Feature Article: Paul Ryan’s Budget Does More Damage Than Al Qaeda, and More From Van Jones:

Van Jones spoke at the Yes Magazine Anniversary Ball on June 1, 2011:

During which he brought up an interesting topic. He states that:

“I look to the politics of hope inaugurated by Yes Magazine for guidance. Because this is bigger now than Democrats vs. Republicans. This is bigger than Rich vs. Poor. This is deeper than just Wall Street vs. Main Street. This is about the worst of Wall Street against the United States of America. It is really about a cheap patriotism vs. a deep patriotism”.

I don’t know what Van Jones keeps calling “this”. The whole speech was not available, so I cannot use it in context. I suppose that “this” refers to the strife in America.  I suppose he is trying to say that these problems that we have in this country (debt, unemployment, no money, inflation…)are not just small squabble anymore. Its big. It’s, in his mind, a battle between a “cheep patriotism and a deep patriotism”. First off, with a guy as liberal as Van Jones,  you can pretty much tell that this “cheap patriotism” is the Tea Party or any other patriot groups like it. He is somehow stating that even though Democrats have run the country into the ground and been against the will of the people every step of the way, somehow the left is more patriotic than we are. Regardless, Van Jones’s stupidity continues…

“This is about a patriotism that would take a wrecking ball; paint it red, white, and blue; and ram it through our communities. And Expect us to stand and solute a cheep patriotism verses a deep patriotism and a deep love of country. That’s what’s at stake now.”

(followed by clapping. Makes me think of Star Wars: III)

So now, Van thinks of the Tea Party as a big wrecking ball painted red, white, and blue that we ram through communities.  And expect liberals, or “us” as he put it, to stand and salute a cheap patriotism? Van Jones is wrong, again. Because, the last time I check we were trying to get the GOVERNMENT’S attention, to get the attention of the government, and make them change their ways. Also, it’s not a wrecking ball headed into communities. I’d like to send one to Washington, but not communities. Plus, if your community was just watching the Tea Party on TV, you can change the channel. He is acting like liberals are powerless to stop us. You know, nothing is perfect. If liberals were so upset about having a wrecking ball rammed through their community, then do something! If your that mad, then liberals, call your 23-year-old son out of the basement and have him vote. Go out and protest our protests. Call your friends and have them vote. It’s not like Americans cannot try to change the government. To put it into a Van Jones like metaphor, if the deep patriots (liberals) really wanted to stop us (the Tea Part), they could have come up to the wrecking ball controls, stop us from ramming the ball into big government, and move the ball back to hitting the Constitution. However, they didn’t. They sat idly by and said, “Oh! Someone help us because we won’t do it ourselves!” They waited for someone to do it for them. Notice the difference. The Tea Party took action. They said stop the spending and the big government. They said, don’t run the country down the tubes. The Tea Party is just a bunch of POed people who said STOP. In the words of Dana Loesch,“It’s just a “classic taxpayer revolt”. While the liberals sit by and said “WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!”

So our “wrecking ball” is now against this “deep patriotism” and a “deep love of country”. Strange, I thought that a deep patriotism was when you felt true to your founding. So, when someone trying to “progress” forward, you know it’s wrong. Wait, is Van Jones getting patriot and progressive confused? On to the next moronic statement:

“on this side of the political aisle, we don’t tend to brag on our patriotism, but we tend to be quieter about it, but still waters run deep”.

I love how hidden in words the real meaning of what he said is. You have to really look at it and see what it means.  The first thing would be the first phrase, “on this side of the political aisle,” That one’s hard. Democrat. Next: “we don’t tend to brag about our patriotism”. Now, this one bugs me. Yet again, hidden in words. You know he is making a quick stab at the Tea Party, a quick stab at the patrioticness of our people.  Well, in my opinion, that’s your problem. One has the right to show their love for their country. Why do you think America has stayed around so long? Why do you think America has been the land of opportunity? Why are we one of the greatest military forces in the world? Because we’re proud to be Americans. We stick with our country through the good times and bad. We don’t stand idly by as we watch our country fall apart. We embrace our founding and hold strong to it. We have the right to state what we believe and assemble peacefully. We know you stand strong to your roots too, they’re just not ours!

Also, you said that still waters run deep. I don’t get the water thing. As a progressive, shouldn’t you use some new beverage? Like Gatorade or something? not water. I thought you had to progress on from just plain water!

“Paul Ryan’s Budget is a threat to our country”

First, is it not the Democrats who have created a bad situation? Today, as Paul Ryan’s video states, we are faced with uncontrolled government spending, high taxes, and a huge 14 trillion-dollar debt.

Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security growing so big that they will fail (not too big to fail, so big they WILL fail). The government has gotten into the auto industry, the economy, the energy sector and our healthcare. If anything is a threat to our country it is the Democrats and their reckless government spending and expands.

Now, we will be taking a slight detour from Van Jones. In my opinion, in order to explain to you why Van Jones is wrong yet again. We need to take a look at Ryan’s budget:

Even according to CBS news, Paul Ryan’s budget is a good thing. It cuts the deficit by $4.4 trillion over ten years. It repeals the health care bill, reforms  Medicare and Medicaid, makes cuts to defense (endorsed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates), and cuts spending. Now I will explain each of the problems that Paul Ryan’s budget that CBS outlined in their article:

               Health Care:

Repeal it. However CBS refers to the healthcare takeover as “President Obama’s most significant accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act”

               Medicare Reform:

Under Ryan’s plan, seniors would buy private insurance and the government would then pay the private insurer. It also increases help for the sick and poor and shifts more of the cost to wealthy seniors. Liberals (of course) claim that Republicans are cutting benefits for the elderly. When I think of Democrats saying that Republicans kill old people, it makes me think about that old story ” if you give a mouse a cookie”. We gave seniors more and more things. This helped them, and we saw no immediate danger. However, now that we learn that it is going to run out of money and that we need to radically alter it, the Democrats just criticize. They don’t look at facts. I don’t get it.

              Medicaid:

The GOP plan would give a set number of money to the states. This will give governors the ability to give out the Medicaid program, but give money as they see fit. So, the Fed can regulate how much it costs. So, there will be no more throwing money at things. I am sure that in this case Democrats will say we are killing people, too. However, can you really ever make a liberal happy?

             Tax Reform:

Cut them!

            Social Security:

“In the event that the Social Security Program is not sustainable”  the President, House, and Senate would have to all come up with ideas to make sure the program runs smoothly. .

           Energy Subsidies:

The plan counts on money from drilling for oil on and off shore in the United States. (shocking right! Drilling HERE!)

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So, back to Van Jones. He states that Paul Ryan’s plan it is a threat to America. In what I have seen, it helps America more than the liberals have even dreamed of.

I don’t see how it is a threat to America. You know what the biggest threat to America is? liberals! Now, let’s look some more at Mr. Jones.

“Paul Ryan’s budget would knock out more critical infrastructure than al-Qaeda ever dreamed of!”

How dare you! How dare you try to say that a Republican plan would be worse than a terrorist group that murdered hundreds of people! How dare you equate fiscal responsibility with the murderers of al-Qaeda, who on September 11, 2001 launched a horrible, murderous, deliberate attack on America! How is this:

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better than Paul Ryan’s plan to save America? And you liberals are trying to equate murders and  Conservatives. Typical. Liberals naming us as senior murdering, woman hating people. We’re not. We’re trying to save this country from you morons. Listen to reason for once in your life. And don’t ever, ever try to equate us with murders. If you want one of those, look at your own stance on Abortion. However, that’s a whole other article.

I think that this statement needs no interpretation. It is so preposterous that you don’t really need to look at it, but we will.

Jones is trying to say that this budget will take out things that the federal government has put into our lives. He is saying that it shrinks back government (to where it should be, that is…) way too far. He is saying that it takes away the Fed’s power too much, knocking out its power supply. Well, they should. The federal government has grown way too much.

But let us not forget he just stated that a GOP budget is worse than al- Qaeda. However, let’s get back to the latest Van Jones failure…

“It is a threat not just to Democrats and to the President, but to what we hold dear, what we have built up as a nation over a hundred years of progress towards the beauty of our founding dream.”

There are so many things wrong with this that I don’t know where to start.

First off, it’s a threat to Democrats because it makes them look like morons because we managed to come out with a smart budget to help and not hurt us. Also, the Democrats don’t like the budget because it goes against liberal rule number one:  spend as much as human or inhumanly possible!

Second, we have built up things for one hundred years? I thought the United States has been around two hundred and thirty-five years. oh wait! I forgot! The Progressive movement was created in 1912 with Theodore Roosevelt. So, Jones is either a moron (well…) or he is stating date of the beginning of the Progressive movement in the United States. So heading from the standpoint that he is talking about Progressivism, in Van Jones’s mind, they are making progress to the FOUNDING dream of progress. Wait. So, even though their group is about moving on, they are moving on and forward to their founding dream? I thought that was going backwards. It makes no sense.

Ok! Now, let’s go from the thought that he really meant to say was “It is a threat…to…what we have built up over TWO hundred years towards the beauty of our founding dream” Well, then it still makes no sense. So, over all our years of keeping and sustaining this country, we have tried to PROGRESS to our founding dream?  Don’t  you either mean progress FROM our founding dream or stay true to the beauty of our founding dream. You cannot progress TOWARDS the  FOUNDING DREAM, but only away from it.Via WIKIPEDIA, Progressivism= ” a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.” Since Conservatism is staying true to the founding principles (via Wikipedia: ” political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society” and Progressivism is the opposite of Conservatism, then is it not true that progressives try to go away from their founding, not build up to it? Van Jones doesn’t really know his stuff….

Nevertheless, Van Jones’s statement is rude, stupid, and offensive to all Conservatives. Any patriot out there who understands the bare minimum of the word American, please wake up your liberal friends. Please show them the error of their ways. It starts little. I’m doing my part. How about you?