Paul Ryan, budget slasher or big talker?
Rep. Ryan continues a GOP tradition of never producing a balanced budget.
Michael Kinsley
LA Times
April 12, 2011
The fiscal savior of this country will be the person who convinces us to bite the bullet. That person will not be Rep. Paul Ryan.
The House Budget Committee chairman's thoughts for 2012, released last week, purport to be something that's been missing since Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address in 1981. For 30 years, Republicans have demanded a balanced budget without ever producing one, even on paper. Ryan continues the GOP tradition of evasion. How has Ryan built his reputation as a hero of fiscal discipline? Here are some of the techniques. Watch closely.
Say you've done it. They'll probably believe you.
If you boiled the self-congratulation out of Ryan's 60-page document, you'd save a lot of paper.
Waste, fraud and abuse.
These are old friends — introduced to us by Reagan himself. There is no budget line called "waste, fraud and abuse." No doubt there is plenty of all three in the federal government (just as in the private sector). But Ryan offers no reason to think that there are easy pickings that the five presidents starting with Reagan, most of them Republican, have overlooked.
(More here.)
Michael Kinsley
LA Times
April 12, 2011
The fiscal savior of this country will be the person who convinces us to bite the bullet. That person will not be Rep. Paul Ryan.
The House Budget Committee chairman's thoughts for 2012, released last week, purport to be something that's been missing since Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address in 1981. For 30 years, Republicans have demanded a balanced budget without ever producing one, even on paper. Ryan continues the GOP tradition of evasion. How has Ryan built his reputation as a hero of fiscal discipline? Here are some of the techniques. Watch closely.
Say you've done it. They'll probably believe you.
If you boiled the self-congratulation out of Ryan's 60-page document, you'd save a lot of paper.
Waste, fraud and abuse.
These are old friends — introduced to us by Reagan himself. There is no budget line called "waste, fraud and abuse." No doubt there is plenty of all three in the federal government (just as in the private sector). But Ryan offers no reason to think that there are easy pickings that the five presidents starting with Reagan, most of them Republican, have overlooked.
(More here.)
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