{"id":11954,"date":"2011-04-06T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11954"},"modified":"2011-04-06T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:48:02","slug":"demagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11954","title":{"rendered":"Demagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon seeing a pie chart which explains that 2\/3rds<\/sup> of Rep. Ryan's budget cutting plan comes directly from cutting programs that benefit low-income citizens, worshiper of all things serious, Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, finds a way to make sure the Democrats are still worse:<\/p>\n

Agreed. Which is why the Democrats now need to provide a way to get equivalent savings by fairer means. If they could stop politicking and demagoguing, this is a major opportunity to contrast their vision of shared sacrifice with the GOP's.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holy fuck, dude. This is some unbelievable shit right here. Did you really miss the last 12 months where the Dems tried to help fix the deficit by enacting a whopping 3% tax increase on income above $200,000 and were turned into America-hating, job-killing, class-warfare-waging, commi-socialists ? (not to mention Death panels ? Cutting Medicare<\/a> !) Three percent! They got slaughtered by the media who, in love with the dipshit teabaggers, refused to explain to its audience what a \"marginal tax rate\" is, how our tax system works, what 3% really means in this context, etc.. For three fucking percent on income above $200K. <\/p>\n

For those who don't know our tax system: this means that if you made $200,001 and the tax rate for income above $200K went up 3%, you'd pay $0.03 more. Wow! Right?
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Do you know the median personal income in the US ? Sullivan? Look it up<\/u><\/span>. After you've done that, and then pushed your eyes back into their sockets, take another look at that pie chart - a long look. And think about what Ryan is proposing vs. what the Dems got beat down over. And tell us again who the real demagogues are. Do it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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