Paul Ryan “We’re All Screwed, and Here’s Why”
One of the young guns in congress ready to “break out” if you will is Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan is one of those cats who is always coming up with ideas that the media says Republicans aren’t coming up with (like this and this), and with seats Joint Economic, Ways and Means, and Budget Committees (that last of which he’s ranking member), he’s going to be a valuable player in the upcoming economic/housing/banking/entitlement debates.
You know, all the debates we should be having if weren’t being told it’s the end of the world and there’s no time to do things like “debate” or “hold hearings” or “read a 1,000+ page bill.”
Rep. Ryan recently penned an editorial on just why the “Generational Theft Act” is such a crap sandwich for American families, and it’s the pesky problem of stagflation…
To American families, inflation is a destroyer of savings, a killer of wealth, a crusher of confidence. It calls into question the value of our money. And while we all share in the pain, the people whom inflation hits hardest are elderly people who live on fixed incomes, those in the middle class who are struggling to save for retirement and college and lower-income people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Combine high inflation and high unemployment and you have stagflation. Hindsight shows how the pain of the late 1970s and early 1980s could have been avoided, yet we’re now again planning to borrow and spend – and raise taxes – as President Jimmy Carter did. Soon we may again find ourselves watching a rising “misery index” of inflation and unemployment together. If that happens, individual earning power will evaporate, and our standard of living will decline.
He also touched on what he thinks we need to do to prevent this and help actually stimulate the economy (which is what the goal usually is for a stimulus bill), but conservatives aren’t providing solutions. We’re the party of no, just ask the fair and balanced people from NBC News or the New York Times.
It’s funny, I was reading on one of the blogs for my local paper on how Congressman Pete King (R-NY) could run for Senate telling people he voted against the $20 Billion NY was getting to save our economy.
Never mind that anyone who thinks the stimulus bill is actually going to stimulate the economy will most likely vote for who ever the Democrat Party tells him to (it’s hard to be confidant it will work when every admits they never read it), I think all King or any other Republican running for statewide office would have to do would be a) point out the bills consequences like this, and b) tell the voters directly the list of ideas we have the we felt would have actually stimulated the economy.
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He's the Bible in one hand, a bottle of Crown Royal in the other, and we all know Jesus didn't turn the wine into Dr. Pepper...
It’s good to see how immaculate your grammar is, I’m not sure if you’re a goofy frenchman who cannot speak English, or if this is indicative of the state of our southern schools lol
Paul Ryan? LOL.
Ok–didn’t Paul Ryan vote for both the financial bailout bill AND the illegal use of TARP for the auto bailout in December?
Correct me if I’m wrong–please.
So the future of the GOP is a young congressman who’s had his seat during 8 years of the most egregious growth in government spending probably in our history, overseeing the destruction of our financial system and economic condition—while voting for two massive government interventions in the private sector?
Yeah–so much for that “GOP is better for the economy” talking point.
So let’s see…..GOP failure in foreign policy (3000 people dead on 9-11, Iraq disaster, impeding Afghan disaster)…check.
GOP failure on economy (TARP, implosion of the financial system, surplus to deficits, worst economic crisis since the depression)….check.
I guess all the GOP has left is to keep railing agin’ them thar colored folk and them homersexuals that be ruining our kinfolk……
Good luck with that GOP—lmao. You wingnuts better get some better tinfoil for those hats your making
Samuel: no. http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/membervotes.cgi?member=WI01&site=congressmerge&state=WI&fullvotes=1&votes_congnum_session=111_1
The link to his voting record is actually on his web site. And you may want to consider that many new and differently-thinking Republicans were elected in Congress and elsewhere for the same reason to many Democrats were elected: because the increasingly unheard American public didn’t want things done the same way any more. Reference Bobby Jindal, for starters. I mean both the man and the tradiational politics in Louisiana. If Wikipedia is correct, he’s only the 3rd Republican governor of the state in over 130 years. The info is out there – it’s not necessary to make uninformed accusations when one has the Internet at one’s fingertips.
Sorry, correction: “so many Democrats”, not “to many”.
GA freiman in Conservative Outcomes thinks we are screwed also but only for a little while. Freiman predicts the outcomes of all current events and his predictions always come back to conservative principles. This guy is uncanny in how he new this tea party thing was going to happen two years ago??