Paul Ryan releases House GOP budget plan

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Source: USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., released a fiscal road map for the next decade that would raise no taxes, repeal President Obama's health care law, and fundamentally alter Medicare benefits for future retirees. Ryan claims the result would be a balanced budget by 2024.

The budget plan is not expected or really even intended to become law; it is designed to outline Republican priorities and goals for taxes and spending over the long term. But the GOP-led House of Representatives will spend the next two weeks debating it anyway.

The Ryan budget would cut spending by $5.1 trillion over the next decade to achieve balance by what the government spends to what it collects in revenue by 2024.
Those cuts come in the form of steep cuts to domestic programs ranging from food stamps to college loan programs, among others, while protecting defense spending. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., criticized the plan as a budget that "once again asks those with less to give more and those with more to give less."

Ryan's plan also calculates savings that Democrats decry as gimmicks, such as counting savings projected to come from the Affordable Care Act while simultaneously calling for its repeal. In order to achieve balance, Ryan also uses a new method to account for savings by counting the "macroeconomic effect" of deficit reduction as a hard spending cut, which could chafe some of the GOP's fiscal conservatives who do not like to equate potential reductions with actual cuts.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/01/paul-ryan-budget/7153195/?AID=10709313&PID=6149995&SID=33h98wjv0ee6

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Ryan's plan to kill the ACA...

[FLyellowdog]

1. Wonder what the 7 million (plus) will have to say about an ACA repeal. nt

[aggiesal]

2. Idiot extaordinaire. n/t

[KansDem]

3. Hey, Bozo! Have you and your friends to cough up the trillions for the Iraq invasion lie!

That'll result in a "balanced budget."

Savvy?

[SoapBox]

9. [phone]

[Historic NY]

4. Another reason to hold the Senate and take the House...

but most people here think it a game..... Here's your GOP salesman!!!!!!!!! He is selling the agenda they want to accomplish.

[Timez Squarez]

22. More stupid quotes like these are just waiting for an ad....

and more importantly, it shows how stupid the Republicans are.

Message to an ad: Do you want to vote this smart guy or this idiot who is likely to fuck up your life and not care.

[geretogo]

5. You can kiss this country good bye if these Tyrants take the Senate . Take them out in 2014 .

[NutmegYankee]

6. He also proposed a 5% pay cut for Federal Employees.

Paul Ryan - Ass clown extraordinaire.

[VanillaRhapsody]

7. actually the 7 million are JUST through the Exchange....the real number is

9.5 million when you count the numbers that went directly to the insurance companies themselves. Before the Affordable Care Act. 18 million were without insurance...Pres. Obama just took a chunk out of that number...

[Boreal]

27. Where do you get 18 million?

Prior to passing the ACA the figures given were always 40-50 million.


Uninsured Americans 2012: More Than 45 Million Lacked Health Insurance Last Year, CDC Reports

More than 45 million U.S. residents didn't have health insurance during the first nine months of last year, according to survey findings released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even more people, 57.5 million, were uninsured for at least part of the 12 months before being polled.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/uninsured-americans-2012_n_2918705.html

[atreides1]

8. What a vile creature

Ryan wants to balance the budget on the graves of the elderly and the poor.

[Stonepounder]

10. Actually, Paul Ryan is trying to make the unthinkable thinkable.

It used to be that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid were the 'third rail' of politics. Now, thank to Ryan's extreme suggestions (privatization and the like), talking about 'Chained CPI' which is just another way to cut Social Security, is something that is seriously considered because it is so much more 'moderate'.

This is how you shift the discussion. (Warning: abrupt change of topic to make a point here.) Before Columbine, taking a gun into a school and opening fire on kids was 'unthinkable'. Now it happens with almost mind numbing regularity. Why? Once something occurs, it is no longer 'unthinkable'.

Before Ryan, cutting Social Security or privatizing Medicare was 'unthinkable'. Now inside the beltway they discuss it seriously. It is no longer 'unthinkable.

I remember when Barry Goldwater ran for President. One of the main reasons he lost was because he was 'so extreme'. Today Goldwater would be damn near a Progressive. That's how far real extremists have managed to shift the conversation. And that's what Paul Ryan is accomplishing with his so-called budget.

[Skittles]

26. excellent analysis

yes indeed

[Iliyah]

12. Yep, also the middle class would have to compensate paying taxes for

the rich since he's gonna give them a break. There you have it, the GOP/Libertarian/RW solution to the new world.

[SoapBox]

11. I would NEVER trust this creep with any "budget".

Pukes are the worst at managing money.

[vkkv]

13. The U.S. middle class was better off in the 60's when the top tax bracket was 70%!

... that was back when we were "fighting communists" - not BORROWING MONEY from them.

[jmowreader]

15. Are you shitting me?

The UPPER CLASS was better off in the 60's when the top tax bracket was 70%!

Here's something funny: If you take rich people who earn their livings selling things to people, and you structure the tax code to encourage employment in good-paying jobs like it was in the 60s, and the people with those jobs buy things from the rich people, THE RICH PEOPLE END UP WITH MORE MONEY!

[Populist_Prole]

14. More chest beating from the right

Political masturbation to be more succint:

"The budget plan is not expected or really even intended to become law; it is designed to outline Republican priorities and goals for taxes and spending over the long term"

Go down swinging as well they may; but go down they will.

[Trust Buster]

16. Ryan thinks that the government, with it's vast resources........

......cannot handle the medical cost curve so he believes by turning Medicare into a voucher system, a senior on a fixed income will be able to handle that same cost curve. Total lunacy.

[Doctor_J]

17. I wonder if the president will lambaste it, or point out that

"it has many useful things and we will work together to find common ground"

Anyone want to bet on which?

[savalez]

19. He will lambaste it. n/t

[GaltFreeDiet]

18. Matthew 25:31-46

People need to show up wherever he is speaking publicly with a sign that has that printed on it.
Just like the "John 3:16" folks at football games.

[BlueStreak]

20. People, people. Look at your calendars. You all got pwned by Ryan.

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You notice he waited until April Fools Day to put out a document that says he's going to end Medicare, end Social Security, end the ACA, and give a whole new round of tax cuts to the richest.

There is only one day every year then this idiot makes a lick of sense. And you all fell for it.

[DallasNE]

21. Translation: Austerity As Far As The Eye Can See

Ten more years of austerity is the Ryan blueprint. Somehow the infrastructure is going to stop aging. I wonder how that works. Accelerates the transfer of money to the top .01%. In other words, a recipe for disaster. Thanks Paul Ryan.

[Timez Squarez]

23. Ryan is now scheduled to lose big in Janesville.

I am hearing a lot of unhappy constituents ready to dump Ryan and make him work in his Weinermobile for the rest of his life as a punishment earning $2.50 an hour driving the stupid car.

[rickyhall]

24. Ayn Ryan strikes again.

He's not racist, he hates all the poor equally!

[Midnight Writer]

25. Everything I need to know about Paul Ryan

When teenage Paul Ryan's father died, he claimed Social Security Survivor benefits to put him through college, although his father's estate left him relatively wealthy. Now he wants to cut these benefits and other programs to help college kids get an education.

In September 2008, as a Congressman he attended a secret briefing revealing the true state of America's banking system and the information that the economy was headed for a sharp nose-dive. Like a true patriot, he went straight to his office, called his broker and dumped his stock before the rest of the country realized the extent of the financial crisis.

That's really all I need to know about Paul Ryan.

[VWolf]

28. Paul who? n/t