Paul Ryan is a big steaming pile of ..........

[marmar]

.......fill in the blank.



House Budget Committee Chairman Wants to Kill Park Service, Education Funding, More


Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican well known for his freaky affections for Ayn Rand, is on his way to turning America into the Fountainhead fantasy he dreams about. In scarier, more specific terms, that means the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee is ready to slash funding that feeds popular, totally uncontroversial government programs -- federal highway funding! the National Park Service! cancer research! -- and throw Medicare at the free market like pricey dice. As Paul''s been promising all year: yes, he wants to privatize Social Security. No, he's not going to touch the defense budget.

And if the Republicans pass a proposed law, Ryan will be newly imbued with superpowers that allow him to set budget limits without any input or oversight, free to play around with federal money with impunity.

Keith Olbermann noted the new rules would turn Paul into a sort of budget “czar.” Top Dems have countered the proposal, noting such a sweeping handover of budget power is totally unprecedented. Paul's response was to blame them for not passing a budget in 2010, and promised he will cut back spending to the levels set before the stimulus. “Other Federal spending and revenue levels will be established as outlined in the Congressional Budget Office’s forthcoming baseline,” he said, “with the adjustments provided in the Rules package to prevent taxes from rising and to make possible a repeal of the costly health care overhaul.”

As Think Progress astutely points out, that last bit is a ruse:

The second half of Ryan’s pronouncement is a sneaky way of saying that the new rules exempt repeal of the Affordable Care Act from the budget restraints, since repealing the Affordable Care Act will actually increase the deficit.

To understand the future, we must learn the past. But to put Paul's sneaky thinking in perspective, we needn't go back to Ayn Rand's 1940s. We can make due with a lesson from back in August 2010, when Paul Krugman called it like it is. “Mr. Ryan isn’t offering fresh food for thought,” Krugman wrote. “He’s serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce.”


By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at January 4, 2011, 9:53 am


http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/422905/house_budget_committee_chairman_wants_to_kill_park_service%2C_education_funding%2C_more/

[NuclearDem]

1. He'll leave the Defense budget alone

Yet he'll slash the budget for an agency that helps preserve that "purple mountain majesty" and "fruited plains" all our troops sing about when they go overseas.

Wow, fucking priorities.

[HereSince1628]

2. When you slash services to the people you MUST have a strong military

and a stronger internal surveillance system.

[wilt the stilt]

3. This guy is a career politician

who has never worked a job that wasn't a political job or had to ever purchase healthcare insurance.. He is clueless and warped. These republicans are so isolated from the real world. They live in a cocoon of like thinking people and can relate to no one but similar people. It's why they can not learn from anyone else. it's always me me me. Completely lost in themselves.

[On the Road]

4. ...Humanity?