>> 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.
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.