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Name: Paul Ryan
Age: 41
Occupation: Representative, Chairman of the House Budget Committee
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: wanting to screw over the middle class
Age: 41
Occupation: Representative, Chairman of the House Budget Committee
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: wanting to screw over the middle class
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Great. Now we have another Republican who wants to preserve the Bush Tax Cuts For the Wealthy and force everybody under the age of 40 to work an extra 10 years.
It's true: Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) proposed a budget for 2012 called The Path to Prosperity, which he claims will reduce government spending by nearly $6 trillion. Its biggest hit will be Medicare, which would turn into a voucher system and raise its eligibility to 67 in 2033. So, basically put, it would mean that if you retire at 65 in 2033 - that's if the retirement age is still 65 that year - you'd be forced to pay full-price for healthcare. That's unless the country goes to a government-run system as it has been for 100 years.
Ryan's proposal has been unanimously approved by the Republican-led House on Friday, 235 to 193. No Democrats voted in favor of the Ryan plan and four of his fellow Republicans voted it down.
However, as usual, the bill has gotten a lot of flack from the left. Why? Simple: it doesn't eliminate Bush's Tax Cuts For the Wealthy and makes things harder for the average American. Basically put, the Ryan plan would force Americans work even harder and longer for their retirement. I understand that the average American is living longer these days, but ya know, all it does is make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Hell, even President Obama agrees that instead of fucking up Medicare for everybody that we should tell the wealthiest 2% Americans that they should be the ones hurting, not the rest of us.
Case in point: Phil Knight, the founder of Nike. The company used government loans to help build them to what they are now, but yet, they don't have an American factory. Michael Moore even confronted him in his 1998 film The Big One where he asks him why he doesn't have a factory in the U.S. His response? "Americans don't want to build shoes". So, Moore starts a campaign to get his hometown of Flint, MI a Nike factory. Thousands of people sign a petition, and even the local news covers Moore's activities. He shows Knight the tape, and guess what happens?
Knight walks out of the room without saying a word.
Oh, and Knight is worth nearly $13 billion. He's even sponsored a bill defeat in his home state of Oregon that would have raised his and Nike's taxes.
You see folks? Rich people don't give a damn about people like you and me. They want people who make our cars and build our bridges to make the same wage as a burger flipper. They also help their fellow Republicans pass stupid bills like this one and claim that too much of our taxes go to the crackheads in Detroit.
The truth is, it's time for the Republicans to shut the fuck up. Let's make America competitive again by getting rid of BOTH the Reagan and Bush tax cuts and using that money to reduce the deficit, creating more jobs, better health care for all Americans and so on. Paul Ryan has shown that the Republicans have their heads in the sand and that every problem in the country is due to the Democrats and what's left of the middle class.
Nope, other way around.
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