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Posted: May 12


RE: Right-wing Social Engineering　

Believing economics doesn't have to be complicated. It is the study of our lives — our jobs, our homes, our families and the little decisions we face every day.

Some would admit, Rep. Paul Ryan’s is a handsome, telegenic fellow, a Catholic; Ryan would have made a brilliant televangelist. According to the Media, as an Irish-American funeral director, he’d been a first-ballot Hall of Famer, none-the-less, it is written his budgetary manifesto, Ryan calls "The Path to Prosperity," exists in the realm of pure theory, if not downright fantasy . Did Newt Gingrich got something right when he called it "right-wing social engineering"

Mitt Romney called marvelous, these Republican proposals should be dismissed as pure rhetoric.

Did the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, get it?

According to the National Media, they wrote a letter insisting that Ryan’s "budget cuts are unjustified and wrong," and urging Congress to "reject any efforts to reduce funds or restructure programs in ways that harm struggling families and people living in poverty."

Similarly, almost 90 faculty members at Georgetown University — a Jesuit school — recently signed a letter to Ryan which says that

"We would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few."

Is it another exercise in GOP magical thinking? Wait, do the numbers need to add up and knowing it will never be enacted? Republican Congressional members’, voting for it, shown no concern for reality; ignorance of the warnings from Gingrich, as well as, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, perhaps? Pointedly, indulged in vote counting, with certain knowledge that it was going nowhere in the Senate and would be vetoed by President Obama if it did.

We learned anything the way the United States economy operated more than 100 years ago (days of Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie); Mark Twain quoted as the Gilded Age. A few people would do very well; almost everyone else is in for a hard time.