He’s had enough. More than enough. In a high-voltage speech tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan will tear into President Barack Obama’s recent push to raise taxes on wealthier Americans—including entrepreneurs and small business—to pay for more government spending. It’s what a Ryan aide calls “the politics of division, pitting Americans against each other, preying on the emotions of fear and envy.”
Here are few choice bits of what Ryan is apparently going to say:
1. “Instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past. He is going from town to town, impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats, and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators.
2. ”The House-passed budget was full of proposals to get rid of corporate welfare and crony capitalism. Why are tax dollars being wasted on bankrupt, politically connected solar energy firms? Why is Washington wasting your money on entrenched agribusiness? Why have we extended an endless supply of taxpayer credit to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of demanding that their government guarantee be wound down and their taxpayer subsidies ended? … Rather than raising taxes and making it more difficult for Americans to become wealthy, let’s lower the amount of government spending the wealthy now receive … The politics of division have always struck me as odd: the eagerness to take more, combined with the refusal to subsidize less.
3. “Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were hallmarks of his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy, and resentment. This has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger. Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country—corporate welfare that enriches the powerful, and empty promises that betray the powerless.
4. “Instead of policies that make it harder for Americans to rise, let’s lower the hurdles to upward mobility. That’s what the American Idea is all about. In the midst of all the joys and sorrows of our everyday lives, I think we sometimes forget why America was considered such an exceptional nation at its Founding, and why it remains so. To me, the results of the Founders’ exceptional vision can be summed up in a single sentence: Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
5. “Americans, guided by our ideals, have sacrificed everything to combat tyranny and brutal dictators; we’ve expanded opportunity, opened markets, and inspired others to resist oppression; we’ve exported innovation and imagination; and we’ve welcomed immigrants seeking a fresh start. Here in America—unlike most places on earth—all citizens have the right to rise.”
Paul Ryan – Patriot!
Paul Ryan, Koch brothers, faux news whore, this guy believes in trickle down economics, he is one hundred percent for protecting the one percent, a real Grover Norquist man. Union busting wage lowering jerk. No health care, heat assistance, food stamps, education for our young people, except he does believe your tax money should go to private schools to educate the wealthy kids. Patriot, no he is a typical republican, screw the working class, they are disposable. Obstructionist, I can’t believe these people are getting paid to sit there with their thumb in their ass and vote no on anything that would help Americans because it might make Obama look good, patriot no.
thank goodness. someone needs to get after this. a lot more than just ryan, too.
It is high time for some serious criticism and “push back” considering the policy proposals the administration is about to roll out.
There is still time, Mr. Ryan. Please do run for President.
I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY OF THE CLOWNS now in the race (I do like Santorum, but he won’t get there). I HAD BEEN HOPING FOR CHRISTIE. NOW… WILL RYAN PLEASE RUN??? IF SO, I’LL WORK HARD FOR HIS CAMPAIGN AND VOTE FOR HIM.
This discourse resonates.
So taking the side of the richest 1% against the 99% is not class warfare either?
You misunderstand. He is taking the side of those who work, try, succeed and, if they fail, try again. No that it not class warfare and only an ideologue would see it as such.
So the owner of the mansion is the guy who works.
But the pool cleaners, gardeners, cooks, drivers, cleaners, builders are just greedy bastards because they want affordable health care?
I don’t get it.
Yeah–let’s take the money from the guy who owns the mansion (who, by the way, does work) so that he can’t hire the pool cleaners, gardeners, cooks, drivers, cleaners, builders, etc that he now currently employs.
Yep–that solved the problem.
The owner of the mansion is the one who hires all these guys and provides for their livelihood in a voluntary exchange of services. Pool cleaners and gardeners will be the first to go if the mansion dweller gets taxed out of his disposable income. Taxing the rich is no free lunch for the middle class.
We are all greedy and we are all in this together. If you suspect that rich people really are guilty enough to justify punitive taxation, they are entitled to due process first. Anything less is mob justice.
Yes Ryan would take bust their unions, take away their collective bargaining, lower their minimum wages and put their children to work at night in the basement sewing clothing. Putting our tax where it was when America worked, before G.W., is our only hope, cutting health care from the elderly, cutting heating assistance, no food stamps and depending on trickle down economics is suicide for the working class. Ryan is one hundred percent for the one percent, another Koch brothers whore.
We’re not talking about the guy who owns the mansion; we’re talking about the guy who owns the machine shop. The guy who busted his ass for 15 years to build his business. The guy who barely saw his wife and kids because he spent 80 hours a week at the shop.
For as much as you’d like to pretend that Scrooge McDuck is the problem, that’s not who these punitive taxes are aimed at. The idle wealthy don’t have a lot of income to tax, and so they’re not worried about the current proposals. The guys who worked hard and continue to work hard are the ones that will take it in the shorts. And when they decide that the compensation you “allow” them to keep is not worth the long hours and stress, they’ll just close up shop. Lucky for you, every time that happens it’ll give you another dozen desperate unemployed people demanding free shit from the people they used to work for.
Bravo!
Then lend them some money, John. You greedy bastard.
Exactly, what you do not get is, without the ‘owner’ of the mansion, there would be ‘no need’ for ‘pool cleaners, gardeners, cooks, drivers, cleaners, etc.. you end up with dozens of people and small businesses out of work.
I am not a millionaire. However, when you threaten my income, I will not spend money. I will not remodel a bathroom, rebuild a deck, buy a new car, etc.. etc.. etc..
I have worked since I was 14 years old. Everything I have was earned through hard work and savings. Today I am fortunate enough to own a home and have a small savings. Now, all that is threatened by a government that wants to take it all away and give it to somenone that ‘never earned it’.
Punishing people like myself is not the answer to the problem. Reduce the waste government first, then come and talk to me about tax increases.
How is that taking “the side of the richest 1%”?
It’s about time someone strike back at this corrupt bunch of idiots, Boner has done nothing and everyone else who call themselves conservatives sit around with their thumb up their @$$ and play all nice to the Socialist party. Time to get out in front with our own style of warfare or kiss this country good bye.
If Ryan believes what he says he needs to run. If he does not run he really must not believe. No one now running has his grasp of the issues, the ability to defend American Exceptionalism, or the immediate ability to capture the hearts & minds of the Right and the Center. A chance to make a change of the import of the one we will make next November comes once in many generations. Ryan owes it to America to run. I hope he understands this and does so.
I think Ryan is exactly where he needs to be right now (although I would love to see him run for President in the future) as the legislature needs a clear, strong leader to reverse the disruptive actions of the last twenty years. The President is supposed to execute (please inform Obama) the laws; the legislature designs the laws; the Court counsels on their Consitutionality. We’ve topsy-turned all the work of our Founders.
I would love to see that too, the problem is after his rant about giving Social Security to wall street and Medicare vouchers, while protecting wall street and the Koch brothers from paying taxes he probably won’t have a job. We will never get to see him get beat, but maybe Faux news will hire him.
Before you go clapping Ryan on the back, perhaps you could answer this:
Why is he condemning a ” bankrupt, politically connected solar energy firm” but he clamoured for help for bankrupt, politically-connected Wall Street investment banks – “…If we fail to do the right thing, heaven help us – if we fail to pass this I fear the worst is yet to come,”
He is as dirty, corrupt and sleazy as any in Congress. He also doesn’t pass muster when it comes to having the intellectual muscle to support his rhetoric on things fiscal. He has made some ridiculous blunders, but for some reason he is still the fiscal darling of the GOP.
Perhaps it’s the ‘leper with the most fingers’ scenario – he is less bloody stupid than the rest of them.
You cannot compare the Wall street bailout to the solar firm.absolutely ridiculous .back your points with facts,not stupid name calling. Classic liberal rubbish
A voice of truth and reason!
Oh I hope it spreads and defeats the evil tyranny of barrack obama
and the tyrants he represents attempting to destroy our beloved Republic.
God bless Mr. Ryan
If I were Rep Ryan, I’d start at the beginning of this latest train of deception by dismantling the POTUS “pass this bill” speech before congress which pretended “it contains many of the things both sides have been in favor of.” What a completely cynical and empty ploy that foundation for the weeks since then was.
Deceptive political rhetoric (from any source) works because even in today’s web-powered world only insiders follow closely enough to detect the nuance of such long term, multi-layered deception. The opinions of the general population live and die by the sound byte and personality — because the full context is unavailable and truth is purposefully hidden by experts. The vast majority of the voting public doesn’t mind not having either.
Rep Ryan’s 5 points aren’t bad, but they aren’t going to convince anyone not already in the choir. They aren’t going to convince anyone who wonders before during or after the speech, “Paul who?”
Everybody agrees that hatred based on RACIAL groups is bad and can cause genocide.
But for some reason the Euro/progressive left just loves to stir up hatred and anger by trying to divide people into CLASS groups. Somehow the fact that CLASS hatred has caused many more millions of deaths (Stalin, Pol Pot, Marxist totalitarianism, etc) than racial hatred ever has. The fact that Marxism is on a short slide to the left’s from current Progressive ideology makes this all the more worrisome.
The left, and the President, is playing with fire. Just remember, all the educated professorial eggheads of the early Marxist revolutions thought the purges would just consume the rich bourgeois class, when in fact they themselves got consumed once the fire started.
The liberal media has already extended Obama Class Warfare Extended to Generational Warfare
Read this blog item and reflect on the history of Socialism
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/11/obama-class-warfare-extended-to.html
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