What Does Paul Ryan Want To-- PLAN TO-- Do To America?

Clearly Paul Ryan has been tasked by what we call "Wall Street"-- the wealthy families that own most of the country and control its politicians-- with ridding them of the burden of Social Security and Medicare. In return he gets the presidency in 2016... or so. And if you're looking for the DCCC or the Wisconsin Democratic Party to fight against that, you're staring into a black hole of collusion in an ongoing effort to protect and build up one of the least plausible politicians since George W. Bush. There is no politician the Koch Brothers and their ilk are more eager to see ascend to power in America than Ryan, a perfect sieve.

Ryan has already taken more money from the banksters than anyone in the history of Wisconsin politics. Fellow Wisconsinite, David Obey, who retired as Chairman of the House Appropriations last year, was already in Congress when Ryan was born. Obey's total haul from the banking sector was $691,893 (and that's ten times more than the banksters gave Peter Barca, Ryan's immediate predecessor as the Representative for WI-1). No, Wall Street has Ryan's future very much in mind. We should too. As Blue America has been warning and the Washington Post confirmed yesterday, Ryan-- an ignorant and intellectually immature Ayn Rand acolyte-- poses an existential danger to America's middle class. In a swipe at even stupider teabagger freshmen, Ryan is preaching Wall Street's message that Social Security and Medicare need to be dismantled. Offering no details or specifics, he "will propose fundamental changes to Medicare and Medicaid, the giant health care programs that cover 100 million Americans."

Ryan's task is to bring America back in line with a reactionary vision that was prevalent among the country's ruling elites in the 1920s. They feel they've learned how to tap into a psuedo-populist view again-- Know Nothing type teabaggery-- and the goal is turning back the clock on social progress as fast and as far as possible before the pendulum swings back. Yesterday Ryan vowed to go even beyond the horrific recommendations of Simpson and that other corporate shill Obama appointed to the deficit commission-- the supposed "Democrat"-- recommendations that were turned down by the full commission. And among his first victims will be seniors who depend on Medicare, something the ruling elites always hated and conservatives always opposed.

Ryan, chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, said his budget blueprint, which will be released on Tuesday, will include deficit cuts that go further than the $4 trillion proposed by the commission.

"We're looking at more than that right now," he said on Fox News Sunday. "We're fine tuning our numbers with the Congressional Budget Office literally today ... but we're going to be cutting a lot more than that."

"We will be exceeding the goals presented by the president's debt commission," he said. "By cutting spending, reforming our entitlements and growing our economy."

The deficit commission late last year backed a series of bold proposals to cut the deficit by $4 trillion over a decade by trimming tax breaks, raising the retirement age for Social Security and other politically unpopular proposals.

Ryan said his plan would put caps on discretionary spending over the next five years.

The Republican said his proposal would also tackle Medicare and Medicaid, programs for the retired and the poor, though he said the changes would not impact anyone already over retirement age.

Time for Obama to put his foot down? Don't count on it. He's more in synch with Ryan, even if less extreme about it, than most Democrats realize. The ruling elites have Obama as much in the palm of their hands as any Republican. That's the way the system is designed. Meanwhile, let's give Wisconsin voters a chance to dump Ryan themselves, something the DCCC and the Wisconsin Democratic Party have studiously cock-blocked for a decade.



UPDATE: Public Campaign Action Fund Has An Easy To Understand Explanation For Ryan's Extremism On Behalf Of The Wealthy

1. Over his career, Paul Ryan received more than $2.1 million in campaign contributions to his campaign account and his leadership committee, Prosperity PAC, from health and insurance interests.

2. Insurance interests alone accounted for more than $850,000 of that total, with health professionals providing more than half a million dollars and pharmaceutical interests giving more than $250,000.

3. Among Ryan’s biggest backers were:

* Blue Cross/Blue Shield, whose PAC and executives gave him $75,650 in campaign contributions;

* America’s Health Insurance Plans, whose PAC and executives gave him $29,500; and

* Koch Industries, whose PAC and executives gave $100,500, including $2,500 from billionaire David Koch.