2012.08.12 08:48
EDITORIAL As House Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has drawn a blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need it the most. It will not be there when the unemployed need job training, or when a struggling student needs help to get into college. It will not be there when a miner needs more than a hardhat for protection, or when a city is unable to replace a crumbling bridge. And it will be silent when the elderly cannot keep up with the costs of M.R.I.’s or prescription medicines, or when the poor and uninsured become increasingly sick through lack of preventive care. More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations. Mr. Ryan’s budget “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment,” the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. “These cuts are unjustified and wrong.” Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government. And yet he has failed to explain how he would make them self-sufficient — how, in fact, a radical transformation of government would magically turn around an economy that is starving for assistance. At a time when state and local government layoffs are the principal factor in unemployment, the Ryan budget would cut aid to desperate governments by at least 20 percent, far below historical levels, on top of other cuts to mass transit and highway spending. Those are the kinds of reductions voters of all income levels would actually feel. People might nod their heads at Mr. Romney’s nostrums of smaller government, but they are likely to feel quite different when they realize Mr. Ryan plans to take away their new sewage treatment plant, the asphalt for their streets, and the replacements for retiring police officers and firefighters. All of this will be accompanied, of course, by even greater tax giveaways to the rich, and extravagant benefits to powerful military contractors. Business leaders will be granted their wish for severely diminished watchdogs over the environment, mine safety and food quality. Mr. Romney had already praised the Ryan budget as “excellent work,” but until Saturday the deliberate ambiguity of his own plans gave him a little room for distance, an opportunity to sketch out a more humane vision of government’s role. By putting Mr. Ryan’s callousness on his ticket, he may have lost that chance. |
2012.08.12 08:57
2012.08.12 10:03
The rich class became rich by using the class which worked for them, by giving less (tax, wages, etc) and making more profit. The rich class has moral obligation to those who worked for them.
If they grab power with money and perpetuate the current situation of the middle class drifing down to poor class, there is a risk of class struggle which will turn into revolution.
If the majority of people know what is going on, their choice will become more balanced, having seen the fates of Greece, Portugal, Russia, and Spain.
2012.08.12 10:52
현재 한국의 좌파 창궐이 바로 Dr. Minn의 above comment를 반영하는것으로 봅니다.
이것이 결국은 좌파, 사회주의, 또는 공산당 혁명으로 바뀌어 지는것이죠.
When Bolshevik's October Revolution in 1917 occurred,
Russia was exactly in this state of dislocation between the rich and the poor.
In this kind of society, Marx-Leninism sounds like a blessing from the heaven to the poor.
South Korea maybe getting very close to this stage.
We should remember the history, otherwise we may repeat it again.
This comment is not related with American politics for now,
but, 공화당의 이런 불장난이 계속되고 빈부의 차가 심해지면, it can happen in America as well.
2012.08.12 12:19
For your information:
Interviwing with Romney and Ryan is going on now at 60 min of CBS. KJ
2012.08.13 00:19
But he - Ryan - is likable when you look at him and eloquent, young
at his age of 43 when JFK was elected as the 35th president.
I am more interested in Korean politics these days for some reason.
2012.08.13 13:19
I can overhear Debate over "MediScare(Medicare + Scare?)"
on CNN for 2 hours since Ryan became VP designee of Romney.
For your information;
You may already know well.
New York Times is an anti-Republican media.
Your web manager is inclined to be pro-Obama (not necessarily pro-Democratic) and anti-Republican.
Any opposing, neutral, or supporting opinions are welcome here.
Please be informed of current political winds.
The future of America is your and your children's business.