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applegrove

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Sat Sep 29, 2012, 10:43 PM Sep 2012

"Mitt Romney's Real Agenda" by: Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone

Mitt Romney's Real Agenda

by: Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mitt-romneys-real-agenda-20120928?print=true

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SLASH GOVERNMENT

Under the Ryan blueprint approved by the House and voted for by 40 GOP senators, government spending on everything that's not Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – NASA, highways, education, you name it – would be cut in half by 2022 and nearly in half again by 2050, until it stands at just 3.5 percent of the economy. As the Congressional Budget Service notes, such spending levels would be unprecedented in modern times: Since World War II, the government's discretionary spending has never fallen below eight percent of GDP.

If signed into law by President Romney, the Ryan budget would slash spending on college tuition grants by 42 percent next year and kick 1 million students out of the program. It would also gut funding for public schools, food and drug safety, basic science research, law enforcement and low-income housing. The cuts to food stamps alone would total $134 billion over the next decade. Ripping Ryan for trying to cloak his budget in Catholic doctrine, priests and faculty from Georgetown University wrote, "Your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the gospel of Jesus Christ." There is one place, however, where Republicans want to increase spending: Under the most recent Ryan budget, the Pentagon would receive an extra $29 billion a year, reversing Obama's modest efforts to slow the growth of defense spending. Where would the extra cash come from? In May, the House approved a Ryan bill to replace automatic cuts to the Pentagon under the debt-ceiling agreement with $261 billion in cuts to the federal safety net. The measure would deny food stamps to 1.8 million Americans, leave 280,000 kids without school lunches and cut off health care to 300,000 poor children.


DESTROY HEALTH CARE

Republicans in the House have voted more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare – a move that would deplete the Medicare trust fund eight years early, kick 6.6 million young adults off their parents' health insurance, cost seniors $700 more on average for prescription drugs, and make it legal once again for insurance companies to charge women more than men and to rescind policies when people get sick. At the same time, repealing Obamacare would provide a massive giveback to the rich, handing over nearly $400 billion in tax revenues to those who earn above $250,000 a year.

To further boost the profits of insurance companies, the House passed a Ryan plan to voucherize Medicare, subjecting seniors to the whims of the private market. In the first year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost to seniors would more than double, to $12,500 – and taxpayers would not save a dime, as private insurers pocketed the money. By 2050, as inflation took its toll, buying a policy as good as present-day Medicare would cost an 85-year-old more than $50,000. The Ryan plan would also eviscerate Medicaid by turning federal contributions to the program into lump-sum "block grants" that states can administer as they see fit. The trouble is that the grants, like Medicare vouchers, won't keep pace with soaring health care costs. In the first decade alone, the plan would bilk states out of $810 billion and deny health care to 30 million poor children, disabled Americans and seniors.

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"Mitt Romney's Real Agenda" by: Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2012 OP
romney, ryan and republicans a three pronged pitchfork poised to pierce iemitsu Sep 2012 #1
Romney the Anti-Christ DemoHawk Sep 2012 #2

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
1. romney, ryan and republicans a three pronged pitchfork poised to pierce
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:02 PM
Sep 2012

our democracy's heart.
they must be stopped.
the polls suggest that obama will win re-election but i don't trust the republicans one little bit.
they will steal this election if they can.
we will be told that all those who said they were voting for obama are closet racists, who in the secrecy of the ballot box cast their votes for romney.
that all the polls were skewed.
that the media is liberal.
and if they can't pull that off they will set about working on state houses to undermine the system. they will continue to resist any plan put forth by obama or democrats try to do to revive the economy. they will continue to privatize the public purse.
and in four years we will have a much more slick candidate running for office to oversee the dismantling of america.
the actions of the uber-rich and their lackeys the republicans are the best argument for redistribution of wealth. if they didn't have so much they couldn't buy the government.

 

DemoHawk

(14 posts)
2. Romney the Anti-Christ
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 05:19 PM
Sep 2012

In the Bible, there is the Satanic Trinity of The Whore of Babylon, The False Prophet, and The Antichrist.

It seems somewhat plausible to me that these individuals might possibly be Ayn Rand, Mitt Romney, and Paul Ryan.

Rand clearly fits as a possible Whore of Babylon. She was a disturbed psychotic, a true sociopath, drug addict, and Satanist. Her "philosophy" (basically that serial killers should run society) is now taken as some sort of disturbing gospel by millions of sociopaths that worship and admire her.

Enter Paul Ryan.......a like-minded sociopath that has openly admitted to basing his political career on the writings of Rand. His own "economic beliefs" are clearly taken from Rand's teachings, like "producers" (sociopathic serial killers) , "objectivism" (materialistic Satanic worship of money and power), and "the virtue of selfishness" (basic sociopath and Satanic life philosophy).......understand that Rand is considered the mother of modern day Satanism.

Ryan is running for Vice President of the United States, and he wants to implement an economic system based on the ideas of Rand (Satanism). Basically, eerily similar to what The Antichrist does in the Book of Revelation, through his 666 fascist economic dictatorship.

Then there is Willard Mittens "Mitt" Romney - A member of a religious cult, that is running for President of the United States, and that also clearly follows Rand's teachings.

Mormonism would be considered an Apostate religion, and a Mormon, a wolf in sheep's clothing, for stating that he is "Christian", since Mormonism isn't Christianity, but is actually a false Apostate Christianity.

In the Bible, The False Prophet is described as a dragon that speaks as a lamb, basically, a person who has an anti-Christian religious belief (like Mormonism), but who pretends to be Christian (as Romney does).

We need to examine the scriptures more carefully, to examine this possibility, especially that Ayn Rand could be The Whore of Babylon.

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