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The 10 GOP Congressmen Who Voted Against Ryan’s Budget Today (And the One Dem Who Accidentally Voted for It!)

Mar. 21, 2013 1:08pm Becket Adams

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The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted 221-207 to pass Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan’s 2014 budget plan.

Rep. Ryan’s budget calls for a repeal of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e. “Obamacare”), cutting taxes, and reduction in the rate of government spending. According to Ryan’s “The Path To Prosperity: A Responsible Balanced Budget,” this will balance the budget in about 10 years.

“Ryan said Thursday morning that Congress needs to get on the glide path to balance to avoid a serious debt crisis, and blamed President Obama for failing to provide leadership on this issue,” The Hill notes.

“He gets his NCAA bracket in on time, but still no budget,” Rep. Ryan said Thursday, taking a dig at the president’s apparent priorities.

“This is the fourth time in five years,” Ryan said, referring to the White House’s tardiness in submitting its budgets. “He set a new record this year, two months with no plan while we have trillion dollar deficits and a debt crisis on the horizon.”

“They have time for the attacks, but no time to offer serious solutions,” he added.

And although the Ryan plan passed the House with overwhelming support from Republicans, there were 10 who felt that they couldn’t give it an “Aye” vote.

These are the 10 Republicans who voted “Nay”:

10. Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.)

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9. Rep. Paul Broun (Ga.)

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“The latest budget proposal by Representative Paul D. Ryan, called ‘The Path to Prosperity,’ is anything but. It fails to seriously address runaway government spending,” Rep. Broun said in a New York Times op-ed. “I cannot vote for something that would trick the American people into thinking that Congress is fixing Washington’s spending problem, when in actuality we’d just be allowing it to continue without end.”

“Just reducing growth in spending does almost nothing. We have to dig deeper and make profound cuts now. We cannot continue to assume that future Congresses will do our dirty work for us,” he adds.

8. Rep. Rick Crawford (Ark.)

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“I applaud Representative Ryan’s budget resolution that aims to balance the budget, but I cannot support non-binding resolutions that will be changed with each new Congress. I voted against the Republican non-binding budget resolution to bring attention to Congress’s continued reliance on policies that have clearly failed and to call on my colleagues to focus instead on passing permanent spending controls,” Rep. Crawford said.

“During each of the past three decades, Congress has made numerous attempts to control spending with non-binding budget resolutions and deficit control acts yet debt has skyrocketed.

“It is time for Congress to get serious about the debt crisis and economic growth and pass permanent spending controls that will put America on a genuine path to prosperity,” he adds.

7. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.)

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6. Rep. Chris Gibson (N.Y.)

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5. Rep. Phil Gingrey (Ga.)

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4. Rep. Joe Heck (Nev.)

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“There is a dire need for us to reduce spending, address the major drivers of our debt, and grow the economy by balancing the budget. I have voted to reduce spending, I have voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, and I have co-sponsored and voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment,” Rep. Heck said in a statement released after the vote.

“But the policy proposals contained in this non-binding resolution indicate the priorities of this budget, and when those proposals disproportionately affect [my] state, my vote indicates my priority and that priority is Nevada,” he added.

3. Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.)

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2. Rep. Tom Massie (Ky.)

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“The federal government’s spending is out of control, and this plan actually increases spending,” Rep. Massie said after the vote. “Paul Ryan’s proposed House budget would increase government spending at nearly twice the rate of inflation. Our country is deep in debt, and it is irresponsible to increase spending at this rate.”

“Congress has the power of the purse but refuses to spend responsibly. In the past three weeks, House members voted to continue funding Obamacare, and voted for three separate spending bills that will increase our national debt.

“If Congressmen would just vote according to their campaign promises, we could fix the spending problem before it’s too late,” he adds.

1. Rep. David McKinley (W.Va.)

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“The House Republican budget is a serious plan that recognizes the danger of the federal government’s unsustainable spending,” Congressman McKinley said in a statement.

He adds that although Rep. Ryan’s “plan is better than other options put forward,” it fails to address “issues of vital importance,” including coal ash legislation and reform to foreign aid.

“Once each side passes its respective budget, House and Senate representatives should come together at the negotiating table in a bipartisan fashion,” he concludes.

“At that time I hope Republicans and Democrats agree on a compromise that addresses the unsustainable spending by the federal government and provides fiscal certainty for our families and businesses. Once a bipartisan compromise is achieved I will evaluate it for my support,” he adds.

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Not a single Democrat voted for the bill in the end. However, there was one Democrat who voted in favor initially, but it was only temporary as it appears it was by accident. They quickly changed their vote to a “Nay.

“It’s entirely likely that a Democrat accidentally voted in favor, then realized his or her error and switched it,” the Washington Post reports.

“That’s not uncommon. What with all the votes members have to keep straight, and clumsiness when using that vote-card machine (swipe of a card, then hit a red button for no, green for yes, and yellow for present) mistakes can happen. Or, perhaps, the ‘yes’ vote had a very rapid change of heart,” the report adds.

As of this writing, it’s unclear which Democrat made the “Aye” mistake.

We have contacted each of the 10 congressmen for comment on their “Nay” vote. Half have responded so far and we’ll update this article if the other half ever get back to us.

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Comments (169)

wilbstal
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:19pm
this is another good reason I stopped voting. we have nothing to choose from just liberal A holes and traitor repubs. stay home get a Gun and wait

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- Patriot72
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:52pm
  If you don’t vote, don’t complain about how things work out. it obviously isn’t important enough to bother.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:00pm
  Only idiots think there are good reasons to stop voting. Once they figure out people like you are not voting, little will get passed that favors people like you.
  
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- BerettaM9
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:03pm
  @Wilbstal Your short comment sums up the entire situation in this former U.S.A. I don’t blame you one bit for not voting. Like it really matters in these Iranian style elections.
  
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- prayforlibs
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:07pm
  So you’re responsible for obama and the media thinking that it got a mandate in 2012 to destroy our country. I didn’t like romney either but he is not and never will be obama.
  
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- kngrfyfn
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:18pm
  Fools like you are the reason Obama got voted back in. Romney wasn’t an excellent choice but at least he was no Obama.
  
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- mont1414r
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:18pm
  when you get the choice between a bullet in the head or five to the chest your dead either way.a lot more people will go to the polls if we get a third choice of none of the above.
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:34pm
  Well you just go ahead and stay home, with your gun on your lap and wait. Also, you aught to give holding your breath until you turn blue at try.
  
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- hi
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Lol! I feel your pain.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:48pm
  I love the people who’s only answer to not voting is to say “if you don’t vote you can’t complain” what a load of crap. It’s the people voting that don’t have a right to complain!! whaaaaa?? yes you are SUPPORTING THESE LIARS AND THIEVES! you legitimize their THEFT!
  If no one voted then ALL their actions in washington dc would be ILLEGITIMATE !!!! Do you get it now??
  They do their jobs by CONSENT of the people, consent is given by VOTING! it matters not how badly they govern as long as THE IDIOTS VOTE!
  Stop legitimizing this heinous government by voting in rigged and fraudulent elections and sanctioning their BEYOND STUPID GOVERNING!!!
  WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT TO BE GOVERNED BY LIARS AND THIEVES!! DON’T VOTE!
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:00pm
  I am sure a democrat voted in your name. You do understand that not voting is exactly what they want. You are to blame for Obama and the rest of the inept. Stand up for you rights and quit sniveling. Call your congress and representatives but do not make threats. Write letters. Be a pro-active citizen of this country.
  
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- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:02pm
  When are the American people going to understand once and for all, that Obama DOES NOT WANT a responsible budget; does not want to balance the budget; does not want accountability to the American people; does not want to do the right thing. HE HATES AMERICA AND AMERICANS because HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN, at least NOT a true American who actually LOVES his country.
  
  There is NOTHING Obama could say or do that would EVER make me believe his spit-forked tongue. HE IS THE LIAR-IN-CHIEF and continues to lie, even abroad. He is a worthless politicians without moral character or fortitude and he smiles at himself every time he sees his reflection. IT IS A SIGN OF THE DEMONS THAT RESIDE ALL AROUND HIM.
  
  As long as you continue to watch this liar on TV, listen to him, instead of changing the station, he will continue to LIE TO YOU and YOU WILL CONTINUE TO BELIEVE IT, because YOU ARE SO GULLIBLE and think that America is ok. AMERICA IS SINKING, THANKS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY – and she is sinking very, very fast. UNLESS, you convince your Reps and Senators to go against everything that Obama wants. TURN THE CHANNEL WHEN HE IS ON. DO NOT SHOW UP AT HIS RALLIES AND FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE, STOP TWEETING THIS JERK. He is not worth your time or energy.
  
  Instead, volunteer or get involved in your local community and when someone talks about Obama, stop them quickly and tell them, you have better things to talk about.
  
  DO YOU HEAR ME AMERICA????
  
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- RetiredUSMC
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Way to go WILBSTAL, another loser too lazy to try and make a difference. Make your excuses, but in the end, you’re just as much to blame as the next lazy ace loser…to not vote is a slap in every soldiers face that died giving you that right.
  
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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:29pm
  That is why you have to do your homework and research the candidates. The media has to do their job in vetting and reporting. Please don’t stop voting…we need you now more than ever.
  
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- chadred
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:50pm
  @DESERTSPEAKS
  “if no one voted…..”. Good luck with that. That my friend is a cop out. Look, I didn’t love Romney either, but after Liarcare goes into full effect, you will hope for Bugs Bunny.
  
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- JohnofOregon
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Wilbstal
  
  So your one of the ones that voted for Obama by not voting. Yes it is true that the party idiots gave us a questionable candidate, but remember he was not a communist. Obama is a practicing Marxist. Worse than that, he is a “true believer” the most dangerous.
  
  Obama is the first president elected to a second term with fewer votes. How? Because the party undercut its republican candidate. That is a fact. Numbers don’t lie. No the far left of the Republican Party is trying to finish off the base. How are they doing this? Because people like you do not do what a patriot like myself has to do now and then, hold my nose and vote.
  
  Yes it is true there is garbage holding republican office. They fear tea partyers and such. That’s how you fix things. I am amazed at who you meet at a rally, working people who care about their kids future.
  
  Do yourself a favor and park across from a welfare office and watch. The state employee smoking dope on break with a “client”, the dunkards leaving with their check to the local bar and needles in the street. Guess what? They vote.
  
  Put on your big boy pants and start doing you job.
  
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- fedupredneck
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:09pm
  If you don’t vote you have no right to complain. Go stick your head in the sand somwhere.
  
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- AmericaMustBeFree
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:09pm
  And you are part of America that made us have another 4 years of BHO! Shame on any American who doesn’t vote! We could be on a very different path now if 9 million registered voters had gotten off their arses and voted.. who thought neither was worth voting for.. Well elections have consequences and for those who didn’t vote.. I hope you enjoy the hell we all will go through in the next 4 years. Thanks alot!
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:53pm
  @ desertspeaks
  
  So, how is not voting going to help the situation? If only 1 person out of 300 million vote, someone still wins, and those that do not vote continue to lose. Would not voting for a person you thought the best candidate running be better than not voting at all, e.g. Ron Paul, the congressman from New Mexico, or any write-in you can think of?
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
  Here you, ChildoftheKing, hear you loud and clear. This emissary from Hell absolutely must be stopped, every which way he turns.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:02pm
  Romney only lost by a little more than half the vote……Once people start waking up to the big brother Gov and even the Gov employees will wake up to that…..then these guys like Paul Ryan will have a chance……..Hanity tells us that Big Bloated Government is not the solution and the majority of people out there do not want to be on food stamps, if they do then there will never be help for them anyway.
  
  You can only fire so many bullets at one time anyway and if you stay cooped up in your house you will go crazy, if you stay drunk at a bar then you will become a drunk and a loner, if you take pills then you will become an addict……..But if you act like a Marine who has ran out of bullets locked down in a fox hole, then you will come out swinging and work anywhere you can just so you can donate a dollar to these fine “MEN” who are fighting for our economic reduced government freedom……My advice is try and find a church and stick with it, God works in mysterious ways.
  
  From the quality entertainment of the jerry springer show I can see the godless liberals getting weaker day by day………
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:22pm
  The jackasses in the Democratic Party don’t want voter I.D.’s. Gee wonder why that could be? Couldn’t be that they go into the projects and other low information voters on Election Day and bus every breathing soul and drag their butts to the polls to vote, would it? Then they drag them to another precinct. Integrity is a foreign word in the Democratic Party, and many of the Repubs, they just go along with the voter fraud – no backbone and no balls.
  
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- Iwillvetalways
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:29pm
  Obviously these people who advocate not voting are liberals, progressivs,socialists,communists.with an agenda. If not there just stupid.One or the other, same thing.
  
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- CANDYGRAM
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:39pm
  You and the rest that take your point of view are a poor excuses for an American citizens. You do not think you have a civic duty to vote. That’s pretty scary to me. With more people like you, the rest of us that don’t want what is going to happen depend on people like you to stand up….not sit it out. I find that disturbing and plain disgusting. Don’t come to me complaining.
  
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- who8thecat
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:33pm
  Quit voting ? This is why America is in the situation it is in.That is a sad statement of what the ppl of this country have evolved to. Just quit,give up f… it. That is pathetic. Maybe you need to switch over to msnbc site if they have one. I think they are giving out yellow flag`s.
  
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- Patriot Z
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:03pm
  actually its pretty stupid what you did. Politics isnt fair or even noce or about info. its about strategy. always has been so in otherwords you would loose an entire war if you couldnt use the general you wanted in 1 battle? you take victories where you can get them, and by you and other fools not voting you just lost more ground that you will now need to make up later! We have the right ideas, but we need to WIN to impliment them. all you did was hand victory to your enemies because you would rather feel rightous indignation than actually do something. Thats the problem with many fellow liberterians, all indignation, all ideology, no specific plan for a damn thing! and i am liberterian. this crap embarrases me please stop, wake up and start using your head, intead of throwing political tantrums
  
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- Stoic one
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:08pm
  When I was growing up, the schools I went to taught me that abstention is a statement that things are going just fine. By the way I graduated high school twice with twenty schools under my belt. No matter how futile I feel my vote is I will vote every election that comes up in my district.
  
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- Axe-Victim
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:48pm
  I understand the feeling, but not your action. Vote Libertarian. Vote Constitutional Party. Just VOTE for someone who comes the closest to sharing your views. Heck, I’m thinking of writing in Dr. Carson next time around.
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:56pm
  I don’t stop voting. But when every demon rap votes 12 times fraudulently it makes it hard for the moral majority to win even when they do vote.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:32am
  Thank you mine counts twice.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 6:55am
  We definitely don’t need more bed wetters and thumb suckers on this site. Quitters make me puke!
  
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- GilbertAcct
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 10:47am
  Why should true conservative vote for Ryan’s crap budget? It INCREASES spending. It GROWS government. It will NOT balance the budget.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:23am
  @mont1414r
  a lot more people will go to the polls if we get a third choice of none of the above.
  
  Only one problem, a none of the above vote gave us more of the same.. 4 more
  years of this F’N O’Bozo…thanks !!!!!!!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 11:37am
  Need to get RID of the Cryin’Man as speaker, and put
  Pau Ryan in.. Rpubs are a bunch of F’N PUS**’S…….
  
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- Tom70
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 2:05pm
  Give ma an Amen bros and sistahs give me and Amen.
  
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liberalism_is_mental_retardation
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:19pm
forget the budget! Let’s just defund all of Obamacare.. then do a budget based on the cost savings.

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- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:02pm
  Perfect solution. BRAVO.
  
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- kunman
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Agree and second the motion.
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:07pm
  Amash was military and Paul Ryan is a young smart man……they can both live on a shoestring budget and they have fight in them that will never stop…..anyone on food-stamps has already given up……Jerry springer proves that the liberals are losing it more and more every single day…..
  
  Trust me when I say, there are very very smart conservative men who are working situations around the country to snare liberals, and they are falling for it hook line and sinker…..It just takes patience.
  
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- H-Rock 75
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:18pm
  At this point I think the best thing to do would be to go to everyone 35 and under and say: ok you will pay social security in you will pay into Medicare and you will pay taxes. But until deficit and national debt is gone you will never get Medicare social security or even a refund when you file your returns.
  If that don’t work then they raise the threshold to 40, then 45, then 50, then cut pensions to the baby boomers.
  And I do feel this way because I saw lots of family members die young who did take care of themselves and the govt. pissed away the money they paid in.
  And if it gets bad enough that is what will happen to the suckers who thought they made a statement by refusing to vote. Because if the politicians figure out they can pocket the revenue instead of giving you free stuff they will.
  
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- H-Rock 75
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:39pm
  I meant to say if they figure out they can get Re-elected by the goobers without promising free stuff they will. They won’t care about spending control until its too late and getting votes for re-election is irrelevant. And some people will never wake up until they see a directly apparent and painful consequence to their apathetic attitude to voting and elected politicians.
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:14pm
You should respect these men
This ‘budget’ is a flim flam dream
full of Ryan’s FANTASY REVENUES

It includes BILLIONS in “savings’ by
doing away with Obamacare.

As Chris Wallace said “You know that’s not going to happen, don’t you”?
What silly people you are.

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- Miami
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:23pm
  Thanks for the Marxist point of view
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:39pm
  You should learn to respect yourself, and be worthy of your freedom. Stop begging for some elitists in Washington to strip you of your God given rights, and replace it with some sorry facade of safety that no man can provide. The will certainly take it from you, but the bright vision that you believe you’ll get in return is pure foolishness. You would give away what is precious and fought for, and recieve empty promises, and IOU’s.
  
  Americans are worthy of more than the corrupt, bankrupt future that you and your peers foolishly believe in. Use your head for more than a snarky liberal gotcha generator and start thinking about reality.
  
  You’re polishing the brass on the Titanic sweetie.
  
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- NDPINDNT
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Of course Chris Wallace is a true Lib giving his slanted view of Ryan. You are foolish to belive everything from these people. Obama care will do so much more harm than good and cost this nation dearly. Not to mention the HUGE increase in size of government with many new departments or agencies. We will pay for it over and over. It is not the way to go. Maybe some pieces of it might be worth keeping, but most of it needs to be tossed.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:55pm
  Hey Pauly,
  you left out the “revenues” from the 10,000 winning lottery tickets
  and the Irish Sweepstakes.!
  
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- ChildOfTheKing
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:04pm
  I clap for anything anyone can do to SLOW DOWN THIS FANATICAL AND RADICAL LEFT-WING GOVERNMENT.
  
  DEFUND OBAMA CARE.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:20pm
  yup, the paul ryan plan assumes billions of savings in the abolishment of obamacare which no republican believes will happen….AND IT STILL CANNOT BALANCE THE BUDGET
  
  Paul ryan’s budget might as well be the democrat’s budget because it continues to spend money we dont have. Paul Ryan’s budget is a joke – i cant believe so many people said they voted for romney because of paul ryan
  
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- team1blazer
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:46pm
  No verse of insanity, obummer care will NOT fix the problems we have with healthcare in this country. Why, you ask (actually you don’t because retards like you have no reasoniong powers), but I digress…The reason odumbas care will not fix the problems with healthcare, is that it does not ADDRESS the problems with healthcare, ie, tort reform, insurance portability, government waste and fraud…. The ONLY thing obummer care acomplishes is robbing small businesses, taxing the middle class further, providing healthcare to illegal immigrants and increasing the POWER of the federal government. ONLY FOOLS reason that this is good legislation.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:14pm
  Facts (on this site) = a marxist point of view.
  
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- Donald
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:36pm
  first of all—Obamacare is so bad, that it will erase itself, as the nation will beg for change.
  
  secondly–Chrissy Mathews is an idiot, I’m surprise it didn’t mention racism, again, then again, and then again, etc. etc.
  
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love the kids
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:13pm
“That’s not uncommon. What with all the votes members have to keep straight, and clumsiness when using that vote-card machine (swipe of a card, then hit a red button for no, green for yes, and yellow for present) mistakes can happen. Or, perhaps, the ‘yes’ vote had a very rapid change of heart,” the report adds.
I noticed that the article didn’t say that mabey 10 Republicans accidentally voted against it, like it said, it’s very confusing to the Dems.

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1TrueOne55
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:08pm
@RAYDOCX:
You’re correct that if we could only stop spending more than we take in. Our Constitution does not require it to create programs like Social Security, Medicare or other “Entitlement” programs that most of our budget is spending on and borrowing for.

Taxes were to be used to fund a Standing Army for the Defense of our borders and to fund a “Part Time Congress”. In the 17th century our founding fathers were also businessmen and they had other priorities instead of full time partying on the publics tax revenue.

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- ihasa
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Just because something isn’t specifically mentioned in the constitution doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it… So long as it doesn’t go AGAINST the constitution.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:57pm
  We will stop spending more than we take in
  when all of George Bush’s debt are paid off and we can
  magically prevent natural disasters.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:33pm
  Yes Verse, because Obama hasn’t just nearly doubled Bush’s debt in his first term alone.
  
  You propagandists are pathetic.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:46pm
  @IHASA
  
  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
  
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jakartaman
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:06pm
Folks – its all academic – we are screwed – its just the when the house of cards will fall.
Europe is tittering as we speak – once it goes kaboom – the world including the USA will not be far behind.

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R and K
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:05pm
Rep. Ryan’s budget is weak, and written like a person who has been in Congress since he was 28. The ten Congressmen who voted no are probably recognizing it for what it is, and know we need real change. Return to free markets and free people. Start dismantling socialist programs. Be honest.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:16pm
  This is the budget the got Ryan/Romney defeated.
  And the few changes made it even worse
  Some people never learn
  
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- lel2007
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Anybody else have a budget proposal? Or you thinking we don’t need no steenking budget?
  
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Cavallo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
Me congressman.. me get paid 6 figure… me no understand how to vote or read.. too hard.

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antiprogressive
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:04pm
I am hard core conservative.

But this bill still gives tax breaks to the corporations and rich while the workers are making less and less.
Stock market at all-time highs, govmt dumping 86B a month into the economy and the
corps aren’t keeping wages in line.
They make more.
We make less.

And the Repubs wonder why the country isn’t voting for them.

They have become kickback takin “donation” accepting sellouts to the rich.
And it is becoming more and more obvious to EVERYONE.

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- Cincinnasty
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:28pm
  Unfortunately I’m starting to agree. There is absolutely no person that is worth some of the wages that are being paid to some of these corporate heads. I feel the same about athletes as well. Especially when there are workers below that havent seen a raise in 4 years…but thats me obloviating my own frustrations with the company that I work for!! Im sure the CEO would highly disagree. Helicpoter fuel has to be paid somehow, it sure as sh-t isnt going to come out of his pocket!!
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:06pm
  It’s one of the reasons I stopped voting for them. This budget will be defeated, it will be dissected bit by bit like his last idiotic proposal, and it will be hung around the necks of any GOP candidates in purple or blue districts. But at least the Beckerheads and the Dittoheads can giggle at the fantasy of Obamacare being repealed.
  Yes, conservatives are always trying to appease people who are actually stupid enough to believe this budget has a chance of becoming law.
  
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- antiprogressive
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:42pm
  The really sad part is that it is BETTER than the Democrat version.
  At least it WOULD balance the budget SOMEDAY.
  The Democrat’s will NOT.
  
  Is Rand Paul gonna get his chance?
  Biggest problem THERE is that he will have NO supporters in Congress.
  Gonna be another Jimmy Carter…
  
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garbones
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:00pm
It’s unfortunate but there are some R’s that suck! and this feature identifys at least 10!

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libh8er
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:58pm
I have never seen these men or heard of them before. Maybe they are just trying to make a name for themselves…. Like a child throwing a tantrum to get attention.

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- vaman
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:17pm
  It sounds like you are the child. So what if you haven’t heard of those 10 guys. There are a lot of congressmen you haven’t heard of, which is a lack of knowledge on your part, not a flaw on their part.
  
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- 4freedomssake
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:22pm
  Your comments are misplaced. The Paul Ryan Budget is a distraction that every House Republican knows will never see the light of day. This article would do well to give the reason WHY they voted against this sham! What’s missing? John Boehner and the Repubs had a chance to cut Obama/DemCare when the leadership offered the Continuing Resolution for spending till the end of the fiscal year (September). But the leadership (Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy & Ryan) would not allow any amendments because their was a move to amend the CR and defund Obama/DemCare. I would bet most of these were offended by the sham perpetrated by the GOP leadership. [Note: I use the term 'Obama/DemCare' deliberately because long after Obama is gone, the Dems should also be held accountable for this disaster.]
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:04pm
  if you havent heard about these men – that is your fault. These are pretty much the only people in the house that fight for freedom and constitution
  
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Kiba
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:57pm
It just goes to show you they are all just a big gang of crooks on both sides. Im about to stop voteing all together. Tired of being a enabler to their con game. Man did we ever need something called ‘term limits’, funny how at a salary of 176-K annually (or close anyway) by the time they all are in their third term they are multi-millionaires, that alone should tell us all we need to know about them.

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- klg1956
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:15pm
  Do what I’m doing, no more money to the GOP Republican party because they SUCK! No more money to anybody that’s tied to the Republican Party or will vote with RINO……and only give to “conservative” candidates….ones that have been vetted by Conservative organizations……and you’ll feel much better about voting…I do. Because we are going to elect conservatives in other states, like Rubio and Cruz and I live in CA. There’s only two Conservatives left, Tom McClintock and Darryl Issa….and we are leaving this crappy state soon…headed for Texas…..Thank God!…and we are taking our pensions and our spending dollars with us, because CA doesn’t deserve us….like all of our friends exiting our state…it should be called EXODUS II…..leaving while we can still get out of this non producing, triple the tax, environmentally choking off working class business, ever lovin out of their minds nanny state whose graduates of intellect couldn’t physic a gnat!
  
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- Kiba
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:39pm
  KLG1956, But isn’t that exactly how Obama got elected AGAIN? That was the absolute worst thing that could have happened to this country, even compared to an entire herd of RINO’s. Noone is worse than that bunch of America haters that’s in there now.
  
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AMERICA4EVER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:55pm
It’s all about getting reelected.

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DoctorRon
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:53pm
Gingrey and Broun are both RINOs. They are actually Dixiecrats.

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spfoam1
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:44pm
The one thing republican politicians do best is shoot each other in the back.

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oudbob
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:32pm
@ghostofjefferson. well said, especially like use of “nazicare”

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dwoolvett
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:31pm
This bill will help Paul Ryan and his rich friends get richer. The man is an idiot
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- nsertell
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:44pm
  Please explain how spending more money then we have benefits the rich, or anyone for that matter? I would guess you didn’t pass Econ 101
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:18pm
  He wants the rich’s taxes cut even further
  Claims it will be offset by closing loopholes
  Yet has refused to name WHAT loopholes
  for three years now.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 4:49pm
  Voiceofstupidity – That money originally belongs to the taxpayers, not you precious welfare bums who didn’t earn it.
  
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woodyee
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:28pm
WHY did the Repubs vote against the Ryan plan? I don’t see any blue-blood Repubs amongst the ten, unless I’m grossly mistaken?

WHY did they vote against it? How about it Blaze?

(I swear, if I’d been a journalism teacher and some of you ‘reporters’ were in my class, I’d have FLUNKED your asses, if for any reason, for forgetting the BASICS – Who, what, when, where, how and WHY???)

WHY? – The MOST powerful question on Earth – and some of you guys don’t exercise it often…

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- SERE
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:36pm
  Progressive elaboration…the data will be relased in time
  
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- americanfirst
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:42pm
  Okay – back at you.
  
  Answer WHY? …would duly elected Congressional representatives, Democratic Party leaders at the national and state levels, State Secs followed by our honorable justices NOT properly vet a man, who admittedly, does not qualify to run for the Office of the Presidency of the United States.
  The Hawaii State Sec would not vet him with the lack of data he had… so Nancy Pelosi personally signed-off on the qualification.
  
  Go ahead ask the critical question…. WHY?
  
  I have time! Go on…
  
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- Old Right Eric
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Woody,
  
  The Blaze folks know why. They know exactly why.
  
  Some of the 10 listed here are the Ron Paul-ites. They’re the ones trying to pull Paul Ryan and his crew to the right. And the Blaze reporters don’t like that. They want someone just on the right edge of centrism, and not an inch more conservative than that. They’d take Obama over Ron or Rand Paul any day.
  
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- plainolamerican
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:51pm
  Because it does not fix the debt or deficit, it only slow them. No stopping of spending just spending less. Just like the dems he and the other “yes” voters put party over patriotism and THEIR job security over the countrys economic security. They all should be replaced.
  
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- Godfather.1
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:55pm
  @americanfirst
  
  You birthers are relentless. Please, provide FACTS and LAW that actually supports your position. And no, citations to fringe, right-wing websites is not sufficient.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:24pm
Meh…. never heard of any of ‘em…… Yeeeaaahhh… They’ll really go far.

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- Hoopatang
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 3:30pm
  I’m sure they’re extremely worried that you, an anonymous person on the internet, has never heard of them.
  They’re probably quaking in their shiny shoes, wondering how in the world they will ever survive without “RightUnite”, who doesn’t even live in the states they represent, knowing who they are.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:19pm
I’m guessing the Republicans who voted against it wanted the budget balanced quicker than 10 years from now.

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- justangry
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:28pm
  Yeah you’re probably right. Justin Amash will post why he voted that way within a day or two.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:33pm
  Braun and Gingrey are both vying for Chambliss’ Senate seat. They are both trying to out conservative all other contenders is my guess.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:22pm
  This is not a real budget, don’t you read?
  Ryan’s numbers never add up.
  Including Repealing Obamacare and defunding it? How is that REVENUE
  when a Chris Wallace accurately said “That’s not going to happen – and YOU KNOW IT!”
  
  What don’t YOU understand?
  The only thing Ryan’s budget left out as “revenue”
  was a few winning lottery tickets.
  
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EQUALIZER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:19pm
There seems to be a bad brain eating organism in the southern states water supply.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:28pm
  Why, because they want the budget balanced sooner than 2023? Yea, nutty.
  
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jackact
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:17pm
…..Duh-oh!!!…..
Didn’t read who but sounds like a Florida democrat….
Duh…..

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Old Right Eric
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:16pm
Doesn’t it say something about Ryan’s budget that the conservative wing of the party didn’t vote for it?

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- americanfirst
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:34pm
  The conservative wing of the party is exactly who did vote for it.
- Old Right Eric
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:34pm
  Really AF? Boehner et al are the conservative wing?
  
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Sargeking
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:16pm
So now we add another ten RINOS to the recall list. Thanks BLAZE. Good reporting, as usual.

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- Old Right Eric
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:30pm
  You’re kidding. Right?
  
  The RINOs are the ones who voted Yes.
  
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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:38pm
  Sarge. 10 year plan? They are only elected for a 2 year term. They should be only voting for 2 year budgets.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:16pm
Balance the budget in ten years? You’re being awfully optimistic there congressman because I don’t think we have ten years before China decides to stop buying our debt. When that happens ‘change you can believe in’ will have much more meaning than a campaign slogan from a fraud president.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:23pm
  I think his intentions are good, but his budget will balance nothing in 10 years. Current legislation in no way has any binding effect on future legislation. One or two elections and suddenly there’s a new Congress and poof, there goes the budget.
  
  Additionally, while I really really approve of repealing Nazicare, I’m not really sure that you can balance a budget by only lowering the INCREASE. If you’re still increasing spending, then you need to get the difference from somewhere else, aka taxes, in order to make the budget balance.
- Walkabout
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:30pm
  I thought the Chinese stopped buying T bills ago. It is confusing. Need to get into the weeds & make a graph.
  
  China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy
  http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf
  
  June 2011
  http://cnsnews.com/news/article/china-has-divested-97-percent-its-holdings-us-treasury-bills
  
  China buys more T-bills, tops all holders (Chinese link)
  http://english.cntv.cn/program/bizasia/20130218/105403.shtml
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:38pm
  the budget could and should balance next year… simply block spending in excess of income… you and i do that on a daily basis in our own lives… whatever credit we use we then pay back with interest, rather than simply continuing to increase that debt load.
  
  the debt doesn’t go away because we balance our budget, it just stops growing beyond the interest amount. It’s still enough to ruin us if we don’t start to change it.
  
  i don’t care for a balanced budget amendment, though, honestly.
  i want the Congress to be forced to operate under basic accounting. that’s all…
  be honest about what we brought in, what we spend and where it’s spent.
  stop pretending that a lesser increase next year is a savings now.
  stop pretending that money moved from one bucket to another is savings.
  and stop endlessly printing money as the means of keeping the economy afloat.
  
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- SERE
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:38pm
  I disagree, the federal reserve has been monitizing our debt since China stopped buying it about 2 years ago. Note that the deficit amount is almost exactly the same as the fed is pumping into “bonds” and “underwater mortgage backed securities”.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:41pm
  The most interesting was figure 4 & table 4 of the report at the Federation of American Scientist link.
  
  Scan those pop the clutch & go.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 1:53pm
  Ryan is a RINO joke. His budget reduces the growth. I think, he takes spending down to some 42T from 46T in ten years. The only one so far that has talked about cutting anything is Rand Paul, from what I have heard, he wants to cut the NEA, EPA, and a few others and take the budget back (CUT) to early 2000 levels. In DC, “balance the budget” is the same as “cut spending” both are lies, both increase spending. The only thing they can do is deceive, and throw in words like “cut” for the emotionally challenged.
  
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- stumpygrim
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:07pm
  Folks, i believe Ryan is trying to get a budget that maybe the left will agree on, remember, his first budget went after entitlements hard and heavy,as it should be.My guess is, if he can get his budget through,at least it may stop some of the out of control spending,and maybe im flat wrong. Either way, it matters not, bucause until all the commie/progressives on both sides are gone, the politicians will continue to spend money like imelda marcos in a shoe store…….
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:19pm
  Reducing the rate of growth, if the economy grows will reduce debt & eliminate it. IT has worked to an extent in the past.
  
  The 1st question is will the economy grow enough given the tax rate disincentives. The 2nd question is as Ghost has pointed out, that future Congresses are not bound to this strategy.
  
  This is a long term strategy that has to be applied over a long term. But governing coalitions are short term on the order of 2 to 4 years.
  
  The big benefit of this strategy is that it is not austerity & there are not cuts. But although Paul Ryan & others are compromising the lying Democrats act like we are cutting to the bone & un- hooking granny form a respirator when we are doing no such thing.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:38pm
  Ron Paul was on the republican debate stage talking about a 1 trillion dollar cut to the 2013 budget while nobody else had the courage to talk about spending numbers…..just sayin
  
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