Blogging Blue got some national publicity along with continued insights about Paul Ryan’s lack of representation of his constituents in a recent Down with Tyranny blog posting. DWT continues to attack Paul Ryan’s position on specific legislation that shows how out of touch he is with his District’s needs. Here’s what they had to say about Paul Ryan:
“While other members of Congress have bent over backwards to bring jobs to their districts, Ryan– in an attempt to prove his far right ideological purity– has been adding to the destruction of the area’s manufacturing base.”
They also had this to say in their posting:
“Ryan, a smooth operator and notorious concern troll, in effect, is giving the finger to southeast Wisconsin voters who favor a plan calling on the government “to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless,” bring down the deficit and hand the bill to the wealthy (i.e., Ryan’s patrons).”
Here’s what they had to say about the recent post here on Blogging Blue:
“They also came up with a fascinating stat that Ryan’s media allies are unlikely to make available to voters.”
Nice job, MCM. You’ve hit the bigtime now!
“Ryan, a smooth operator and notorious concern troll, in effect, is giving the finger to southeast Wisconsin voters who favor a plan calling on the government “to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless,” bring down the deficit and hand the bill to the wealthy (i.e., Ryan’s patrons).”
Tax the rich to bring down the deficit? Ryan’s against it? I’m glad. Everyone should be against this intellectually bankrupt idea. Next, they’ll be arguing that was should tax the rich to buy everyone else pizza on fridays–after all the rich can afford it so they owe us. But in principal, Ryan’s correct. Unless spending is cut taxing the rich is not going to make a bit of difference to the deficit.
The next logical mistep our friends at DWT make is that it assumes that jobs will be created through through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for the jobless.
Pardon me if I don’t believe that investing in alternative energy–an undeveloped industry and unproven industry is the best use of of public funds in a recession. Even in the best of economic conditions jobs, wouldn’t be created until the public at large has a need for that industry. Personally, I would let all those fat cats on wall street do the work. There are enough alternative energy companies out there, which are funded by share holders to provide funding. They don’t need public money.
Funds for job training? Sounds nice and perhaps a good idea if we actually had a labor shortage. But I think we all recognize that the current problem is not enough jobs rather than a lack of workers. Adding more trained workers serves only to increase the available pool of applicants for a limited number of jobs. The negative externality is that salaries necessarly must go down. But hey, if your a fan of taking a pay cut, by all means critize Ryan for not supporting this one.
Public works. I’m all in favor of maintaining and and expanding public works projects when it is done per a plan and makes sense. But these blank check measures lead to waste. Instead, the criticism for or against support of Public work projects should be waged on a project-by-project basis rather than categorically. After all, if we our prepared to categorically condem Ryan for his opposition to public works projects, then to avoid being inconsistent don’t we need to praise Palin for her pipelines to nowhere? After all, it created a lot of jobs.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1846731,00.html