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Related: About this forumPaul Ryan Getting Ripped to Shreds Over Math Comment
Over at Yahoo there is quite a commotion over Ryan's "it would take me too long to go through all the math." response to Chris Wallace on today's Fox News Sunday. The comments are brutal and I'm loving it!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/ryan-tax-plan-math-181559697--politics.html
Yea I used to say the same thing when the teacher asked where I came up with the crap that I turned in for homework.
What about putting it online? Are you too busy to even write it up? The public isn't composed exclusively of idiots, you know.
Sound almost like what the guys say to girls when they want to get in their pants. Trust me I know you will like it.
Too complicated to explain = If I give the details of how I'll raise taxes on the middle class by $2000+ per year to get millionaires more tax breaks I'll be screwed, so I'll claim that people wouldn't understand the advanced math.
It's kind of hard to explain why I don't want to vote for you also
When Ryan even looks evasive on Fox News, how sad is that?
My gosh! This will keep me entertained for days!
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FirstLight
(15,771 posts)It's the ARITHMETIC, stupid!
MADem
(135,425 posts)
Warpy
(114,615 posts)It's not real smart to piss off women holding pointy sticks, Paul.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Can you give me a link?
Warpy
(114,615 posts)for people who work with yarn.
I signed up with them when they were still limiting access, but never go there any more.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)There are now groups for everything you can possibly think of.
I went back because there are now spinning and weaving groups. There are also groups that are mirror images of groups here at DU.
I joined Ravelry awhile back, but haven't been there for several months. Looks like it's time to log in again.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Looks like I should spin on by ! Heh heh...that was a pun : P
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I'm a crocheter, and I get VERY tired of the scorn the knitters have for us crocheters. Especially the yarn shop owners. We go through vastly more quantities of yarn than the knitters, so you'd think they'd appreciate us more.
On the other hand, it's the high yarn usage that pushes a lot of us to the less expensive yarns.
I'm thinking of writing a story called, "Yarn Wars" in which the tension between the to escalates beyond all reasonableness.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)and only crochet when the potholders have caught fire again and I need new ones, but I feel your pain. Spinners and weavers are still considered a little odd over there.
There are plenty of hookers on Rav now, enough that nobody disses them any more for fear of being piled on.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I still wish I were a good enough writer to write the story.
"It all started when Megan noticed that the yarn shop only carry six sizes of crochet hooks, and they were hidden, up high, where no one could see them."
progree
(12,977 posts)Republicans don't know math. They think that they can increase the defense budget and decrease taxes on the most wealthest americans and somehow that will balance the budget
King_Klonopin
(1,379 posts)which is secular, liberal, blasphemous nonsense.
Peter Pan should be the economic adviser to Romney/Ryan:
"If you just believe, it will come true"
Republican Faith-Based economics:
"If I'm elected president, the economy will automatically improve"
-- Mittens
"We will lead." blah blah blah
-- Ryan
"You guys are completely full of shit!"
-- King Klonopin
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)'cept they are out of toilet paper.
DBH
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)or something to that effect.
progree
(12,977 posts)Q.E.D.
Sheesh, a rightie trying to argue that a square meter is about 3 square feet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021411476
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)to do a classic "oh, come on"
WWMD?
Cosmocat
(15,424 posts)And his lifelong service in politics and in particular the republican party bubble.
He could have said that on an AM radio show, someplace most cloistered in the bubble, and everyone would just fawn over him.
Laura Ingram, "Well, Mr. Future Vice President, we all have all the faith in the world in your leadership on budgetary and economic issues!"
I am sure he thought he could get away with it on Faux, and because their position is untenable on this issue, likely would have been backed into a corner and just shot it off with someone else even.
But, they just live in a bubble where they do this. Say something that is is a total fantasy and just say something arrogant like that.
He and Romney would be COMPLETELY LAMBASTED over this issue. It is utter bullshit and defies ANY math to say that you can cut the effective rate for everyone 20 percent, but by "closing loopholes" it will both make it revenue neutral AND give everyone a tax cut.
Jesus, I might not be able to control myself if he showed up at my door and tried to spew that bullshit.
karynnj
(60,968 posts)If it is revenue neutral, if someone pays less than now - that amount less most be paid by others above what they once paid. Lowering rates 20% and closing loopholes equivalent to that amount would likely lead to big winners and big losers.
Cosmocat
(15,424 posts)is why they won't say that "loopholes" they would close.
They are LYING and saying it will equal out for the top 5%, and the middle class will get cuts. But, their "out" on it is this thing where they are saying they will work with congress on it. Congress will put it on US by cutting our deductions and will keep the wealthy free and clear, and these two would say, we don't like it, but it has to be done.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)But that, I mean that they have not yet entered the Age of Reason and , more certainly, they have not even approached the Age of Enlightenment.
"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess." (René Descartes)
Lasher
(29,577 posts)
surrealAmerican
(11,879 posts)I'm glad to see that this one isn't slipping by unnoticed.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)This puts them solidly into the bandit territory, and all bright people see this. This is how Bush drove the country into the ground, and invaded illegally, and just how Rmoney would play out.
NightOwwl
(5,453 posts)delaine
(1 post)Not sure why Chris Wallace didn't call him out more and say that "the people have time"!
NightOwwl
(5,453 posts)btw, welcome to DU!
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)It's not in the bible, so it's not true!
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Redistribution of wealth! It's SOSHULISM!!!
Blanks
(4,835 posts)...is because he would have to learn math first.
Doesn't he have some kind of basket weaving degree from some kind of pud curriculum.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Don't think I've ever seen such cogent remarks on any yahoo article before. Honestly!!! I can't believe it's really Y.
A lot of
em sounded like fellow Boomers too.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)God, I hate to admit it
but I will really
DIG IT
if Romney sinks this guy's career.
LTR
(13,227 posts)These two clowns are the ultimate gaffe machines! Just how stupid do they think we really are?
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)My 89-year-old mother is a lazy piece of shit. After surviving the depression and World War II, she raised five children and got most of us through college. Now she thinks she's allowed to just sit there and not be productive. I mean, the fact is the woman has never worked a job since the early 1950's. Christ Almighty, that's like 70 years of not doing a damned thing.
I'm going Gault on her lazy ass.