Congresscritter Paul Ryan
Posted on 12/23/2013 7:23:58 AM PST by bestintxas
House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has doubled down on his move to cut pensions for military veterans in a USA Today op-ed published Sunday.
In the op-ed, Ryan opens up by highlighting the CBO estimate that the deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) would result in at least $20 billion in deficit reduction. “The Bipartisan Budget Act that Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and I drafted will soon become law,” Ryan wrote. “We think it's a small step toward fiscal discipline in Washington. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will reduce the deficit over the next ten years by over $20 billion. And unlike current law, it will provide much-needed relief to our already strained defense budget.”
As Breitbart News has reported, Ryan’s and Murray’s budget deal does not reduce the deficit. In fact, the deal raises the deficit by at least $15.5 billion because of a series of gimmicks that Ryan and Murray employed in the accounting of the deal -- namely, double counting of savings like the tactic which was employed in Obamacare, and the failure to include an estimate of the interest on the borrowed money for the first couple of years of increased spending. These are only a few among a series of other misleading statements Ryan has made about the deal.
The rest of Ryan’s op-ed is devoted to defending his decision to cut $6 billion worth of military pensions. "One part of the bill has become particularly controversial: the reduction in cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for working-age military retirees,” Ryan wrote. “The federal government has no greater obligation than to keep the American people safe and we must take care of the
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Well done toast.
Paul Ryan is no Davy Crockett.
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For your eyes only! Cocktails at 7, in the Rayburn lobby. You in? Boehner’s local staff is kicking in all the Speaker’s end of year petty cash for the gig. I here it’s a real hum-digger. Pass it on and like it on facebook. Ciao! /s
There is more than $20 billion a year in waste in the DOD budget, and more than $20 billion a year in NEEDLESS Congressionally mandated add-ons (to serve local districts) in the DOD budget, and more than $20 billion a year in illegitimate cost-overruns in DOD arms acquisition programs in the DOD budget, but instead of doing something principled when going after the DOD budget to find “savings” Ryan and Murray decided NOT to tackle the real problems in the DOD budget but instead to go after the Veterans’ pensions.
Ryan’s star keeps sinking lower and lower all the time.
Methink I wasted my time defending these pukes. Fu@k'em all.
5.56mm
Remember The Cold War Peace Dividend that Clinton declared in the 90s? They hit the military pretty good even back then. Well, it’s time for another Peace Dividend. It’s time for The War On Poverty Peace Dividend. How long has that war gone on? 50 years now? How many billions of dollars have we spent fighting this war? It’s time for a Peace Dividend for the taxpayers from The War On Poverty. It’s only fair.
Rino Ryan, Top nominee for Rino Dick of the Year.
But how about the rising cost of paying never-married women to have babies? Or the rising cost of paying men who have never held a job and never will? Why impose the cuts on people who have earned their pension, instead of imposing cuts on people who have never earned a dime?
My word, you sound like a DU poster.
The fact that you just put our military heros on equal footing as teachers is astonishing.
The major problem with the cuts is the lack of fairness.
Where are the cuts for existing federal workers?
Where are the cuts for the welfare bums?
Where are the cuts for the fake disabled?
Where are the cuts for the government waste?
THEY ARE NOT THERE!
I’d already given up on Ryan when he came out in favor of gay adoptions, and took Zuckerberg cash to record those pro-amnesty radio ads with Rubio. Ryan repulses me to the very core. No way in hell would I ever give him my vote or my support for anything.
>> Paul Ryan got higher pension contributions for Federal workers.
Master negotiator Paul Ryan got for us a dazzling two billion dollars per year in (supposed) deficit reduction — to occur over ten years.
When the deficit is a trillion dollars per year, that represents an astonishing 0.2 per cent deficit reduction.
Master Ryan accomplished this amazing feat while dealing from a position of weakness as the minority party. No! Wait! Ryan achieved all this by squandering his party’s significant leverage in the House, wherein all spending and tax bills must originate.
You’ll just have to excuse my lack of enthusiasm for your buttboy’s epic good deeds, because I don’t see them as such and the facts support my position.
another outstanding piece, I admire your work Nathan, but not as much as your namesake.
trolling for votes from the illiterate at the expense of the military really rouses my ire against this RINO.
PS - isn’t it a sin that the War College is attempting to erase the memory of all those outstanding military men just because they decided to defend liberty and the South?
Remember a few years back when the military and civilian government employees and social security recipients were all going to share in the sacrifice and not receive any COLA? The social security recipients and civilian employees received bonus checks. The military people received nothing. There is no shared sacrifice with Democrats. They just let others sacrifice and protect their base.
“At the risk of drawing fire—why are cuts to veteran COLAs so offensive?”
are you kidding? Why do that with people who serve us when those millions on the dole who contribute nothing but a vote get the same benefit?
>> At the risk of drawing fire—why are cuts to veteran COLAs so offensive?
I agree that — being as we’re dead, flat broke — government spending must be cut. Across the board.
What offends me (deeply) is that our veterans’ benefits were cut, but there was no meat axe taken to the rest of the budget.
In fact, there was scarcely any trimming of FAT around the EDGES of our bloated government.
And tax hikes to boot. (Yes, “fee increases” ARE!!! tax hikes.)
I missed that article, what's up with that?
You are completely wrong. He did not get any concessions from federal civilian employees. He’s hoping he can get an increase for FUTURE federal civilian employees.
To keep the deficit from going UP with a socialist WH and Senate is not any easy task. Any deficit reduction at this point is an accomplishment with a hard core leftist in the Oval Office.
And without income tax hikes.
Ryan has chosen sides with the likes of McCain, Boehner, Graham, Collins & Toomey. He’ll not be getting my vote and I refuse to hold my nose again. If he or Christy are the GOP candidate in 2016, I will vote 3rd party or stay home, which is what I swore to do with McCain and Romney but didn’t. This time it ain’t happenin’ even if it’s Hillary.’
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