RYAN'S BUDGET IS CIVIL MALFEASANCE

Clearly, the Ryan Budget is not a serious document. He takes a position so openly hostile to every Democratic program that it smells of intentional antagonist design.  He confirms this intention with the defiant smirk on his face during press interviews. Some talking head on TV suggested that the Republican approach for the second Obama term would be the same as for the first; above all else make his presidency fail.  I laughed it off when I first heard this suggestion; I believed they leaned their lesson during the fiscal cliff negotiations. I was wrong. Ryan and Eric Cantor along with a small group of others intend to make the United States Government fail over the budget issue. In my mind, that kind of conduct for an elected official is civil malfeasance.

As a start, think about the wisdom of shortening the time to balance the budget. The American people do no like to owe anyone anything. No one likes to pay taxes especially higher taxes.  If they can make it appear that national debt is worse than it is and couch it in terms of an obligation of paying higher taxes; thus, Republicans feel they can create a crisis of apocalyptic proportions in the minds of American voter; each person and all their grand children will have to pay thousands of dollars. The IRS will show up at your door so you had better have food stored in you basement and an assault weapon. All they have to do is lie about it and have you believe it.

First, they know every business borrows money to operate—deficit spending. They want to convince us that it is OK for businesses but it is wrong for the government to do that.

Second, if they add all social security obligations to the debt, which has nothing to do with the National Debt, they can make it look as if taxpayers obligations are worse that they really are.

Third, by shortening the time during which the national treasurer has to pay the national debt magnifies the debt. Ryan arbitrarily shortened it from 25 years to 10 years for example just by saying that we have to pay the national debt in the time span he decides. This is a well-known Republican operating tactic. The people in North Carolina saw, Gov. McCrory panic them by capriciously shortening the pay back time for unemployment insurance money the State borrowed from the Federal government from 10 year to one year. Wisconsin did a similar thing with different debt instruments, Michigan and Ohio did as well.

Forth, he subjected Medicare/Medicaid to the budget ax in a why he had openly fought against while campaigning for Vice President. He cannot even pretend that he forgot about that because reporters reminded him of it in every interview. Just as he seems to have forgotten the House voted against repeal of Obama care over 30 times in spite of the fact it lowers the budget deficit.

These four things are just a beginning of a list of shortcomings of Ryan’s budget plan. The only conclusion possible is that the proposal is an intentional signal that he and his other government haters do not want to find a resolution to the problem they are creating.  None of it makes sense. Apparently, they are doing it because they read Ayn Rand’s the Atlas Shrugged, when they were in high school. By the way, librarians file that book under fiction. 

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