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Rep. Ryan can't tell the difference between Greece and the US - where is the ridicule?
During the presidential primaries, then Senator Obama gave a talk at fundraiser in which he referred to people in small town Pennsylvania as "bitter." The media highlighted this "gaffe" and made it a major theme over the next few weeks of the campaign. In other words, it was big news that Obama had said something that the media viewed as inappropriate.
Last night, in the official Republican response to President Obama's state of the union address, Representative Paul Ryan suggested that the United States could be like Greece if it did not change its current budget path. This comparison was either dishonest or reflected an extraordinary degree of economic ignorance.
Briefly, there are three big reasons that the United States is very different from Greece: