Paul Ryan: 'A Budget for the 21st Century'
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) has an absolutely must-read op-ed in Friday's Washington Post.
What follows is just a tease, as readers are strongly encouraged to review the entire marvelous piece:
This week the House of Representatives will take the first real step in addressing our looming fiscal crisis by bringing “The Path to Prosperity,” a budget resolution for next year and beyond, to the House floor. This budget offers a clear contrast to the president’s speech on Wednesday.
It offers a contrast in credibility. Unlike the president’s speech, which was rhetorically heated but substantively hollow, our budget contains specific solutions for confronting the debt and averting the most predictable crisis in our nation’s history. It also offers a contrast in visions. Unlike the speech, our budget advances a vision of America in which government both keeps its promises to seniors and lives within its means.
Do yourself a favor - read the whole thing.
You'll fully understand if you don't already why Obama, the Democrats, and their media minions are doing their best to paint this man as an un-American extremist.
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Interesting and straightforward
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 1:47pm.
But really, as is oftentime the case, the comments are the best part.
Of course, since that was in the WaPo, the takers are up in arms w/Paul Ryan, as I'd expect them to be.
I really hope Mr. Ryan continues to hammer the fact that the current level of increased annual spending on Medicare is not sustainable, not even if we took 100% of the GDP.
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It's OK.
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:29pm.
A good response. The budget plan is not nearly aggressive enough. We all know that a 10 year budget is a joke because there is no follow through after the next election. I just hope that it isn't back-end loaded as is typical with 10 year budgets. We need REAL spending cuts NOW.
Maybe this will get us through till 2012 when we can get a conservative majority in both houses and in the Executive branch and then REALLY start to cut. And I mean whole cabinet departments, not a few % here and a few % there.
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