Is it Really a #BetterWay

                Rather than just bash Speaker Ryan’s A Better Way initiative as a Republican fantasy world, I thought I would actually take a look at his ideas, critically assess them and provide some progressive alternatives/modifications.  I want to tackle this because I believe Speaker Ryan is a good guy, smart, capable, but is a true believer in Conservative Ideology.  I actually like the fact that he put together a comprehensive and detailed plan for the government.  It has a number of good ideas, sounds reasonable, and logically makes sense as a whole.  What I don’t like is that the details assume that all 325M American Citizens are Paul Ryan and that a free market will magically fix everything that goes wrong in a free market.

There six major principles in his plan:

A Better Way to Fight Poverty

A Better Way to Keep Us Safe and Free

A Better Way to Do the People’s Business

A Better Way for Tax Reform

A Better Way to Fix Health Care

A Better Way to Grow Our Economy

For each principle I discuss Speaker Ryan’s plan, what the details actually say, what will and will not work in the real world, and how making a few progressive changes could improve on his ideas.  Again, I think this plan is great as a Republican platform, it just needs to be made much more moderate for it to actually work.