Reply #33: It's the combination of both that gets me

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Politicians propose money-saving schemes all the time without paying much heed to their impact on the people involved -- but at least you can say as a partial excuse that they're putting the bottom line before human needs.

But when a politician proposes something that is impossible to carry out, it becomes very clear that they're doing it only out of sadism and vindictiveness.

It's kind of like Ryan coming up with a "budget balancing" plan that wouldn't actually balance the budget. Its the plans that don't add up that make it clear where their proponents' real interests lie.