Call me a cynic on this administration getting anything done in a timely fashion.
[Sorry we are out of the office for much needed R&R through the 29th, please leave a messsage and someone will get back to you when we return and have a good day.]
I agree. Paul Ryan’s plan is something like 20 years. We don’t have that long.
Rand Paul for President 2012. This guy has got what it takes!
Senator Paul’s plan is one of the best and boldest things that I have ever seen come out of Washington. Kudos to him for having the brilliance and balls to put it on the table.
And 2008 was a big-spending bailout/stimulus year. If it is that easy, why not freeze spending at 2007 levels?
I’d be happy if they could even get half of this. I just don’t think they’ll ever be able to override Obama. He’s bent on total destruction of white middle class.
It's our only hope.
Short of these draconian steps our nation will not endure and Liberty will be lost, finally, in the world.
Man's great experiment will have died.
Everyone seems to find the time to be writing books.
The Tea Party Goes to Washington.
And every Congress member gets a copy
of Rand Paul’s new book.
Haven't you heard? Vacation is on the agenda:
The Senate agreed to adjourn for 10 days, a little Spring Break in following the lead of the House, which already had approved closing up shop through March 29.
But: just before adjourning, the House voted 228-192 to end federal taxpayer funding for NPR.
But: the Senate may not see eye to eye on the timely measure.
First things first: Rand did get into a heated debate on the Light Bulb Law..in last weeks Senate legislative hearing on two energy efficiency bills.
Call me a cynic on this administration getting anything done in a timely fashion.
[Sorry we are out of the office for much needed R&R through the 29th, please leave a messsage and someone will get back to you when we return and have a good day.]
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
Cannot possibly achieve this:
Achieves a $19 billion surplus in FY2016
The guy's full of it. It looks like Washington Math has already claimed him as a victim.
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.
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I could get into a plan like this.
I like it.
It think it is a great start. Although cutting IRS and putting in a flat tax would save the government a ton too.
A great idea. Unfortunately it’s dead on arrival.
The irony here is that by being a Senator, Senator Rand’s plan will get more of a hearing in the Senate than in the House. The Senate won’t pass anything like it of course because the majority of the Senate opposes fiscal responsibility on philosophical grounds. But it might get something of a hearing.
And as for the House, we can rest assured that the Weeper, Eric the Weasel, and the rest of the GOP Capitulation Caucus will insure that nothing close to what Sen. Rand is proposing will ever see the light of day.
VOTE TEA PARTY ONLY. SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM SOCIALISM
NO IRS EITHER
This doesn’t sound like enough cuts to do what is needed. And the American people would rather go bankrupt than lose four Cabinet posts which they truly believe they need.