'There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending $1T on tax cuts

[flpoljunkie]

Last edited Sat Aug 11, 2012, 11:15 AM - Edit history (1)

for millionaires and billionaires.' President Obama speaking at George Washington University eight days after Ryan unveiled his 2012 budget, and with Ryan sitting in the audience at Obama's invitation!

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/obama-plan-would-trim-4-trillion-in-12-years-while-sustaining-american-values.php

“There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires,” Obama said, referring to budget proposals House Republicans are championing. “There’s nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.”

The speech comes eight days after Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his 2012 budget, which would include abolishing Medicare and replacing it with vouchers.

[Skinner]

1. Good find.

[Ebadlun]

2. Ryan's supposed to be this ideological heavyweight

and he can't even add up.

[CBHagman]

4. I know. The media keeps gushing that he's an ideas man...

...and they huff that at least he has some ideas -- yeah, but they're cockamamie ideas, and often cruel ideas.

Time for Nuns on the Bus to hit the road again, methinks.

[Cosmocat]

5. It is the SAME gosh darn BS packaged around a flip haircut

He looks good, that is it.

He is a lightweight who they have used to ONCE AGAIN repackage their BS to try to get the country to vote against its best interests.

[CBHagman]

6. Like we'll look into those blue eyes and say, "Gosh, darn it, those Kardashians need...

...a big, fat tax cut. We don't want to punish success."

In a country where the U.S. military runs free dental and medical clinics in underserved areas of the South, yeah, putting the squeeze on those relying on Medicaid and food stamps is precisely what the country needs.


[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/09/military-stop-brings-health-care-to-rural-alabama/[/url]

The doctoring Wednesday was part of a military program to provide free health care in poor areas of the South and whose latest mission came to one of Alabama's most impoverished regions, where the teams have treated more than 12,000 people in less than two weeks. The work helps fill a gap in an area with few doctors and a multitude of medical problems, many of them linked to the obesity that is rampant in the state.

(SNIP)

Jim Byard, director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, said calling in the military isn't the long-term solution to improving health care in Alabama's Black Belt, an impoverished, aging region named for its dark soil and beset by poor nutrition and high obesity rates.

"But it is a Band-Aid that's helping," said Byard. As he spoke, a reservist checked a woman's blood pressure in the municipal courtroom.

[Cosmocat]

7. In their bubble

that is how they think it will work.

Time for the people in this country to pay attention and vote up or down on the republican bullshit.

[CrispyQ]

3. Somehow that needs to be made into a bumper sticker.

[flpoljunkie]

8. Yes. Don't whine about the deficit then propose budget busting tax cuts for billionaires!