Big Ideas Aren't Always Good Ideas

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney named the controversial Paul Ryan as his Vice President pick.

Remember him? He’s the guy who wrote the budget plan to end Medicare as we know it. And his solution to America’s problems? More tax cuts for gazillionaires and more health care cuts for grandma. 

The budget plan Ryan proposed in Congress is a sure-fire way to throw millions of seniors into poverty. It’s a promise to do less for each other and concentrate more wealth at the top.(Never mind, of course, that Ryan himself depended on Social Security survivors’ benefits early in life. Now that he’s found success, he thinks everyone else should have to fend for themselves.)

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney has gone out of his way to distance himself from the atrocious Ryan Budget. The Ryan Budget is fiscally irresponsible and a disaster for America's seniors. 

Paul Ryan is young and telegenic and the media loves to treat him as "serious" for his "big ideas". But when you are running for the second highest office in the nation on "big ideas," the public has a right to know exactly what they are. Here are a few highlights of the Ryan Budget:

• The Ryan budget would actually make the debt worse by giving $3 trillion in tax handouts to corporations and the richest few -- giving millionaires over $250K more in tax giveaways on top of the over $100K they'd get from the Bush tax cuts.
• In the last six years, Republicans got 7 out of 10 Congressional campaign dollars spent by corporations that benefit the most from tax loopholes passed by those politicians. The Ryan budget would increase tax loopholes, esepcially for big oil.
• The Ryan Budget would kills jobs. The Economic Policy Institute estimates, would suck demand out of the economy and “reduce employment by 1.3 million jobs in fiscal 2013 and 2.8 million jobs in fiscal 2014.
• The Ryan budget would end Medicare as we know it, throw millions of Americans off their health insurance, and cut more than $1 trillion from programs like school lunches that vulnerable families rely on. The Romney-Ryan plan to end Medicare as we know it,replaces the Medicare guarantee of coverage with privatized vouchers. They want to stick your parents with a coupon to hand over to the insurance companies.

Ending Medicare as we know it is far from popular with both parties. Over 70% of Americans, including most Republicans, want to keep Medicare as it is today and reject Paul Ryan's "couponcare." 

Pennsylvanians like Carlton of Greensburg are surviving on Social Security and Medicare. They are drawing a line in the sand against cuts of Medicare and Social Security. If you agree, pass this along to your friends and neighbors to make sure Ryan’s scorched-earth plan doesn’t become a reality.

Will you sign the pledge to stand for Medicare and Social Security, and pass it on?