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" Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, and most recent First Runner-Up in our national vice-presidential pageant, has released another &amp;quot;budget,&amp;quot; this one a sham even by his remarkable standards because this is an election year and nobody is going to vote for a budget, even a fake one, unless it includes free money, doughnuts, and oral sex for everyone in the country. Anyway, it&amp;#039;s pretty much what we have come to expect from Ryan. More money for the military, more granny-starving for the rest of us. The budget violates some tenets that both parties have tried to observe since the budget fights of 2011 and 2012. Those fights preserved a practice of cutting defense and nondefense programs almost equally while sparing the poorest Americans from the worst of the belt-tightening. Mr. Ryan&amp;#039;s plan dispenses with such niceties. In his plan, military spending through 2024 would actually rise by $483 billion over the spending caps established in the 2011 Budget Control Act &amp;quot;consistent with America&amp;#039;s military goals and strategies,&amp;quot; while nondefense spending at Congress&amp;#039;s annual discretion would be cut by $791 billion below those strict limits. In all, Mr. Ryan says, spending would be cut by $5.1 trillion over the next decade. More than $2 trillion of that would come from repealing Mr. Obama&amp;#039;s health care initiative, the Affordable Care Act, a political move that has become much more difficult with the closing of the first enrollment period. As many as 10 million Americans have gotten health insurance through the law, either through private policies purchased on insurance exchanges, through expanded Medicaid or private policies purchased through brokers but subsidized by the law. Of course, when it comes to poor people, whose souls Ryan seeks to fill with his deep concern, it will all be for their own good. Such an approach &amp;quot;empowers recipients to get off the aid rolls and back on the payrolls,&amp;quot; Mr. Ryan writes. Says the guy who went to college on my dime -- You&amp;#039;re welcome, dickhead. -- and who hasn&amp;#039;t drawn a salary from anywhere except the government for the greater part of his adult life, and whose mansion gets maintained by the National Park Service. (And Paul Krugman undoubtedly will take note of the fact that Ryan&amp;#039;s budget only balances -- by 2024! -- through the use of the magic asterisk, assuming a certain level of future economic growth for which there is no real evidence. Biggest fake in American politics.) This is going nowhere, obviously, but it once again illustrates that Ryan&amp;#039;s devotion to zombie-eyed granny-starver does not arise from his profound concern about The Deficit, but, rather, is based in a nearly theological opposition to the government&amp;#039;s efforts to do anything except raise an army and protect the prerogatives of the upper classes. (A top rate of 25 percent? Lovely.) He wants to destroy Medicaid not because of its alleged fiscal problems. He wants to destroy it because he doesn&amp;#039;t think it should exist as a government program. There&amp;#039;s no point to pretending otherwise. He is trying, always, to pick a fight with a century of progressive legislation. Someone really should give him one. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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