Scary: Paul Ryan's Toxic "Day 1" ALREADY BEGUN

by Stephen L. Goldstein
Op-Ed columnist, author of Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned or "America according to Paul Ryan"
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       No "Day 1" for Mitt Romney! No fear that he'll be able to undo all of Obama's "good." He can superintend the building of his car elevator--or fire the workers, just for the fun of it. Or maybe he can watch one of Ann's horses dance so he can deduct the dollar equivalent of his doing so as a business expense. Whatever! We have nothing to fear from a politically defanged Romney. He'll probably lick his wounds and take out what's left of his aggression by taking over a company and moving it to China.

       Not so for Paul Ryan. HIS "Day 1" has ALREADY begun. To be sure, he has to deflect whatever blame he'll get for the Romney/Ryan defeat: He only branded 30% of Americans moochers and deadbeats, compared with Romney's 47%. But he was as mean-spirited as Mitt in suggesting that the federal goverment should have little, of any, role in disaster relief. Ryan's "days" promise to be toxic for average Americans. His ideal America is New Orleans after Katrina--Hurricane Sandy without Sandy: a free market paradise for profiteers to scalp victims.
       Ryan is the consummate example of an adolescent whiz kid who was drugged on Ayn Rand’s Kool-Aid but never weaned from it, fancies himself John Galt—and grew up to be a second-tier technocrat on the taxpayer payroll, who is now raised to national prominence by a third-rate candidate for the presidency. There’s abundant evidence to poke holes in his-delusional and frightening dystopia for the nation. “The Ryan Plan” (aka the GOP federal budget) is a roadmap for disaster, a war on the poor and the middle class. The Koch brothers couldn’t have written it better—probably tweaked the draft. The case against Ryan is laid out by ThinkProgress (thinkprogress.org). 
       Here are highlights from it

            1. Ryan wants to raise taxes on the middle class, cut them for millionaires.

            2. He would extend the Bush tax cuts, but not President Obama’s for those with the lowest incomes.

            3. Ryan would virtually eliminate programs that benefit the lower- and middle-classes.

            4. He would end Medicare and replace it with a voucher system, raise eligibility to 67, cost enrollees more than $5,900 annually by 2050.

            5. Ryan thinks Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and wants to privatize it at the mercy of stocks and bonds, which he apparently believes are always safe bets.

            6. The Economic Policy Institute estimates Ryan’s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in two years.

            7. He wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more than 1 million students.

            8. Ryan supports $40 billion in subsidies for big oil.

            9. He co-sponsored a “personhood” amendment, which would outlaw abortion, some forms of contraception and in vitro fertilization.

            No one in his right mind would want to live in the America of Paul Ryan, except Mitt Romney. Many of Ryan’s supporters deny biological, survival-of-the-fittest Darwinism, but embrace dog-eat-dog social Darwinism, where unbridled greed is the greatest virtue and morality is determined by a dollar sign. But sadly, Romney isn’t trying to appeal to all Americans. Ryan, Mitt hopes, will make his candidacy acceptable to the tea party. He may fool them, but most Americans know “the fruit” of both those lemons “is impossible to eat.”

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