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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sun Apr 8, 2012, 11:52 AM Apr 2012

America Ryan's & The GOP's Social Engineering Experiment

I was listening to Thom Hartmann the other day and he was talking about the Ryan budget. He was commenting on how proud Ryan is of his plan. What was most alarming is that Ryan and the GOP KNOW for a certainty that their plan will cause much pain and hardship. It will likely cause a depression. Their idea is that the end of domestic programs will force people to get off the government dole and fend for themselves. Depression and desperation will make us stronger.

So I guess if you lose your Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security and are disabled you wlll be able to go to work and feed yourself even if you are paraplegic, have no limbs, or are too sick to get out of bed. Or if you need surgery but have no health care because you also lost Medicaid and Medicare or your insurance was dropped on you will just cut yourself open and fix it. Or if you now don't have food stamps or welfare you will just grow a garden and wait till you have food to eat. If you are a veteran "on the dole" you will go out on the street and sell "fake poppies" like they used to do or sell apples or something else. The stock price of "tin cup" future will go up.

This leper heal thyself strategy should not even see the light of day in this country. Yet the Ryan budget is being applauded as a remedy to our ills. And it will drop the top tax rate on the uber rich to 25%.

The GOP should adopt Freddie Krugger as their mascot.

I CANNT BELIEVE THE BULL THAT I AM HEARING THESE DAYS. The MSM needs more stories about starvation, desperation and crime. They are doing nothing to shoot down this budget. In fact they are enabling its legitimacy

BTW Mittwit said he will sign it.

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