(D)ude: Man! Congressman Paul Ryan’s House Budget for fiscal
year 2015 The Path to Prosperity is written
so poorly that as a registered American voter, I feel obligated to cast my
ballot in the primary elections in Tarrant County on Tuesday, May 27, 2014 and
the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 for the sake of generations
before and after ours.
(M)an: Dude! The Path
to Prosperity for fiscal year 2015 by the House Budget Committee is a
chaotic mess of an embarrassment. Mr. Smith went to Washington, but Paul Ryan
and the Congressional Republicans should be nowhere near Capitol Hill and the
White House! Their presence alone depreciates the collective intelligence in
any and every room.
D: Man! My great aunt used to sing a tune about a couple
that decided to save some cents by hiring a nanny who made no sense and ended
up with children who only knew nonsense. I feel like I have been subjected to
the same kind of intellectual risks after reading through Congressman Ryan’s puerile
outbursts.
M: Dude! Does Paul Ryan have anything other than a sterile
wasteland upstairs?
D: Man! Badlands? Could be. However, I suspect Paul Ryan to
be more cunning.
M: Dude! What? Machiavellian? Paul Ryan or the Koch
Brothers?
D: Man! I was thinking more along the lines of ‘Sharia
compliant finance’ or Islamic banking and the Republican Tea GOP today. Did you
know that under the principles of Sharia law, interest and usury particularly are
prohibited?
M: Dude! Then I would have to suspect Tony Blair and George
Walker Bush as connivers and suspects in such a loophole, given the looting of
the oil infrastructures in Iraq during the Blair and Bush years. What can we do
besides vote and commit to voting regularly and religiously for the Democratic
Ticket?
D: Man! Paul Ryan’s House Budget Committee’s The Path is outrageously horrible,
brutal, awful, bad, foolish, offensive, and shameful. Pages 9 and 10 read like
a botched case of plagiarism where the offenders basically turned against each
other despite being assigned to the very same group,
The President’s
budget never balances—ever. Instead, it allows our debt to spiral out of
control. If the last five years are any indication, that simply won’t work. And
if we don’t change course soon, both the budget and the economy will continue
to decline. What the country really needs is an alternative. The administration
has bottled up the forces of innovation and free enterprise; we need to
invigorate them. We need a plan that will provide for the nation’s needs, that
will allow families and job creators to rebuild the economy, and that will
finally balance the budget.
…la, la, la…
The Path to
Prosperity balances the budget by tackling the drivers of our debt: autopilot
spending and interest payments.
…la, la, la…
Our corporate tax
rate is the highest in the industrialized world, and the tax code is full of
loopholes and deductions that serve only the well-connected. Independent
economists agree that a plan to lower rates and broaden the base would spur
economic growth. There are a number of good tax-reform proposals. Although the
Path to Prosperity does not embrace any particular proposal, it calls for a tax
code that is simpler, fairer, and more competitive.
…la, la, la…
M: Dude! Page 18 brings out the worst in the Congressional
Republicans regarding the obstructionist policies that they have been trying to
shove upon US constituents because of our twice popularly elected Commander In
Chief having been able to actually utilize all economic models, including
trickle down Reaganomics, to restructure an impossibly collapsed system of enterprise
in the United States, lest we forget the recession, auto bailout, and resuscitation
of Wall Street. And now the ineffectual Congressional Republicans under the
leadership of the worked-up Paul Ryan are dismissing the President of the
United States as practicing crony capitalism or corporate welfare.
Surprisingly, the President only maneuvered and remedied the crises left behind
by the previous administration. Additionally, the President also has the mettle,
marriage, and resulting self-confidence to not fall into the traps laid before
President Clinton like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. Instead,
President Obama has fought and won the American people the opportunity to
affordable healthcare, which states run by Republican governors and
legislatures today have obstructed too through blocking Medicaid Expansion and
delaying the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Although the U.S.
economy technically emerged from recession nearly five years ago, the
subsequent recovery has been subpar.
D: Man! The top 2 percent did not allow for the trickling
down of anything substantial to US remaining 98 percent! And I suspect that the
President did not foresee such avarice on the part of the 2 percent of Americans
at the top towards those at the bottom rung of society, lest the 2 percent
forget the middle class and those even closer towards them but still
struggling!
M: Dude! From page 31 and onwards, the emphasis for change
is insincere and superficial and just as dubious as the top 2 percent in the
United States were when the President applied the trickle down effect mechanics
and the rich got richer while the rest of US were deemed responsible for our bleak
circumstances, hence, undeserving of the historic social safety net structures
that remain in place thanks to the fervor and ethics of the Democratic Party
and are our last hope for support and upward mobility,
It recommends paring
back spending in areas of duplication and non-core functions, such as applied
and commercial research and development projects best left to the private
sector. The budget aims to roll back such federal intervention and
corporate-welfare spending across the energy sectors.
D: Man! Duplication appears to be the buzzword for the
Congressional Republicans, page 33 mentions it as well,
The budget
resolution recognizes the importance of Function 300 activities—which include
water-resources, conservation, environmental, land-management, and recreational
programs—but bigger government has not led to better government, and the
increase in spending in this function has only invited mismanagement and
duplication.
M: Dude! What about the environmental disasters taking place
across the United States, thanks in part to the private sector not coming under
the pressure of government regulators, like Duke Energy’s coal ash spills and
North Carolina Republican Governor Pat McCrory, or Exxon Mobil’s oil mishaps in
the Gulf of Mexico and Texas GOP Governor Rick Perry, Louisiana GOP Governor
Bobby Jindal, Mississippi GOP Governor Phil Bryant, Alabama GOP Governor Robert
J. Bentley, and Florida GOP Governor Rick Scott?
D: Man! Not only is there an issue of the Republican Party
leadership’s dissatisfaction with the Obama Administration concerning
transparency, the Republican Party itself refuses to embrace transparency
itself. Instead, the Republican Tea GOP masquerades as if nobody really cares
to keep a tally on their vast range of lies and public blunderings. Like Speaker
of the House John Boehner, for example, insisting no need to protect the
American people from disasters like the chemical spill in West Virginia that
left residents without clean water for over five days,
The issue is this:
We have enough regulations on the books. And what the administration ought to
be doing is actually doing their jobs. Why wasn’t this plant inspected since
1991? I am entirely confident that there are ample regulations already on the
books to protect the health and safety of the American people. Somebody ought
to be held accountable here. What we try to do is look at those regulations
that we think are cumbersome, are over the top, and that are costing the
economy jobs. That’s where our focus continues to be.
M: Dude! It’s a really fascinating phenomenon, how the
Republican Tea GOP leaders chew grits but spit out tobacco. Or, they chew gum
but spit out the foil from those chocolate Cadbury Easter eggs.
D: Man! What’s going on?
M: Dude! The bottom line is that the Republican Tea GOP
Budget would enforce coffee magnate Starbucks to place its cold coffee plus
milk drinks into plastic bottles built for hairspray essentially, despite the dairy
industry’s utilization of recyclable cartons and plastic jugs for the
transportation of milk of all sorts, from buttermilk to eggnog to just plain
basic whole milk or the percentages blends.
D: Man! No! No?
M: Dude! Paul Ryan went from this on March 12, 2014,
We have got this
tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and
just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning to value
the culture of work, so there is a real culture problem here that has to be
dealt with.
To this on March 19, 2014,
There was nothing
whatsoever about race in my comments at all. It had nothing to do with race.
D: Man! Someone save the Republican Tea GOP from itself! God
save US from the Republican Tea GOP! Do you think the top 2 percent that
comprise of the wealthiest in our country have a questionable palette as well?
M: Dude! The American Press gets roasted every evening by
its’ designated oligarch. Whether it is Charles Koch or his brother David Koch,
or Sheldon Adelson, et al and et cetera, there are spit rotisserie poultry remains
for quacksalver sharks.
