Both gay and straight over the years have come up with a number of
different formulas to determine your 'drag name.' The most popular is
to take the name of your first pet and the first street you lived on.
Others have their ways of picking their 'drag name.' However, for
Congressman Paul Ryan, the cold hearted Republican budget cutter,
there can be no contest. Ryan would have to go to the costume ball as
the legendary Marie Antoinette, the symbol of an uncaring monarch for
centuries.
Not wanting to give Marie Antoinette a bum rap by hooking her legend
to that of the rather boring and bookish Ryan, it is nonetheless a
perfect match. The queen is best known for allegedly saying "Let them
eat cake." While that statement is now in dispute by scholars it has
lasted with the masses. For the purpose of dealing with Ryan - the
masses win because this Republican icon has released a budget for the
Republicans that literally could be known as the "Let Them Eat Cake
Budget."
The budget is so horrendous, a Catholic priest in the congressman's
Wisconsin district was quoted on ThinkProgress.com:
"As a constituent of Congressman Ryan and a Catholic priest, I'm
disappointed by his cruel budget plan and outraged that he defends it
on moral grounds. Ryan is Catholic, and he knows that justice for the
poor and economic fairness are core elements of our church's social
teaching. It's shameful that he disregarded these principles in his
budget."
What has Ryan proposed? According to Dana Milbank in a column for The
Washington Post, he will cut over $1.9 trillion (that is trillion not
billion) from the budget by cuts in such compassionate programs as
food stamps, welfare, federal employees pensions and support for
farmers. He would cut another $770 billion from Medicaid denying
healthcare to poor. Just to make sure that seniors suffer he would
also cut $205 billion from Medicare.
Fear not, this man does know how to give.....that is to the rich. His
budget is full of tax cuts and programs to make the rich richer. How
much does he think the aristocracy needs? Marie Antoinette Ryan gives
his/her buddies a whopping $4.3 TRILLION in tax cuts. Milbank's column
says it best:
Ryan's justification was straight out of Dickens. He wants to improve
the moral fiber of the poor. There is, he told the audience at the
conservative American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday, an
"insidious moral tipping point, and I think the president is
accelerating this." Too many Americans, he said, are receiving more
from the government than they pay in taxes.
After recalling his family's immigration from Ireland generations ago,
and his belief in the virtue of people who "pull themselves up by the
bootstraps," Ryan warned that a generous safety net "lulls able-bodied
people into lives of complacency and dependency, which drains them of
their very will and incentive to make the most of their lives. It's
demeaning."
How very kind: To protect poor Americans from being demeaned, Ryan is
cutting their anti-poverty programs and using the proceeds to give the
wealthiest Americans a six-figure tax cut.
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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