It is not something the federal government should be doing anyway. Let the states have their own welfare programs. And let the producers move outta those states.
So, so, so predictable. It will sway a lot of idiot voters as well.
While I love Paul Ryan, I think politically his pick will hurt Romney quite a bit.
Here’s the thing about Ryan . . .I like him. Really do. However, I think he makes Romney’s chance pretty much impossible.
MAYBE if Romney had the upper hand in this race going into this pick. Far from it. The MSM is going to CRUCIFY Ryan. Romney’s almost dead anyway so I guess he had to try a Hail Mary.
Quite frankly, I think the GOP elite now realize they stand no chance in November and that they are positioning Ryan for 2016.
“BIANNA GOLODRYGA: ...but he’s now best-known for his controversial budget proposal,...”
You people made it controversial, our side think it’s common sense.
Let Medicare go totally broke. ObamaCare will take half a billion dollars out of the program and start rationing care for the elderly who the government deems
“non-productive.”
Medicare only benefits the foreign doctors who flood Florida in order to make millions in Medicare fraud. Doctors should quit taking Medicare patients like me because they are pitifully underpaid for their services by Medicare. The Medicare paper-shufflers and the swindlers are the ones making the money.
“But Ryan’s plan would actually increase federal spending over the next ten years, from about $3.6 trillion this year to just under $4.9 trillion in 2022.”
This is a plus?! You’ve got to be kidding me.
There's that word again. Everything libs don't like is "controversial". Screw them (and that Bianna is easy on the eyes.....).
The Federal government spends 900 billion a year on medicaid/medicare while collecting 100 billion annually thru the medicare portion of the FICA tax. That is a running 800 billion dollar annual deficit.Medicare/medicaid is the bulk of our federal deficit. All else including social security pales to this mother of all entitlements. At least Ryan addresses the issue in his budget plan.How would the vacuous news readers on the networks fill this 800 billion dollar hole. The Dems should choke on their own demagoguery.
The lamestream media is already at it.
". . . some key [events] exacerbated the national debate, fraying trust, and national cohesion just a little more each time . . . The two-party system that had governed America . . . begin to fall apart . . . interest in politics took the place of all other forms of news-related entertainment . . . politicians were the celebrities . . . [Politics/ideology] was becoming such a habit, the reactions so automatic, that [journalists] taking sides on every news story became inevitable."
..from for Love & Liberty by Robin Young and it's about 1857 America. [my emphasis]
All that is happening now is proof that Lincoln saw it from 160 years ago.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half [statist] and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of [statism] will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become [accepted] in all the states, [Red and Blue], North as well as South.
“, it also forecasts uninterrupted budget deficits (and, therefore, a rising national debt) through 2022. Yet not one of the morning shows today carried any suggestion that Ryan should be criticized for taking too mild an approach to the fiscal crisis...”
The Takers continue. Set-up.
Flack. Did these two government selected, stand-up today, and declare to sign a waiver exempting everyone out of Extortion-Care, immediately after taking office, until it’s abolished totally?
If not, all flack, and less freedom. Insider cronyism.
so - obama care is not a tax - and the 500 BILLION obama care takes out of Medicare is not a ‘cut”
Have I got that right?
Well, at least the election will be ABOUT something, and something important, at that.
The reason we are where we are is that the People, through their representatives in Congress assembled, are fine with high levels of spending as long as they can borrow the money to pay for it.
Medicare, beloved by many (including many here) is going to be destroyed, no matter what. It is going to be destroyed because its funding is finite while its demand is infinite, by design.
This is the principal reason three successive elected Congresses cannot pass a budget. The model (borrow to spend) is collapsing.
Paul Ryan is the only guy with the balls to describe a way out. This makes him an excellent choice, IF the People who elected all these Congresses want a way out.
THAT, unfortunately, is very much in doubt.
Romney has drawn a line in the sand with this pick. With regard to the economy, at least, no more lies.
Are the People up to it? I doubt it.
Vote for Romney, but bet on Obama.