What is wrong with the H. of Reps?

[Wry Catcher]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.

The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities — a Republican-only effort to overhaul the tax code. Unclear, however, is whether GOP leaders can get the measure through the House. Conservatives want deeper spending cuts while moderates are concerned the reductions go too far.

Black announced a committee vote for Wednesday, but action by the entire House could be delayed by the ongoing quarrel between the GOP's factions.

Medicare is the second largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP plan again proposes to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. Republicans have proposed the idea each year since taking back the House in 2011, but they've never tried to implement it — and that's not going to change now, even with a Republican as president.

The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year's projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with enormous cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

House budget blueprint boosts military, cuts food stamps

Q. What is wrong with the H. or Reps

A. Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership.

 

[TNHarley]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

 

[AntonToo]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

can you point me to any of that in the budget bill?

 

[BuckToothMoron]

You nailed it, it is the leadership. The GOP establishment didn't want Trump, so they don't have a president to rally around, and Ryan is not a dynamic enough leader to bring the factions together. Conservatives by nature tend to be more independent thinkers, less likely to compromise their values in order to get along. When Dems had control there was no doubt BOcare would become law. The voting dems didn't even bother reading the bill (who can blame them, it was nearly 2000 pages). Pelosi told them to vote for it, and with very little debate, that is what they did.

Now that the GOP has the opportunity to alter/fix/repeal BOcare, failure to do so makes them as responsible for it as the Dems are, and they won't be able to hide from that fact.

 

[TNHarley]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

can you point me to any of that in the budget bill?

I am sure there are more but they didnt get into detail
House Budget Committee proposes boosting defense spending, reshaping welfare programs

 

[AntonToo]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

can you point me to any of that in the budget bill?

I am sure there are more but they didnt get into detail
House Budget Committee proposes boosting defense spending, reshaping welfare programs

Ofcourse they didn't because these cuts are not actually based on much of anything, they are arbitrary.

 

[TNHarley]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

can you point me to any of that in the budget bill?

I am sure there are more but they didnt get into detail
House Budget Committee proposes boosting defense spending, reshaping welfare programs

Ofcourse they didn't because these cuts are not actually based on much of anything, they are arbitrary.

Cant believe NBC missed an opportunity to describe how republicans hate the poor and want to bomb every country into oblivion!

 

[Siete]

stupid RussianWinger bitches.

its not about party any more, its about the PEOPLE.

if these sorry bastards refuse to wake up they'll be sleepwalking looking for jobs in 018.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Why do we need an increase in the Military's Budget? Are planes falling out of the sky? Do the NeoCons have plans to invade and occupy Canada?

What is not callous about cutting the budget for SNAP?

 

[Siete]

Why do we need an increase in the Military's Budget? Are planes falling out of the sky? Do the NeoCons have plans to invade and occupy Canada?

What is not callous about cutting the budget for SNAP?

like I said . buy as many $2 million dollar smart bombs as you want to and Republicans give each other BJ's

try and buy a kid lunch, and they want to use one of those bombs on the kid ...

 

[Wry Catcher]

Work requirements, limiting medicare for the wealthy and allowing private insurers to compete is too steep? REALLY?

Where have you been since Welfare reform replaced AFDC with TANF?

BTW, Competition works if and only if independent regulators do due diligence and make sure no behind the scene collusion occurs.

If you're old enough, ask why there are no gas wars anymore. How do you spell C A R T E L S $

 

[bendog]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.

The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities — a Republican-only effort to overhaul the tax code. Unclear, however, is whether GOP leaders can get the measure through the House. Conservatives want deeper spending cuts while moderates are concerned the reductions go too far.

Black announced a committee vote for Wednesday, but action by the entire House could be delayed by the ongoing quarrel between the GOP's factions.

Medicare is the second largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP plan again proposes to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. Republicans have proposed the idea each year since taking back the House in 2011, but they've never tried to implement it — and that's not going to change now, even with a Republican as president.

The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year's projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with enormous cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

House budget blueprint boosts military, cuts food stamps

Q. What is wrong with the H. or Reps

A. Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership.

What's odd is that regardless of whatever merit this has, there are not going to be 50 gop senators who vote for making Medicaid a voucher program. I guess the House thinks that if they pass something, that even goper governors won't like, that they'll somehow get in a reconciliation committee with the Senate to compromise two dueling bills, but I just don't see it happening.

And this is at a time when we really do need some bipartisan compromise not just on Medicaid but also on Medicare and Soc Sec.

 

[Wry Catcher]

You nailed it, it is the leadership. The GOP establishment didn't want Trump, so they don't have a president to rally around, and Ryan is not a dynamic enough leader to bring the factions together. Conservatives by nature tend to be more independent thinkers, less likely to compromise their values in order to get along. When Dems had control there was no doubt BOcare would become law. The voting dems didn't even bother reading the bill (who can blame them, it was nearly 2000 pages). Pelosi told them to vote for it, and with very little debate, that is what they did.

Now that the GOP has the opportunity to alter/fix/repeal BOcare, failure to do so makes them as responsible for it as the Dems are, and they won't be able to hide from that fact.

The problem with Trump, Ryan and McConnell is the same, they want to play a zero sum game. A legislature is paralyzed when compromise becomes a dirty word; a presidency is paralyzed when they do not listen to the people - in an out of the beltway - and ignore the lessons of history.

 

[Rustic]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.

The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities — a Republican-only effort to overhaul the tax code. Unclear, however, is whether GOP leaders can get the measure through the House. Conservatives want deeper spending cuts while moderates are concerned the reductions go too far.

Black announced a committee vote for Wednesday, but action by the entire House could be delayed by the ongoing quarrel between the GOP's factions.

Medicare is the second largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP plan again proposes to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. Republicans have proposed the idea each year since taking back the House in 2011, but they've never tried to implement it — and that's not going to change now, even with a Republican as president.

The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year's projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with enormous cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

House budget blueprint boosts military, cuts food stamps

Q. What is wrong with the H. or Reps

A. Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership.

Socialism has never worked in the history of the planet… Fact

 

[Wry Catcher]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.

The GOP plan, authored by Budget Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., is critical to GOP hopes to deliver on one of President Donald Trump's top priorities — a Republican-only effort to overhaul the tax code. Unclear, however, is whether GOP leaders can get the measure through the House. Conservatives want deeper spending cuts while moderates are concerned the reductions go too far.

Black announced a committee vote for Wednesday, but action by the entire House could be delayed by the ongoing quarrel between the GOP's factions.

Medicare is the second largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP plan again proposes to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. Republicans have proposed the idea each year since taking back the House in 2011, but they've never tried to implement it — and that's not going to change now, even with a Republican as president.

The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year's projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with enormous cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

House budget blueprint boosts military, cuts food stamps

Q. What is wrong with the H. or Reps

A. Paul Ryan and the Republican leadership.

What's odd is that regardless of whatever merit this has, there are not going to be 50 gop senators who vote for making Medicaid a voucher program. I guess the House thinks that if they pass something, that even goper governors won't like, that they'll somehow get in a reconciliation committee with the Senate to compromise two dueling bills, but I just don't see it happening.

And this is at a time when we really do need some bipartisan compromise not just on Medicaid but also on Medicare and Soc Sec.

I suppose the only way compromise will ever become a viable alternative in The Congress, is when the ideologues are defeated and pragmatists take their seats.

If we are to remain a democratic republic***, the Supreme Court needs to make sure Gerrymandering is put to sleep, and that real campaign finance reform makes every congressional district competitive.

 

[whitehall]

LBJ's ironically named "great society" drained trillions from the federal budget and it accomplished nothing but tearing Black families apart and yet the convoluted, often competing federal welfare system is still in place simply because it tends to create votes for democrats. Any budget offered by republicans will elicit the same tired old reaction by the radical left but people are smarter in the age of information and democrats will continue to lose elections by relying on propaganda and the wasteful often criminal status-quo. We need to fix the dying Obamacare system and create jobs and drain the freaking federal swamp. That's what Americans voted for and that's what is going to make America great again.