Fun With Paul Ryan and the Washington Post | Beat the Press
The Post felt the need to give him an oped column after Paul Krugman cruelly subjected Mr. Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future” to a serious analysis last week. This violated the long accepted practice in elite Washington circles of not holding proponents of Social Security and Medicare cuts/privatization accountable for the things they say. It is therefore understandable the Post would quickly give a coveted oped slot to Mr. Ryan to make amends for such a grievous breach of protocol.
The rest of us may not have the power to invent the facts that would be needed to push our policies, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun. Let’s count the inaccuracies (they call them something else outside of DC) in Mr. Ryan’s piece.
Dean Baker goes on to dismantle Ryans proposals sentence by sentence.