House Approves Paul Ryan’s 2012 Spending Bill Cutting $6 Trillion
- Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:28pm by
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WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The House on Friday passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare and combat out-of-control budget deficits with sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.
The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over the coming decade from the budget submitted by President Barack Obama. It passed 235-193 with every Democrat voting “no.”
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who came up with the plan, delivered compelling remarks on the House floor during debate:
The vote sets up the Republicans‘ next round of confrontation with Obama and Democrats over the country’s long-term deficit levels – a standoff likely to come to a head this summer and set the stage for 2012 elections. In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Friday, the president said the Republican’s budget represents “a pessimistic vision.”
“It’s one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world,” he said.
Acknowledging that spending cuts would have to be made, Obama said he’s pushing for “a smart compromise that’s serious.”
Under the House Republican plan, deficits requiring the federal government to borrow more than 40 cents for every dollar it spends would be cut by the end of the decade to 8 cents of borrowing for every dollar spent.
The plan by Ryan, a rising figure in the party, exposes Republicans to political risk. It proposes transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system that subsidizes purchases of private insurance plans. People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.
The budget measure is nonbinding but lays out a vision to fundamentally reshape government benefit programs for the poor and elderly whose spiraling costs threaten to crowd out other spending and produce a crippling debt burden that could put a big drag on the economy in the future.
“Which future do you want your children to have? One, where the debt gets so large it crushes the economy and gives them a diminished future?” Ryan asked. “Or this budget … that literally not only gets us on the way to balancing the budget but pays off our debt?”
The GOP’s solution to unsustainable deficits is to relentlessly attack the spending side of the ledger while leaving Bush-era revenue levels intact. It calls for tax reform that would lower the top income tax rates for corporations and individuals by cleaning out a tax code cluttered with tax breaks and preferences, but parts company with Obama and the findings of a bipartisan deficit commission, who propose devoting about $100 billion a year in new revenues to easing the deficit.
Democrats and many budget experts say this spending-cuts-only approach is fundamentally unfair, targeting social safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps while leaving in place a tax system they say bestows too many benefits on the wealthy.
“The Republican plan is not bold. It‘s just the same old tired formula we’ve seen before of providing big tax breaks to the very wealthy and powerful special interests at the expense of the rest of America,” said top Budget panel Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. “Except this time it’s dressed up with a lot of sweet-smelling talk of reform.”
But Obama and Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, his chief GOP adversary, do agree on something: that an upcoming vote to increase the government’s ability to borrow to pay its bills will have to contain spending cuts.
“Let me be clear: There will be no debt limit increase unless it is accompanied by meaningful spending cuts and budget reforms,” Boehner said.
“I think (Boehner’s) absolutely right that it’s not going to happen without some spending cuts,” Obama told the AP.
In their budget, Republicans shied away from tackling Social Security shortfalls, steering clear of what pundits sometimes call the “third rail of American politics.”
Virtually every budget expert in Washington agrees that projected Medicare cost increases are unsustainable, but the GOP initiative – attacked by Democrats as ending Medicare’s guarantee as we know it – has launched a major-league Washington imbroglio.
“We hear a lot about Medicare as we know it,” said Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark. “Well, unfortunately Medicare as we know it is going bankrupt. If you are for the status quo with regard to Medicare, you are on the side of the elimination of Medicare as we know it.”
Democrats countered with official estimates showing the GOP plan would provide vouchers whose value would steadily erode.
“The Republican proposal breaks the promise that our country has made to our seniors – that after a lifetime of work they will be able to depend on Medicare to protect them in retirement,” said Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. “The Republicans’ plan forces seniors to buy their insurance from health insurance companies where the average senior will be forced to pay twice as much for half the benefit.”
Also Friday, the House easily defeated two liberal budget alternatives. A plan offered by the conservative Republican Policy Committee failed as well, while a Democratic alternative that called for higher taxes on the wealthy and special interests fell on a 259-166 vote.
But the alternative budget plan offered by the committee does show that there are a group of Republicans who want more cuts. The Hill explains:
But the vote on the measure — which imposes $5.8 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade — came after a clear sign that at least half of the Republican Caucus supports even tougher spending cuts.
The final tally was 235-193, with four Republicans opposing it. They were Reps. Ron Paul (Texas), Denny Rehberg (Mont.), Walter Jones (N.C.) and David McKinley (W.Va.).
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Earlier in the day, the House rejected an alternative budget that would make an even deeper cuts than Ryan’s proposal, but only after a chaotic scene on the House floor.
In an effort to embarrass Republicans by having them approve a budget that makes deeper cuts than Ryan’s proposal, Democrats voted “present” on the Republican Study Committee bill. Initially, 124 Republicans were prepared to support the measure offered by the conservative RSC, but several switched their votes when it appeared the bill could pass.
In the end, 119 Republicans voted for the RSC budget, with 120 Republicans voting against. The bill failed in a 119-136 vote.
The GOP plan isn’t actual legislation. Instead, under the arcane congressional budget process, the measure sketches out a nonbinding blueprint each year for running the government. The resolution doesn‘t require the president’s signature, but it does set the framework for changes to spending or tax policy in follow-up legislation.
The most immediate impact of the GOP plan would be to cut the $1 trillion-plus budget for appropriated programs next year by $30 billion, following on $38 billion in cuts just adopted. That would return domestic agency accounts below levels when George W. Bush left office.
The Democratic-controlled Senate has yet to produce its alternative plan. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and other members of Obama’s independent fiscal commission are pursuing a bipartisan “grand bargain” blending big spending curbs with new revenues flowing from a simplified tax code.
The budget deficit is projected at an enormous $1.6 trillion this year, but more ominously, current projections show an even worse mismatch as the baby boom generation retires and Medicare costs consume an ever-growing share of the budget.
This is a breaking story. Updates will be added.
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Comments (131)
mossbrain
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:54pmWhy don’t some of you older conservatives set a good example and send your social security and Medicare checks back to the government. When you go to the doctor pay out of your OWN pocket.
Just because you‘re old doesn’t mean you have to be a freeloader on society. Send that money back you leeches.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:15pm@grasscoveredgreymatter:
Report Post »Ah gee, we are old, white, and so very racist could you please show us by your example what you mean?
See, we were all learned in one room school houses and then our pappys worked us till dark running moonshine, so were pretty unedumacated and we’d sur nuff priciate yer shewing us by yur good zample how to get her did, thanx lots. A conservatib.
flagbearer
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:24pmMy grandfather, who passed away in the late 1950s, refused to take any social security payments. He saw FDR’s policies as the “beginning of the end of America,” and he wanted no part of it. I guess time is proving him right. He was far from wealthy (a frugal, charitable man of Scots-Irish descent), but rich in principles. My grandmother drew on social security only after my mother and her sisters convinced my grandmother that she’d never live long enough to collect what my grandfather had paid into the system. They were also right.
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:28pmthat would not be a principled stand, Nor is everyone that draws on it freeloading,
However a Person should calculate how much they and their employers paid in to both programs then stop taking payments once the government as repaid, with reasonable interest the money the government stole from their paychecks and their employers bank accounts.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:54pmWhy doesn’t the TEA Pary and Republicans invade the Democrats. Run as Democrats, lie like they do to get elected as a Democrat and flip flop after getting into office. If you can’t beat them .. join them .. then beat them.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 5:57pmI am in…..Madison Wisconsin needs more baby killin,pot smokin,bongo beatin, pro union goons…..JUST LIKE ME! I Love Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman,Mikey Moore, WHEE!
Report Post »I am gonna be a Senator!!
That would be SUCH a hoot. I would be recalled sooooo fast.
Sam Brown
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:50pmWe will be bankrupt long before they do anything real. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Sammy
Report Post »the_ancient
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:49pmROFL, I lover everyone patting themselves on the back,
WAKE UP PEOPLE, Paul Ryan’s “plan” does not have a SINGLE CUT in it, THEY ARE FAKE,
How you ask???? Obama wanted 11+ Trillion in spending Increases, Ryan “Reduces” Obama’s crazy number by 6+ Billion, that means over the next decade federal spending, under Ryans Plan, will STILL INCREASE BY 3-4 TRILLION DOLLARS,
I dont know what math they each in DC, but around here that is a INCREASE not a “CUT”
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:55pmA lot of insurance companies are donating a lot of money to Paul Ryan.
Report Post »He’s not fooling anybody.
Silly Mr. Ryan, tricks are for kids.
the_ancient
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:55pmReally Really Really Need an edit button for this site
The above should read:
ROFL, I love how everyone is patting themselves on the back,
WAKE UP PEOPLE, Paul Ryan’s “plan” does not have a SINGLE CUT in it, THEY ARE FAKE,
How you ask???? Obama wanted 11+ Trillion in spending Increases, Ryan “Reduces” Obama’s crazy number by 6+ Trillion, that means over the next decade federal spending, under Ryans Plan, will STILL INCREASE BY 3-4 TRILLION DOLLARS,
I dont know what math they each in DC, but around here that is a INCREASE not a “CUT”
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:59pmActually Ryans bill has no common factors to Obamas, in other words they are two different budgets. Rayan’s is a real budget in that it contains computations and worksheets. Obamas is smoke and mirrors.
Report Post »In either case, it’s not going anywhere fast.
the_ancient
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:11pm@BETTERDAYS
That may be true, but we need to actually cut government, Actually END programs, Actually TERMINATE departments and agencies.
While Paul Ryan may have an “actual budget” it is, IMO, a bad one
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:22pmI concur, it does not go anywhere near far enough. When we ( TEA) elected these people we sent them with a clear directive, cut government size and cut out the spending. We didn‘t mince words then and our words haven’t changed.
Report Post »Let’s look towards getting our 81 new guys some help, a whole lot of help in 2012!
Everything between now and then is semantics and moot, because we don’t have the body count we need…yet.
liberalsarealiens
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:49pmWe will now see just WHERE the dems are on the deficit. The people will see where they are and anyone in the middle will now find out just where the truble lies!
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:47pmHOLD FAST AND DON’T LET GO. As long as you all stand for us we will stand for you.
Report Post »Goohuman
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:46pmThis won’t pass. WE THE PEOPLE will have to change our ways and be responsible. Right now, even as many of us see the obvious collapse, we don’t believe it is actually happening. Debt sucks.
Report Post »Jediusetheforce
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pmSo what is the next step? The Senate to vote no or Obama to veto it?
Report Post »Clean Patriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:44pmWe better get prepared to be called killers of old people and children. never mind the dems love to kill babies. Repubs will now be wnating everyone to die and have dirty water and air too.
It is time to get out the ads about the dems wanting everyone to live in poverty so the gov’t can take care of them in poverty.Lets all demand unions represent us in healthcare too.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:43pmWell, much as I’d like to do a fist pump right about now reality lept up and took it away.
This is going nowhere fast.
The progressives are already meeting in their covens, mincing words and eye of Newt Gingrich, stirring the pot and calling it racist, doing abortions and saying republicans hate babies, taxing the rich and not paying their own taxes, saying wars bad and bombing Lybia, and preparing to call everyone extreme. Business as usual.
Time to get our focus on 2012, GOD so willing.
Report Post »Kankokage
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:40pmIt’s a start…next time, cut even more. The government is bloated, and the only way to get rid of bloating is to dry it out. A leaner, more efficient government with no debt is a healthy government.
Report Post »cruzinbill
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:40pmgoodbye blaze you turned down my last post.
Report Post »Jerminator2011
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:39pmIt is a startm but we have looooooooong way to go. Obama will veto and the Democrats will be “no” to cuts, “YES” to continued reckless spending and tern everything into an ethics, moral, and rights issue. Time to begin pressing harder and gathering the tea party patriots!!!
Report Post »cruzinbill
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:38pmdummycrats party of no brains.
Report Post »donewithnews
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:38pmSay what you want about the scope, but the conversation is moving in the right direction.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:37pmGood luck in the Senate! Bet it will smell great until they get the crapped pants out of there!
Anyone notice whether Obama is wearing his wedding ring and watch lately? Saw a story about that in Yahoo news. (Ramadan is 1–29 August in 2011.)
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pm@Showtime:
Report Post »4betterdays is not me.
Let‘s watch and see if it’s a troll, do you think I got under somebodies skin ?
Soquel by the Creek
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:37pmUnfortunately, the House plan will never make it past the Senate. Even if it did, President Obama would never sign it and there aren’t enough votes for an override. But, I’m happy that the Republicans have passed the the Ryan Plan. I don’t like all of his plan, but it’s at least a step back from the brink.
I can‘t wait to see the Democrat’s plan, if it ever materializes.
Report Post »Clean Patriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pmWhat plan? the dems will never let anyone pin them down to a plan.
Report Post »JN
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:57pmI think this is the most realistic plan out there. Cutting 6 trillion over 10 years and fixing Medicare sounds Andrew Jacksonian to me
Report Post »timej31
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:37pmExcellent!! The lines are very clear now. This is what we’ve been waiting for..
Report Post »Jfifthwheel
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:37pmYes he will. with a veto
Report Post »Jerminator2011
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:36pmIt is a start, but we have a long, long way to go. With no democrat voting for it, it shows their outright negligence in keeping the fiscal House in order.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:35pmAnything that takes power from the government the damocraps will not vote for.
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:39pmI’m so glad they passed this because, just as the republicans used the houses votes on immigration and energy against the dems in 2010, even though those bills went nowhere, the dems will get to use this vote against all who voted yes and to a degree the entire republican party, in 2012. Let the campaigns begin.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 5:24pm@ whineytoiletpaper, Could you BE more clueless? Americans WANT this. As opposed to what the dimocrats did. Comparing apples to vulcanized rubber is pointless. PLEASE go back to the lefty blogs where they do not notice how stupid you are……
Report Post »onebigassmistakeamerica
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:33pmMark my words. Obama will screw it up.
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:38pmHe already has. Enough already!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:38pmThink it will be next to impossible to get through Senate and Exec as is..will wind up much, much smaller!
Report Post »desertpatriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:32pmAnything less than total debt elimination is unacceptable. The government is unsustainable on its current course.
Report Post »Brontefan
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pmYou are right, of course. And this next time Republicans in the House will need to realize that they are dealing with the Devil and be much more tenacious about their negotiations. They keep telling us that Americans want bi-partisanship. NO that is not true. Americans want the federal government to STOP spending and STOP growing.
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:32pmHooray !!! The republican better stand their ground. Go Tea Party !!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:38pmGo, AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!! (That be “We the People.”)
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pmDouble ditto to Vickie and Show.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:54pmLet’s just get rid of BO in 2012 and then we can start working in the problem.
Report Post »He and the Dem controlled Senate will not allow anything to pass over the next 2 years.
WHIITETEAPARTY
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 5:20pmUnfortunatly, a prerequisit for the republicans/teaparty is cowardness. The history proves is. Why do you think all the great presidents have been democrats. I still laugh everytime I hear repubs try to claim Lincoln was a republicant. The tea party is rasicm plain and simple everyone know is, and recent polling proves it. You think you people would see tea partys approval rating at 17% and get it. But ingnorance must be bliss.
Report Post »carrierguy
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:30pmOMG…are they the new party of “NO”
Report Post »4betterdays
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:39pmlol
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:41pm^______^______^
Always be the party of “NO” when this country’s best interests are in play.
‘with every Democrat voting “no.”’How much more do you need to see America from this group who is partly responsible for the out of control spending?
This will go to the Senate and we will see the same/ reverse result; Senate Votes Down GOP Bill Cutting $6 Trillion…. “with every Democrat voting ”yes”‘ . The democ…. socialist party is dangerous to the this Republic, their actions speak louder than their words. They have continually moved in a direction putting Americas best interest behind their agenda.
How many true blood democrat voters who are tired of the out of control spending will remember acts like this come next election? The republicant party needs to hold their ground and continue to pass bills like this to show history that some tried to change the course this country is on. The progressive socialists will go down in history as the true destroyers of this nation.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:43pmLOL…Dems are the party of NO (BWAHAHAHAHA)
The times they are a changin
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:44pmWait until the Senate gets ahold of it. Dead on arrival. Good for the GOP though, at least they have a real plan. Check out the next battle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeIW4yJMYFI the debt ceiling fight will be ugly.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:45pmYes… I mean No… I mean those cuts are Racist!
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:49pmLOL, whatever.
No way it passes in the Senate, suckers.
drbage
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:50pmIs this the O’s new, updated version of cooperation and working across the aisle?
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:52pmCould there be a divide in the Ron Paul family?
Republicans voting against the Ryan plan were Reps. Ron Paul of Texas, Walter Jones of North Carolina, David McKinley of West Virginia, and Denny Rehberg of Montana.
Anyone look into Paul Ryan’s wallet lately?????
Report Post »A lot of insurance companies are filling up his wallet with a lot of money lately.
JN
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:56pmapparently one democrat voted “yea” and then switched to “no”. Good for Ryan that this made it through the House, Lord knows the Republicans in the House have a love affair with Rhinos
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:01pmIt probably wont pass the Democrat controlled Senate… but we should continue to pass it, send it, and make them vote it down every freakin week and force them to debate and own the massive spending and bloated government until they are blue in the face. Same with Obama Care. Pass resolution to repeal it and send it up there every week
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:06pmNOTE TO SPEAKER BOEHNER: MAN-UP! WHAT PART OF “NO,“ AS IN ”NO COMPROMISE,” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND? IT‘S EITHER AMERICA’S WAY OR THE HIGHWAY, BOEHNER!
If You and Cantor, Et Al, can’t MAN-UP, Step Aside And Let Those Who Are TRUE “DON’T TREAD ON ME” AMERICANS LEAD!
Report Post »~~~~~~~
NOTE TO AMERICA: FLOOD BOEHNER’S IN-BOX WITH NOTES ON HOW IT‘S GONNA BE OR BOEHNER’S FIRED! NO MORE POLITICS AS USUAL = NO COMPROMISE! FIND SOME GUTS, BOEHNER, OR GET OUT!
NickDeringer
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:09pmIt’s a brave plan, but Washington is the land of cowards.
Report Post »Benjamin Linus
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:09pmRyan’s plan includes another 30+ years of deficit spending until we finally have even one year of a balanced budget, never mind the actual national debt… and that assumes that the next 30+ years of congresses won’t just throw out his plan when they draft the next yearly budget.
This is better than the last budget deal but still a pathetic joke.
We are still watching a puppet show folks.
Real reform this is not. Don’t be duped yet again, please.
Report Post »LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:10pmWhere are the Flippin JOB’S
Report Post »Kasman
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:10pm@SavingtheRepublic.com
I really don’t think they can destroy this great nation. They will try, but there are way to many real Americans that are more than willing to put their own lives on the line to keep this country alive. Do I want it to come to bloodshed ?? No. It would be better if they just walked away with their lives and left American soil. The sad reality of it is, that it may come to that. The fake American’s will never be able to see thru the fog of their defective mind-set… and in the end, we may have to use force AGAIN (see-> American Revolution – WWI & WWII) to ensure our freedom and prosperity.
Thanx, and have a nice day.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:13pmstifroc not only should they re-pass it every week they should add new cuts 6 trillion this week 7trillion next and 8 the week after that…
Report Post »Red Meat
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:20pmIt’s a foregone conclusion this fails in the Senate. So, it‘s just window dressing by the RINO’s. Watch them now cave on the debt ceiling.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:51pmGood, now that it can go to the senate to die. Its time for Ryan and the rest of the children of Tea Party to go to bed so the adults can work.
Actually, I would like to see the GOP explain to the average citizens, not the brain dead tea partiers, how ending Medicare is a good, especially in Florida.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:15pmIf every Democrat voted ‘no’, then you know the budget is a good one. They better not accuse conservatives of being the party of ‘no’ anymore.
This budget will not get passed in the Senate because of the greedy Dems who want to keep on spending our money. At least it shows voters that there are good things coming when the Repubs gain control of the WH and Congress in 2012.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:17pm@WHIYETEAPARTY.. yeah Paul voted no because it didn’t cut enough moron..
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:30pm@ENCINOM
Report Post »So are you logging in with two different accounts? The other account being ENCIINOM, with two I’s.
Or is there a DailyKos, HufPo buddy using almost the same name? Trying to be a confusing troll?
WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:37pmLet’s be clear. The Republican proposal isn’t trying to transform Medicare and other safety net programs. It’s trying to kill it. Why do Republicans always gets Fox news to go along with its euphemisms?
Remember Bush’s “Blue Skies” agenda to permit increased pollution, and his “Healthy Forest” initiative permitting the clear cutting of forests? And recall when his idea to privatize Social Security morphed linguistically into creating personal accounts?
I don’t care what they choose to call it, whatever the GOP is up to it is intended to be beneficial for the “haves” and devastating for the “have nots.”
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:44pmPaul Ryan’s budget ignored the military, instantly rendering it a joke.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:44pm@WhiteTeaParty
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 2:52pm
Could there be a divide in the Ron Paul family?
Republicans voting against the Ryan plan were Reps. Ron Paul of Texas, Walter Jones of North Carolina, David McKinley of West Virginia, and Denny Rehberg of Montana.
Anyone look into Paul Ryan’s wallet lately?????
Report Post »A lot of insurance companies are filling up his wallet with a lot of money lately.
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Lately?
Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:47pmYep, the dems are the New Party of Dr No and Dr Evil. Liberals will need tissues to dry their eyes when they hear about his. Is it me, or do liberals not take courses in math? Do they pay a lot of bad check fees and bank charges for not balancing their check books? Do we have credit scores on people because liberals don’t pay their mortagages and car payments? Do they not have credit cards by 21 years old because they don’t pay them back? Did the US come up with bankrupcy to cover liberal mistakes? Just wondering, this would explain a lot…
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:50pmthe president said the Republican’s budget represents “a pessimistic vision.”
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Pessimistic? I‘d say it’s rather optimistic, Sir!!
“It’s one that says that America can no longer do some of the big things that made us great, that made us the envy of the world,” he said.
Report Post »_______________________
What???????
What does cutting or not cutting spending have ANYTHING to do with how other countries view us?
What an absurd argument to make.
Wolf
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:34pmCan you say, “Smoke and mirrors”?
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:20pm@WhiteTeaParty,
Let me ask you, do you want to see this nation get out of debt? If so, what is your plan. All you ever do is bash the conservatives. What option are you proposing to get us out of debt? You really have nothing…right?
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 10:36amThat’s nothing. The House also passed a bill demanding that Jesus return no later than April 25 at 3:30. Now I’m sure Obama will refuse to sign it, so we have him to blame for delaying the rapture. Thanks, Obama, I mean President Turd Boy.
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