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Monday, September 10, 2012

Public Must Accept Austere but Courageous Romney/Ryan Plan after Election, because then it'll be too late..

Paul Ryan continues to fumble around for answers. When the details of his and Romney's plan are problematic, Ryan quickly moves on, thinking no one noticed. Oh, we noticed Paul.

Like the 2010 elections, the Romney/Ryan ticket hopes to win without saying what they'll do, playing on the right wings absolute hatred of Obama. George Stephanopoulos hammered Ryan:
STEPHANOPOULOS: — to accept your word if you’re not going to specify which tax loopholes you’re willing to close. Don’t voters have a right to know which loopholes you’re going to go after?

RYAN: So Mitt Romney and I, based on our experience, think the best way to do this is to show the framework, show the outlines of these plans, and then to work with Congress to do this. That’s how you get things done...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Isn’t that a secret plan?

RYAN: — we don’t want to — no, no. No, no. What we don’t want is a secret plan. What we don’t want to do is cut some backroom deal like ObamaCare…

STEPHANOPOULOS: Why not say right now...

RYAN: — because we want to do this...we want to have this — George, because we want to have this debate in the public. We want to have this debate with Congress. And we want to do this with the consent of the elected representatives of the people, and figure out what loopholes should stay or go and who should or should not get them.
Get that? Ryan wants the debate in “congress,” with “the elected representatives of the people.” The trick; the public probably won't like what their “representatives” plan on pushing...ha, ha, too bad. Republicans in Wisconsin made the same argument against the recall elections. They clearly want the power to pass the unpassable, as “representatives of the people,” once in. If you didn’t like it, wait till the next election. The people have spoken...kinda.


Just as unsettling is Ryan’s comment at the end of the video clip about advancing charities. You know, like church car washes for a kid’s heart surgery, bake sales for cancer patients…stuff like that, just so the wealthy can see a tax cut.
RYAN: "And our priorities are high-income earners should not get these kinds of loopholes. And we should have broad-based policies that go to middle-class taxpayers, to make sure we can advance things that we care about, like charities…"
That’s the Ryan social safety net, charities, and the humiliating experience of begging for help. 

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