Your vote will determine the future of this country.
Takes your breath away, doesn't it? I think I'll try this at home.
"Dear, we are spending more 50% more than we make -- we need to cut back our spending. "
"Don't be such a worry-wart Honey. I have a plan to get my spending under control over the next 20 years. Now give me the credit card...I need some new shoes."
It's beneath the standard that should be for the premier newspaper.
Let me offer another.
Given that this resolution is DOA, even deader than it was in 2011 before Ryan lost his VP bid, he should instead propose a serious idea instead of this many times rehashed gimmick which is intended as a smoke screen which is working with some.
Instead of offering an alternative to medicare that starts in 10 years(which shows it to be a scam) , propose offering it right now. Come up with some details and go out and propose it right now.
The Ryan-rehash-resolution is not going anywhere, and the GOP has already caved on the real CR that will become law, so why not propose something serious this time Ryan?
The NYT is lying. The "guarantee" is that government will force younger working Americans to pay your medical bills. That's simply legalized theft and despicable. Medicine needs more free market reforms such as:
1. Using the Commerce Clause to allow freedom of employment/movement of health care professionals across state lines without onerous regulations/testing/training.
2. Using the Commerce Clause to allow the purchase of health insurance interstate. I can buy oranges from Florida, beef from Texas and natural gas from Nebraska but not health insurance?
3. Using the Commerce Clause to stop localities and state governments from colluding with in-state doctors and hospitals to block new practices and hospitals.
These three simple and wholly Constitutional actions would immediately inject competition into health care, thus lowering costs.
dispensing with Medicaid and food stamps by turning them into block grants for states to cut freely
The presumption that states would cut them indicates that the government nearest the people knows where the waste is. We want effective spending, not just spending. Furthermore, what proof exists that the federal government is effective in administering and dispensing these programs?
repealing most of the reforms to health care and Wall Street
These "reforms" are in the eye of the beholder and that a leftist loves them is telling. See my three health care reforms above and note the simplicity and obvious effectiveness of increasing competion.
shrinking beyond recognition the federal role in education, job training, transportation and scientific and medical research
What is the federal role here? Education is a local issue. So local that it is, quite literally, beyond the scope of government. The one constant in education is parenting. If parents, even dumb uneducated ones, want their child educated that kid gets an education.
Job training? Again not a federal function and I'd ask, "where are all the jobs?"
Transportation? Outside of Ike's defense interstate highway system, the government has hobbled innovation in transportation. See TSA for an easy example.
As for scientific and medical research the federal government has no role in basic research. That has happened and will happen without federal money polluting the process with politics. See here for an example of basic science innovation without direct government funding: US teenager crafts early detection tool for cancer