After Ryan Pick, Will 'Fiscal Cliff' Come to Fore?--(WSJ Video discussion --)

WSJ ^ | 8/14/2012 11:08:49 AM4:05 | WSJ

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The economy is expected to play a big part in the coming election. But how might the Romney-Ryan ticket frame the debate over the fiscal cliff? Janet Hook discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: AP.

[concerned about politics]

Chinese companies pull out of US stock markets

If we've ever needed strong leaders with good economic heads, we need them now.

Tossing our hard earned wages around like candy at a parade isn't the answer. Oboma is wrong - ignorantly, radically wrong.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

But the leftist media is touting Obama...see this thread....good links on the thread:

Paul Ryan A Bold VP Choice But Romney/Ryan Plan Will Hammer The Middle Class

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There are quite a number of threads that turned up when i searched to see if the video Title had been posted....going back several months....the search list:

Click here

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

On the second page of the list....posted

08/13/2012 6:09:29 AM PDT · by Lakeshark :

Dem electoral strategy – convince Grandparents to throw Grandchildren off fiscal cliff

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks Ernest.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments at the website for article linked at post #4:

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Mark Michael | August 13, 2012 at 1:02 pm

They aren’t just going to throw their grandchildren off the cliff, they’ll be throwing the whole country off the cliff! Greece, Spain, Italy lie below – paralyzed with 20% permanent unemployment, government unions demonstrating in the streets, standards of living plunging,…

The GOP ticket has their work cut out for them, though, given that the lower half of the income scale pays a mere 3.6% of the federal individual income tax bill. (That’s when you account for all of the handouts, tax credits, etc. that they get.) BUT, every prez election cycle we put off having this “choice” election, the more people will be free riders and the fewer paying the tax bills. Better do it now rather than later. It could be our last chance.

My thought: the GOP ticket should promise that budget cuts will be across the board for all domestic discretionary federal spending. Each special interest shares equally in the cuts. Note that these beneficiaries NEVER paid 15.3% of their income for these programs, unlike Social Security and Medicare. Those recipients have paid in at that rate since 1984 when the Greenspan Commission worked out its “compromise” to “fix” SS & Medicare. That’s a long 28 years of forced taxation.

Those recipients deserve to rank higher on the budget-cutting totem pole than “free riders”. Now, SS & Medicare are Ponzi Schemes, just like Madoff’s “investments” were. Treat them the same way the judge handled the investors in Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme: you only can get back at most what payroll tax you paid in.

[Marine_Uncle]

Things are obviously worse then most’s worst nightmares.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes ,,,but there is some hope...FR Thread:

50% Now View Paul Ryan Favorably; 43% Say He Was Right Choice

[Marine_Uncle]

The upcoming VP Debate should clear up most concerns those in dis favor of him now harbor. Only the real die hard socialist and associated morons who do not even recognize they are actually morons, will vote the demorat ticket.