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Post by lakhota on May 25, 2011 23:42:05 GMT -5
No, it's not Paul Ryan. In the escalating fight over the budget and deficit in Washington, all eyes have been trained on GOP golden boy Rep. Paul Ryan. But though the Wisconsin Republican's controversial plan to gut Medicare has dominated the headlines, another House GOPer has been quietly doing the dirty work of making the budget cuts that actually have some chance of passing. Two weeks ago, Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, made the GOP's next big move to slash spending for social programs. In a little-noticed proposal, Rogers detailed how the GOP wants to inflict the pain of more than $1 trillion in unspecified discretionary spending cuts contained in Ryan's 2012 budget, which passed the House in April. Rogers has now divided up the cuts into 12 different areas, each of which will be considered as its own spending bill. Under his proposal, the poor and the working class will be hardest-hit. More: motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/gop-budget-hatchet-man |
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Post by pappyjohn99 on May 26, 2011 2:31:47 GMT -5
the poor and the working class will be hardest-hit.
Of course they will be. If you're rich and you need something you just go out and buy it. The poor have to do with out and the working class have to make choices. The cuts are coming one way or another. This country cannot continue it's uncontrolled spending.
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Post by Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ on May 26, 2011 8:11:57 GMT -5
The cuts are coming one way or another. This country cannot continue it's uncontrolled spending.
For both medicare and medicaid, there are only two real choices.
The first choice is to cut and reform these programs. The second choice is that they will go away on their own due to being bankrupt. Both of these entitlements are already bankrupt and face 10s of trillions in unfunded liabilities.
These are the plain facts. Raising taxes ain't gonna do it either. There is not enough national annual revenue to tax, nor is there sufficient collective net worth either.
So, the only choices are to cut the programs somewhat, or completely do away with both of them.
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Post by pappyjohn99 on May 26, 2011 8:25:12 GMT -5
S.F. You got that right. And it's the reason that every Democracy in history has died. The deadbeats realize they can vote themselves money from the public trough and do so until the workers can't support them any longer. We may be past the point of no return. Reasonable people are making plans to take care of their own and "too bad" for the deadbeats.
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