If you don't print money or tax income then you need to borrow it or rub a magic lamp.

1. Romney: "I will cut taxes".
2. Romney: "I will reduce the deficit".
3. Romney: "I will not print more money".
4. Romney: "I will not borrow money from China".
5. .............

Money has to come from somewhere.

Ow.

My brain hurts.

Republicans like to claim they are good for the economy because they will cut unnecessary spending so we don't need as much money.

Budget cuts are called austerity, which works like this:

1. Cut Department of Defense: the cold war and Iraq are over.
2. Cut Department of Education more despite the fact that prison populations skyrocketed after illiteracy went out of control when we used No Child Left Behind to gut education spending.
3. Cut Social Security & Medicare to force retired people to go back to work after Bush squandered their trust fund bombing Muslims.
4. Cut Drug Enforcement Administration after over $1 trillion of government spending made the problem worse.
5. .............

Romney can't explain what he wants to cut because "it's complicated".

It's complicated because you can't explain a lie.

How can someone that doesn't know any algebra and history moderate a debate about the economy?

The presidential debate made me feel like I was watching a little kid kicking another kid in the shins because he wants candy.

Ow.

My brain hurts.

Jim Lehrer finally asked Romney "did you really mean that?" when Obama told him this is mathematically impossible after the president did his homework on the podium.

Romney made Massachusetts unemployment better by making unemployed residents flee after he cut off unemployment benefits that they paid for (click here for reference).

Romney destroyed Massachusetts economy so bad that unemployment went from #37 to #47 because he has no idea what government does (click here for reference).

The Daily Show explained how Romney's economic plan requires the same kinds of leprechauns used in Ayn Rand fantasy novels about how John Galt saves the world with mysterious little gold tokens and free electricity that comes from magic. She wrote novels like Atlas Shrugged.

Ayn Rand is Paul Ryan's hero because she opposes taxes that support socialism like this one.

We the people of the United States, in order to ... provide for the ... the general welfare ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. -- Preamble to the US Constitution

Ayn Rand thinks socialism is evil because:

1. Illiterate people that do manual labor are lazy and should not be educated
2. Money is free so we don't need any taxes

That is anti-American according to the US Constitution. And stupid.

Atlas Shrugged II comes out tomorrow.

Ow.

My brain hurts.

Unemployment went up under every republican president except Reagan (click here for reference).

The only reason unemployment went down under Reagan is that he robbed the social security trust fund to reduce unemployment by hiring millions of federal workers after he made unemployment skyrocket (click here for reference).

Bush #1 called this "voodoo economics" during the Republican primaries (click here for references).

Bush #2 bankrupted the social security trust fund bombing Muslims, which is why we are borrowing money from China (click here for references).

Romney and Ryan want to privatize Social Security and Medicare so we don't have to increase taxes for the wealthy to pay it back (click here for references).

Ow.

My brain hurts.

Then there was this thing called Charlie Wilson's War.

Republicans claim they do a better job with foreign relations.

Reagan and Bush #1 created Au Quida by giving Osama bin Laudin $3 billion to fight communism in Afghanistan (click here for references).

Osama bin Laudin used that money to fund the Taliban that blew up 4 of our embassies in North Africa during the Clinton administration (click here for references).

Clinton established a CIA team and spy network that was working to eliminate Osama bin Lauden as a threat by firing cruse missiles into Pakistan and Afghanistan (click here for references).

Bush #2 de-funded the team trying to kill Osama bin Lauden and condemned Clinton by saying "we don't bomb our allies" (click here for references).

911 happened a little over a year later.

The President Obama killed Osama bin Lauden.

Republicans decided that "spending is out of control" because Osama bin Lauden is dead so republicans cut embassy security funding when they gained control of House of Representatives in 2011 (click here for references).

Then our Libyan ambassador was killed in 2012.

Ow.

My brain hurts.