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Paul Ryan Unveils 2015 budget plan: Includes major spending cuts
CBS News ^ | 04/01/2014 | ALICIA BUDICH

Posted on 04/01/2014 10:34:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

"Tighten the belts" is one tired takeaway from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget proposal, released today. The budget proposes to cut $5.1 trillion from projected spending over the next 10 years, getting a lot of its savings from repealing the president's health care law and changing Medicaid.

The document, titled again, "Path to Prosperity," is largely for show, as the bipartisan budget agreement authored by Ryan, R-Wisc., and his Senate counterpart, Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., already set discretionary spending levels for the 2015 fiscal year. The budget agreement passed in both the Senate and the House and was signed by President Obama in late-December of 2013, effectively ending years of budget crises - for two years, at least.

Politicians like to look to budgets, though, as "visioning" documents that lay out their party's priorities.

Some of the visions presented in Ryan's new proposal, which claims to balance the budget in 10 years, are familiar: Repeal Obamacare and replace it with patient-centered health care, support job training programs, eliminate duplicative or redundant programs within the federal government, and give states more flexibility in lots of areas.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act is a surefire way to get Democrats worked up, especially coming just one day after the deadline for people to sign up for a health care plan. Ryan calls the law "a costly mistake" and lists the many parts of the law the budget seeks to repeal while also stating multiple times that this budget will "Repeal Obamacare" in its entirety.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: budget; congress; paulryan; ryanbudget; spending; wisconsin
He Unveils it on April 1. I hope it's just a coincidence.
1 posted on 04/01/2014 10:34:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
RE :”Some of the visions presented in Ryan's new proposal, which claims to balance the budget in 10 years, are familiar: Repeal Obamacare and replace it with patient-centered health care, support job training programs, eliminate duplicative or redundant programs within the federal government, and give states more flexibility in lots of areas. “

Ryan unveils House GOP budget claiming balance (another Budget Resolution)

Yawn.....

2 posted on 04/01/2014 10:36:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: SeekAndFind
"I question the timing."

....Tom (Thumb) Daschle

3 posted on 04/01/2014 10:37:07 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He Unveils it on April 1. I hope it’s just a coincidence.

Yeah, I am thinking the same exact thing...


4 posted on 04/01/2014 10:39:05 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SeekAndFind
What good is it to cut the budget (not that we have one) if you are going to destroy our immigration system and let every socialist freeloader from every foreign country in to prop up the Democrats who are just going to spend more than the 5 trillion dollars of the cuts that really aren't going to happen anyway thanks to the demographic changes that country clubbers like you helped create. Ryan go take a hike with McCain and Graham and don't come back(and take Boehner with you).
5 posted on 04/01/2014 10:41:37 AM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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To: GraceG

If he gets his amnesty then nothing else will matter. A nation without borders will not stand long. Sorry to be a downer here, I used to love Ryan but he just won’t get off the amnesty wagon.


6 posted on 04/01/2014 10:41:59 AM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: SeekAndFind

He should have issued one with runaway spending for every crazy liberal plan under the sun and then shouted “Obama Fool”!


7 posted on 04/01/2014 10:45:30 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Cuts” likely come in the out years while spending continues to increase. Unless we get rid of baseline budgeting, this is all smoke and mirrors from the GOPe.


8 posted on 04/01/2014 10:50:25 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: sickoflibs

What is Ryan cutting from veterans this time?


9 posted on 04/01/2014 10:51:52 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: SeekAndFind

Check it out. It’s a $4 trillion government with 1/8th spent on defense. Government spending should be cut by at least 80% - that’s only 4/5th’s - still too big. A good start would be to nuke the $1 trillion HHS, a bureaucracy that does way more harm than good. Take it from there.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 11:01:48 AM PDT by PapaNew
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It's a BARELY BALANCED budget


11 posted on 04/01/2014 11:03:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (uestion)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks SeekAndFind.


12 posted on 04/01/2014 11:08:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: SeekAndFind

As Milton Friedman says, keep your eye on the ball - the issue isn’t the deficit, it’s SPENDING. The sheet you show is a good start. Nuke the $1 trillion HHS which does way more harm than good. That would also be a good start.


13 posted on 04/01/2014 11:08:33 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You are correct!!!

Until baseline budgeting is scrapped “cuts” are all smoke and mirrors.


14 posted on 04/01/2014 11:13:39 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: SeekAndFind

Any politician that touts the dam 10-year plan will not get my vote. I hate that with a passion. It is a lie intended to suck in LIV’s with absolutely no accountability in the long term. Let’s keep it to no more than 2 years, where we can actually vote a$$holes from office if they fail.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 12:13:15 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: GraceG

Government should sell off all Oil Leases, Sell some of the National Parks, Use Prisoners for slave labor, can PBS, Big Bird, Rail roads, Cut back on food stamps, welfare (all should work) Break the backs of the Unions—cut the Federal Union Workers by 20%, Cut all benifits to Senators and congressmen. Sell off the Smithsonian Museum. Start charging to launch things into space. —Turn back the budget to the one we had in 2007.


16 posted on 04/01/2014 1:51:18 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another crappy idea from Paul Ryan.


17 posted on 04/01/2014 3:46:18 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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