Paul Ryan!
No one that we know will argue the fact that we have a deficit problem as well as a debt problem in this nation today and, as it looks, into the foreseeable future. We have to eliminate the deficit before we can ever even think about beginning to pay off the debt. But, it is well to remember that there was a time in the not so distant past when we had eliminated the deficit and had begun to pay off that debt. It was a time when there was a balance between Republicans who had captured the U.S. House of representatives for the first time in forty years and also maintained control of the Senate, the first time these two houses of congress had been in republican hands in forty years together. The big thing was that we had a very intelligent democrat president who was willing to compromise and to see the hand writing on the wall instead of following a strict ideological bent. During those days now so seemingly far away, the two sides came together to achieve deficit elimination and the first debt pay down in living memory during the last few years of the Clinton administration.
We can only now wonder what might have happened if Al Gore had been elected president instead of George W. Bush. However, the results of twelve years of prior Republican rule under Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush had already laid the groundwork in the Supreme court of the United States to see that people such as Al Gore would never habitat the White House. Gore was a fiscal moderate and an environmentalist who might have taken this nation in directions that would have benefited all the people on this earth. It was not to be! Instead we got George W. Bush, almost unarguably the worst president to in habit the oval office in the twentieth century, if not the entire history of the nation. Under Bush the debt repayment went out the window as the nation became awash in even greater debt created by the cultish idea that constantly reducing the governments income would stimulate the economy and create greater wealth in the nation as a whole. One will notice that we have used the term “cultish” here because, as Ramblings has pointed out time after time, we feel with strong justification that the Republican party has become, and has been for some time now, nothing more than a cult. It is the cult of the idea that promotes the single minded ideas that government should be kept small even in the face of all of the challenges that have faced a nation and its people as the population has grown ever larger over the last few decades; and, the thought that that government should be starved of income by the single minded determination that less and less taxes will generate more and more of a base that will replace the income that has been lost by the reduction in percentage. Particularly in the George W. Bush years, growth was slow and the rapidly ballooning deficit destroyed the idea put forth by the supply siders that lower taxes would do for the nation what they had been claiming for years that it would do. It has been said that Barack Obama, in his first term, has already created more jobs than the Bush administration did in the seven and a half years before the financial collapse overtook them during 2008. Another ternate espoused by the cult of supply side economics and government is the idea that there needs to be as little regulation as possible to further unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is supposed to lie fallow in years when there is any type of regulation. If anything was proven during the George W. Bush administration, it was the fact that lack of regulation will lead the nation to exactly where it led us--a financial collapse of epic proportions.
So, there we have it, small government, low taxes, and lack of regulation, the three horsemen of what is, in reality nothing more than a cult. And now, finally, one of the current leaders of that cult has come forward to run for national office--Paul Ryan!
Paul Ryan looks like a decent enough sort of individual. He is not bad looking. He has a nice family. And he appeared to be bright. But, when one looks beneath the surface one sees a shallowness there that is somewhat frightening to behold. One would not think this when confronted with the idea that he lost his father at age sixteen and went through a period of supposed growth that led him to question many things including, probably but not spoken, his faith. He has stated in interviews that this writer has seen that his family was concerned that he might become a ski bum so they encouraged him to follow in the family footsteps and try to become a doctor or other professional person. Ryan did not apparently want to work that hard so he fell in love with economics, of which he has been said to have become something of an expert. He got his degree out in Ohio and almost immediately gravitated to the nations capital where he fell in with people like the late Jack Kemp who espoused this strange and already discredited idea of supply side economics. Anyone with a legitimate economics degree does not believe in supply side economics because, as we have already stated and proven earlier in this piece, it simply does not work. Ryan became a congressional aid and worked in a think tank before running for office at the age of twenty eight in his home state of Wisconsin down in the southern part of the state. Apparently the people there loved him because he has been reelected six times since by wide margins. Is that reelection record the result of his intelligence or of this supposed charisma that has propelled other politicians along their way despite shallow intellects.
The one thing that Ryan is especially good at is numbers, He creates a number scenario and then comes up with a solution out of that scenario.
One of the things that frightens us the most about Ryan is how rapidly he has risen in the neoconservative Republican ranks. He has been chairman of the House budget committee since the Republicans took back the house in 2010, when he was but a beginning seventh term Congressman of but forty years of age. If this speaks to anything, it speaks to the shallowness of the whole neoconservative Republican movement that a man of this age and this lack of experience could captivate an entire party the way he has. Would anyone in their right mind want to support a person whose budget ideas include the fact that he wants to reduce the taxes on people who live of invested money from a low of around fourteen percent to the astronomically low rate of under one percent as Ryan has proposed. Yet Mitt Romney has said in the last few days that he would consider signing the Ryan budget into law even though it would all but eliminate taxes on his already burgeoning income. This is not supply side economics, this is the transfer of massive wealth to those who already have so much of it already. And then we have the additional ideas that the budget should be cut back to levels not seen since the 1950’s. This would destroy what safety net there is in place for those who are poor and those who are lower middle class.
Only a single minded group devoid of the ability to think for themselves would come up with these sorts of ideas. The very idea that there can never again be any sort of tax increase comes from a group that could only be compared to something like Adolph Hitler and his crone’s out of the 1930’s. Instead of Jews being the target, taxes, government and regulation are the bogeymen for this group. And, sadly enough, this is also the complete definition of a cult. There must be something evil to fight and if there is not something, then it must be created. President Obama has stated that Paul Ryan is the ideological leader of this group. So, in reality, Ryan is nothing better than any of the cult leaders that we have seen over the past few decades that have taken their followers down to death and disaster. And, if this nation follows this charismatic but shallow man just as Mitt Romney does now wherever they go together, this nation will come to a bad end.
There is nothing nice about Paul Ryan and it speaks to those who follow his ideas that they are so shallow that they are but robots under the control of him and others like him. Millions died under Hitler and millions will suffer and die under Ryan if he gets anywhere near a position of power. The elderly, the poor, veterans, students, immigrants, women, minorities, will all suffer under this mans shallow but single minded ideas. And, the shallowest man of all is one Mitt Romney, who has effectively sold his soul to the Devil in his own single minded determination to inhabit the White House. And there is a definition for Mitt Romney too. And, it is simply called amoral. A person with no sense of morality or standards at all! Mitt Romney is the prototypical businessman who cares only about results. How they are achieved, where they come from, and who gets hurt in the process means absolutely nothing to him
IOVHO,
Regards,
Joe
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