I'd like to see the WSJ or any major media outlet actually get up in arms over the corporate welfare handouts. Welfare queens like Exxon Mobil who get billions in tax breaks and cash payments from the government while making billions more in profits. Can we talk about those kind of welfare queens for once?
What I don't understand is...if Ryan is your man on the budget, why on earth would you want him to be VP (where his input on budgetary policy would be symbolic at best) rather than the job he currently has, i.e., the chair of the House committee that is responsible for the budget?
This makes no sense at all, even (or perhaps especially) if you are sympathetic to the brand of fiscal conservatism for which the WSJ is presumably advocating.
Oh, my, yes. let's do what Wall Street wants because everyone knows they're never wrong to the point of catastrophe. No money for food stamps but banks too big to fail.
Cheney's VP-ship was not exactly symbolic, @10. Romney's weak; the Republicans (including the WSJ) want someone strong.
Paul, I don't understand your bemusement lately with what the Republicans understand/don't understand. They are sharp cookies; we should be so sharp, and we'd better GET sharp damned soon.
I find it interesting that to make this an election about big ideas Mitt will have to bring in someone else; shouldn't the big ideas come from the top of the ticket and the muscle to help implement those ideas come from the VP?
I agree that sharing is caring, but voting for representatives that hire goons to take from nice folk's savings accounts IS NOT SHARING.
I'm no Republican. Paul Ryan can eat a dick and Mitt Romney is a gross sociopath. But, it's this willful ignoring of the violent nature of how our society is organized that does unimaginable harm to us all. We can have a real, lasting safety net without having it run by a group of people that also drop bombs on innocent people!
Penn Jillette puts it well: "It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint."
or is it just the poorest americans that get to feel the austerity?
Excellent question. I'm gonna start posting on the WSJ blogs and demand more attention be made to the welfare queens. Change is going to happen!
This makes no sense at all, even (or perhaps especially) if you are sympathetic to the brand of fiscal conservatism for which the WSJ is presumably advocating.
Much in the same way you ignore Romney's call of market rules for insuring fairness based on merit, but supplemented with Romneycare (he invented it).
Paul, I don't understand your bemusement lately with what the Republicans understand/don't understand. They are sharp cookies; we should be so sharp, and we'd better GET sharp damned soon.
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I'm no Republican. Paul Ryan can eat a dick and Mitt Romney is a gross sociopath. But, it's this willful ignoring of the violent nature of how our society is organized that does unimaginable harm to us all. We can have a real, lasting safety net without having it run by a group of people that also drop bombs on innocent people!
Penn Jillette puts it well: "It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint."