Paul Ryan's 2012 Budget

[guido911]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/05/135143494/white-house-budget-meeting-underway?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Looks like the Republicans can't get it together.  Gotta place blame somewhere.  Might as well just blame them for it happening like last time.  

Where's Newt?

Where in your source do you get that the republicans "can't get it together"? As for blame, why don't we wait to there is actually a shut down and people react before you assess one party at fault. Do you have a source how the American people are still of the same mind as they were more than 15 years ago?

[guido911]

Go ahead and kill Medicare...instead of taking care of those that can't afford healthcare get preventive care with our taxes we can just pay for their emergency room visits with our insurance premium increases.

How so? I thought Obamacare fixed all of that rising health care costs.

[guido911]

What is so sinful about reigning in massively-expensive entitlement programs? Even Obama has said our debt is unsustainable, yet no one is seriously taking it on until now.

[Teatownclown]

  More kabuki - it ain't gonna happen. No real budget is being proposed. Same GOP propaganda they have been offering up for 30 years. Taxpayers have already bailed out the bankers now we must pay for the debt Republicans ran up on our backs at the behest of Corporate America the last thirty years also.

Republicare is ridiculous. The GOP/Teabaggers want to replace Medicare with a voucher system, and turning care over to big insurance companies. Ryan's a goof. GOP/Teabaggers are political naives, have no concept of what a Government shutdown, or worse, a default, will do to US.

[guido911]

 More kabuki - it ain't gonna happen. No real budget is being proposed. Same GOP propaganda they have been offering up for 30 years. Taxpayers have already bailed out the bankers now we must pay for the debt Republicans ran up on our backs at the behest of Corporate America the last thirty years also.

Republicare is ridiculous. The GOP/Teabaggers want to replace Medicare with a voucher system, and turning care over to big insurance companies. Ryan's a goof. GOP/Teabaggers are political naives, have no concept of what a Government shutdown, or worse, a default, will do to US.

Thanks aox.

[guido911]

Here is a summary of the House CR (albeit from a right-leaning website).

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/04/05/new-gop-cr-cuts-12-billion-in-one-week/

[Teatownclown]

Welcome, TNF tickler.

http://www.thewashingtoncurrent.com/2011/04/expert-calls-gop-budget-amendment-most.html

A little more truthful and left leaning.

[carltonplace]

What is so sinful about reigning in massively-expensive entitlement programs? Even Obama has said our debt is unsustainable, yet no one is seriously taking it on until now.

Nothing is wrong with a serious, non-partisan deep dive into looking at our expenses and our income and coming up with balanced solutions to reign in and eliminate our growing debt with a mix of revenue increases and expenditure decreases. So far that is not happening...all we are seeing is people running to the corners and emptying out the other kids' toy box.

[guido911]

Nothing is wrong with a serious, non-partisan deep dive into looking at our expenses and our income and coming up with balanced solutions to reign in and eliminate our growing debt with a mix of revenue increases and expenditure decreases. So far that is not happening...all we are seeing is people running to the corners and emptying out the other kids' toy box.

That's your perception, and mine is of course different. And thanks for not wetting yourself over my little /sarc about Obamacare. But look at my link on the House CR on how the cuts are spread.

[guido911]

A summary of the budget from the WSJ is here.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242612172357504.html

[Conan71]

Nothing is wrong with a serious, non-partisan deep dive into looking at our expenses and our income and coming up with balanced solutions to reign in and eliminate our growing debt with a mix of revenue increases and expenditure decreases. So far that is not happening...all we are seeing is people running to the corners and emptying out the other kids' toy box.

That's a damn good point.  We are facing a problem which can't be solved with extreme partisan solutions. 

[guido911]

That's a damn good point.  We are facing a problem which can't be solved with extreme partisan solutions. 

It just got more partisan.

http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/04/05/gop-congressman-pens-letter-asking-reids-resignation

[Gaspar]

We know that Mr. Reid will not read that letter, so I have taken it upon myself to recompose Rep. Crawford's letter in Cowboy Poetry style.


Mr. Reid,
Many of us wrote last week a-pleading
More Chinese money you're a-needing

We hand delivered the letter-o-the resolution
With the calls of the American people wantin' a solution.

Another six days gone by,
with no bill to fly
and no will to try
before the till runs dry.

Where is your bill, Mr. Reid?
Rollin with the tumble weeds?

We deserve far better
Than havin to write you another gall-darn letter!

[Teatownclown]

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[Townsend]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/government-shutdown-obama-urges-republicans-democrats-act/story?id=13295407

President Obama on Spending Bill: No Time For Games, Need 'Grown Up' Discussions