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" I said it on Monday already, and I&amp;#039;ll say it again on Tuesday: I really don&amp;#039;t want to turn the blog into a 24-hour Mock The Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver From Space Drive-Thru Snark Buffet. But there was a football game in between, and Paul Ryan&amp;#039;s really got to stop encouraging my entrepreneurial spirit in ways like this: &amp;quot;I got to start off on something that was really troubling that occurred last night,&amp;quot; said the Wisconsin congressman and Republican vice-presidential nominee at the top of his town hall here. &amp;quot;Did you guys watch that Packer game last night? I mean, give me a break. It is time to get the real refs.&amp;quot; Yes, it is terrible when the &amp;quot;producers&amp;quot; in society try to break unions in a $9 billion industry over what amounts to pocket change. The quality of the product actually suffers when the &amp;quot;producers&amp;quot; value their own profits over the notion that their mooching employees deserve decent recompense for the work they do. Not only that, but people are happier with actual pensions than they are with 401K&amp;#039;s that exist at the whims of what Paul Ryan believes is the genius of the capitalism system. Yes, by and large, unionized industries are better for everyone involved, including consumers. Oh, I&amp;#039;m sorry. What was your point, then? &amp;quot;And you know what, it reminds me of President Obama and the economy.... If you can&amp;#039;t get it right, it is time to get out. I half think these refs work part-time for the Obama administration in the Budget Office. They see the national debt clock staring them in the face. They see a debt crisis, and they just ignore and pretend it didn&amp;#039;t even happen. They are trying to pick the winners and losers, and they don&amp;#039;t even do that very well.&amp;quot; Of course, the parallel is striking. Scab workers doing shoddy work on behalf of plutocrats is the same as how Barack Obama forced Paul Ryan to help George W. Bush run up the national debt. Tell me again what a serious economic thinker this guy is. ON THE CULTURE BLOG: Tom Chiarella on Monday Night Football and the Hail Mary from Replacement-Ref Hell &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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