Posted on 04/20/2011 8:21:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrat party socialist propaganda and scare tactics.
What Trump was saying that made sense was when the GOP won the House in 2010, the GOP should not have made a deal with the sitting Dems in the House just to extend the Bush taxcuts because all they got was another 2 year extension and kept the US economy from relapsing. It prevented the Dems from being blamed and allowed them time to regroup and come back in 2012 to argue tax on the rich only. Instead led the economy get worst and the Dems get full political heat just as the new GOP controlled Congress take their seat in 2011. Now the GOP is in a stronger position to push for permanent Bush taxcuts and more. What Trump understand is how to pressure the opposition for a better deal.
Thansk sickoflibs.
North Prairie — A village hall packed with about 170 people offered a large measure of support and a few suggestions to U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan on Monday at the first of 19 listening sessions on his plans for massive spending cuts and wholesale changes to Medicare.
A woman’s plea that Ryan run for president in 2012 got the biggest round of applause.
About a dozen people in the Waukesha County audience got to ask questions during the hourlong session. Two of them said Ryan’s plan for spending cuts fell short because it didn’t raise taxes on the very richest of Americans or relied on spending cuts when it also needed higher taxes to boost revenue. A couple, sounding skeptical, questioned him about on details of his proposal to overhaul Medicare for those now 54 or younger
Ryan, a Republican from Janesville, is the House budget chairman whose 2012 budget plan was adopted Friday by Republican votes alone. It has no chance of passing the Senate, controlled by Democrats, but will shape both negotiations and the 2012 presidential election.
His listening tour took him to Mukwonago later Monday afternoon and is scheduled to continue Tuesday and for several days next week.
Under the watchful eyes of 10 police officers, Ryan told the filled-to-capacity meeting room, with a couple dozen others lining an outer hallway, that America was at “the fork in the road” and that his plan will cut spending and control government while promoting economic growth.
Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity,” as he calls it, would cut federal spending by roughly $6 trillion over 10 years, rolling domestic programs back to 2008 levels and freezing them there for years. It would slash the federal workforce by 10% through attrition and freeze federal pay.
It would also change Medicaid to a state block grant program rather than an individual entitlement. And it would require future Medicare recipients - those 54 or younger now - to pay a much larger share of their health care costs, according to the Congressional Budget Office. His Medicare plan would make it a system in which government pays a portion of premiums individuals pay to private health care plans.
Saying that crushing federal debt will bury future generations and that Medicare will be bankrupt in nine years, he said, “Right now we’ve got a stack of bills and empty promises. That’s not much to count on.”
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