Keep the printing presses running. Deflate that debt until the Dollar reaches parity with the Yen. They’re printing too? Build more presses. What could go wrong?
The $38 billion represents the future savings from the changes and reductions, while the CBO figure represents only the actual savings for this year. In addition, Ryan took on Medicare, which is a dysfunctional program that only burns money and doesn’t really even serve the people who have been forced to pay for it all of their working lives (that would be us). He actually has a workable plan for it. Nobody else has done that.
Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the budget, so I think this should tell us that it’s a lot better than you’d believe from reading this board.
The Rand bill was useful because even if it had very little to no chance (except for Dem shenanigans), it pushed the GOP to be much firmer in defending Ryan’s budget and I think you had unusual unity in the final vote (only 4 defected, IIRC). Normally, all the truly raving RINO’s make a point of running to “stand with their brethren across the aisle,” or some such garbage, but this time, they stayed pretty unified, which is going to be essential if we want to get anything done.
Great article. Thanks for posting. It really summed things up for me.