Trump's Trillion Dollar Debt helps Walker push "Balanced Budget Amendment," but exposes Fraud of Fiscal Conservatism!

It appears Republicans can say and admit to anything and get away with it. Republicans like Paul Ryan admitted point blank that the tax cuts would force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Ryan and every other Republicans also said the tax cuts would not create deficits.

To policy driven conservative voters who never seem to connect the dots, former Gov. Scott Walker's solution to a problem, created by Republicans, is to fill that hole with the bodies of Americans along with their social(ist) safety net programs:   

Power of Propaganda: Walker is merely employing an old familiar scheme detail in this best selling authors book, Mein Kampf. In fact, the Trump presidency is nothing but reality shows marketing utilizing these "limited" "slogans," and "few points:"

 
That's why the "many-sided" slogans by Democrats aren't "retained" or "digested," like the "limited" and "harped on" slogans by Republicans.

Fiscal Consevative Myth Exploded, Debt used for Consumption not Investment: George Will is forced to admit the obvious in an effort to try and preserve his party's integrity, if that ever really existed. Still, I like what he admitted too, even though conservative voters probably never saw it:

Pursed lips and clucked tongues signaled disapproval among the wise and responsible when, at a recent televised event, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the “democratic socialist” from Vermont, did not plausibly explain how he would pay for Medicare-for-all. Yet Sanders is supposed to hew to some archaic standards of fiscal probity ... no discernible adherents in the avowedly conservative party?

Republicans, now thoroughly disarmed concerning the issue of fiscal probity, struggle to frighten the 2020 electorate with the specter of spendthrift socialists threatening the Republic. “The people who do the borrowing, which is to say elected officials, are not the ones who will do the repaying.”

Here's a reality I never thought I'd ever see a conservative admit to:

The temptation is real, to use debt not as a form of investment, but a means of consumption. From the founding until the fourth quarter of the 20th century, the political economy — the government’s taxing and spending — had been used primarily to provide “public goods” such as defense, diplomacy, courts, infrastructure, schools and basic research. Suddenly, however, the political economy became “primarily a provider of private consumption by individuals. 

In 1960, public goods had accounted for about 75 percent of federal outlays, while ‘payments for individuals’ were the other 25 percent. Today, they (private consumption) are 75 percent and still growing; public goods are now the residual 25 percent of our national government and shrinking.”

The new “borrowed-benefits” budget norm is financed to a significant extent by borrowing from nonconsenting future generations. The benefits are current consumption “and are not going to generate returns to pay off the borrowed funds.”

And the word that describes today’s belief, which fuels apocalyptic rhetoric, about the supposedly stark differences between the parties, is “nonsense.”

George Will: "...by 2024, senior citizens will shop for health care. Imagine that."

I can't really imagine that.

Wanna really know the truth about what the Republican plan for Medicare is? Skip the Paul Ryan coded language, George Will stated it simply enough for even teabillies to understand:

Will: "...Patty Murray, the chairman who produced this, said Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare and Social Security, THE FOUR DRIVERS OF OUR FISCAL CRISIS,  none a dime will be touch from them...Paul Ryan's...radical idea is that by 2024, senior citizens will shop for health care. Imagine that. That's it."

First: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are not the drivers of our fiscal crisis, Republican spending under Bush was; remember, we had "surpluses as far as the eye could see."-Mitch Daniels. Those programs weren't in trouble then. In recent surveys, the public actually wants to spend more to shore up those programs, not cut.

"Senior citizens will shop for health care." This line should be mentioned by every Democrat, every time Ryan's plan is brought up. I mean think about it. If you have an older parent, can you even imagine them navigating the health care system, a private one at that?

What's worse, like Scott Walker, Republicans will probably repealed a requirement that insurers write policies an 8th grader can understand. It's back to legalese folks. How do you think seniors will do reading that stuff. I don't even understand it. This insane idea tells me that they either don't have parents, or they're willing to throw em under the bus for a theory so bizarre, no nation has dared tried it.

Rep. John Boehner basically said as much here, even after Democrats offered cuts:

The Authoritarian Elitism of George Will

Small offhand comments mean a lot in the big picture. This just scratches the surface of what is most likely said ad nauseam in back rooms everywhere in the Republican power structure.

My New Hero; Larry Johnson? Read his Letter in Praise of George Will's Analysis of Wisconsin's Recall Elections..

From the Columbian, WA: 

Thanks to George Will’s insightful examination of what ails America, I have finally come to see the true light.

Will’s Aug. 28 column on the lessons learned after the Wisconsin recall elections indicts labor unions, trial lawyers, and ivory towers as the greatest obstacles in America’s exceptional march toward greatness.

Though retired, I am now considering renouncing my pension and medical benefits, and throwing myself on the tender mercies of compassionate conservatism. Likewise, should I find myself crossways with monolithic corporatism, I’m certain that my plea for their ear and appeal to their sense of justice will prevail.

And as for higher education, well, apparently, as denigrated by Will, that just makes you dumber, less able to distinguish how you as an enterprising American individual can exert your personal power to effect changes on a very uneven playing field.

And as Will so ably reeled off extemporaneously on “Meet the Press” that same Sunday, every one of our current maladies, politically, socially, economically, is directly attributable to Barack Obama.

And I thank Will for his thoughtful revelations.

Larry Johnson

George Will scoffs at Public Dissent, Vilifies Democrats, call’s protests Wisconsin’s Woodstock.

What is it about constitutional conservatives trashing public protests, the people’s right to redress their government, or demand to be heard? It sounds a whole lot like George Will supports authoritarian one party rule to me. He visited Gov. Scott Walker and spoke "fondly" of Wisconsinites. 

Should we have called the tea party gatherings a Woodstock redux when they were protesting?

Will not only bashes the citizens right to protest, but goes after private trial lawyers by calling them parasitic. Will never asks himself why laws have to me made against trial lawyers under the guise of tort reform, when in a free market, such regulation would never exist. Lawyers are in private practice, and have every right to freely do what they do best. Survival of the fittest man.

But even worse, Will suggests in the last paragraph, that liberals even expect our drinking water to be free, writing, "free, meaning paid for by someone else." Silly us.

WashingtonPost: The residues of liberalism’s Wisconsin Woodstock — 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities — are words of plaintive defiance painted on sidewalks around the state capitol. “Solidarity forever” was perhaps painted by a graduate student forever at the University of Wisconsin. “Repubs steal elections” is an odd accusation from people who, seeking to overturn the 2010 elections, cheered Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois — a congenial refuge for labor-subservient Democrats — in order to paralyze the duly elected legislature.

Progressives, eager to discern a victory hidden in their recent failures, suggest that a chastened Walker will not risk further conservatism. Actually, however, his agenda includes another clash with teachers unions over accountability and school choice, and combat over tort reform with another cohort parasitic off bad public policies — trial lawyers.

As the moonless night of fa$ci$m descends on America’s dairyland, sidewalk graffiti next to the statehouse-square drinking fountain darkly warns: “Free water . . . for now.” There, succinctly, is liberalism’s credo: If everything isn’t “free,” meaning paid for by someone else, nothing will be safe.

George Will Confused: Claims Democratic table pounding and Manufactured Hysteria. Conservative Projection?

Hypocrites all, George Will joins the conservative whine machine with his own clueless, I know you are but what am I analogy.

Republicans do not like to take their own medicine, as they continue to "project" their ugly character traits onto liberal Democrats. After town hall shouting matches with politicians, where protesters were instructed to disrupt the meetings, Will's attack on Democrats unintentionally explains why the tea parties resorted to such tactics.

George Will: It is a lawyers' adage: If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table. Forgive the Democrats for their current table-pounding ... There is precedent for the mainstream media being megaphones for Democratic-manufactured hysteria.

Democrats are the table pounders, the liberal manufacturers of hysteria? Then the video below is a fabrication...or worse, what Will considers the truth.

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