Man! Dude! Session #277

(M)an: Dude! Do you understand the mechanics of launching United States military satellites? Apparently, there are two launch systems that were devised in the nineties in order to bring down the cost of space enterprise by the federal government. The first family of launch vehicles was the Boeing Company’s Delta IV system, while Lockheed Martin’s Atlas V system comprised the other half. Today, the two programs have merged into the United Launch Alliance.  

(D)ude: Man! No. But I totally get the combination of humor and pathos in Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin’s suggestion that NASA utilize a trampoline in order to send astronauts to space. Personally, I feel the same way about Republican Party proponents, particularly Wisconsinite Republican Representative Paul Ryan, the budgetary clunker with plans to basically whistle through his nostrils until 2016.     

M: Dude! I like and can appreciate the trampoline comment, but whistling through one’s nostrils for 2 additional years like Congressman Paul Ryan has set off to do so with the 2015 version of what I consider to be better quipped as The Path To A Preposterous Posterity, is sneaky and cunning only because the American Press chooses to take Paul Ryan seriously and streetwise. Impolite bigotry is being practiced and adopted by the whole slew of shrews, from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown, to Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels and Paula Deen and Donald Sterling.

D: Man! I was reading up on income inequality metrics and suspect that Representative Paul Ryan cannot differentiate inequality from poverty and fairness. I mean, forget the indices and the ratios that comprise income inequality metrics, Paul Ryan can’t even deliver a completed budget proposal. This is what he had to report on page 6 of the House Budget Committee’s April 2014 printing of FY 2015 Budget Resolution that runs the length of 99 pages that could easily have been reduced in font and length to not look so sophomoric and delinquent,

Strengthen the Safety Net

This budget applies the lessons of welfare reform to other federal-aid programs. It gives those closest to the people better tools so they can root out waste, fraud, and abuse. Finally, it empowers recipients to get off the aid rolls and back on the payroll. By enlisting states in the fight against poverty, this budget builds a partnership between the federal government and our communities. Although this budget does not lay out a full welfare-reform plan, it takes steps toward reforming these programs to encourage work, to increase economic growth and jobs, and to preserve the safety net.

M: Dude! Paul Ryan and the Congressional Republicans have the audacity to mope and  then come out with a plan without any concrete specifics! My goodness! I wish I had kept my elementary school evaluations and report cards. This is a very unsatisfactory blueprint and is in need of revisions! I give it an F for failure.

D: Man! The House Budget Committee’s inadequacies are thoroughly spelled out on every page of Paul Ryan’s budget. Exactly who are those closest to the people?

M: Dude! Paul Ryan doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He is an incongruent hooded mongrel. This is also from page 6 of Paul Ryan’s FY 2015 Budget Resolution,

Expand Opportunity

Though not sufficient by themselves, federal policies can help foster a stronger economy. This budget seeks to equip Americans with the skills they need in the 21^st-century economy and to create jobs through long-overdue tax reform. Both reforms work off the same principle: The American people know their needs better than bureaucrats thousands of miles away.

D: Man! How about Paul Ryan equipping himself and the Congressional Republicans with the basics of government and the realization that the crux for their trips to and from Washington, DC is their constituents’ needs and welfare, not flaunting their benefactors’ egos and obstructing justice because of the chance to indulge in the underground economies of Koch and Adelson and such benefactors. Fools like Paul Ryan and Chris Christie actually think highly of themselves, although they’re not even worth cat litter for their respective oligarchs. The Congressional Republicans are disposable and despicable and disreputable doctrinaires.      

M: Dude! On page 25 of Paul Ryan’s FY 2015 Budget Resolution, the Congressional Republican leadership leaps out like the nightmarish monstrosities that inhabit the fantasy world underneath a child’s bed throughout the duration of a sleepless night,

Eliminate Contributions to Clean Technology Fund and Strategic Climate Fund. The Clean Technology and Strategic Climate Funds were created by the Obama administration in 2010. They provide foreign assistance to support energy-efficient technologies intended to reduce energy use and mitigate climate change. Given the record-high levels of deficits, the explosive growth in U.S. government debt, and the heavy reliance on foreign financing, the federal government should not attempt to pick winners and losers in terms of which technologies and companies to favor and advance abroad. Therefore, the budget assumes elimination of both programs. 

D: Man! The United States Republican Tea GOP picks winners and losers clearly on page 10 of Paul Ryan’s FY 2015 Budget Resolution fiasco,

It [The Path to Prosperity] also calls for greater energy development. It’s not surprising that the state with the lowest unemployment rate—2.6 percent—is North Dakota, where an energy boom has lifted the state economy. Today, a reinvigorated oil and gas industry is creating many new jobs—and they are good-paying jobs. The average wage in the oil and gas sector is over $92,000 a year. The Path to Prosperity builds on this success by opening more federal lands to energy development, so more families can share this opportunity.

M: Dude! It’s a really mean-spirited lie that Paul Ryan and the Congressional Republicans attempt to fool their own backwoods relatives across the United States with, this promise of making anywhere near $92,000 a year for themselves and their children. Guys like US need to get our heads out of the clouds and begin to demand a living wage for our brothers and sisters and tell the Republican Tea GOP that it is time for $10.10 an hour! Goodness! Do you know that even $10.10 does not sufficiently meet the level where minimum wage ought to be today if everything were adjusted for inflation?

D: Man! Yeah! The minimum wage ought to be $10.86 an hour when adjusted for inflation. And yet Texas Senator John Cornyn selfishly thinks that,

This is about trying to make this [Republican] side of the aisle look bad and hard-hearted, and to try to rescue this midterm election. 

M: Dude! Senator John Cornyn is utilizing the 2010 Indiana Senate Race strategy set into motion by then United States Senator from Indiana Evan Bayh to win the 2014 Texas Senate Race himself in a duplicitous fashion November 4^th.

D: Man! Senator Bayh announced he would not seek reelection during the November 2, 2010 midterm election the day before the deadline for filing for the primary, therefore not providing the Democratic Party in Indiana ample time to select a strong contender for that senate election. Plus, the retired Indiana Senator and Republican Party member Dan Coats decided to reengage in the race for Bayh’s senate seat, which most likely prompted Bayh’s abrupt retirement.

M: Dude! Bayh’s an abrupt personality and Democrat. He enjoyed an 80% approval rating as Governor of Indiana, during which time he oversaw the state’s largest single tax cut and largest budget surplus. However, Bayh has also managed a career as a Faux News contributor since 2011, the year he joined the board of directors of two companies, dealing in plastics at one and with oil at the other.

D: Man! Texas Democrats still got plenty of time to vote for David Alameel over LaRouche Activist Kesha Rogers. The runoff election between Alameel and Rogers is scheduled for Tuesday, May 27, 2014, approximately three weeks from now.

M: Dude! Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont emphasizes the need for people to turnout and vote, especially November 4, 2014. Sixty percent of the electorate does not vote, but if and when it does vote, Paul Ryan and the Congressional Republicans will wilt. Remember, the rate of loss of water from a plant is greater than the absorption of water by the plant. And the Republican Tea GOP is dehydrating rapidly with rancor.