The Same Same GOP
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 19th, 2013
Good morning!
Geez, I would love to report something different.
Ryan Republican Plan = Romney Plan
Mar 12, 2013 | By ThinkProgress War Room
The New Old GOP Plan That Favors Millionaires Over the Middle Class
As you may recall, we had an election last year in which Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and their ideas were soundly rejected by voters.
Well, one person appears to have not gotten the message: Paul Ryan. Today, Ryan released the latest draconian budget from House Republicans and it is“almost identical to the Republican presidential platform in 2012.”
Here’s a closer at just how closely Ryan hewed to the unpopular and extreme policies he and Romney ran on — and lost.
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March 19th, 2013 at 7:56 am
Why Sugar Is Slow Suicide for Your Body
by Dr. David Williams
Avoid heart disease, heart attack, and cataracts by cutting out sweets
One of the biggest hidden threats to our health is the consumption of all forms of sugar. In addition to its detrimental effects on the body’s proper pH balance, a major problem stemming from sugar consumption has to do with a chemical process called glycation.
In simplest terms, glycation refers to the combination of a sugar and a protein molecule. Most everyone has seen the effects of glycation in the kitchen. During baking, sugar combines with certain amino acids in grain proteins. This chemical reaction causes bread and pastries to turn brown. The same reaction also occurs when meats are glazed and coffee is roasted.
In the body, glycation also occurs when the sugar in your blood (glucose) combines with the amino acids tryptophan, lysine, and arginine. This reactive process creates certain byproducts known scientifically as advanced glycation endproducts. And in terms of what they do inside the body, their acronym says it all: AGE.
How Glycation “AGEs” Your Body
To help get a better picture in your mind about AGEs, visualize the clear, runny portion of a raw egg. This part of the egg is mostly protein. When you heat this clear portion of the egg, it quickly and permanently transforms from a runny, clear liquid to a solid white mass.
When glycation occurs and AGEs form within the body, the affected proteins are changed forever—just as with the egg. Unfortunately, the long-term health consequences of this can be disastrous.
For example, when proteins in blood vessels undergo glycation, you get stiffer, less flexible arteries, which lead to higher blood pressure, plaque formation, blood flow blockages, heart and artery disease, and eventually, stroke or heart attack. The smallest blood vessels are the hardest hit, such as those in the back of the eye, the kidney and the brain. These areas require a constant supply of glucose to meet their high energy requirements; as a result, they have the highest degree of glycation.
How You Can Guard Against Glycation
Cut Back on Sugar
Use Natural Sweeteners Like Stevia and Xylitol
Eat Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Maintain High Antioxidant Levels
Cut Back on Sugar
I’m not talking about just the white granules we all keep out on the counter, either. Sugars of all types are being added to processed foods. In general, the easiest way to cut back on refined sugars is to read food labels and make sure any form of sugar is not one of the first four or five ingredients on the label. Look specifically for:
Sucrose
Dextrose
Fructose
Maltose
Lactose
High-fructose corn syrup
If you do buy processed foods, choose those with at least a few grams of fiber. This will help slow the release of sugar into the bloodstream.
Use Natural Sweeteners Like Stevia and Xylitol
Unlike sugar, stevia doesn’t trigger glycation or spikes in blood sugar. And unlike artificial sweeteners, stevia has no aftertaste, side effects, or connection to cancer.
Xylitol, another terrific option, is a compound naturally found in certain vegetables, strawberries, raspberries, plums, and jute, as well as various hardwood trees like birch. Because Xylitol has a more complex chemical structure than table sugar, it doesn’t trigger the release of insulin from the pancreas—making it ideal for people with diabetes. Xylitol also has 40 percent fewer calories than sugar, and it can be substituted for sugar in cooking.
Both sweeteners can be found at health food stores and even many mainstream grocery stores.
Eat More Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Health food manufacturers like to point out that because fructose is the natural sugar in fruit, it doesn’t lead to the quick spikes in blood sugar levels associated with regular table sugar. These claims about fructose are only half right.
It’s true that fructose consumed in fresh, whole fruits doesn’t cause spikes in blood sugar. But when that same fructose is extracted from the fruit and used in processed foods, it acts just like sucrose…if not worse! Whole fruits, however, have built-in co-factors like fiber, antioxidants, and minerals that help prevent glycation. So opt for those instead.
Maintain High Antioxidant Levels
Along with eating more produce, take 500–1,500 mg of vitamin C and 400–1,000 IU of vitamin E. Vitamin B6 and alpha-lipoic acid have also been shown to be particularly beneficial in combating the effects of glycation.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:22 am
The gop is a proven failure in economics. Look what they left President Obama with. They are the LAST people American should trust with a budget!
March 19th, 2013 at 8:27 am
You ignorant followers of obama are pathetic. When you find out what will really happen with our health care system you are going to regret it big time. time. This news network is keeping everything you need to know quiet. I wish they would tell all and tell the truth.
Where is the news about obama making us feel the pain.for budget cuts. Money for foreign countries and stupid stuff while cutting educational aid for our military. I am so sick of this pitiful president making a freakin mockery of our country.
Quit fretting about what Republicans are doing and look in your own pot and fix it. all you do is complain about the people trying to help while doing nothing yourselves. I hate you for this and hope you suffer dearly by your neglect and ignorance.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:28 am
To gauge the value of the budget Paul Ryan is about to pitch, consider one of its most spectacular founding assumptions: the repeal of Obamacare.
That’s right, the Affordable Care Act has survived a presidential election and a Supreme Court review, and Republican governors across the land are falling all over themselves to implement it after screaming themselves hoarse attacking it. But to make his numbers add up Ryan assumes the law will be repealed.
The distance between Paul Ryan’s budget and reality is equal to the likelihood of Obamacare being repealed minus the number of new Medicaid recipients in 2014.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:30 am
Even repubs are saying it will not fly! It is draconian and cruel..Ryan is a smug twerp with no merit!
He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and low-income programs. The Affordable Care Act’s Medicare cuts remain, but the military is spared, as is Social Security.
There’s a vague individual tax reform plan that leaves only two tax brackets — 10 percent and 25 percent — and will require either huge, deficit-busting tax cuts or increasing taxes on poor and middle-class households, as well as a vague corporate tax reform plan that lowers the rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.
But the real point of Ryan’s budget is its ambitious reforms, not its savings. It turns Medicare into a voucher program, turns Medicaid, food stamps, and a host of other programs for the poor into block grants managed by the states, shrinks the federal role on priorities like infrastructure and education to a tiny fraction of its current level, and envisions an entirely new tax code that will do much less to encourage home buying and health insurance.ez
March 19th, 2013 at 8:31 am
‘Obamacare is going to be so unpopular’
Why Mr. Vice President, I thought it already was. That’s why you were so confident about last November’s Republican landslide.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:33 am
For several decades the Republicans been tossing crumbs like gun rights, anti-abortion and evolution denial to the under-educated, white, Christian fundamentalist working class, so that they’ll vote against their own economic interests.
Needless to say, the real agenda has been low taxes for the rich, with empty promises of eventual trickle-down prosperity for their duped audience.
America’s demographic has changed, but the GOP still appears to believe the old lies, some voter obstruction and a lot of gerrymandering will put them back in power, where they can steal the last of the country’s wealth.
Hopefully the electorate is no longer fooled by cynical deceptions like Ryan’s nonsensical unbalanced budget
March 19th, 2013 at 8:34 am
Ryan’s fellow Birchers — or call them a “tea party” if you like — have 150 to 180 votes in the House of Representatives.
This set of demands have been John Birch Society beliefs since 1959. And they got it from the anti-New Deal Roosevelt haters.
They also absolutely despise the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. “Promote the general welfare” is considered a display of weakness, treason to Randian dogma, and a cause for that Ultimate Sin known as taxation.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:34 am
That’s the problem; Obama thrives on “freeloader” nation…No one wants to take cuts that may affect them directly. One you open a Pandora Box on entitlements, it’s like taking candy away from a kid.
What I find very counterproductive, is encouraging more wide spread abuses into the entitlement systems…like providing welfare to undocumented immigrants…those who have NEVER contributed into the system in their lives.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:35 am
So, in a nutshell, the GOP proposal is this. Let the poor, ill, and elderly pass away. I mean, seriously, they are such a drag on the economy and what do they actually do to help America?
Additionally, we should continue to reward the wealthy and the corporations….even the ones that pay little or no taxes. After all, they had it very easy under George W. Bush and look how many hundreds of thousands of jobs he created. Okay, so those jobs were overseas, but America is a very giving nation.
Yes Paul. I certainly think your idea will fly. By the way, have you seen the new Oz movie?
March 19th, 2013 at 8:36 am
Well, only 3 and 1/2 more years of this horseshit. The only ray of sunshine is then the repugs will be beyond irrelevant and with any luck we never have to take them seriously again.
They are turning into the North Koreans of the 2 party system. ” watch out! we’re tuff! we are gonna hold our breath until we turn blue and THEN you’ll be sorry!” jerks
March 19th, 2013 at 8:37 am
When will these pricks start seeing people instead of $$$?
Never, because they only give a damn about themselves. And the Corporate wad being shoved up their arse.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:37 am
At least he has a realistic plan unlike Obama who has taken more than 4 years to release one if he ever does. As for Obama care well when that hits it will be shown for the unworkable rubbish it is and it is already costing jobs.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Tiff, Ah, if only it was so short. Unfortunately, the GOP did such a masterful job of gerrymandering themselves artificial majorities in statehouses (and through them, Congress), that nothing can be done (at least with an obstructionist House) until after the 2020 census…and only then if Republicans lose control of at least a dozen states.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:40 am
“Paul Ryan’s tax reform plan is even more vague than before, rendering it essentially impossible to score:”
“His plan is even more vague and less definitive than before, making it less clear how he’d pay for big tax cuts’
“He said Paul Ryan’s new budget isn’t even as plausible as the one Ryan’s former running mate, Mitt Romney, presented last year to the American people, who voted against it.”
To summerize Paul Ryan’s plan is nothing but a hoax, just like the man he is.
Every thing about this man is so fake and unreal. He is no better than a con man.
March 19th, 2013 at 8:42 am
Heather, And what does Obama offer that will improve your situation? I dont see an improvement with Obama care,in fact I think it will exacerbate the problems
March 19th, 2013 at 8:44 am
Adrian, You mean besides being able to keep children on your health insurance plan until age 26? You mean besides not being turned down for health insurance because of a “pre-existing” condition (like acne when you were 13 years old)?
Please – for-profit health insurance has been soaking the middle-class for decades. The CEO of UHC took home $200 million in compensation in 2010 – after raising individual premiums on contracts so high that their clients either paid out of pocket or skipped health care.
Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has tried in vain to break the headlock on the middle-class of the health insurance lobby. Obama is the first one to put any dent in it at all – albeit imperfectly, but at least somebody, somewhere, finally got something done.
March 20th, 2013 at 7:05 am
Howie, your President Obama is here. It would also be nice to see you. We hope you are doing well.
March 20th, 2013 at 7:23 am
Howie as your President said we as friends plant the seeds of Peace and Progress we make the world a better place. Mr. Obama indeed has an impressive record of helping Israel.
It is wonderful to have him back in Jerusalem and it would also be wonderful to have you back. Please consider returning.
Alia