I'm not the loose cannon some would have you believe. So now can I haz reparations?
OH...........Those reps......I am a bit slow tonight....or not.
I'm not the loose cannon some would have you believe. So now can I haz reparations?
OH...........Those reps......I am a bit slow tonight....or not.
Well, if you come up to da region I will get you a doughnutI'm not the loose cannon some would have you believe. So now can I haz reparations?
Lol, cheeseburger drunk Church?
Interesting post. Ryan is not the problem with the Republican party. The party is falling a part on its own. Maybe the party splitting in two is the answer. There are very distinct sects within the party that need to be resolved.
What perfect savior of all do you wish was speaker?
Purity tests are killing the GOP.
Who do you think would be any better???
Not trying to start something, I just think an establishment guy being booted would be replaced by another establishment guy...
What perfect savior of all do you wish was speaker?
Purity tests are killing the GOP.
So your answer to a luke warm endorsement is to go against him in return?Is not NeverTrump at its heart just another purity test? It should be OK for the speaker to cling to his reservations about Trump, but when he deigns to luke warmly endorse him Trump should be grateful for whatever crumbs he receives? Trump should focus on the good of the party but everyone else should be free to do what's best for their personal re-election bid?
If they really can't stand Trump they should have had the stones to do something about it at the convention. But you know what, we would be in exactly the same place if they had done so. The GOP is tinder dry and soaked with kerosine and all the idiots are playing with matches. We are witnessing a true bonfire of the vanities
Bon appétit
So your answer to a luke warm endorsement is to go against him in return?
I don't particularly like Ryan, but I would think that Trump should be spending his time campaigning for President against Hillary, not attacking more of those that are supposed to be part of the same party.
I thought it was all out to stop the Ds from getting control. Vote for Trump because he isn't Hillary. He will save our guns. Now you want to lose Republican seats in congress to Democrats.
It's called RINOs joining the democratic party and stop trying to turn this into a 1 party country.
Heck, most of these problems would go away if he focused on his personal election bid.Trump should focus on the good of the party but everyone else should be free to do what's best for their personal re-election bid?
If they really can't stand Trump they should have had the stones to do something about it at the convention. But you know what, we would be in exactly the same place if they had done so. The GOP is tinder dry and soaked with kerosine and all the idiots are playing with matches. We are witnessing a true bonfire of the vanities
If those are the goals you endorse, why not encourage the rank and file to get behind Trump when he bacame the presumptive nominee?
The Ryans of the world need to stop thinking they can tell Trump how it's going to be and they'll all get along better.
Well Trump certainly won't help pick up anything. If history tells us anything, it is that he's more likely to leave a mess in place than try to clean it up.They need to realize that if Trump fails to be elected he just goes back to being a billionaire. But if your career is politics, like Ryan et al, things will not be quite so rosy. And they should not delude themselves that in four years they'll be the ones picking up the pieces, or that anyone who supported Trump will simply forgive and forget
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Who should come along but none other than Paul Ryan to put forth legislation to gut this greatest piece of fiscal responsibility legislation in half a century. Paul Ryan actively and successfully attacked the one law that was staunching the bleed. Paul Ryan removed the gauze and gutted the limits of sequestration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Budget_Act_of_2013
That the Republican Party machine ever put him into power was mind boggling to me.
Any attempt to remove him will have my full support!
Any attempt? So, you would endorse efforts by Dems to hijack a primary to oust him for their own reasons?
Your criticism is valid, although there is room for disagreement. There was a context to sequestration, and a context to increasing the caps. Keeping the caps would've required discipline and sacrifice for many Americans. Which means it would not have worked.
I can disagree with Ryan's compromise while still understanding why he had to do it.
The alternative would've been worse.
Well. At least that's what I thought at the time.
To the extent it has resulted in Trump's nomination (and I doubt very many attendees to Trump's rallies could explain sequestration), then I was probably wrong.
Do you mean politically it wouldn't have worked?
If that's our standard spending Will never come under control.
Isn't this the definition of kicking the can down the road?
Yes.At some point Americans, whether employed by the government, dependent on an entitlement or however else are going to have to pay up but the longer we avoid this reality the harder it's going to get.
Lex, the only path forward for my concerns (structural debt) I can see would be something like 5% across the board cut of all federal expenditures and 5% increase in all taxation and balance the budget. Everybody feels the pain and must make do with less.
5% + 5% of 3.3 trillion is 330 billion, but even at that rate and every penny devoted to debt reduction, the quick and dirty is around 44yrs, depending on assumptions about rate of interest expense reduction.
We're dead, no one could maintain that level of discipline for that long
Maybe, just maybe, it is not possible right now to "do the job" that supposed-Republicans want to be done.
Seriously. What is expected of the speaker? Push doomed bills to the Senate? Give votes for doomed bills from the Senate?
I think there's a serious breakdown as to what is possible in that position.
I don't think your math checks out. Or, at least, you aren't measuring the right thing.
An "across the board" tax increase would be of GDP. We're at roughly 16.7 trillion annual GDP. If every good and service was taxed an additional 5%, that's 835 billion.
The Federal budget is 3.8 trillion. That's 190 billion if you cut 5%.
Together, roughly 1 trillion dollars, so roughly 19 years to pay off the total debt. If you could actually pay off the entire debt, which you can't do if you're still going to issue Savings Bonds and the like.
Even that's a great oversimplification. As GDP grows, so would the taxes collected if we actually taxed things across the board. GDP has went up roughly 45% in the last 20 years. Tax collection has more or less kept pace.
And that ignores that a large amount of the debt is owed to ourselves. About 1/3 IIRC, is owed to things like Social Security that are within the gov't as the gov't borrowed from one bucket (SSI trust fund) to put in another bucket (general fund).