Conservative confirms GOP agenda is slashing social programs and giving the savings to billionaires

[Scuba]

http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/evangelical-conservative-confirms-ryan-esque-gop-agenda-slashing

Evangelical conservative confirms Ryan-esque GOP agenda is slashing social programs and giving the savings to billionaires

Gary Bauer, an evangelical conservative with strong ties to fundamentalist religious organizations, let the cat out of the Republican Party bag the other day. In the process, Bauer effectively demolished just about everything that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) has said in his role both as House Budget Committee chair and former GOP vice presidential candidate.

Bauer: “If we gave our voters an accurate portrayal of our ideas, that we want to cut the rate of growth on Social Security, give tax cuts to billionaires and then the values issues, the values issues would be more popular than the economic agenda of the current Republican Party,” said Bauer, citing particularly those Mass-attending Roman Catholics who have fled the Democrats.

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Bauer now strongly alludes to what's really going on: The Republican hierarchy and many in its elected rank and file just want to redeploy the money now spent on retirees, the disabled, the injured and the sick -- giving it to rich people.

Much of that money, of course, was collected from prospective federal program recipeints through years of taxes; nevertheless, goes the GOP plan, take much or maybe even all of that money from those deserving Americans who were promised those beenfits, and give it to the uber-wealthy in the one percent -- and mostly just to the one percent of the one percenters.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Not really a "LIGHT IS SHED" revelation, but nice that one of them finally admits it.

Robin Hood Reversed: Because it's Worked SO Well for 32 Years, Why Stop Now?

[rhett o rick]

10. We should push a meme like "GOP - Robin Hood Reversed". See if it can go viral.

[HughBeaumont]

14. GOP = Grabbing Our Pocketbooks/Purses/Portfolios/Pensions.

[rhett o rick]

15. True but not very catchy. nm

[KansDem]

26. Maybe if it was...

GOPPPP (?)

[lastlib]

18. GOP: "Greedy Old Pervs"

"Groping Our Privates"

[aggiesal]

22. There was an expression used back in the late 1990's

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called [Font color=red]"Dooh Nibor"[/font] literally
Robin Hood spelled backwards.

I don't see it as much anymore, but if you Google it,
I'm sure you see the same definition.

[rhett o rick]

23. I am not looking for something cute or clever. I want to make the average Republican

be embarrassed about the goal of their party. Something crystal clear. "Repubs equal Reverse Robin Hood". "Reverse Robin Hood Republicans".

[aggiesal]

35. Healthcare not Wealthcare! n/t

[kenfrequed]

29. Yeah...

Definitely not news or anything. Wouldn't it be nice if the mainstream media actually did substantive coverage of policy proposals with numbers and facts?

[RKP5637]

2. ... perhaps the faithful are finally realizing religion

is being used as a tool to fully enable the Ayn Rand modus operandi to fully take away what little they have left while falsely believing the republicans of great wealth are thumping the bible with them.

[el_bryanto]

3. Interesting argument though - hes saying that the value issues are the winners

The values issues - abortion and gay marriage I guess - are what keep the rest of the Republican agenda afloat. I don't know if that's true.

Bryant

[Coyotl]

21. That is the part they seem to not get

These are the very issues that have turned them into a second-rate club of old, white men.

[HiPointDem]

41. actually not. you just run in different circles.

[Coyotl]

52. And, what single issue is most determinative of how people vote?

If you do calling to potential voters, the one single issue that can turn a voter away from a candidate fastest is women's rights. This is proven over and over again.

[HiPointDem]

53. got any links to such research (no snark, i'm interested).

[Coyotl]

54. Common knowledge among activists I know in PDX.

I would turn to NARAL for further info. I know it is a great way to do one-on-one phone banking, ask, "Did you know so-and-so opposes women's right to choose." It really takes away votes faster than any other single issue.

[HiPointDem]

55. 'common knowledge,' but I have to find the evidence on my own? not so common, then.

[Coyotl]

56. Common knowledge im my politico circle

and these are those who know.

[HiPointDem]

57. i'm sure you're in the kool kids klub but i'd still like to see some actual research.

[Coyotl]

58. The politicos are NOT the kool kids klub

Bunch of geeks and nerds who know how to win elections and get laws passed

[HiPointDem]

59. self-congratulatory condescending insider tone = klub password

[rucky]

42. Funny how helping the poor/sick/elderly aren't values to them. n/t

[mwb970]

47. They are too busy defending against the "War on Christians" to care about the poor. /nt

[Dustlawyer]

4. Most are in the 1% b/c they have been ruthless and uncaring their whole lives!

[Gman]

5. I'm not sure it wasn't an April Fools joke

A la Borowitz

But damn accurate. A dog bites man story.

[tclambert]

6. But if they steal every piece of the pie, they starve the people who make pie.

FSM knows the 1% don't actually MAKE anything or SERVE anyone. If they squeeze the 99% into starvation, who will produce the goods and services of the world? Then they won't have any pie to steal anymore. Extreme greed inevitably becomes self-destructive.

[Pakid]

7. No one ever claimed that the rich were smart

Just greedy

[rhett o rick]

12. In other words, they will kill the goose. nm

[rhett o rick]

13. It appears that they still have a way to go because the 99% havent made much of an objection. nm

[NewJeffCT]

16. They'll be dead by that time

so, they don't really care.

[n2doc]

17. Note the things they really do not want to cut are the Military and the Police

That will tell you what their contingency plan is, right there.

[subterranean]

32. There's still plenty of cheap foreign labor.

They don't need us. If American workers aren't willing to accept low wages and no benefits or job security, they'll move the jobs overseas or import cheaper, hungrier foreign workers. Countries like China and India also have a growing consumer class, so they can replace American consumers, at least for a while. There will still be pie for the 0.1 percent.

[HiPointDem]

44. they *are* replacing americans. as we speak. the big american corporations *already* make

a huge chunk of their profits overseas -- about 40% on average.

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2011/06/30/why-us-companies-arent-so-american-anymore

[mercymechap]

8. Nothing new to most of us

but, did Republican/conservatives catch on?

[hue]

9. piranhas!!

[NorthCarolina]

11. Damn, that's the same thing conservative Dems want to do.

Is there no originality left in DC?

[antigop]

31. Yep. It's not just the Republicans. nt

[Jerry442]

19. So, Bauer says if the R's admit their plan is to throw grandma under the bus....

...people won't like it.

The man is a genius.

[tiny elvis]

38. all PNAC neocons are genieoosices

[libdude]

20. No doubt about it

You would see very few if any of these professional religious ( paticuarily evangelical Christians ) people such as Bauer, Reed, and many others if there was not money involved. Millions of dollars are made from the gullible believers, fitting these charlatans with a life style of the maga-rich, feeding their egos being consulted as would be experts of what God has to say.
This is about power being given to people that could not gain it through any other avenue. They are tools of the oligarchs that seek to gain further control over the nations for their own advancement.
This is not an anti-religion perspective, I have the greatest respect for those that seek to follow their personal spiritual path, I have no respect for those that use religion for a way to make money, for self-advancement, for the pushing of an agenda that takes away the rights of others that being in the U. S. " life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ".

[Scuba]

25. Put your faith in one who seeks the truth ...

... and doubt any who claims to have found it.

Oh, and welcome to DU; I enjoyed your post.

[raouldukelives]

30. Oddly, they push the most anti-Christian agenda.

That is, if one were to consult the New Testament & the teachings of Jesus and compare it to the efforts of Wall St and corporate politicians, it would be an 180 degree switch.
When one pauses to consider what they truly have stood for the last 40 odd years it almost seems they go out of their way to defile every commandment and give the religion a very bad name in the eyes of the world.
They loudly proclaim themselves the most Christian while breaking every vow they have taken. They bear false witness M-F 9-5. They destroy Eden with deforestation, acidification of the oceans and wars for oil. The seven deadly sins personified, if not in every thought, at least in every action.
Considering that only a Christian can commit the worst sin. Using the word of God for your own selfish ends, only a Christian can be anti-Christian. Which they are, in every sense of the word.
If I was on the lookout for wolves in sheep's clothing, I wouldn't have to look far in America.

[Initech]

24. Reverse Robin Hoods. Fucking criminals.

[datasuspect]

27. they are counting on people to remain stupid

they make money from that

[woo me with science]

28. Yeah, it's only the GOP

[Martin Eden]

33. CLASS WARFARE and REDISTRIBUTION of wealth

They scream it every time someone suggests making the tax code a little more progressive, but in truth THEY are the ones waging -- and winning -- classs warfare, and THEY are the ones redistributing wealth -- upwards

[Scuba]

34. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[mbuch64]

36. Let's be honest

and label these people for what they really are.
They are fascist.

[sakabatou]

37. Not surprised

[Jamaal510]

39. And wedge issues

are the GOP's best friend in keeping this agenda afloat. While the Big 3 are popular even among Republicans, many of them will neglect their party's desire to cut them, just because they have paranoid fantasies about tyrannical government takeovers or the "gay mafia" magically turning everyone gay, or "those people" stealing their money.

[blkmusclmachine]

40. "Money, money, money. It's a rich man's world."

[HiPointDem]

43. i can't find where he said that or who he said it to.

[Scuba]

45. ...

Bauer: “If we gave our voters an accurate portrayal of our ideas, that we want to cut the rate of growth on Social Security, give tax cuts to billionaires ...

[HiPointDem]

46. in what venue did he say it and to what audience? i can't find that information.

[Scuba]

48. Reported per links below, but neither mentions venue.

http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/gary-bauer-reveals-gop-economic-agenda-

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/social-conservatives-fight-back-89501_Page2.html

[HiPointDem]

51. yes, i've found lots of links, but no context.

[OldDem2012]

49. Why does this long-standing 1% policy need confirming? nt.

[ReRe]

50. Something more HAS to be going on in this scenario

Does it seem plausible that Republicans just love to kowtow to the 1%ers JUST to get reelected? Are their narcissistic egos totally responsible for their behavior? Or is something else more sinister involved here? Like unaccounted-for kickbacks or promises of revolving door positions whenever they get tired of the Congress and want something more, or a combination of both? Avarice and greed are definitely at the bottom of it all, there can be no doubt about it. Do they get a kickback/bonus every time they open their mouths in front of a camera and do the 1%'s bidding? Just wondering. Would be interesting to see some serious investigative journalism (more than just a scratch-the-surface article) on this subject. Someone like Jane Mayer or Seymour Hersh.