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Ryan: Trillion-dollar deficits were inevitable
The Hill ^ | 04/15/18 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 04/15/2018 1:05:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says that trillion-dollar deficits could not have been avoided by the GOP-controlled Congress, responding to critics within his party who say that leaders have behaved irresponsibly.

“That was going to happen. The baby boomers retiring was going to do that,” Ryan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” of projections that the country will start running trillion-dollar deficits as soon as 2020.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; ryan; speakerryan
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1 posted on 04/15/2018 1:05:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Lame-o Rhino.


2 posted on 04/15/2018 1:06:51 PM PDT by JPJones (More tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Horsecrap.


3 posted on 04/15/2018 1:07:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: yesthatjallen
The baby boomers retiring was going to do that

Did someone ask when they plan to do something about it?

4 posted on 04/15/2018 1:08:45 PM PDT by stevem
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To: yesthatjallen

he always seems so spineless to me


5 posted on 04/15/2018 1:10:08 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: yesthatjallen

Is there anything more Paul Ryan could do to throw the next election?


6 posted on 04/15/2018 1:10:11 PM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: yesthatjallen

When someone says, “nobody could be worse than Ryan,” it behooves us to remember that that was what most people here said when Boehner announced his departure.


7 posted on 04/15/2018 1:11:59 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: morphing libertarian

He was quite comfortable serving as Emperor Zero’s personal cabana boy.


8 posted on 04/15/2018 1:12:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: stevem
They were doing something about it.

They were bringing in millions of illegals. Then they were going to make them legal. They would then pay into the system.

You know, like a Ponzi scheme.

9 posted on 04/15/2018 1:13:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

He sounds like someone who tried reeeally hard.


10 posted on 04/15/2018 1:13:29 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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“That was going to happen. The baby boomers retiring was going to do that,”

Yeah, because the waste, fraud, and abuse of revenue along with redundant agencies and programs represent such a miniscule part of the problem.

11 posted on 04/15/2018 1:13:54 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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12 posted on 04/15/2018 1:13:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Knocking six or seven zeroes off our currency is inevitable too, as happened 95 years ago, during the Weimar Republic.

Although under Weimar, twelve zeroes were lopped off.

13 posted on 04/15/2018 1:15:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: niteowl77
When someone says, “nobody could be worse than Ryan,” it behooves us to remember that that was what most people here said when Boehner announced his departure.

Voting is the problem.

14 posted on 04/15/2018 1:16:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Mission accomplished?


15 posted on 04/15/2018 1:17:37 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: yesthatjallen

The weasel did his best to destroy America and then left. Good riddance.


16 posted on 04/15/2018 1:18:05 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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Would someone somewhere PLEASE beat this POS to a bloody pulp within inches of his life? I am beyond hate with this turncoat , lying bastard . I would love to get within earshot of this @!#$^&g scumbag just to release an overly beligerent verbal assault hoping to get under his skin...but alas snakes do not have skin persay .


17 posted on 04/15/2018 1:18:14 PM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: Steely Tom

That’s worthless currency...


18 posted on 04/15/2018 1:18:33 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: dfwgator

‘Resistance is useless’.


19 posted on 04/15/2018 1:21:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: JPJones

Scumbag.


20 posted on 04/15/2018 1:22:12 PM PDT by cowboyusa (Lang)
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