I'm just trying to be helpful.
Please close your eyes and repeat after me: "Some Americans deserve a bigger share than other Americans." See? It's easy!
Those two etiolated desk jockeys -- Mitt Romney and his possible running mate, Paul Ryan -- want to make sure you understand that midday martini-sippers deserve greater rights, privileges, and rewards than, you know, people who do heavy lifting and serve others for a living -- or people who have been "downsized" and tossed out of a greedy system.
... Whoever Mr. Romney picks, he or she will cheerfully go along with the budget-busting, reverse Robin Hood policies that you know are coming if the former governor wins. ...Paul Krugman, NYT
Paul Krugman, a New Jerseyite, is watching as another prospective Romney veep and that state's governor responds to the state's fiscal crisis by cutting taxes on the rich and -- to pay for it -- cutting funding for everyone else. Governor Chris Christie is the very image of a Republican fat cat by any measure, but he's just as pale and flabby-looking as those Romney and Ryan scarecrows. Ryan? Christie? Romney? All of these guys talk about decreasing deficits. But scratch a Republican and you'll find a creature destined to inflate both deficits and debt. It's a well-documented habit. They've been indulging themselves pretty steadily over the decades.
Mr. Ryan and Mr. Romney, then, are fake deficit hawks. And the evidence for their fakery isn’t just their bad arithmetic; it’s the fact that for all their alleged deep concern over budget gaps, that concern isn’t sufficient to induce them to give up anything — anything at all — that they and their financial backers want. They’re willing to snatch food from the mouths of babes (literally, via cuts in crucial nutritional aid programs), but that’s a positive from their point of view — the social safety net, says Mr. Ryan, should not become “a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency.” Maintaining low taxes on profits and capital gains, and indeed cutting those taxes further, are, however, sacrosanct. ...Paul Krugman, NYT
