Monday, February 14, 2011

Just how Rabid is Paul Ryan’s attack dog approach to Spending?

Without making any sense out of his targeted cuts, and not showing an ounce of human emotion, real or phony, Ryan’s philosophy is flat out brutal.
Huffington Post: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) defended Republicans' plan to cut $60 billion from current spending levels, including $1.4 billion in job training programs and $600 million in border security, telling Fox News Sunday that he dismisses concerns that sudden cuts would worsen the economy. "I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast," he said.
Job training, really, you want to go there? Sure he does, because that and everything else on the list of cuts are part of the Democratic Party’s contribution to American society. Ryan’s breathless warnings of the nation’s collapse are so wildly exaggerated that I’m amazed the press takes this guy seriously.
Spending decreases for the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency … $1.4 billion in cuts for job-training programs and $715 million from government rental assistant programs -- including Section 8 housing vouchers -- that help families pay their rent.
With his stern, steely eyed detached delivery, Ryan at last sheds light on his sociopathic dark side with jaw dropping ruthlessness:
Ryan said he stands behind the proposed cuts to popular programs. "No matter how popular these programs are, they mortgage our children's future and they compromise our current growth," he said.
Who would be so cold as to attach the pain and misery of the above mentioned cuts to the next generation’s conscience? What is so frustrating is the Republican extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts we are now going to pay for with spending cuts to job training, rental assistance programs and border security. Those tax cuts went to people with massive amounts of discretionary income. How much extra cash do you have?
Huffington Post: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities calculated that the two-year extension of the upper-income tax cuts and estate tax giveaway will cost $139 billion relative to the president's proposal -- roughly twice the budgetary impact of Ryan's spending cuts. 
All told, the Ryan budget would reduce discretionary spending by $35 billion relative to 2010 enacted levels and $78 billion relative to the president's request. This symbolic gesture of fiscal responsibility would have devastating consequences in key public investments and human needs programs…
E.J Dionne wrote this about Ryan and the tea party's focus on "numbers" not humans:
House GOP members are fixated not on specific programs or the purposes of government but on how big an arbitrary number measuring their budget cuts should be. But even those unrealistic cuts were not unrealistic enough for the party’s highly caffeinated tea party wing, and so now GOP leaders are scrambling to generate bigger numbers. 

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