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Monday, April 02, 2012


10 comments:

juris imprudent said...

I thought you were all for a serious discussion of the budget.

I guess not.

Mark Ward said...

I am. Paul Ryan is not someone who should be used in the same sentence with the word "serious." Now if we were having a discussion about being successful in the right wing media industrial complex, then he'd be a great center piece.

juris imprudent said...

My biggest objection to the Republican budget proposals so far is their unwillingness to touch Defense. Of course when you can't keep yourself from meddling in every corner of the world...

Anonymous said...

Serious discussion?
OK, here:

Income: $2.15 T

MANDATORY
MANDATORY
MANDATORY spending: $3.6 T

Now discuss the fuck out of what to spend the negative trillion dollars on.

Next!

Anonymous said...

Now if we were having a discussion about being successful in the right wing media industrial complex, then he'd be a great center piece.

Outed again by your own words as a partisan moron.

Haplo9 said...

>Paul Ryan is not someone who should be used in the same sentence with the word "serious."

If you consider Paul Ryan to be not serious, then where would you put Obama with respect to the budget?

Mark Ward said...

Serious. But not above criticism.

Obama made a mistake in not fully embracing the Bowles-Simpson plan. I know why he did it at the time (losing key support from Democrats) but since he decided later to run against Congress anyway, I view it as a mistake.

Until revenue is put on the table in a serious way, the GOP aren't being serious and are, in fact, behaving like children. The president has done that and obviously did a decent enough job on the BCA of 2011 (a binding law, btw) to illustrate just how serious he is.

Real solutions, Hap, not adolescent, Randian fantasies.

juris imprudent said...

Reducing the growth rate of federal spending is "gutting the govt" and turning America into The Hunger Games.

Oh, yeah - you and your side are really up for a serious discussion. Do you actually fool yourself even?

Haplo9 said...

>Real solutions, Hap, not adolescent, Randian fantasies.

Uh huh. Not a speck of leadership on entitlements from Obama, and he's more serious than Ryan. Whatever you say fanboy. :)

Anonymous said...

More of an eager fluffer and wannabe receptacle than a mere fanboy, I think.