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…or, as Joe Biden would say, “unless it’s all malarkey.”
Matthew O’Brien – The Atlantic: “Paul Ryan finally had enough time to go through the math of the Romney tax plan during the vice-presidential debate. He didn’t use it. Ryan filibustered instead. About the most specific he got was citing “six studies” he said vindicate the plan’s mathematical plausibility. Except they don’t. Romney’s tax plan is a three-legged stool that doesn’t stand. Here’s how it works — or doesn’t. Romney wants to 1) cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent, 2) cut tax expenditures to pay for these tax cuts, and 3) maintain progressivity. The problem, as the Tax Policy Center pointed out, is there aren’t enough tax expenditures for the rich to pay for all the tax cuts for the rich. Romney’s plan only works if he cuts out the tax cuts for the rich, raises taxes on the middle class, or explodes the deficit. In other words, Romney can pick two, and only two, of his tax goals — what Matt Yglesias of Slate calls the “Romney Trilemma”.”
O’Brien summarizes all six of the “studies” (which are actually blog posts or op-eds) that prove Mitt Romney’s tax plan Is impossible…
Here is a You Tube link to my short film THE FOXORCIST which is now complete. PART ONE: FATHER MALARKEY vs ROMNEY-RYAN was shot BEFORE Biden made the Malarkey remarks in the Vice-Presidential Debates. A kind of kismet perhaps.
It is an intentionally disturbing (if darkly comical) perhaps even repulsive and vulgar film, but it satirizes what is ugliest in modern American life. Our current polarized and twisted social climate where the simplest things that made us a great nation have been twisted beyond recognition.
It is my belief that it is the artist’s role and job in society to indict its leaders and contemporaries whose conduct cheapens the human experience. I truly believe we have reached a nadir, a sickening crossroads of amoral and soulless conduct that has become too commonplace and which people seem to digest without incident.
Have we become complacent? Or have we merely given up hope of recovering our basic decencies. Hence THE FOXORCIST is no holds barred, take no prisoners kind of film. PART TWO will be even “worse” as it’s final indictment will be without apology, nor does it seek to be forgiven.
If the road we choose on November 6th, leads us down the path of a militant determination to break apart the freedoms and laws protecting our secular humanist charters in the Constitution, then I will be glad for having made my film and for purposely shaming and indicting the criminals who have escaped justice in having defaced, degraded, disgraced and disemboweled this once great land for the sickening in your face spectacle of a win at all costs game of power and money above all other human values.
If this is all America has left to offer her people, then they deserve my film and more.
I am a proud veteran of this nation, and have suffered too many ignominious chapters in my American life of late. While there is still the most sacred freedom of all, Freedom of Speech, I will never tire of pointing the finger where the blame squarely belongs for our mediocritization.
With my deepest patriotism and humanity, I offer you:
THE FOXORCIST: PART ONE: THE INTERVIEW WITH REAGAN-ROMNEY-RYAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5b7OjXrYhc&list=LLnW4-zCE2eHAn59azVNQ6xQ&feature=mh_lolz
Yours truly:
René Rokk
Executive Producer
Owner
Moonwalker Films, LLC