Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan's make-believe budget

[TruthOut10]

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year’s election. Most famously, Ryan proposed turning Medicare into a voucher program. He offered the usual GOP recipe of tax cuts — to be offset by closing certain loopholes, which he would not specify — along with drastic reductions in non-defense “discretionary” spending.

If the plan Ryan offered had been enacted, the federal budget would not come into balance until 2040. For some reason, Republicans forgot to mention this detail in their stump speeches and campaign ads.

Voters were supposed to believe that Ryan was an apostle of fiscal rectitude. But his real aim wasn’t to balance the budget. It was to starve the federal government of revenue. Big government, in his worldview, is inherently bad — never mind that we live in an awfully big country.

Ryan and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically.

Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Sunday, the new plan is even less grounded in reality than was the old one.

Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan?s make-believe budget - The Washington Post

 

[Lakhota]

Paul Ryan's budget is a joke.

 

[emptystep]

If anyone saw the Ryan coming out party who was the person behind his right side? The person behind his left is a card carrying tea party member. I want to know if he had a match set.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Either budget from either Party is make believe.

 

[blackhawk]

We still going to get that Senate budget tomorrow the one we have been waiting on for four years now?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year’s election. Most famously, Ryan proposed turning Medicare into a voucher program. He offered the usual GOP recipe of tax cuts — to be offset by closing certain loopholes, which he would not specify — along with drastic reductions in non-defense “discretionary” spending.

If the plan Ryan offered had been enacted, the federal budget would not come into balance until 2040. For some reason, Republicans forgot to mention this detail in their stump speeches and campaign ads.

Voters were supposed to believe that Ryan was an apostle of fiscal rectitude. But his real aim wasn’t to balance the budget. It was to starve the federal government of revenue. Big government, in his worldview, is inherently bad — never mind that we live in an awfully big country.

Ryan and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically.

Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Sunday, the new plan is even less grounded in reality than was the old one.

Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan?s make-believe budget - The Washington Post

Any comments in there about the assumptions in the upcoming Democratic budget?

 

[Stephanie]

omg, the last person I want telling me about budgets is, Eugene Robinson

 

[The Rabbi]

Repeats the voucher canard.

What is the Democratic proposal for cutting spending? Oh yeah, there isn't one.

 

[Claudette]

Gotta LMAO.

Anyone calling a Ryan budget a joke, but has no complaints about the Dems lack of budget is nothing but a joke.

Oh wait. Its ShittingBull, goes without saying.

 

[TruthOut10]

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year’s election. Most famously, Ryan proposed turning Medicare into a voucher program. He offered the usual GOP recipe of tax cuts — to be offset by closing certain loopholes, which he would not specify — along with drastic reductions in non-defense “discretionary” spending.

If the plan Ryan offered had been enacted, the federal budget would not come into balance until 2040. For some reason, Republicans forgot to mention this detail in their stump speeches and campaign ads.

Voters were supposed to believe that Ryan was an apostle of fiscal rectitude. But his real aim wasn’t to balance the budget. It was to starve the federal government of revenue. Big government, in his worldview, is inherently bad — never mind that we live in an awfully big country.

Ryan and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically.

Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Sunday, the new plan is even less grounded in reality than was the old one.

Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan?s make-believe budget - The Washington Post

Any comments in there about the assumptions in the upcoming Democratic budget?

budget has been put out for months. only problem, Tan Man has been lying to you for months. Fake Faux News has also lied to you for months, but you've been either under a rock or too damn dumb to check on the official White House website where it has been there for months.

Now the Daily Caller is telling fellow dumb asses like you that the President is delaying his budget until April. Sad indeed how you're constantly told lie after lie and your believe it.

 

[Stephanie]

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year’s election. Most famously, Ryan proposed turning Medicare into a voucher program. He offered the usual GOP recipe of tax cuts — to be offset by closing certain loopholes, which he would not specify — along with drastic reductions in non-defense “discretionary” spending.

If the plan Ryan offered had been enacted, the federal budget would not come into balance until 2040. For some reason, Republicans forgot to mention this detail in their stump speeches and campaign ads.

Voters were supposed to believe that Ryan was an apostle of fiscal rectitude. But his real aim wasn’t to balance the budget. It was to starve the federal government of revenue. Big government, in his worldview, is inherently bad — never mind that we live in an awfully big country.

Ryan and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically.

Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Sunday, the new plan is even less grounded in reality than was the old one.

Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan?s make-believe budget - The Washington Post

Any comments in there about the assumptions in the upcoming Democratic budget?

budget has been put out for months. only problem, Tan Man has been lying to you for months. Fake Faux News has also lied to you for months, but you've been either under a rock or too damn dumb to check on the official White House website where it has been there for months.

Now the Daily Caller is telling fellow dumb asses like you that the President is delaying his budget until April. Sad indeed how you're constantly told lie after lie and your believe it.

what a condescending horses ass..
no wonder why no one take you seriously

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

And the (D) plan?

Tax and spend and tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend tax and spend and tax and spend....

 

[Stephanie]

Maybe Obama can get a couple votes for his budget from his own party this time?

 

[eflatminor]

...his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

Thank goodness someone has a modicum of sense on the subject.

Those that argue for more central planning are ignorant to history...but of course, they do know what's best for us all, right????

 

[eflatminor]

budget has been put out for months.

Gee, I must have missed that. What was the vote in the Senate?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.

You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year’s election. Most famously, Ryan proposed turning Medicare into a voucher program. He offered the usual GOP recipe of tax cuts — to be offset by closing certain loopholes, which he would not specify — along with drastic reductions in non-defense “discretionary” spending.

If the plan Ryan offered had been enacted, the federal budget would not come into balance until 2040. For some reason, Republicans forgot to mention this detail in their stump speeches and campaign ads.

Voters were supposed to believe that Ryan was an apostle of fiscal rectitude. But his real aim wasn’t to balance the budget. It was to starve the federal government of revenue. Big government, in his worldview, is inherently bad — never mind that we live in an awfully big country.

Ryan and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically.

Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Sunday, the new plan is even less grounded in reality than was the old one.

Eugene Robinson: Paul Ryan?s make-believe budget - The Washington Post

Any comments in there about the assumptions in the upcoming Democratic budget?

budget has been put out for months. only problem, Tan Man has been lying to you for months. Fake Faux News has also lied to you for months, but you've been either under a rock or too damn dumb to check on the official White House website where it has been there for months.

Now the Daily Caller is telling fellow dumb asses like you that the President is delaying his budget until April. Sad indeed how you're constantly told lie after lie and your believe it.

The Democratic budget has been out for months? What fracking universe do you live in? They just released their budget proposal yesterday. Maybe you should stop getting your news from MSNBC and check with a real world source sometime.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Any comments in there about the assumptions in the upcoming Democratic budget?

budget has been put out for months. only problem, Tan Man has been lying to you for months. Fake Faux News has also lied to you for months, but you've been either under a rock or too damn dumb to check on the official White House website where it has been there for months.

Now the Daily Caller is telling fellow dumb asses like you that the President is delaying his budget until April. Sad indeed how you're constantly told lie after lie and your believe it.

what a condescending horses ass..
no wonder why no one take you seriously

Condescension only works if you are superior to the other person, or at least have the right set of facts.

 

[bitterlyclingin]

Something in Patty Murray's budget, maybe its the one trillion dollars in new taxes, on top of the record inflows into the government treasury right now that makes Paul Ryan's seem so much better.

With the Democrats and taxes you're sort of in the same position as the guy who "Continually feeds the crocodile in the hopes that the croc will eat him last." Comrade Barack won't stop askling for more new taxes until he's got at least 95 per cent of your income headed for the Treasury's coffers, and even then Comrade Barack might decide he needs 100 per cent of your money more than you do.

"From each according to their ability. To each according to their need." and Comrade Barack doth need.

So many votes to buy, so many Obamaphones to hand out. so many refrigerators to fill. so many lap dances to supply, so many pamphlets for the little kiddies in the Omaha City School System proclaiming white culture as 'Evil and reprehensible" to purchase. No big gulps, high capacity magazines, raw milk, or hot dogs in the little kiddies school lunches allowed, though.