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Hugh Pickens writes writes "Megan Garber writes that in high school, Paul Ryan's classmates voted him as his class's 'biggest brown noser,' a juicy tidbit that is a source of delight for his political opponents but considered an irrelevant piece of youthful trivia to his supporters. 'But it's also a tension that will play out, repeatedly, in the most comprehensive narrative we have about Paul Ryan as a person and a politician and a policy-maker: his Wikipedia page,' writes Garber. Late Friday night, just as news of the Ryan choice leaked in the political press — the first substantial edit to that page removed the 'brown noser' mention which had been on the page since June 16. The Wikipedia deletion has given rise to a whole discussion of whether the mention is a partisan attack, whether 'brown noser' is a pejorative, and whether an old high school opinion survey is notable or relevant. As of this writing, 'brown noser' stands as does a maybe-mitigating piece of Ryan-as-high-schooler trivia: that he was also voted prom king. But that equilibrium could change, again, in an instant. 'Today is the glory day for the Paul Ryan Wikipedia page,' writes Garber. 'Yesterday, it saw just 10 [edits]. Today, however — early on a Saturday morning, East Coast time — it's already received hundreds of revisions. And the official news of the Ryan selection, of course, is just over an hour old.' Now Ryan's page is ready to host debates about biographical details and their epistemological relevance. 'Like so many before it, will be a place of debate and dissent and derision. But it will also be a place where people can come together to discuss information and policy and the intersection between the two — a town square for the digital age.'"
Near future?
Social Security is NOT GOING BANKRUPT YOU IGNORANT TWAT!
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Remove the cap that excludes the rich from paying their fair share, and it would even be fully funded for more than 75 years.
Ryan was chosen because he is disposable, this is the republicans wasting a Mormon and a Catholic at an election they have to show up too, but know they will not win. This way in another four years they can say "look how diverse we are, we let even non-christians(american protestants often claim both mormons and catholics are not christian.) run as our candidate". How the church their sects split from can not christian but the resulting church end up christian is left as an exercise to the reader.
Many Democrats were disenchanted with Obama and probably wouldn't have come out to vote for him again in the fall. But stacking him up against an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy is a pretty fucking great way to motivate them.
Yes, because nothing scares a Democrat quite like the possibility of being forced to take his hand out of other people's pockets.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
Why exactly is he mentally disturbed?
Despite the fact that "insane" and "mentally disturbed" are not synonyms, if you believe that cutting taxes on the rich while killing benefits and raising taxes on the middle class and poor will improve the economy, despite the fact that this is exactly what Bush did, followed by the economy crashing, you are insane. One popular definition of insanity is doing the exact thiing that just failed and expecting success.
Trickle down fairy dust is insane. Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows up. Cutting taxes on the rich will not get them to increase production. The only way production will increase is if demand increases; you don't hire more shop floor guys when sales are down, you lay them off, and taxes play no part. But if you cut taxes and improve benefits for the poor and middle class, they'll put that money right back into the economy, mmaking the businessman more successful and causing him to hire more workers to keep up the demand. This was proven by Clinton's Presidency.
This team is a 1% team. They are for the rich, fuck everybody else. If you earn less than $300,000 and vote for them, you're crazier than Ryan.
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