Then what are his ideas on the replacement? Because all we ever hear are," these are not good programs, they need replacement." We still haven't heard about the replacement.
A similar question one might ask is, before we offshore all of our labor do we have a decent, actionable plan to replace the jobs?
> The us has done a terrible job helping workers find new employment when their old factory or similar manufacturing jobs were lost to another country. I can't see that these tariffs can ever bring back many factory jobs to the us. We need a strategy to find new jobs and industries. The current plan is just not going to accomplish much of anything.
....and similar opinions identify a problem, but this manner of thinking where people say we'll "just" find new jobs (it worked out in the past few hundred years, therefore it is guaranteed to continue working indefinitely) is irresponsible, as is pointing out the simplistic isolated fact that "it's more efficient" to offshore jobs. Thoughtful, responsible leadership listens to all opinions, and considers all consequences, before rushing headfirst into incredibly transformative change in an extremely (on a relative basis) short period of time.
Indeed, many things are getting so much better for millions of people around the world. But if one takes a calm, unbiased look under the covers, some potentially very serious cracks are starting to appear economically and socially. I'm not a huge student of history, but I know enough that sometimes seemingly good and stable systems can destabilize very quickly.
I'm only vaguely familiar with Ryan's plans. However, he very plainly lays it all out on his site.
He is extremely clear in his language about Social Security.
"As Speaker of the House, one of my top priorities is to preserve the Social Security safety net and make sure the program remains solvent for future generations."
So nothing concrete then. I've read the statement and it doesn't explain anything. Though, it appears everyone has backed away from privatization from the go-go fast days of the early aughts.
The way I see it they can either cut entitlements and piss off their retired voters or they can make the young pay more and piss off their working base.
By their statements, Republicans like Ryan say they want to save health care and social security for all. But by their actions, they just want to kill those things. As far as I see, they never work on the replacements. Like the dozens of votes to kill Obama care. Please also spend time on doing the new thing. You control the house, senate, and white house. You can pass legislation now. Just negotiate with 8 democrats in the senate and you can pass anything. But they don't, because they don't really want to replace these things.
> The us has done a terrible job helping workers find new employment when their old factory or similar manufacturing jobs were lost to another country. I can't see that these tariffs can ever bring back many factory jobs to the us. We need a strategy to find new jobs and industries. The current plan is just not going to accomplish much of anything.
....and similar opinions identify a problem, but this manner of thinking where people say we'll "just" find new jobs (it worked out in the past few hundred years, therefore it is guaranteed to continue working indefinitely) is irresponsible, as is pointing out the simplistic isolated fact that "it's more efficient" to offshore jobs. Thoughtful, responsible leadership listens to all opinions, and considers all consequences, before rushing headfirst into incredibly transformative change in an extremely (on a relative basis) short period of time.
Indeed, many things are getting so much better for millions of people around the world. But if one takes a calm, unbiased look under the covers, some potentially very serious cracks are starting to appear economically and socially. I'm not a huge student of history, but I know enough that sometimes seemingly good and stable systems can destabilize very quickly.