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Paul Ryan: Don’t Call My Puerto Rico Bailout a “Bailout”, Call It “Restructuring”
Conservative Treehouse ^ | 13 Apr 2016 | Sundance

Posted on 04/14/2016 10:53:40 AM PDT by detective

Please insert a big fat TOLDYASO right here.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is lashing out at opponents to his Puerto Rico bailout bill demanding they stop calling it a “bailout”. Instead Ryan demands his opposition use the gaslighting term “restructuring”.

Hogwash.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bailout; lyinryan; puertorico; puertoricobailout; restructuring; speakerryan
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The article focuses on Speaker Ryan but it is unfair to blame him alone. The corrupt, dishonest politicians who control Puerto Rico forced the Commonwealth into de facto bankruptcy. The corrupt and dishonest politicians in Washington D.C. are using taxpayer dollars to bail them out and reward them for their corruption.

No one cares about the hit to American taxpayers.

1 posted on 04/14/2016 10:53:40 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

“Speaker Ryan but it is unfair to blame him alone”
Nothing comes to the floor unless the speaker says so, he could stop it if he wanted to.


2 posted on 04/14/2016 10:55:45 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: detective

but the bankers are going to get paid right? isn’t that all that matters in the end?

12 feet of rope


3 posted on 04/14/2016 10:56:13 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: detective

Ryan: have you introduced legislation to legally define a “subsidy” as only when appropriations are actually made, when a check/disbursement is actually presented to the party receiving the subsidy — rather than anything else like keeping more of your money after taxes — yet?


4 posted on 04/14/2016 10:57:46 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: eyeamok

Bankers should be the first to feel the pinch.

It might discourage them from making bad or risky choices.


5 posted on 04/14/2016 10:58:50 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: detective

Is this like calling it- Liberal vs. Progressive?


6 posted on 04/14/2016 10:59:07 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: detective
Ditch the GOPe's princeling, Paul Ryan.

There is an alternative.

www.paulnehlen.com


7 posted on 04/14/2016 11:01:53 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: detective

Thank God we have a (privately owned) Federal Reserve bank, that can print all the unbacked, paper, fiat dollars we need, and create massive amounts of debt, to pay for all of our governments’ political corruption and social engineering schemes.

Without it, the nanny state couldn’t exist and would couldn’t paper over bankruptcy and corruption so easily!!


8 posted on 04/14/2016 11:02:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

This ryan is good at wasting OPM (other peoples’ money). What a clymer.


9 posted on 04/14/2016 11:02:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: detective
OK, it's a restructured BAILOUT.
10 posted on 04/14/2016 11:04:15 AM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: detective

Wall Street is doing fine. The “Washington Cartel”(remember them Cruzaderos?)is doing fine. Print more money and hand it out to the connected cronies.

For those still working: Pay your taxes, do what you’re told, vote(as if it matters)for the UniParty, and shut up about it. The joke is on you.

For those on the dole: Draw your checks, do what you’re told, believe everything you see on TV, vote for who we tell you to vote for, and blame conservatives, especially “racist” White males, for all your troubles.

That about sums up America, 2016.


11 posted on 04/14/2016 11:12:11 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: detective; rrstar96; AuH2ORepublican; livius; adorno; wtc911; Willie Green; CGVet58; Clemenza; ...
Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.


12 posted on 04/14/2016 11:14:51 AM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: detective

Can we call it unconstitutional?

How much affirmative action, pity or welfare do they need?

You want to call it restructuring? Fine, then let them file under BK to restructure.


13 posted on 04/14/2016 11:17:06 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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The one sure management tool is The Law Of Effect.

The Law Of Effect basically states that you will tend to get more of the behavior you reward and less of the behavior you punish.

Let’s see how that applies to Puerto Rico.

Their politicians ran a Ponzi Scheme and stole.

We want less of that type of behavior.

So we should punish them.

Are we?

Because they damn sure rewarded themselves with taxpayer and borrowed money.

What kind of behavior can we expect more of in the future?


14 posted on 04/14/2016 11:17:35 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: detective; All
"No one cares about the hit
to American taxpayers...."


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15 posted on 04/14/2016 11:20:10 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: detective

Puerto Rico is our Greece. Call it whatever you like.

Who is losing money and who is gaining it?

What is the loser getting in return for the money?

What is the gainer giving up in return for the money?

I have a friend who was born in and grew up in Puerto Rico. He immigrated to the States many years ago. I asked him what he thought about the state of the country.

He said, “The whole problem with Puerto Rico is there are too many ‘effing Puerto Ricans there.”


16 posted on 04/14/2016 11:28:09 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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To: detective

Uniparty PR demanding only certain words be used to define plunder.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org

The gang of 535 should be in federal prison.

/debt slavery


17 posted on 04/14/2016 11:32:30 AM PDT by PGalt
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Okay, Speaker Bailout, tell us all about your bailout, Paul Bailout.


18 posted on 04/14/2016 11:39:11 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: cll

NO damn Flag should fly higher that the US flag. When you give folks money it’s a bailout......US will NEVER get any money back....it’s like Bailing out DC. Ryan is a weak little man.


19 posted on 04/14/2016 12:15:45 PM PDT by mastertex
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To: mastertex

Ryan is a democrat.


20 posted on 04/14/2016 12:24:04 PM PDT by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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