How come you can legislate morality (or one narrow perspective of such), but you can\u2019t legislate healthcare? <\/p>\n
The abqjoural\u2019s headline was right on: Ryan\u2019s Latest Budget Plan a Fiasco-in-Waiting for GOP.<\/p>\n
Paul Ryan\u2019s budget hurts the poor – The Washington Post<\/a> by Dana Milbank<\/p>\n Ryan\u2019s justification was straight out of Dickens.<\/font> He wants to improve the moral fiber of the poor. There is, he told the audience<\/a> at the conservative American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday, an \u201cinsidious moral tipping point, and I think the president is accelerating this.\u201d Too many Americans, he said, are receiving more from the government than they pay in taxes. \u2026<\/p>\n Ryan warned that a generous safety net \u201clulls able-bodied people into lives of complacency and dependency, which drains them of their very will and incentive to make the most of their lives. It\u2019s demeaning.\u201d<\/p>\n How very kind: To protect poor Americans from being demeaned, Ryan is cutting their anti-poverty programs and using the proceeds to give the wealthiest Americans a six-figure tax cut.<\/font> <\/p>\n Ryan\u2019s budget outline omits specifics about how much he would take from programs. Instead, it provided a string of Orwellian euphemisms.<\/font> The budget \u201crepairs the safety net\u201d by allowing the states to award public assistance to fewer people \u2014 \u201cthose who need it most.\u201d Financial aid for college would be slashed \u2014 er, \u201cput on a sustainable funding path.\u201d And the Ryan plan would give workers \u201cthe tools to thrive in the 21st century\u201d \u2014 by killing off various job-training programs. <\/p>\n Ryan would cut Medicaid by a third and ship the remnants to state governments to handle. Or, as the congressman described it: \u201cWe also propose to strengthen Medicaid by empowering our states.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n Such a coupling \u2014 tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich and spending cuts that overwhelmingly hurt the poor \u2014 makes Ryan\u2019s budget a political loser.<\/font> His patronizing justification \u2014 that he is cutting support for the poor and the old in order to help them \u2014 adds insult. \u201cIf we have a debt crisis, then the people who get hurt the first and the worst are the poor and the elderly,\u201d he reasoned.<\/p>\n And Ryan thinks the eventual Republican presidential nominee will campaign on this plan<\/a>? \u201cI\u2019ve spoken to all these guys,\u201d Ryan assured reporters, \u201cand they believe that we are heading in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n This explains a lot about the Republicans\u2019 difficulty.<\/font> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Paul Ryan\u2019s budget hurts the poor – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How come you can legislate morality (or one narrow perspective of such), but you can\u2019t legislate healthcare? The abqjoural\u2019s headline was right on: Ryan\u2019s Latest Budget Plan a Fiasco-in-Waiting for GOP. Paul Ryan\u2019s budget hurts the poor – The Washington Post by Dana Milbank Ryan\u2019s justification was straight out of Dickens. He wants to improve … Continue reading Paul Ryan’s budget – Dickensian and Orwellian in one package<\/span> \n