Republican 3-Point Financial Plan announced today! (problems & solutions)

[AnArmyVeteran]

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
The republican plans to save our country was announced today. They are taking a bold new step they have never tried before. Instead of responding to individual problems they will solve all of them using three methods: Tax Cuts, Deregulation & Subsidies, the republican three legged stool of governance.

Here is a partial list of problems followed by republican solutions to those problems:

The deficit is growing. Republican solution: TAX CUTS for the top 2% so the middle class & poor have to pay for it.

War costs increasing: Republican solution: TAX CUTS for the weapons makers.

Fiscal inequality between rich & poor: Republican solution: TAX CUTS for the RICH who get richer while the poor get poorer.

Massive Gulf Oil Spill: Republican solution: TAX CUTS, SUBSIDES & DEREGULATION for the oil companies.

Financial sector meltdown: Republican solution: TAX CUTS & DEREGULATION for the banks because banks want all your money.

High unemployment: Republican solution: TAX CUTS for the rich only, because tax cuts to the unemployed don't put a dime in their pockets.

Small businesses have no investment money: Republican solution: TAX CUTS instead of forcing banks to lend to businesses.

Trade unbalance between foreign countries: Republican solution: TAX CUTS that increase the problem.

Debt rising to China, Germany, etc: Republican solution: TAX CUTS to increase the debt to our children & grandchildren.

Man goes to ER with broken arm: Republican doctor prescribes TAX CUTS.

Women goes to dentist for a cavity: Republican dentist prescribes DEREGULATION and asks her to call him in the morning.

[socialist_n_TN]

1. IOW, standard operating procedure for Republican

policymakers. Well at least they don't have to do any heavy thinking to come up with their solutions. Cause they wouldn't be able to.

These people are IDIOTS.

[Zoroastor]

2. Can't be true...

...a three legged stool will acutally stand up and support weight.

[AnArmyVeteran]

3. I had intended for the stool to sound like feces, but I forgot a line.

But you are right. The republican party isn't functional at all and they have zero ideas, other than the three tired old lame ones they have been using for thirty years. They are really on a one legged stool and not one republican even has enough coordination to try to balance it.

David Stockman, Reagan's OMB director, once highly touted the trickle-down theory and was one of its biggest proponents, but now he is attacking it and saying today's republicans are foolhardy for continuing down that failed economic path. Conservatives believe everything about Reagan to be 'godlike', but even one of Reagan's chief architects of trickle-down economics is dismissing it as useless and dangerous to our economy. Four and a half years into the Reagan administration the gross federal debt level had already doubled under trickle-down economics, proving it to be a failure. Today's republicans say tax cuts pay for themselves because they idiotically claim that it 'increases the amount of revenue coming into the government'. It didn't under Reagan. It didn't under Bush-Duh-Second and it won't do it now. I always wonder how they are able to dupe the republican base enough to swallow that idiotic claim.

In a related story from 2007 about David Stockman: "Federal prosecutors announced conspiracy and securities and bank fraud charges this morning against Reagan-era budget director David A. Stockman, accusing the former Republican director of the Office of Management and Budget of misleading investors about the finances of a troubled Michigan auto parts company.

Stockman, 60, surrendered to authorities early Monday and is expected to appear before a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan this afternoon. Officials from the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service will hold a news conference in downtown Manhattan to discuss the case at noon.

The grand jury indictment includes allegations that Stockman engaged in securities fraud and made overly optimistic statements to investors about his company's financial prospects. The charges are conspiracy, securities fraud, bank fraud, and obstruction of the SEC investigation.

Stockman is charged alongside three others, including former finance chief J. Michael Stepp and accounting expert David R. Cosgrove. In interviews, Stockman vigorously denies the accusations, which carry maximum prison terms of five or 10 years apiece."

I believe Reagan's administration had a record number of charges against the people in his administration, with many of them going to jail or being pardoned.

[AnArmyVeteran]

4. But the republicans have it upside down with the stool on the floor.

[NJmaverick]

5. K&R

[malaise]

6. You nailed it

:rofl:

[AnArmyVeteran]

7. I hope democratic leaders will blast repubs with similar stats.