Stop It! Ryan's Big Lie Insults our Intelligence.

I do get frustrated with the media coverage of conservatives sometimes...like now.

Point 1: From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel comes this out right fiction promoted by Ryan and his conservative party:

(Ryan) added that "chasing ever-higher spending with ever-higher tax rates will decrease the number of makers in society and increase the number of takers. Able-bodied Americans will be discouraged from working and lulled into lives of complacency and dependency. That's not who we are."

This is absolute bullshit. To use his own words, that's NOT WHO WE ARE!!!

It's a manufactured point of debate. It's a harsh, distrustful opinion of our fellow Americans. It's not a proven fact, anywhere! It wasn't in the 1950's and 60's, when tax rates were as high as 90 percent. Did we see the number of U.S. "makers" actually sit back, letting everything slide, or did those same high taxed "makers" go on to make the U.S. a global economic leader in manufacturing and innovation? 

Will someone please correct Ryan the next time he pushes this fiction?


Point 2: Ryan ironically makes his own case, against his "Path to Prosperity."

Ryan also used his speech to lament the use of class warfare, saying "it may be clever politics, but it is terrible economics. Redistributing wealth never creates more of it."

Amen to that! His opponent in 2012, Rob Zerban (zer-bon) added this:

Rob Zerban, a Kenosha County Board Supervisor and Democrat who is challenging Ryan in the 1st Congressional District ... "I find it interesting that he would decry class warfare when he is the one waging it, giving more tax cuts for the rich and balancing it on the backs of people by ending Medicare," Zerban said in a telephone interview.