What, Me Worry?
The Republican party is nominating Mitt Romney, a Mormon, for President and Paul Ryan, a Catholic, for Vice President.
I'm all for inclusivity but these guys make strange bedfellows given their
fundamentally different concepts of 'God'. Moreover, each considers the other
'unbaptised'. What are we to think if either should announce that 'God' told them to do it?
Romney has tended to 'flip-flop' on a number of issues over the years but Ryan
seems somewhat more steadfast in his (questionable) views. Americans should be
alarmed that Ryan might gain real power over economic policy, however. He is a
devotee of Friedman and Hayek whose neo-liberalist doctrinal approach to
capitalism, which was adopted by Reagan and Thatcher and pursued thereafter by
their successors, brought about the financial collapse of 2007/8. I don't think
Romney has any particular intellectual commitment to economics - he just likes
making money and he doesn't care how ruthless he has to be to make a profit.
Ryan likes shooting things for a hobby so you can forget about any reform of
gun control, or of bows and arrows for that matter. Romney just shoots at
rabbits with his son's .22 so he's a bit of a namby-pamby by comparison.
Neither is fit to be in charge of America's foreign policy, both being entirely
ignorant in this respect.
What they both seem to want seriously is to make health care more expensive for
more people, and to enable people with money to make more money and pay less
tax. And to hell with the rest of you (whatever their particular idea of 'hell'
might be).
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