This is what the biggest fraud of the 21st century looks like [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

Paul Ryan may be retiring having cemented his reputation as a fraud, but he’s a very successful fraud!

For the second time in his life, he’s helped transfer trillions in wealth to the richest Americans and for the second time in his life he’s laying the predicate for a massive financial crisis that will then likely result in even more destruction of the middle class and, eventually, even greater gains for the very richest, who have never been richer, given that Republicans have now, possibly inexorably, chained fiscal power to political power.

And the results are in:



Expect to see this chart framed in Paul Ryan’s new office, where he’ll serve as the American Enterprise Institute’s Chair of Pretending to Care the Deficit and the Poor Despite Overwhelming Evidence That You Believe the Exact Opposite.

Real wages are actually down when adjusted for inflation since the tax cuts became law, as the meager gains are almost entirely wiped out by the rising costs of oil (which is rising in part because we’re punishing Iran, a country with no nukes, for abiding by a nuclear deal while rewarding North Korea, a country with nukes that’s obviously cheating us, and this is all the plan of the exact fools who brought us the Iraq War, including Paul Ryan).

Read more: http://www.eclectablog.com/2018/08/this-is-what-the-biggest-ripoff-of-the-21st-century-looks-like.html