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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on April 03, 2011, 03:59:29 PM
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Published April 03, 2011| FoxNews.com
The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said his party's budget proposal for 2012 would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, vowing to tackle costly entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid.
The proposal, set to be unveiled Tuesday, would serve as the Republicans' official response to President Obama's proposed $3.7 trillion budget for 2012. The White House claims its plan would cut deficits by $1.1 trillion over a decade.
But Ryan, R-Wis., in an interview with "Fox News Sunday," accused Obama of "punting" and said Republicans' plan would exceed the fiscal goals set by the president's fiscal commission -- which issued a report calling for $4 trillion in cuts. That report never made it out of committee.
"We can't keep kicking this can down the road," Ryan said. "The president has punted. We're not going to follow suit."
The GOP proposal coincides with the ongoing debate over the remainder of the fiscal 2011 budget. Both parties are trying to hammer out a half-year budget before the deadline for a partial government shutdown Friday. From there, they move immediately to the 2012 budget debate.
Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/03/gop-budget-plan-cut-4-trillion-decade-ryan-says/)
Oh boy, is this gonna be fun!
The next few weeks should see lots of special interest groups, whose gravy trains are about to get derailed, get really mad at this. :popcorn:
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Over a DECADE?!!
Is this just a fancy way of avoiding budget cuts now?
Is the establishment GOP planning on us forgetting about the deficit?
This does not smell right to me.
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We need to cut 4 trillion over 4 years to fix this mess that both parties (why do you think they are called "parties"?). We are the broke-est country in human history, what a great legacy.
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I saw Ryan on Fox News Sunday. He was pretty impressive, short on specifics but not dancing around the questions like some do. He kept mentioning a report on Tuesday so that should be interesting.
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Cut the budget now or we find someone that will in 2012.
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Cutting $400 billion per year is not a bad start, I am glad Rep. Ryan is proposing such a plan. That being said, we need specifics. Keep in mind the speaker promised $100 billion in cuts, this is four times that amount.
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Over a DECADE?!!
Is this just a fancy way of avoiding budget cuts now?
Is the establishment GOP planning on us forgetting about the deficit?
This does not smell right to me.
+1. This stinks on ice.
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Cutting $400 billion per year is not a bad start, I am glad Rep. Ryan is proposing such a plan. That being said, we need specifics. Keep in mind the speaker promised $100 billion in cuts, this is four times that amount.
Assuming of course that all the damned budget cuts aren't back loaded 8 - 10 years from now, when everybody will have "forgotten all about them" and they can be overwritten by whatever Congress is in the hotseat then.
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Ryan seems really sharp to me. I'd love to see him run for president just for the debates with o. Same reason I'd love to see Trump run. I think the debates would be incredibly entertaining, and possibly enlightening (for once). They don't seem to beat around the bush about things, and Trump for sure isn't afraid of getting into people's faces. Not sure I'd want either to win the presidency though, although what I've seen of Ryan seems pretty solid.