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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:11 PM
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Paul Ryan's Honest Admission
Tue Apr 05, 2011 at 12:57 PM PDT
Paul Ryan's Honest Admission
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Paul "Saving Medicare by Privatizing it" Ryan said this morning:
This is not a budget, this is a cause….

SNIP

...The Republicans are fond of comparing the federal budget to the budgets of the average American household, so okay. I’ll play.

If my wife and I were to fashion our household budget in the same manner as the recently proposed radical Republican state and federal budgets, it might look something like this:

Expenses:
25% of take home pay for gasoline.
25% for private, religious school for children.
25% for guns, bullets, and burglar alarms.
15% for fences.
8% for prescription drugs.
1% for retirement.
0.5% for long-term medical care.
0.5% for food, clothing, shelter, police and fire protection, and entertainment.

Revenues:
90% from garage sales, couch cushions, selling plasma, aluminum cans, and sending our children out to beg.
9% from four part-time jobs.
1% from rich uncle...


Remember those words: “This is not a budget, this is a cause….”

Not yet, but if it would ever get passed, it would be a cause. It would be a cause of unemployment. It would be a cause of disease and premature deaths. It would be a cause of misery, poverty, crime, and class warfare.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/05/963731/-Paul-Ryans-Honest-Admission
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:13 PM
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1. kick n/t
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:14 PM
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2. But check how they were lying to win in 2010
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handmade34 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:14 PM
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3. ....
“This is not a budget, this is a cause….” and it is about numbers, not people or people's well being

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:14 PM
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4. meanwhile, how many jobs have these cretins created?
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-05-11 10:16 PM
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5. Less the government jobs they are cutting....
I suggest NONE.
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