Rep. Ryan Pushes Ominous "Roadmap for America's Future"

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.truth-out.org/rep-paul-ryan-turns-american-enterprise-institute-build-support-his-roadmap61710

Introduced by Ryan in January and formally known as the Roadmap for America's Future Act of 2010, the proposal would make comprehensive changes to the Social Security program, federal involvement in health care, Medicare, Medicaid, federal spending and the tax system, primarily by extending tax cuts and privatizing or scaling back entitlement programs.

Specifically, the "Roadmap" would reduce income tax rates on high-income households, including those earning above $633,000, while raising taxes on a significant portion of middle-class families. It would also eliminate income taxes on capital gains, dividends and interest, while abolishing the corporate income tax, the estate tax and the alternative minimum tax. Ryan's Roadmap would also privatize a substantial portion of Social Security, discontinue the Children's Health Insurance Program and end traditional Medicare and Medicaid by replacing these programs with a voucher system that recipients would gradually be weaned off of and onto purchasing their own private health care which, according to Ryan, would provide "low income Americans with financial resources to buy their own health care coverage like everyone else."

At AEI, Ryan argued, "Most of the time America is not under the consequential test of survival ... The bedrock principles of natural rights, equal opportunity, free enterprise, limited government and private property are not at issue. They are even taken for granted. We debate means, not ends," but that now "we live at a time when the 'ends' of America's government are very much at issue."

Citing a "Progressivist" agenda that leads to a "dreary path to welfare statism" and a skewed sense of history, Ryan said that Democratic leadership in Congress and in the White House "have convinced themselves that America's history is dubious and our foundations dead wrong."

[burnsei sensei]

1. Ryan's roadmap is back to the Gilded Age.

Back to the times of no social protections and a deeply polarized society.

[RKP5637]

2. At that stage why even bother with a country, just roaming bunches of people will do... n/t

[burnsei sensei]

3. And that's what France was for about

two centuries before the revolution.
People wandered the roads all the time to find remunerative work.
The search was almost always in vain.

[midnight]

4. Oops. Sorry-posted twice.

[midnight]

5. What a strange mind set greedy people have. Always figuring out

ways for the less fortunate to move their load. Some in Wisconsin call him gumby. At first I thought it was those round vacant eyes with offset shaped angled hair. Then I started reading his wall street rantings and realized that wall street was bending him into a mouth piece for the greedy. Welfare is alright for his wall street friends. He was one of the first Republican mouth pieces getting votes for that entitlement package for the banksters.

[cachukis]

6. Follow Ryan to Cormac McCarthy's post apocalyptic "The Road."