articles) but o comments and even one with 4 comments 50% which he made himself!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-taub/why-the-republicans-cant-_b_1165201.html
He is a real Republican. Hypocrite at the core.
We have the highest concentration of wealth and lowest taxes on the rich since before the great depression.
"When economic power became concentratÂÂÂed in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny." John Adams
It's defense spending that is killing us.
We spend 54% of our f taxes on war,
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm
we spend more than the rest of the world combined on war.
Obama may lose, because the dupes have been convinced that Democracy it too difficult, and serfdom is preferable,
Yes taxing the rich at the rate Ike did would would balance the budgets.
The rich own more than they ever have. And make more than they ever have. Of course I include capital gains, I bet your suh fox talking about does not and is a very small increment.
Outsource jobs to India and China
Swiss bank accounts
Millions in the Caymans,Belgium,Australia and heaven knows where else
Let GM,Chrysler go bankrupt
Closed many American companies
Likes to fire Americans
Not worried about the poor
Robbing the poor to give to the rich
Lies about his taxes
NO THANKS.
Gas $5 a gallon
Unemployment above 10%
Military abolished.
Abolishment of entire US coal industry
Fewer drills, drilling oil in the US & leaves us buying more oil
bankrupting businesses with taxes, regulations & Obamacare
making unemployment through the roof
Obama slowly turning the US into a Detroit-like wasteland!!
He sounds reasonable just like most salesmen do when they are selling something. When you start to think about the realities of what he's selling, however, it quickly breaks down. Ryan wants to lay waste to the one program that has done more to help the lives of average people in this country than anything in our history in order to further balloon DoD spending (don't even tell me for an instant that there isn't waste there and that it isn't long past time to start trimming it). He also wants to empty the coffers for yet another give away to the 1%, lowering an already historically low tax system to astonishing levels so that the people who are the most comfortable will be even more so even as he pushes Grandma into the street to pay for it.
Yes, when he's talking about how we have to do "something" (but of course not what Obama proposed and which would have cut the deficit much further than what Ryan actually voted for) he sounds "reasonable". It's all about message control. Look past the message into the details and yes, he is "extreme".
Vouchers which pay for next to nothing to buy insurance that covers next to nothing that costs a fortune is no bargain.
And all of these cuts to fund even further tax cuts, extend the deficit as far as the eye can see and give Haliburton even more windfall profits - this is somehow fiscally responsible?
It's going to be interesting.
There is NO MONEY in Social Security...only treasury notes.