Paul Ryan’s Ridiculously Unfair Deal

[Luddly Neddite]

Paul Ryan?s Ridiculously Unfair Deal -- Daily Intelligencer

... While smaller in ambition, his current plan is equally one-sided.

Ryan is offering to use the cuts that Obama put forward in his compromise budget from last spring. But that budget was explicitly made as a middle-ground offer, and the cuts were contingent upon Republicans agreeing to reduce tax deductions along with them. Ryan isn’t offering any revenue. He’s offering to pocket the concessions, full stop.

In return for this, Ryan’s putative concession to Democrats is that he would lift sequestration, which is automatic cuts to government programs that aren’t entitlements, and replace them with cuts to entitlements. Sequestration was designed in 2011 as a trigger to force the two sides to at some point — likely following the 2012 election — make the budget compromise they couldn’t accept beforehand. It contained blunt, across-the-board cuts to domestic programs, hitting defense most heavily, with the idea that the policy would be so badly designed and disproportionately painful that it would create a mutual incentive to bargain. Ryan’s offer treats the lifting of sequestration as a concession from Republicans to Democrats. In return for this, he demands cuts to retirement programs...

Ryan is a lying sneak.

 

[driveby]

I hated it when Ryan repeatedly told us that lie about the health care law negotiations being broadcast on CSPAN, now this too!

 

[percysunshine]

He is one of the few realists left. Reality is seldom fair, it just is.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Ryan is a lying sneak.

Didn't you mean snake?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Ryan is a lying sneak.

Didn't you mean snake?

hmmmmm ... You can always trust a snake to behave like a snake. I like snakes. They're a part of nature and kill only to eat.

Naw, that doesn't describe Ryan.

Also, you'll never see a snake pretending to wash dishes that are already clean - just to have their photo taken so they won't look like the snake they really are. Or lying about his "poor" beginnings to make it seem like he's One Of Us.

But yes, I do get your drift.

 

[deltex1]

Paul Ryan?s Ridiculously Unfair Deal -- Daily Intelligencer

... While smaller in ambition, his current plan is equally one-sided.

Ryan is offering to use the cuts that Obama put forward in his compromise budget from last spring. But that budget was explicitly made as a middle-ground offer, and the cuts were contingent upon Republicans agreeing to reduce tax deductions along with them. Ryan isn’t offering any revenue. He’s offering to pocket the concessions, full stop.


In return for this, Ryan’s putative concession to Democrats is that he would lift sequestration, which is automatic cuts to government programs that aren’t entitlements, and replace them with cuts to entitlements. Sequestration was designed in 2011 as a trigger to force the two sides to at some point — likely following the 2012 election — make the budget compromise they couldn’t accept beforehand. It contained blunt, across-the-board cuts to domestic programs, hitting defense most heavily, with the idea that the policy would be so badly designed and disproportionately painful that it would create a mutual incentive to bargain. Ryan’s offer treats the lifting of sequestration as a concession from Republicans to Democrats. In return for this, he demands cuts to retirement programs...

Ryan is a lying sneak.

What is so wrong about reductions to entitlements....when they are what is strangling us?