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Aug 18, 2012
The honors go to Judge Robert Simpson , who upheld a voter ID law in Pennsylvania simply to give the election to Willard Romney. The federal government sued and there was no evidence presented that there was any voting fraud in Pennsylvania whatsoever. These voter ID movements are designed to restrict voting and are aimed specifically at blacks, Latinos, and the elderly. Judge Robert Simpson, you are a disgrace to the American way of life.
As we hit different interesting pages on Paul Ayn Ryan, we will post the links here. if you find an interesting page that is not listed here, please pass it along to us. Click here Ryan Videos
Sun Sentinal-8-17-2012- His strategy for the nation is delusional and frightening–a great admirer of Ryan
Aug 16, 2012
In the last few days, there is been considerable political rhetoric on both sides regarding Medicare. We have investigated several sources on the internet and are compiling these into a single bundle that hopefully we all can understand. This process may take another few days and you are welcome to return as we’ll be updating the information as it is obtained. With each statement, we will attempt to provide the source through a link. From the numerous sources, we have reviewed thus far, it is evident the Willard Romney/Paul Ayn Ryan ticket is totally distorting the truth. Romney can lie with the best of them and his base would believe it if he told them, Mr Obama was really white guy who turned black in order to use the race card to his advantage.
1. The Romney-Ryan campaign in its latest TV ad assails Obama for approving cuts to Medicare in 2010. The ad; “Obama has cut $716 billion dollars from Medicare,” says the narrator. “The money you paid for your guaranteed health care…is going to a massive new government program that’s not for you.”
2.Romney also claims the president’s actions will ultimately lead to reduced access to health care.
3.Gov. Sununu claimed in an interview with Soledad O’brien, that the President “reduces services to Medicare beneficiaries currently on the package.”
4. Romney also claims, Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt, and pushes those obligations on to coming generations.
A Congressional Budget Office report notes keeping “Obamacare” would not mean a $716 billion decrease in Medicare funding. The cost of Medicare would continue to rise, just not as rapidly. The CBO says the money – Democrats call it savings, Republicans call it cuts – would be achieved mostly through cutbacks in payments to providers and by changes to payment rates in private Medicare plans. (reference number 1)
As stated by FactCheck.org, Romney’s “figure ignores major cost-cutting provisions including cuts in the future growth of Medicare and increased payroll taxes and investment-income taxes on higher-income earners. According to the Congressional Budget Office, “once all those revenue streams are factored in, CBO has estimated that the law would actually reduce the federal deficit by $210 billion over the 2012-2021 period.” (reference number 4) see Table One
Most of you have most likely seen the video of Soledad O’brien shutting down the out right lies spewed by Gov. Sununu. She fact checked and utilize several sources to validate the falsehoods of the governor. Below is the video .( reference number 3) Soledad spreading the cloak of truth over the Romney campaign
The AARP who conducted a thorough analysis for its members, actually praises the President’s Medicare plan. Some of their most significant statements include the following:
“The health care law strengthens Medicare by protecting and improving your guaranteed benefits and cracking down on waste, fraud and inefficiency. It also identifies savings that will keep Medicare financially stable for 12 years longer than if the law hadn’t been passed.” The law protects any cuts to Medicare’s guaranteed benefits, which include doctor, hospital and rehabilitation services. This is true whether you have Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan.”
As can be read above, the law prevents any cuts in the future to guaranteed benefits. (Reference 1,2,and 3) So how does Romney look into his constituents with a straight face and lie that the president is reducing benefits, and robbing them of their future health care. Easy, because he’s a psychopathic liar. He will do anything and say anything to get elected. And his surrogates simply fall right in the line as Gov. Sununu did and hold a straight face. Fortunately, not all of us are robotically programmed. You can read the entire AARP analysis by clicking on this link. The AARP health care analysis
Newser hits Romey hard on Medicare falsehoods-8-22-2012
(Newser) – “Mitt Romney often promises to restore $716 billion in Medicare funding cut by the Affordable Care Act, but many experts say that pledge is, in the words of one economist, “both puzzling and bogus.” That’s because what Romney would be “restoring” wouldn’t be funds but costs, the New York Times explains. The ACA cut Medicare’s reimbursements to hospitals and doctors. Experts project that restoring them would send Medicare into insolvency by 2016 (rather than 2024 as currently projected), and cost seniors $342 a year in premiums and co-pays.” MORE
More To Come
Paul Ryan’s, father died when he was in high school. My father’s father died when he was 11. My father quit school to support his mother, disabled brother and sister in Hell’s kitchen in Brooklyn, NY in 1919. It didn’t qualify him to become vice president, but he knew more about economics than Paul Ryan ever will. He put his sister through college, cared for his brother and mother, self-taught himself accounting, budgeting, printing, banking and criminal justice. In 1962, thanks to an anti-Semitic judge he was fired and blackballed from government service where he had been employed for five years, his pension was withheld. He remained unemployed for 5 yrs. He managed his family, hustled a living, paid off a house and sent his kids to school. But he couldn’t be the Vice President. What’s the point of this?
The practicality of managing a home, a family and providing for them in the most challenging of circumstances has lost visibility in a nation where our leaders are millionaires or billionaires who have rarely had to struggle as did those depression era immigrants and their children. Oh and my father worked for peanuts to build his employers businesses.
In 1918, a Spanish Influenza epidemic killed upwards of a quarter million citizens of New York City before the conservative city health director declared it an epidemic. William Randolph Hearst, a billionaire politician and publisher thought an epidemic would be bad for business, so as Health Commissioner he overlooked thousands of people dropping like flies in the streets. He might have been Paul Ryan. No matter how rich or poor you were, the flu killed you as there were no immune systems that were capable of fighting it. But New York City and my father and his mother and sister and brother survived. So I don’t want to hear about Paul Ryan’s dad. It is irrelevant. His father was well off, so was he. He coped.
Education- Ryan attended Miami of Ohio University and studied economics. He was not a scholarship student, he could pay. Must have been nice. In Economics, he forgot, that Equity, or that which is owed to the investors is a substantial part of the business or non-profit or government entity involved. In the USA, the Equity, the non-acknowledged investment of the workers who expend their health, energy and lives to build someone else’s entity, rarely see a return. Thanks to President Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and now Barack Obama, there are retirement funds(Social Security), Old age health insurance (Medicare and Medicaid), and a modicum of health care(Affordable Care Act) guaranteed for all others. Had it been left up to Messrs.’ Ryan and Romney that wouldn’t exist and should they get elected, it will likely cease. Why ? because those who worked hard and made this nation a success and who died on the battlefields where it was preserved, well they have no acknowledged equity.
Case in point. The worker is everything. When 350 million Indians went on strike for a day under the leadership of Mohandas Gandhi, Britain shook in its boots. The Royals knew that this could be contagious and the factory workers everywhere throughout the empire might learn from the little brown man in the sheets. IF Ryan and Romney are elected, maybe if they aren’t, days of prayer and fasting (strikes) might take place. It would be akin to how Spartacus shut down Rome when most slaves ran to his side and away from their masters.
The anti-Medicaid, states that opted out as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, are taking a page from Ayn Rand’s writings. She deplored charity and advocated selfishness. The link below is a more comprehensive explanation and analysis but we offer this brief overview.
Florida’s governor, Rick Scott opted out of the Medicaid expansion and will affect hundreds of thousands of people who are unable to receive healthcare. Sandra Pico, a Miami, Florida, resident who is the sole breadwinner of the family of three does not qualify because her $15,000 a year salary exceeds the $11,000 Medicaid eligibility requirements in the state of Florida. All of the states that are currently opted out of the Medicaid expansion have Republican governors and legislatures. Most of the states have different eligibility requirements for Medicaid but the lowest income requirements are, not surprisingly in states with Republican governors. For example, in Louisiana and Texas a family of three is eligible if their annual income exceeds $5000.
Under the Obama plan, 7 million additional Americans would be eligible should the states participate in the program. According to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of Ryan’s 2011 budget plan, an additional 14 to 27,000,000 Americans would become an eligible even after a repeal of the health care act. Republican hate. The Ayn Rand crowd. The Republicans are right; this is the most important election of our generation. What are you doing?
The Atlantic Wire: Audio Surfaces of Paul Ryan’s Effusive Love of Ayn Rand
The Gospel of Ayn Rand: What’s Informing Budget Policy – U.S. Catholic
Eric Sapp on his work with the American Values Network – Soul Talk Radio
Take A Stand Against Rand – World Magazine
The “Ayn Rand vs. Jesus” Campaign – The American Thinker
Jesus or Ayn Rand: Can Conservatives Claim Both? – CNN Belief
GOP’s Ayn Rand Problem: Politics, Religion Don’t Mix – Yahoo! News – The Daily Ticker
Does America Need Ayn Rand or Jesus? – FOX News
Ayn Rand vs. Jesus Christ – World
Glenn Beck Changes Mind on Ayn Rand! – Current
Thom Hartmann: To be follower of Ayn Rand – is it necessary to be an atheist? – The Big Picture: Thom Hartmann Program
Glenn Beck backtracks after seeing AVN “Rand vs. Jesus” Ad- The Huffington Post
Christians must reject Ayn Rand, faith-based group tells Raw Story- The Raw Story
Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Problem- Time
Column: You can’t reconcile Ayn Rand and Jesus- USA Today
Ayn Rand & GOP vs Jesus- Crooks and Liars
Ayn Rand: The GOP’s Favorite Bonkers Demagogue- The Daily Beast
Is Ayn Rand A Political Liability?- The New Republic
Heightening The Republican Contradictions- The Daily Beast
Is Ayn Rand’s Atheism An Inconvenient Truth?- The Jewish Daily Forward
Budget Battle Pits Atheist Ayn Rand vs. Jesus- Religion News Service
Letters: We have strayed too far from Christian values- East Valley Tribune
Conservatives Must Choose: Ayn Rand or Jesus? – Ethics Daily
Ayn Rand, the GOP and Libertarian’s Foundation, and Jesus- Unsettled Christianity
The GOP Must Decide: Ayn Rand or Jesus- Huffington Post
Choosing Ayn Rand or Jesus- The American Spectator
Must Christian Voters Choose Between Ayn Rand and Jesus?- The Atlantic
Ayn Rand ‘Atheists’ vs. Liberal Christians; A Battle of Dogma- The Examiner
Rand Paul, other Republicans can’t have it both ways on Ayn Rand – Courier-Journal
Ayn Rand: The GOP’s Godless Philospher – Time
1. Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand.
2. Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cut them for millionaires.
3. Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system.
4. Ryan thinks Social Security is a “ponzi scheme.”
5. Ryan’s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years.
6. Ryan wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more more than 1 million students.
7. Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil.
8. Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies .
9. Ryan claimed Romneycare has led to “rationing and benefit cuts.”
10. Ryan believes that Romneycare is “not that dissimilar to Obamacare.”
11. Ryan accused generals of lying about their support for Obama’s military budget.
12. Ryan co-sponsored a “personhood” amendment, an extreme anti-abortion measure.
Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) displeasure with most of the Obama administration’s policies is well documented, but his latest oppositional tactic may accomplish more than he intends it to.At a campaign event in Humboldt, Iowa, King told an audience that he is planning to sue the Obama administration over its recent decision to stop enforcing deportations of undocumented immigrants and floated a novel idea afterwards.“King added that he’s thinking about introducing a bill, which if it became law, would repeal everything Obama has signed into law,” reports The Messenger, a local newspaper in Iowa. Such an extreme proposition would certainly do away with the biggest Republican bugaboos like Obamacare and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but King’s “reset button” bill will come with many more casualties:
– Canceling plans to honor Ronald Reagan. President Obama signed a law authorizing funding to honor and celebrate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth.
Of course, repealing Obamacare and the Recovery Act would have disastrous consequences of their own on the economy and health care system. And actually undoing things like appropriations bills are effectively impossible. But that kind of rhetoric usually plays well to King’s base.”
thinkprogress.org