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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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To: yesthatjallen

Nice try Ryan, but the Boomer’s eventual retirement has been known for a long, long time.

Dereliction of duty may fly in DC, but goes over like a lead balloon with the deplorables.


21 posted on 04/15/2018 1:23:51 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: yesthatjallen

We’re doomed.

5.56mm


22 posted on 04/15/2018 1:24:23 PM PDT by M Kehoe (THIS SPACE FOR RENT)
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To: yesthatjallen

Lowlife loser.


23 posted on 04/15/2018 1:24:44 PM PDT by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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To: yesthatjallen

He always wants to cut social security but can never identify even one unnecessary govt agency he could bear to shut down.


24 posted on 04/15/2018 1:25:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: yesthatjallen

Big problem with that is that no matter how many millions were brought in and made legal, it would never be enough. Between undercutting the native labor force and drawing entitlements at every opportunity, there’s no way they keep the system solvent.


25 posted on 04/15/2018 1:26:07 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ryan may be a smart “kid” but he is a LOSER. There’s no leadership in the guy. He goes wherever his money flag blows. He is only as smart as his sense aligning himself with the money goes. The “Will Of The People” is secondary. Good riddance!!!!!!!!!!!!


26 posted on 04/15/2018 1:27:14 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: Steely Tom; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void

[as happened 95 years ago, during the Weimar Republic]

Between W and Obama, and now the current insanity with the attacks on the Presidency, it would seems the NWO die is cast.

Bankrupt every nation, overrun it with illegals / insurgents, pander to every ridiculous liberal cause, etc. All the while, the world rejects what Scripture says.

What could possibly go wrong?


27 posted on 04/15/2018 1:27:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Texas Eagle

Ryan is also full of crap! Now, the Democrats/Rinos have placed IOUs in Social Security Funds over past few decades, and removed monies for their special programs.

Then left had the audacity to want to merge the Social Security Trust into General Fund, and it did not happen.... YET there appears to be NO money left in Social Security Trust Fund. SST should have been SELF-Funding!

There should have been Trillions! This is old article from 2011 that truly explains what has happened to SS monies!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2011/07/13/what-happened-to-the-2-6-trillion-social-security-trust-fund/#66db2d154947


28 posted on 04/15/2018 1:28:06 PM PDT by Ambrosia (.)
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To: Dapper 26
He goes wherever his money flag blows.

Love Grows Where My Money Flag Blows.

29 posted on 04/15/2018 1:32:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BradyLS
That's for future 'investors' to deal with.

What matters in the moment is keeping it going until you can cut and run.

Are they going to arrest and put you in jail 20 years after you're dead?

None of the people proposing legalizing illegals is going to have to deal with the future ramifications.

30 posted on 04/15/2018 1:33:13 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Trillion dollar deficits were manufactured by democrat cooperation. Their entire plan was to run against the tax cuts. Once the official deficit is acknowledged in September as $1 trillion, democrats will blame the tax cut and run through November to roll back the “irresponsible deficit generating tax cuts.”

Ryan is an imbecile for giving them the ammunition and DJT should have seen this coming.


31 posted on 04/15/2018 1:36:16 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: yesthatjallen

You’re right about that. Teddy Kennedy and many others responsible for the mess we’re in have already checked out.


32 posted on 04/15/2018 1:36:45 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SaveFerris
What could possibly go wrong?

Everything.

What happens after will be a nightmare for humanity.

33 posted on 04/15/2018 1:38:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen
Paul Ryan has never had a non-political job.
34 posted on 04/15/2018 1:42:14 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped)
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To: yesthatjallen; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; metmom; null and void

There must be some kind of NWO for the Antichrist. Scripture says it won’t be as unified as they hope, mixing iron with miry clay.

Nonetheless, I have not seen the various nations of the world either a) so deeply in debt and/or b) embracing such kooky policies (i.e. Germany, for example).

I say, in a sane world, especially in a sane U.S., an obvious fraud like Barack Obama would have never gotten near the U.S. Presidency.


35 posted on 04/15/2018 1:42:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: yesthatjallen

Um ... no ... Jackwagon. Trillion dollar deficits are a product of poor leadership, the result of people unwilling to make the hard decisions. We the People have been in lean times, at home, at work, at church. We've made tough decisions. Cowards like you do not. Glad you are leaving office.


36 posted on 04/15/2018 1:44:07 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Vision
Paul Ryan has never had a non-political job.

So basically he's never had a real job.

37 posted on 04/15/2018 1:46:41 PM PDT by wastedyears (Americans are dreamers too.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Can’t wait until we get to $2 Trillion!!


38 posted on 04/15/2018 1:47:08 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen

It was always going to happen when incompetent, greedy, power hungry, selfish and me first politicians were and are in office. The rest of us who believed the promises, voted accordingly and finally enough people did receive money stolen from those who worked and the party was in full bloom. That, coupled with a worthless education program, made the whole evil process easy. Sad, but true. And look where we are now. Some of the current administration are trying to correct but is fighting not only the free loaders but many of its own. Hate and evil are difficult to overcome.


39 posted on 04/15/2018 1:47:13 PM PDT by mulligan (The)
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To: so_real

“We the People have been in lean times, at home, at work, at church. We’ve made tough decisions”

Damned right.

I’ve never heard anyone who was in tough financial bind say,”No problem,I’ll just raise my debt ceiling.”

I’m sick to death of these people.

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40 posted on 04/15/2018 1:48:27 PM PDT by Mears
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