Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will disappear after the November elections; similar to Sen. John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Mr. Ryan’s Cramped Vision

Published: August 11, 2012 Comment -- Source

Mitt Romney’s safe and squishy campaign just took on a much harder edge. A candidate of no details — I’ll cut the budget but no need to explain just how — has named a vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, whose vision is filled with endless columns of minus signs. Voters will now be able to see with painful clarity just what the Republican Party has in store for them.

As House Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has drawn a blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need it the most. It will not be there when the unemployed need job training, or when a struggling student needs help to get into college. It will not be there when a miner needs more than a hardhat for protection, or when a city is unable to replace a crumbling bridge.

And it will be silent when the elderly cannot keep up with the costs of M.R.I.’s or prescription medicines, or when the poor and uninsured become increasingly sick through lack of preventive care.

More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations.

Mr. Ryan’s budget “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment,” the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. “These cuts are unjustified and wrong.”

Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government. And yet he has failed to explain how he would make them self-sufficient — how, in fact, a radical transformation of government would magically turn around an economy that is starving for assistance. At a time when state and local government layoffs are the principal factor in unemployment, the Ryan budget would cut aid to desperate governments by at least 20 percent, far below historical levels, on top of other cuts to mass transit and highway spending.

Those are the kinds of reductions voters of all income levels would actually feel. People might nod their heads at Mr. Romney’s nostrums of smaller government, but they are likely to feel quite different when they realize Mr. Ryan plans to take away their new sewage treatment plant, the asphalt for their streets, and the replacements for retiring police officers and firefighters.

All of this will be accompanied, of course, by even greater tax giveaways to the rich, and extravagant benefits to powerful military contractors. Business leaders will be granted their wish for severely diminished watchdogs over the environment, mine safety and food quality.

Mr. Romney had already praised the Ryan budget as “excellent work,” but until Saturday the deliberate ambiguity of his own plans gave him a little room for distance, an opportunity to sketch out a more humane vision of government’s role. By putting Mr. Ryan’s callousness on his ticket, he may have lost that chance.

This is good news for the democrats. Us 99%er need not to support the 1%er. Let them pay their fair share of taxes.

Tell dat to Lindeners and it gun be Mo Fiah Slo Fiah.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan ticket is a done deal. They must now work to win the hearts and minds of the American voters. Obama is leading with seven points but the August convention will give them a boost to defeat Obama.

They will lose the election.  Ryan could solidify the constituency for Romney which was never for Obama anyway.  His choice will push many middle-of the road and elderly, who were unsure, into the Obama camp.

I don't see what Ryan brings to the table that will turn things around for Romney.  All he did was solidify the TEA base.

A party always gets a boost after the presidential nomination convention.

Correct.

I tend to agree, but losing is not an option here. It's still early to make that assumption. However, I believe the campaign will heat up and make way for Romney/Ryan. America is facing some tough choices that Obama has not addressed in the past four years. 

At least with these two then people of color know what they will get.  Alot of nothings.  Unlike Obama where colored people get alot of hurt together with alot of nothings.  I can't wait for Obama to pack his suitcase and leave.

I am still trying to figure out the difference between Obama's Presidency and the bucket used on Freddy.  Seems to me they are both filled with the same thing.

Lindeners are now coal producers. No need to worry about employment. There is no unemployment in Linden. They can now afford to pay their electicity bills.

No, it's not a "done deal". These two might get some extra votes if foolish white women swoon over them and go out in throngs to vote.

That will be in January 2017.

Obama definitely serving a second term.

After reading about the life of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist who was appointed by the Republicans.  I think I am going to stick with Obama in this next election.  Obama is a double talk/two face /smooth talking hustler and con man that we know. At least we know how he behaves.  With those Republicans we don't know what we are getting into.