Paul Ryan's Honest Admission

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Tue Apr 05, 2011 at 12:57 PM PDT
Paul Ryan's Honest Admission
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Paul "Saving Medicare by Privatizing it" Ryan said this morning:

This is not a budget, this is a cause….

SNIP

...The Republicans are fond of comparing the federal budget to the budgets of the average American household, so okay. I’ll play.

If my wife and I were to fashion our household budget in the same manner as the recently proposed radical Republican state and federal budgets, it might look something like this:

Expenses:
25% of take home pay for gasoline.
25% for private, religious school for children.
25% for guns, bullets, and burglar alarms.
15% for fences.
8% for prescription drugs.
1% for retirement.
0.5% for long-term medical care.
0.5% for food, clothing, shelter, police and fire protection, and entertainment.

Revenues:
90% from garage sales, couch cushions, selling plasma, aluminum cans, and sending our children out to beg.
9% from four part-time jobs.
1% from rich uncle...

Remember those words: “This is not a budget, this is a cause….”

Not yet, but if it would ever get passed, it would be a cause. It would be a cause of unemployment. It would be a cause of disease and premature deaths. It would be a cause of misery, poverty, crime, and class warfare.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/05/963731/-Paul-Ryans-Honest-Admission