Hi
Miriam and carll
hi can do what ever he want and privatizing
all but Putin tell njet mor for war with out him!!!.
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From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:56 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government,
Permanently
But we are privatizing the military. We have private contractors doing all
kinds of things, including interrogation and spying. Remember that Snowden
worked for a private contractor, not directly for the NSA.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:39 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government,
Permanently
Too bad Will Rogers isn't around to poke some fun at Paul Ryan.
How is it that on the one hand, government is so poorly managed and over
funded that we need to privatize social security, medicare, postal services,
public education and other social services, while continuing to praise our
mighty military, a service funded by our tax dollars and managed by the
federal government? If Ryan were honest...bite my tongue...he would be
pushing the privatization of all military functions. They would have to
raise their support privately.
No more big fat military contracts to the likes of Boeing. Let those who
love War, support their hobby. But of course Paul Ryan is a big fat liar,
pretending that there are two governments. There is the one that is very
capable of conducting war on eternal terror, and there is one that can't
find its ass with both hands, bungling everything it touches.
*Flash! It's the same government, Mister Ryan. And it's the same government
that pays all your expenses.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/22/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government, Permanently Published onM.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 by CEPR Blog Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down
the Government, Permanently by Dean Baker
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) could be the next Speaker of the House. (Photo:
Scott Mahaskey/Politico)wonk.
Everyone has seen the news stories about how Representative Paul Ryan,
the leading candidate to be the next Speaker of the House, is a budget
That should make everyone feel good, since we would all like to thinkbudget.
a person in this position understands the ins and outs of the federal
But instead of telling us about how much Ryan knows about the budget
(an issue on which reporters actually don't have insight), how about
telling us what Ryan says about the budget?
It is possible to say things about Ryan says, since he has said a lot
on this topic and some of it is very clear. In addition to wanting to
privatize both Social Security and Medicare, Ryan has indicated that
he essentially wants to shut down the federal government in the sense
of taking all of the money for the non-military portion of the budget.
This fact is one that is easy to find if a reporter is willing to do
five minutes of research. Ryan directed the Congressional Budget
Office to score his budget plans back in 2012. The score of his plan
showed the non-Social Security, non-Medicare portion of the federal
budget shrinking to 3.5 percent of GDP by 2050 (page 16).
This number is roughly equal to current spending on the military. Ryan
has indicated that he does not want to see the military budget cut to
any substantial degree. That leaves no money for the Food and Drug
Administration, the National Institutes of Health, The Justice
Department, infrastructure spending or anything else. Following Ryan's
plan, in 35 years we would have nothing left over after paying for the
military.
Just to be clear, this was not some offhanded gaffe where Ryan might
have misspoke. He supervised the CBO analysis. CBO doesn't write-down
numbers in a dark corner and then throw them up on their website to
embarrass powerful members of Congress. As the document makes clear,
they consulted with Ryan in writing the analysis to make sure that
they were accurately capturing his program.
So what percent of people in this country know that the next Speaker
of the House would like to permanently shut down most of the
government? What percent even of elite educated policy types even know
this fact? My guess is almost no one, we just know he is a policy
wonk.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License Dean Baker
Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research (CEPR). He is the author of The Conservative Nanny State: How
the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer and the
more recently published Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The
Bubble Economy. He also has a blog, "Beat the Press," where he
discusses the media's Paul Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government,
Permanently Published on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 by CEPR Blog Paul
Ryan Wants to Shut Down the Government, Permanently by Dean Baker
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. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) could be the next Speaker of the House.
(Photo: M. Scott Mahaskey/Politico)
. Everyone has seen the news stories about how Representative Paul
Ryan, the leading candidate to be the next Speaker of the House, is a
budget wonk. That should make everyone feel good, since we would all
like to think a person in this position understands the ins and outs
of the federal budget. But instead of telling us about how much Ryan
knows about the budget (an issue on which reporters actually don't
have insight), how about telling us what Ryan says about the budget?
. It is possible to say things about Ryan says, since he has said a
lot on this topic and some of it is very clear. In addition to wanting
to privatize both Social Security and Medicare, Ryan has indicated
that he essentially wants to shut down the federal government in the
sense of taking all of the money for the non-military portion of the
budget.
. This fact is one that is easy to find if a reporter is willing to do
five minutes of research. Ryan directed the Congressional Budget
Office to score his budget plans back in 2012. The score of his plan
showed the non-Social Security, non-Medicare portion of the federal
budget shrinking to
3.5 percent of GDP by 2050 (page 16).
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This number is roughly equal to current spending on the military. Ryan
has indicated that he does not want to see the military budget cut to
any substantial degree. That leaves no money for the Food and Drug
Administration, the National Institutes of Health, The Justice
Department, infrastructure spending or anything else. Following Ryan's
plan, in 35 years we would have nothing left over after paying for the
military.
Just to be clear, this was not some offhanded gaffe where Ryan might
have misspoke. He supervised the CBO analysis. CBO doesn't write-down
numbers in a dark corner and then throw them up on their website to
embarrass powerful members of Congress. As the document makes clear,
they consulted with Ryan in writing the analysis to make sure that
they were accurately capturing his program.
So what percent of people in this country know that the next Speaker
of the House would like to permanently shut down most of the
government? What percent even of elite educated policy types even know
this fact? My guess is almost no one, we just know he is a policy
wonk.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License /author/dean-baker /author/dean-baker
/author/dean-baker Dean Baker is the co-director of the Center for
Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of The
Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay
Rich and Get Richer and the more recently published Plunder and
Blunder: The Rise and Fall of The Bubble Economy. He also has a blog,
"Beat the Press," where he discusses the media's
