The $38 billion represents the future savings from the changes and reductions, while the CBO figure represents only the actual savings for this year. In addition, Ryan took on Medicare, which is a dysfunctional program that only burns money and doesn’t really even serve the people who have been forced to pay for it all of their working lives (that would be us). He actually has a workable plan for it. Nobody else has done that.
Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the budget, so I think this should tell us that it’s a lot better than you’d believe from reading this board.
The Rand bill was useful because even if it had very little to no chance (except for Dem shenanigans), it pushed the GOP to be much firmer in defending Ryan’s budget and I think you had unusual unity in the final vote (only 4 defected, IIRC). Normally, all the truly raving RINO’s make a point of running to “stand with their brethren across the aisle,” or some such garbage, but this time, they stayed pretty unified, which is going to be essential if we want to get anything done.
I also believe that they listened too closely to the media saying that they would be blamed for a shutdown and that it would hurt them - all they needed to do was to highlight the lies and fear-mongering from the "They want to kill women and deny medical care..." charlatans and destroy them with point-by-point facts. The Gipper would have explained it out and the People would have had a clear picture. Why is our side (such as it is) always afraid to address the blatant lies and bile coming from the Left?
Tax Strike Day, next March 16th, Friday.
No one send in until that Friday. Shot across the bow. Start making the bond holders nervous about them getting their money. Paying them is like paying the drug dealer that told you your kid owes them money.