Posted on 03/18/2011 8:27:57 PM PDT by rrdog
en. Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, had a press conference scheduled for today unveiling his plans for a five-year path to a balanced budget.
- Reduces spending by nearly $4 trillion relative to the President's budget - Achieves a $19 billion surplus in FY2016 - Brings all non-military discretionary spending back to FY2008 levels - Requires the process of entitlement reform, including Social Security and Medicare, with final implementation by FY2016 - Does not change Social Security or Medicare benefits - Block-grants Medicaid, SCHIP, foods stamps, and child nutrition · Provides the President's request for war funding - Reduces military spending 6 percent in FY2012 · Eliminates four departments: - Department of Commerce (transfers certain programs) - Department of Education (preserves Pell grants) - Department of Housing and Urban Development - Department of Energy (transfers nuclear research and weapons to Department of Defense) · Repeals Obamacare
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Same here. Rand Paul is obviously one of us. He gets it. He understands that the country is at the edge of the precipice, and that if we don't move boldly now, we're going to fall into the abyss.
I want to see how many other legislators in Washington rise from their seats and walk over to stand shoulder to shoulder with him. Those who don't, may as well start looking for new digs back home.
How much time do you think we have? The guy is very smart, a surgeon and is more qualified than anyone else I can think of.
The Utah GOP/LDS Church stabbed us in the back with amnesty. The house is fire and time is running out.
I don’t listen to the pundit s**t and disinformation nonsense on Obama TV for the last year. The crap on CNN-Lite Fox Al Waleed is a joke. Time is almost up on America.
Rand Paul is not going to run for president, after having only just been elected to his very first post in government.
Even if he did run, the American people are NOT going to elect yet another relative unknown newcomer to the White House in times such as these.
There is no way to get the budget under control without eliminating whole departments. Rand knows this, and too few of our other Repub leadership gets it. There is no way to fund everything the government is doing and balance the budget, they know that, and then they give up. They argue about a few earmarks more or less, they try to shave a percent or two off the budget and feel like heroes when they do, and things continue to rocket toward disaster.
Rand gets it. You could eliminate half the seats in the president's cabinet and the departments they represent and the country would be the better for it. The reduction in the budget is a side benefit. The real benefit is the incremental increase in liberty. But faced as we are with the collapse of our economy and the collapse of our dollar, there is no excuse to do what we ought to have done even in good times.
The GOP will not even give this proposal lip service. If they touch it they will not be reelected. They care more about holding office than they do about using their time to fix the problem Rand identifies.
20 more years of deficits? Is that the alternative proposal?
I want the opposite of your battle tested. Sounds like you thought Dole was a good choice
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How do you equate Bob Dole with the phrase, "battle tested"?
Granted, Bob Dole was a senior Senator with a whole lot of tenure, but first of all, he was a legislator - NOT an EXECUTIVE.
Choosing our candidates because we like the way they think, or because they've been on Capitol Hill since Iwo Jima, is plain nuts.
The presidency is a JOB, and it has certain DUTIES and functions, just like any other job. The requisite qualifications not only include right thinking and knowledge of how Capitol Hill works, but it also requires that one be up to the task of being the Chief Executive of the largest, most powerful, most important organization on the planet.
One only gains the experience to be a boss, by being a boss. It starts at the bottom. Think 'lead man'. It goes from there, to foreman. Up another rung, and you're the section chief. Another step, and you're the Division Chief. Step once more, and you're now VP of Operations. One more step just might land you at CEO, if you're good enough.
That's the sort of progression one ought to have, to take on the most important executive position on the planet.
The road to that job doesn't lead through Congress. At least, it shouldn't. Legislators make lousy presidents. Name me one, who you can honestly say was a great president, and an effective leader of our government. I can't do it.
I could get into a plan like this.
I like it.
Paul Ryan is all fluff that’s why the inside the beltway guys love him.
It think it is a great start. Although cutting IRS and putting in a flat tax would save the government a ton too.
“Repeals Obamacare First and foremost!”
Even if the Senate would vote for it (which this one won’t), the ONLY way this will happen is with a new (non-Democrat, period) President. Bachmann’s got a helluva fight just pushing for the $105 billion that was already advanced on Obamacare to be returned.
Do you realize how much of an improvement a garden variety FReeper is over what is in power right now?
I'm sorry, but I want a proven, battle-tested, world class leader in the White House in 2012.
I hope Allen West is available in 2012 because he's all those things.
You think if we had ol’McCain we would be, no budget budget wise, in any different position then we are now? How did the experienced Bush/Hastert/Lott do on spending?
Basically, who got the country to this position, newbies, or old pro’s?
Washington, Adams, Lincoln,Coolidge, Truman, JFK, Nixon, Johnson.
Non legislators. Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover, FDR.
Hoover was the most accomplished American in his time in being a successful CEO/executive. Utter failure as President.
Dude.
Johnson sucked BIG time.
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