Posted on 04/27/2022 4:17:19 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Paul Ryan has one big complaint about former President Donald Trump: He wasn't willing to pursue cuts to the safety net programs Ryan had championed for years.
"He and I fought about Medicare and entitlement reform all the time," the former GOP House speaker said Wednesday at a book event at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "It became clear to me there was no way he wanted to embrace that."
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There was the commercial the Dems made where PR pushed grandma in a wheelchair over the cliff.
Yep news to me too.
Paul Ryan is one of those guys, I sometimes wonder, whatever happened to Paul Ryan?
He’s popping up to remind us he was once Speaker of the House?
The country, including most here, want TWO THINGS:
1. Low Taxes
2. Massive Entitlement (at least for the handouts they receive)
Bottom Line: $30T in Debt.
I don't know about welfare but Medicare reform was always his "thing".
GFY RYNO!!!!
Cut Medicare, give tens of billions to countries all over the world...brilliant!
Everybody comparing McCarthy to Boehner, Paul Ryan is feeling left out...
Paul Ryan - the spineless phony clown who lost a debate to Mr. Potato Head.
Social Security History, Ratio of Covered Workers to Beneficiaries:
Year / workers (k) / Beneficiaries (k) /ratio
1940 / 35,390 / 222 / 159.4 : 1
1945 / 46,390 / 1,106 / 41.9
1970 / 93,090 / 25,186 / 3.7
2013 / 163,221 / 57,471 / 2.8
Social Security and Medicare were functionally broken before most of us were born.
You have to be joking. That was Ryan's entire focus the entire time he was in Congress. You can find all sorts of bills with his name on them, but other Republicans generally were too chickensh*t to sign on. Whatever else he was wrong about, he was always on the conservative side with that.
That was exactly what he tried to do with Obamacare. He wanted to convert it from an entitlement program to being block funded by the Feds...which of course meant that unlike entitlements, it would have to be renewed in every budget. But he lost when McCain voted against the bill that Ryan got through the House.
Democrats hated him for it, which was why they were dancing on his grave when he left Congress:
Will seniors and their families miss Paul Ryan in the U.S. Congress? Not a chance. His impending retirement lifts a dark cloud that has hung over older Americans – not to mention the poor, sick, and disabled – for nearly two decades. Speaker Ryan has spent his 11 terms on Capitol Hill fighting to enrich the wealthy and powerful, while undermining programs that serve as a lifeline for America’s most vulnerable citizens.
As America’s Privatizer-in-Chief, he spearheaded attempts to turn Medicare into a voucher program and to gamble retirees’ Social Security benefits on the whims of Wall Street. He passed legislation in the House to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid by imposing per capita caps and turning it into a block grant program. If the Senate had passed it, too, millions of low income Americans would have lost health coverage, according to projections by the Congressional Budget Office. At the end of last year, Speaker Ryan muscled-through the Trump/GOP tax giveaway to the rich and profitable corporations, inviting deep cuts to seniors’ earned benefits. “We’re going to have to get back next year [2018] at entitlement reform,” he said last December, “which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.”
Here is a man who has been downright giddy while championing Scrooge-like policies from his powerful perch in Washington. In 2017, he gloated about gutting Medicaid in the House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “This is why I’m so excited about it… We are de-federalizing an entitlement, block-granting it back to the states, and capping its growth rate. That’s never been done before,” he told a conservative radio host. Ryan boasted at a National Review forum that he had been “dreaming” of cutting federal Medicaid funds “since you and I were drinking at a keg” – barely able to contain his glee about stripping health coverage from poor people.
https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/ farewell-paul-ryan-insidious-entitlement-reforms/ And here's a 2017 article about Ryan pushing entitlement reform, McConnell and others nixing it as too unpopular.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/27/ryan-mcconnell-congress-entitlements-medicare-social-security-314766
The hard truth is that in 2016, Trump ran against entitlement reform and promised he wouldn't touch Medicare or Social Security. He did change that position -- finally -- in 2020, but until then, he was openly against touching Social Security or Medicare.
The claim by people like Paul Ryan that they want to save American taxpayers money is rendered unbelievable by the amount of cash that they send, in various ways, to other countries at the expense of American taxpayers.
Rand Paul is the only Republican Senator that I am aware of who has called out this obvious hypocrisy.
However, a lot of voters notice it, and it damages the Republican brand very severely.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3492929/posts?page=92;q=1#92
It's a very strange world where the one issue Ryan honestly did push his entire career now becomes something that Freepers claim never occurred, just because they didn't like the guy for other reasons.
He is married to a Democrat!
Start with foreign aid and welfare for illegal aliens and work our way down to Medicare.
What happened to Wisconsin?
Well, RYAN never pursued funding for the wall, so he can go piss up a rope.
A few billion here or there is nothing to compared to trillions in entitlements, and to a lesser extent, endless wars.
Wonder what the state of all those programs would be if 10s of millions illegals, birthright citizenship kids and phony refugees weren’t sucking the life out of the country.
Once done with them, then concentration could be on all the absolutely bogus disability’ claims being made and paid.
As I recall, Ryan was wanting to make Medicare more progressive by cutting Medicare benefits for the upper middle class.
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