Posted on 08/23/2012 2:20:48 PM PDT by blam
Ryan Reveals Romney Plan To Replace Defense Spending Cuts With Food Stamp Cuts
Brian Beutler, TPM
August 23, 2012
If Mitt Romney wins in November, he and a Republican Congress will fast track legislation early next year to replace across the board defense cuts with cuts to food stamps and other programs for needy Americans.
“In January our intention is that if we don’t fix it in the lame duck is to fix it retroactively once a new session of Congress takes place,” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, told a crowd in North Carolina Thursday, “We have procedural way in the Senate to advance that legislation very quickly and get it to the next President of the United States who I believe is going to be Mitt Romney, to pass that into law and retroactively prevent that sequester from taking place in January.”
Ryan was referring to legislation House Republicans passed earlier this year to avert sequestration — the penalty Congress imposed on itself, on a bipartisan basis, for not reaching an agreement on more targeted legislation to reduce the deficit.
Sequestration will cause deep, abrupt cuts to both defense and non-defense programs starting early next year, and for the next 10 years, unless Congress overturns it or replaces it with other savings.
A number of high-ranking Democrats and Republicans have concluded that the election will determine how Congress avoids both the sequester and the impact of the expiring Bush tax cuts.
Ryan says if Romney wins they’ll advance the GOP’s plan and use the budget process to avoid a Democratic filibuster.
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I smell B.S.
And a slime job............
food stamp cuts may lose votes. maybe save that for after the election.
Agreed. This is a slime job. Ryan’s quote only points to avoiding the defense cuts. Its says nothing about where the money will come from. The food stamp lie was supplied by the reporter.
Yellow journalism is the new normal.
Business Insider should be renamed Crony Capitalist Insider. They have a long history of being shamless Obama propaganda agents. Anything they write should be considered in that light
” I smell B.S.
And a slime job............ “
Big time.
No pol with a lick of sense would hand this to Obama : )
Why are republicans incapable of cutting crap like money for bike paths and a thousand other sustainability programs, and crap like the EPA. Better to ease job creation first with things like eliminating the taxes and regulation on manufacturing.
Heck we could even get the “Obama money” crowd on our side if we gave them a choice of food stamps or the EPA. Use their greed against the democrats. That crowd couldn’t care less about most of this crap. As jobs are created, many will go to work and over time we can whittle away at all but those in dire need.
the next article will be.......Romney Campaign Wants To Stop Sunshine, Smiles and Happiness for Tax Cuts For The Wealthy.
They have nothing else to run on.
Pathetic presstitutes! They really are desperate.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156707/Majority-Overweight-Obese-States.aspx
we could increase benefits while cutting the budget, because 70% or so stays in the bureaucracy. Romney should run on increasing benefits, lol.
There are about 70 federal assistance programs, we shold merge food stamps, HUD, AFDC, WIC, free cell phones and stuff into one monthly cash payment. Cut the bureaucracy by 75% and we could save tons even if the benefit is higher.
This will never happen, of course.
Because cutting stuff like that is a drop in the bucket.
The major budget items are Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Defense.
The only way to significantly reduce the deficit or balance the budget is to cut one or all of the above.
you are right but 4 more years of Obama and their will be no turning back. bread lines and KGB dont sound too good to me.
If they aren’t willing to cut that “drop in the bucket” only a moron would believe they’ll make real cuts.
Romney doesn’t have the backbone for a plan like this. Ryan either.
The next thing should be to repeal every friggin
thing that Obombo has enacted
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