Pic Of The Moment: Responsible Government, GOP Style

[Blue Meany]

14. OK, so they want to expand government and spend more:

1) Paul Ryan's tax plan uses savings from Obamacare, which, of course, needed to be added to the budget.

2) Building the Keystone pipeline will require protection from an angry populace, federally financed infrastructure to get the pipeline in place and to maintain it, tax breaks for the owners for "creating" jobs along the route, and subsidized federal cleanup whenever there's a leak or anything goes wrong.

3) No regulation of polluter means that the government will pick up the tab for any cleanup, since the companies that cause it will file for bankruptcy to avoid accountability.

4) Ending Wall Street reforms means we will be bailing out Wall Street on a regular basis.

5) Means testing medicare will result in another expensive federal bureaucracy that will cost more than it saves.

But the global economy will get it if these demands are enacted, anyway.