05.17.11
Rubs vaseline into his hair every morning
Excerpt from Paul Ryan’s recent big idea statement, noted here for only two things.
First, the collapse into Ayn Rand repackaged for — hmmm — an audience that’s disintegrating:
This sets up a debate in which we are really just arguing over who to hurt and how best to manage the decline of our nation. [Which is precisely his gig.]
To begin with, chasing ever-higher spending with ever-higher tax rates will decrease the number of makers in society and increase the number of takers. Able-bodied Americans will be discouraged from working and lulled into lives of complacency and dependency.
Makers and takers. The supermen and all the rest of us parasites.
However, that’s small potatoes.
The worst part exposes Ryan as an asshole beyond compare:
Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers.
Anyone who knows one elderly person well knows the last thing to put upon them as they enter the part of their lives characterized by medical issues (often disastrous) is more challenge.
“[The] power to deny business to inefficient providers]” is a line only a fiend could invent.
Yes, old, weakened and frequently sick old people want nothing more than worthless vouchers and having to wrestle with the insurance industry.
Just when their mental faculties ebb, their ability to read and interpret documents purposely made unclear and confusing dims, when they have trouble getting to the telephone much less wading through computerized corporate menus in hopes of getting a human being — that’s just when they want to wield the power of the free market to “deny business to inefficient providers.”
Why, all the insurance companies will just drop right into line at the threat of it.
Paul Ryan looks every part the slippery fellow who rubs grease and black dye into his hair every morning.
Happily he’s been castigated, refuted and insulted by economists like Paul Krugman enough that he’s severely damaged goods.
By the middle of next week Ted Nugent will still be a fan, though.