The Game Changer: Ted Cruz Demolished the Mainstream Media!

Mark Levin as moderator at a democrat debate, I would go for a pay for view.

@Greg: Of whom do you speak?

I seriously doubt voters are looking into who is on stage before or after the candidates its the venue thats important. Now if any of them were a member of his church. (gives me visions of Reverend Wright)

I’m watching the republican debates. Ted Cruz has a tax plan. Payroll taxes are abolished. Everybody pays a flat tax. The American economy is unshackled.! The engines of capitalism are unleashed!

How does this work out in the real world? the moderator inquires. How do we meet the bills with this sort of system?

Go to TedCruz.org, he answers. It’s all explained.

So, I go. As I suspected, nothing is explained. He’ll take a weed whacker to the federal government. He’ll eliminate 25 listed Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions, and programs, and that’s just a start! This will produce estimated savings of over $500,000,000,000 in 10 years!

Does Ted think we’re idiots? (A rhetorical question.) The number with all the zeros would be $500 billion. Over 10 years, that works out to $50 billion in savings per year. This amount is nothing, compared with the overall size of the annual federal budget.

So where’s that explanation of how his flat rate tax plan will somehow increase revenue? I found this page, with links to nowhere. And finally this page, no thanks to the TedCruz.org website directory, which doesn’t seem to exist.

So, is this suppose to be the explanation of how this works in reality? Because it’s nothing actually more than another sales pitch for pig in a poke.

@Bill:

Interesting that Greg had nothing to say about Obama hanging around and attending “Raving Lunatic” Rev Jeremiah Wright’s radical leftist Church.

@Greg:

Thanks for proving (not that regular commenters here weren’t painfully aware already) of what shameless far left hack you are.

Would that your newfound eagerness for financial details existed before Obama ran for office…not that it would have mattered since as a leftist you have no relationship with truth, reality or integrity.

We are supposed to believe that you are concerned about fiscal vaguery in Cruz’s plan to do away with the Marxist-based progressive income tax system?

Obamacare now has 13 co-ops that have collapsed because of the predicted fiscal insanity a socialist health care system pretending to be a free market system inherently is. $2.5 billion the federal government has reneged on these obamacare insurance scams, resulting in hundreds of thousands of folks losing the mandatory insurance plans they were forced into. $50 billion per year is a good START to dismantling the leftist crony political system of theft your far left syncophants call “wealth redistribution”.

We all wait with baited breath your in depth analyses of Hillary’s and Bernie’s plans from their public statements and websites on balancing the budget, paying for a national socialist health care system, giving “free” college to all, bring an estimated 11 to 35 million illegal aliens onto the welfare roles, and repealing the 2nd Amendment.

By the way, where is this “economic catastrophe” that America is supposedly “in the middle of?” I don’t know what that babble is about. Didn’t any of the republican hopefuls read the October 2015 jobs report?

@Bill, #15:

Jobs report? Look again; tell me how many are full time and how many are seasonal part time. Yeah, economic disaster. Obama.

Maybe you should look at it yourself. From the Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2015:

Jobs Report: Full-Time Employment Now Above Where It Was Before the Recession

That would be Obama. It sure as hell hasn’t got anything to do with the GOP, which hasn’t put forward any jobs programs or legislation in years, despite their campaign claims that jobs were their top priority, and despite having majorities in both houses of Congress for going on a year.

Not everyone is participating in the right’s self-imposed positive information blackout. Some people still live in a factual reality where news can be both positive and negative.

@Greg: But Greg, how does the 50 billion a year savings under Cruz compare with Obama’s performance. He’s about a Trillion a year deficit. let’s see, a trillion divided by 50 billion is about 20 times worse. So I guess you don’t mind if we continue a trillion a year deficit as long as it’s a Dimocrat doing the spending.

@Greg:

That would be Obama.

I thought everything was Bush’s fault. So everything that happens from now out is Obama?
There are a helluva lot less full time employees working today than there were when Obozo took office.l

@Greg:
Greg, everything you say is untruthful.

For YOU – or any leftist hack – to call Cruz a demagogue is a gutbusting howler of hypocrisy on par with leftist claims of an economic recovery under Obama.

Let me clarify your stupid leftist greed:

“Conservatives are GREEDYSELFISHBASTARDS because they want to stop leftist political hacks from using the government to STEAL what is produced by hard work, to enslave the lazy and the uneducated with the poisonous drug of welfare entitlements while pretending to ‘care’ about the so-called poor.”

You are as ignorant as you are self-absorbed in your misguided sense of erroneous self-righteousness.

Your new demands for economic specificity ring deafeningly hollow – as I mentioned before – given your immature, unquestioning devotion to the obvious economic disaster and blatant lies Obama and his ilk spewed over obamacare. Lies that have been shown repeatedly with each and every failure of obamacare since its deceitful partisan cramming.

@Redteam: What is YOUR definition of prejudiced.
Why is Levin prejudiced?

@Bill, #23:

The retired population is at an all-time high. It’s a result of the Baby Boomers retiring. This has been coming for decades.

And why would republicans suddenly be whining about low wages? Do republicans think the serfs aren’t earning enough? That would certainly be a shift of attitude. Corporate America has done everything in their power over the past few decades to find their way to the lowest possible labor-cost environments. They’ve killed unions. They’ve stripped away employment related benefits, and unloaded pension and health insurance promises onto the American taxpayer. They’ve off-shored tens-of-millions of jobs American jobs, putting American labor into direct competition with overseas labor pools that work for peanuts. And as much as they hate to admit it, they resisted efforts to restrict hiring to the legal domestic labor market, not wanting to burden employers with any responsibility for hiring undocumented workers. Now their line-up of political tools are attempting to exploit the consequences of their own irresponsibility.

@Redteam: “Maybe his mother taught him wrong or one of his teachers.” Seriously–How is he prejudiced?
Do you put Dr.Carson with Trump in the anti-establishment group? Do you think he would make a good President?

@Greg:

The retired population is at an all-time high. It’s a result of the Baby Boomers retiring. This has been coming for decades.

When a liberal is doing the damage, the excuses can sure get weak, Greg. People retire all the time. However, loads of people are opting for early retirement as their jobs disappear or become part time, thanks to Obamacare and the horrific Obama economy.

And why would republicans suddenly be whining about low wages? Do republicans think the serfs aren’t earning enough?

You are a victim of your own self-generated misconceptions. Republicans always work for a broader economy which includes more and provides more better paying jobs. It would be the left that simply gives up on the economy and takes the easy way out by demanding $15 an hour for $7 an hour jobs, which is all their economy produces and, recently, about all that is left.

When a project, privately funded like the Keystone, comes around with the promise of tens of thousands of well-paying jobs (even if on for 5 years or so) the left nixes it to support their global warming scam; who doesn’t care about jobs or wages, Greg? We see plenty of wealthy leftists getting richer off Obama’s quantitative easing to keep his weak economy afloat; without the printing of money to loan at 0%, where would we be?

Unions priced themselves out of the labor market, mostly replaced with machines. This and your social justice taxation system has driven businesses and jobs off shore (I can’t help but notice no left wing or union crying over GE or GM sending jobs to China). Your left wing open borders policy of rewarding illegal immigration drives lower-end wages down. Every one of your silly and weak excuses has a liberal root cause.

Don’t hand me that crap.

@Redteam, #27:

They are not ‘whining’ about low wages, they are ‘whining’ about a piss poor economy.

The “economic catastrophe” we’re supposedly in the middle of is a figment of the republican imagination, and one that they’ve been working 24/7 to sell since Obama was elected. The U.S. GDP is presently at the highest level in the nation’s history. The problem is that the benefits of economic gains are not being realized by the nation’s working and middle classes, and have not been since the end of the Clinton years.

Have a look at this chart comparing per capita GDP by year with real median household income. The blue line is the GDP, which is a direct reflection of the level of economic activity. (If there were truly an “economic catastrophe” underway, that line would not be at its highest point in history and trending upward.) The red line reflects the median income of American households.

Do you expect republicans to tell the truth about this? A truthful statement about the economy would go something like this:

The U.S. economy is producing more wealth now than it has at any previous point in U.S. history, but the gains are not going to working and middle class Americans. The gains are all going to somebody else, and they have been for quite a long time now.

I suppose they might then ask if anyone has any questions about this incontestable fact.

@Randy, #33:

Do you not understand the simple truth that the problem cannot possibly be a weak economy when the Gross Domestic Product is the highest it has ever been in the history of the United States?

If the economy is producing wealth at a record level—if this is a time of great abundance—why is real household income falling? Where do you think the benefits of record levels of production are going?

@Greg: I would suggest you read the notes at the bottom of your graphs, it would tell you that the Rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Gross income for everything is included in GDP but median household shows how the ‘average’ households are actually doing. Hint: they are getting poorer.

They’re getting poorer, alright, but it sure as hell isn’t because we’re in the midst of “an economic catastrophe.”

I’m beginning to wonder if the ears of the average republican voter might be the only thing that keeps a Size S hat from falling down over his eyes.