You Made the People Dumb

[phantom power]

Forget for a moment what the Ryan Budget Plan would do for our fiscal condition over the next few decades. Focus on what Rep. Paul Ryan's voting record has already done to our fiscal condition. According to a study released by Think Progress, Rep. Ryan voted to add $6.8 trillion to our deficit during the presidency of George W. Bush.

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And, yet, as the front-page on the Washington Post Online shows, Rep. Ryan is "seen as a hawk on budget." But, by whom is he seen as a budget hawk? Idiots? Morons? Dupes? People who watch Fox New? People who read the Washington Post?

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How did Rep. Ryan get the reputation for being a budget hawk in the first place? His solutions are not aimed at balancing the budget. They are aimed at drowning the federal government in the unpaid taxes of billionaires. Under Rep. Ryan's original budget plan, Mitt Romney would legally pay almost no taxes at all. Meanwhile, everything the government does to help people, including keeping their promises to retirees who spent their lives paying into the system, gets butchered. And, even in theory, Ryan doesn't balance the budget for decades.

At some point, the media has to stop playing this shameful game of saying someone has a reputation for something and pretending not to know why they have that reputation.

You're reporting was BAD!

That's why people are misinformed.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/17/163337/318

[RagAss]

1. Media - bought and paid for. We are on our fucking own !

[HiPointDem]

2. kr. it's so funny the media talking about the uniformed voters when it's the media's job to inform

them.

just like it's funny the media dissing 'conspiracy theorists' when 'conspiracy theory' is where people go when the available explanations don't explain things satisfactorily.

[Scuba]

3. The major media are owned by the same plutocrats who own the Republican Party.

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. They own the media, both parties, and most of us as well. n/t