Comments on: Highly Debatable: The Big Liar’s Biggest Lies

By: patuxant

patuxant — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:55:00 +0000

keep in touch…let’s see what happens….

By: lana ward

lana ward — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Biden’s performance last night—4 states that were lean Obama are now in the toss up catagory. Michigan, Pennsylvania and 2 others

By: patuxant

patuxant — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:24:00 +0000

No, they will save their millionaire, billionaire buds as they have been doing for the last 12 years or more. What private sector jobs has Romney created when he closed factories/shops and sent labor overseas? What faith does he have in this country when all of his funds are overseas in various banks accounts, which by the way he doesn’t want anyone to know about. And for you, as a woman, what rights will you have to chose if your R&R combo take over? And whatever your position-pro choice or pro-life- you still have no right to dictate to other women what they do with their own bodies. Also, equal pay for women doing the same job. One could go on and on.

By: lana ward

lana ward — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:20:00 +0000

Romney and Ryan will save the middle class–Under Obama, there won’t be a middle class. Just rich and poor-makers and takers

By: patuxant

patuxant — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:02:00 +0000

Good. Get it out there, Lana. You are a piece of work.

By: patuxant

patuxant — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:56:00 +0000

Whatever, Lana…nice try…if your pal Mitt wins and you are one of us in the middle class, good luck!

By: lana ward

lana ward — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:29:00 +0000

Apparently the country believes him, he’s pulled ahead of Obama

By: lana ward

lana ward — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:10:00 +0000

I know what I saw. If you think that makes me a neo-Nazi, so be it

By: louElouE

louElouE — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:33:00 +0000

It’s clear, proof positive. Mitt supports the Paul Ryan budget voted on and passed by the Republicans in the house. Ryan’s plan is guaranteed to blow the debt up by several trillion dollars, not a single tax cut is paid for which is exactly what Bush did and we know how well that’s worked out now don’t we.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, describes the Ryan budget this way:
“The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse — on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history).”
Robert Greenstein, President of Center on Budget and Policy Priorties, said of the Republican Budget, [a.k.a the Ryan Plan] “Specifically, the Ryan budget would impose extraordinary cuts in programs that serve as a lifeline for our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens, and over time would cause tens of millions of Americans to lose their health insurance or become underinsured. It would also impose severe cuts in non-defense discretionary programs—much deeper than the across-the-board cuts that are scheduled to take place starting in January…Yet alongside these extraordinary budget cuts, with their dismantling of key parts of the safety net, the budget features stunning new tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. These tax cuts would come on top of the average tax cut of more than $125,000 a year that the Tax Policy Center (TPC) estimates that people who make over $1 million a year will receive if — as the Ryan budget also proposes —policymakers make all of President Bush’s tax cuts permanent”cuts permanent”.
In fact, TPC reported that the four major new tax cuts in the Ryan plan…would cost $4.6 trillion in lost federal revenue over the next ten years…All four revenue-losing measures would disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans.
Obama slammed Ryan’s budget proposals as social Darwinism. For a party so skeptical of evolution, the Republicans seem curiously at home with the survival of the fittest. Ryan’s plan would not only represent a devastating attack on poor Americans while redistribut-ing resources to the rich; it would actually make the deficit worse.
Ryan has explicitly used Catholic teachings to justify his gutting of programs like food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, and tax credits for low-income families, even as church leaders remind him publicly of the Catholic duty to protect the poor.
in April, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote a series of letters about the House budget proposed by Rep. Ryan, saying that his cuts “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who can not find employment. These cuts are unjustified and wrong.”
“Major reductions at this time of economic turmoil and rising poverty will hurt hungry, poor and vulnerable people in our nation and around the world,” the Rev. Stephen Blaire, bishop of Stockton, Calif., and the Rev. Richard E. Pates, bishop of Des Moines, wrote for the conference. “A just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to the poor and vulnerable persons; it requires shared sacrifice by all.” In their letters, the bishops laid out “moral criteria to guide these difficult budget decisions: protect human life and dignity.” They wrote that “the needs of those who are hungry and homeless, without work or in poverty, should come first,” and that
“government and other institutions have a shared responsibility to promote the common good of all, especially ordinary workers and families who struggle to live in dignity in difficult economic times.”
Other faith leaders have called the budget “cruel,” “an immoral disaster,”and “profoundly
misreading Church teaching.”
”In a letter from the priests and staff of Catholic Georgetown University written in response to the Paul Ryan Budget reads:.
“We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few.”
The letter adds: “In short, your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

By: louElouE

louElouE — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:27:00 +0000

Ryan, a fiscal genius my azz.: “We haven’t.. I don’t want to get wonky on you, but, we haven’t run the numbers on that specific plan.“ Paul Ryan, the numbers guy, hasn’t run the numbers. He probably won’t run the numbers any time soon either. Doing so could prove that he’s a fraud. You’ll just have to trust him when he says he can balance the budget while also annihilating the tax base. It’s Tax Cut Magic. Paul Ryan’s biggest asset, which he did not disclose until he was vetted by the Romney Campaign, was inherited.
In other words — he didn’t build that. He had help. Despite the repeated mantra from the RomneyRyan campaign that “hard-working Americans are what create jobs, not govern-ment,” Paul Ryan’s family business — for whom he briefly worked as a “marketing consultant” — was built in large part on government contracts. Salon reports Ryan Incorporated Central began in 1884 doing government- subsidized railroad construction, then moved into building federal interstate highways, and helped build O’Hare Airport. Ryan Incorporated Central” has had at least 22 defense contracts with the federal government since 1996, including one from 1996 worth $5.6 million. … Mr. Anti-Spending secured millions in earmarks for his home state of Wisconsin, including, among other things, $3.3 million for highway projects. And Ryan voted to preserve $40 billion in special subsidies for big oil, an industry in which, it so happens, Ryan and his wife hold ownership stakes.
Romney/Ryan Rommunism: eliminate ALL taxes on capital gains and dividends, the estate tax, and the gift tax. (the main sources of income for the wealthy), raise taxes on the working middle class, lower taxes for the wealthiest, gift wrap Social Security and deliver it on a silver platter to Wall St., and give grandma a $5,000 voucher for her $20,000 hip replacement.
Despite the hardship in his district, Ryan voted against extending unemployment benefits in November on the pretext that it would add more than “one dime to the deficit.”
Notice how republicans aren’t talking about class warfare and redistribution of wealth anymore?….they are too busy orchestrating it themselves.
Where did Paul Ryan develop his “fiscal genius”? From what experience? From what education? Ryan majored in economics and political science at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio. Not exactly Ivy League. He allowed taxpayers to buy his college education for him, even though his family was wealthy.
After his sophomore year he flipped burgers at McDonald’s. He worked summers as a salesman for Oscar Mayer. In his early years working on Capitol Hill, Ryan supplemented his income by working as a waiter, as a fitness trainer and at various other side jobs.
In 1997 Ryan returned to Wisconsin and worked for his relatives’ construction company,
“Incorporated Central”, as a marketing consultant (?) for a year.
His entire career – after his free college education – has been in Congress where our money covers his paychecks, healthcare, retirement, etc.
In 13 years in the U.S. Senate, Paul Ryan passed just two bills into law: 1. Named a post office, 2. Changed the excise tax on (get this!) hunting arrows!
And his hero is a Russian woman who did not believe in God or that the family has any importance in society…Are those new Tea Party values? This guy is a complete phony. He preaches fiscal conservatism to the public and then grabs all the taxpayer cash he can when he thinks no one is paying attention.