Poor, Pathetic Paul

Paul Ryan has been called 'courageous' and 'brave' for the budget/deficit/debt plan he unveiled recently.

He is neither.

He is a coward.

There is absolutely nothing brave or courageous and everything cowardly about bestowing government-funded largess (paid for with The People's money) on the rich and powerful who don't need it and depriving assistance from the poor, uninfluential and voiceless who do.

Ryan and his sanctimonious political partisans would have been courageous and brave had they bucked their campaign/election benefactors and just said "NO" to their outstretched gold-encased and jewel-encrusted hands.

"NO! I will no longer play your game of bribery and mutual back scratching.

"NO, I will no longer defy and deny the teachings of the Christ who is the center, the core, the total truth of what I profess to be my Christian faith and the foundation of what I say is my spiritual belief, the Jesus who commands his followers to care for the poor."

Instead, Ryan and his ilk are too cowardly to defy the rich and the powerful for fear they will turn against them, withdraw their financial support and influence and see that they get turned out of office.

As truly conservative, I pity poor, pathetic Paul and his fellow hypocrites and their very liberal pandering to and paying off the rich and powerful.

As a Facebook Friend observed: "The real glue of social cohesion is empathy. Its utter absence in today's corporate hegemony is spreading a corrosive selfishness akin to Midas."