Was Stockman accurate or inaccurate regarding this:
"Mr. Ryan professes to be a defense hawk, though the true conservatives of modern times Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover, Robert A. Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, even Gerald R. Ford would have had no use for the neoconconservative imperialism that the G.O.P. cobbled from policy salons run by Irving Kristols ex-Trotskyites three decades ago. These doctrines now saddle our bankrupt nation with a roughly $775 billion defense budget in a world where we have no advanced industrial state enemies and have been fired (appropriately) as the global policeman. "
"Mr. Ryan showed his conservative mettle in 2008 when he folded like a lawn chair on the auto bailout and the Wall Street bailout. But the greater hypocrisy is his phony plan to solve the entitlements mess by deferring changes to social insurance by at least a decade. "
"Indeed, adjusted for inflation, todays national security budget is nearly double Eisenhowers when he left office in 1961 (about $400 billion in todays dollars) a level Ike deemed sufficient to contain the very real Soviet nuclear threat in the era just after Sputnik. By contrast, the Romney-Ryan version of shrinking Big Government is to increase our already outlandish warfare-state budget and risk even more spending by saber-rattling at a benighted but irrelevant Iran. "
"The Ryan Plan boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income-tax rate for job creators i.e. the superwealthy to 25 percent and paying for it with an as-yet-undisclosed plan to broaden the tax base. Of the $1 trillion in so-called tax expenditures that the plan would attack, the vast majority would come from slashing popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, 401(k) accounts, state and local taxes, charitable giving and the like, not to mention low rates on capital gains and dividends. "
even Gerald R. Ford
Ford was a true conservative? LOL!
would have had no use for the neoconconservative imperialism that the G.O.P.
Neocons? LOL!
Poor Stockman.
Where did he say that Ford was a "true conservative"?
Yeah, he doesn't seem to like your crew, but you have yet to point out any substantive facts where Stockman was wrong. Thanks for proving my point!
"Mr. Ryan professes to be a defense hawk, though the true conservatives of modern times Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover, Robert A. Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower, even Gerald R. Ford
Sometimes, all you can do is point and laugh at the idiocy.