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Harvard Professor: Paul Ryan’s budget plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood proposal’
Campus Reform ^

Posted on 08/14/2012 3:00:56 PM PDT by oliverdarcy

Paul Ryan’s budget plan is “reverse Robin Hood proposal” aimed at taking from “low income Americans” and giving to “the very wealthiest,” a Harvard professor said in a radio interview on Monday.

“It is not a deficit reduction program,” argued Harvard Professor of Government Theda Skocpol. “It is a way to cut taxes on the wealthy… and to just slap all of the needs of the poor and low income people under the states and say ‘good luck with that.’”

Harvard professor Theda Skocpol said in a radio interview that Paul Ryan’s budget proposal “is not a deficit reduction program.”

Skocpol predicted that it “will quickly be obvious to most Americans” that Ryan’s “breathtakingly extreme” budget plan “is a path to prosperity only for the top five percent.”

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To: oliverdarcy

Anyone who thinks a radical Harvard sociologist has a clue
regarding the economy of the United States doesn’t have a clue either. This woman has no credibility and is a joke.


21 posted on 08/14/2012 3:33:23 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: oliverdarcy

Anyone who thinks a radical Harvard sociologist has a clue
regarding the economy of the United States doesn’t have a clue either. This woman has no credibility and is a joke.


22 posted on 08/14/2012 3:35:23 PM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: oliverdarcy

Ryan’s plan doesn’t cut enough spending. Enormous numbers of useless bureaucrats need to be laid off, pensions cut, etc. And it’s eventually going to happen regardless of tactics used by various political groups (default, repudiation, currency adjustment ahead).


23 posted on 08/14/2012 3:41:02 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: oliverdarcy

Also, Ryan would be doing even less against big government spending as VP.


24 posted on 08/14/2012 3:46:27 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: oliverdarcy
“reverse Robin Hood proposal”

Dude's a bit slow. That was from LAST week's talking points.

25 posted on 08/14/2012 3:48:35 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: oliverdarcy

I stopped reading at: “Harvard Professor”


26 posted on 08/14/2012 3:54:54 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: oliverdarcy

There is no Ryan budget under consideration, the professor is uninformed. There is a Romney plan but we would not expect some doofus from harvard to grasp that.


27 posted on 08/14/2012 3:59:29 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: kcvl

I have a question of perplexing complexity. Why are our women so much prettier than their women?


28 posted on 08/14/2012 4:05:50 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (This tagline for rent. Contact GeorgiaDawg32 for pricing and excellent financing options.)
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To: oliverdarcy

Two weeks too late comrade professor... your dumbass is on the playbook of two weeks ago.

LLS


29 posted on 08/14/2012 4:17:55 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: oliverdarcy

How did these people get to be Professors?

Why don’t they all get together and start a college to give free college educations to the poor instead of screwing the parents of the rich kids out of their money and teaching their kids to be good little communists.

This guy is in Haaarvard surrounded by rich’s and teaching Socialism and Communism. Why doesn’t he go teach the poor?
Because the poor cannot pay his extravagant salary thats why.
He talks a good game though.


30 posted on 08/14/2012 4:28:41 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: kcvl

Wait That’s a woman.

Well SHE talks a good game while accepting her extravagant Haaarvard salary.


31 posted on 08/14/2012 4:30:38 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: UB355
Is this a 'real professor' or a professor like 0pansy, the part-time lecturer? Harvard idiots like this 'professor' and 0pansy, never worked a day in the real world. They only have pretend-work-experience. Just like the pretend/ phony law review articles that 0pansy, who never wrote for, wrote for the Harvard law review.
32 posted on 08/14/2012 4:34:20 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: oliverdarcy

Yeah, it figures some Harvard loose lips would comment on the poor vs the wealthy all the while sitting on piles of cash in their endowment funds!


33 posted on 08/14/2012 5:08:26 PM PDT by truthingod
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34 posted on 08/14/2012 5:16:09 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: oliverdarcy
So this Harvard acadumbic claims Ryan wants to steal from the people to give to the government?
Remember when Harvard, the Ivy League, The New York Times, the Nobel Peace Prize, etc., once were esteemed?
Liberalism corrupts everything.

35 posted on 08/15/2012 6:00:53 AM PDT by Amagi (Chief Justice John Roberts is a traitorous weasel.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Why are our women so much prettier than their women?

Because we're happier!

36 posted on 08/15/2012 8:33:08 AM PDT by SuziQ
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