Man! Dude! Session #131

(M)an: Dude! Do you seriously think Wisconsinite Representative and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan actually read Ayn Rand?

(D)ude: Man! What? Have you found evidence to the contrary?

M: Dude! Yeah. Right here. Look.

D: Man! Tom Hopkins’ How To Master The Art Of Selling… Who’s Tom Hopkins?

M: Dude! Tom Hopkins is the preeminent sales guru and author of instant classics that delineate the basics as well as the specifics of selling just about anything and everything. Representative Paul Ryan even adopted the exact green cover of the paperback edition of the revised 2005 version published by Time Warner.

D: Man! So this is the book whose precepts and concepts Paul Ryan’s plagiarized into an unworkable budget proposal campaign?

M: Dude! Hopkins lays out the blueprints carefully aimed at those starting their journeying into sales. However, Paul Ryan believes that those exact same steps, which he could afford to take at the time he discovered Tom Hopkins’ brilliance and surefire ways to success at getting any point across to the toughest critics, can be embraced by those living in poverty in the United States.

D: Man! Paul Ryan’s taking the exact same shade of green as Tom Hopkins’ classic, which Representative Ryan took from exhaustively without any acknowledgement anywhere in the endless nonsense that is The Path To Posterity, is reflective of the current Republican Party. The Republican Party is erroneously focused on driving the debt down rapidly! Huh?

M: Dude! The Path To Posterity is for their own children’s futures, not our children’s day-to-day survival. Listen to this line from the Paul Ryan Budget page 37 on Repairing The Social Safety Net: The strains that many of these well-intentioned programs have placed on the nation have reached a breaking point. Of course, Paul Ryan is referring to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that is food stamps, which makes me think about Texas Governor Rick Perry’s insistence that he will not accept the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

D: Man! Let’s practice The Purchase Path as laid out on page 29 of Tom Hopkins’ paperback. I’ll start. Greetings, Mister XY, how are you enjoying the weather outside.

M: Dude! Let’s see. Greetings, Mister YX, the weather is beautiful. What would you like to discuss with me?

D: Man! I’m supposedly to answer your question and then question you! Then you do the same. I then respond to the question. You then answer with an objection. Then I respond and question. Then… It gets really into the crux of the encounter with your objection to which I respond with an attempt at closing the deal.

M: Dude! You just listed the parts at play without a serious exemplary performance!

D: Man! You were the prospective buyer and I was the salesperson in the same mode Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor adopt whenever they are asked about their Tea Party motives.

M: Dude! The record high profits corporations are enjoying on the backs of the working and middle classers is evident on Wall Street, yet Paul Ryan persists on page 5 of his budget proposal that it will bring the size of government to twenty percent of economy by 2015, allowing the private sector to grow and create jobs.

D: Man! Paul Ryan announced with vigor how a new issue of The Path To Posterity would be made available this Tuesday, but all the pages of the proposal in your hands are marked March 20, 2012. Paul Ryan is making US mark the first anniversary of his entangled budget proposal. Huh? Didn’t Paul Ryan lose the vice presidency alongside Mitt Romney’s presidential undoing?

M: Dude! The private sector is the job creator in Paul Ryan’s bleak vision. It reminds me of Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Did you know that Jong-un attended private school in Switzerland? How convenient for Kim Jong-il to have placed his sons in Europe. A lot like the foreign bank accounts and the Cayman Island meetings of the world’s richest roosters, is it not? Are these cuckolds not the drivers of debt via pocketing national defense spending?

D: Man! This whole campaign of addressing the so-called drivers of debt by the Republican Party is not addressing the issue, only worsening the economy where it hurts the most Americans: tearing apart the social safety nets and totally bypassing any discussion about jobs. Did you know the Texas Republican Party is going after Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, an active Democrat?

M: Dude! The Texas GOP website is featuring a special giveaway of an AR-15 Rifle by one of its bloggers, an African-American male extremist by the name Kevin Jackson. And, get this, there is a lieutenant governor candidate named Jerry Patterson whose advertisement posters for 2014 have him firing a handgun while standing in front of an American flag with the subheading “Get Fired Up”… Is this not an attempt at provoking a response through provocation?

D: Man! Paul Ryan’s budget never budges with the changing times. Despite President Obama’s Administration outlining their policies on the official White House website, Texas Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have a ticking clock indicating that it has been one thousand and sixteen days and nine hours and so and so minutes and seconds that there has been no budget from the Democrats. That is a false accusation.

M: Dude! Paul Ryan and the Republican Party want to add an additional $554 billion dollars to national defense spending in the next fiscal year. I would like to see where the over trillion dollar spending under the George W. Bush and Dick Cheney Administration for the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was spread throughout the years that cost US our sons and daughters in uniform.

D: Man! Wouldn’t the Defense Contractors hired by the George W. and Cheney Administration be a part of that critical analysis? Let’s not forget then-Secretary Clinton and now-Secretary Kerry spelling out that we need to regroup and hire the best Defense Contractors after the Benghazi tragedy.

M: Dude! Government bureaucrats that Paul Ryan is so adamant about keeping out of the way of the United States private sector, the obvious job creators in the Republican mindset, were the hallmarks of the Eisenhower Administration. Essentially, the Paul Ryan Budget wants to eliminate the middle class phenomena in favor of elitists reigning above a fractured class of Americans who will have under twenty-first century Republicanism suffered parallel damages as the country’s economy.

D: Man! We voted for President Obama and Vice President Biden to lead this country forward. Why can’t the Republican Caucus allow them to govern as President Obama has expressed in wake of the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday?