- He doesn't believe that American Generals are honest."We don't think the generals are giving us their true advice," Ryan said during a forum on the budget sponsored by the National Journal. "We don't think the generals believe their budget is really the right budget."
- Increase Defense Spending by $228 Billion.Since, as CBO notes, āspending for defense alone has not been lower than 3 percent of GDP in any year [since World War II]ā and Ryan seeks a high level of defense spending ā he increases defense funding by $228 billion over the next ten years above the pre-sequestration baseline ā the rest of government would largely have to disappear.
- He wants to cut Medicaid and and health care assistance.CBO finds that the Ryan plan would cut programs to help low- and middle-income people afford health insurance ā Medicaid, CHIP, and the Affordable Care Actās subsidies to help near-poor and moderate-income families afford insurance ā by more than 75 percent by 2050, with the bulk of the cuts coming from Medicaid.
- He wants to raise the eligible age for Medicare.The CBO analysis states that the Ryan plan would raise the age at which people become eligible for Medicare from 65 to 67, even as it repeals the health reform lawās coverage provisions. This means 65- and 66-year-olds would have neither Medicare nor access to health insurance exchanges in which they could buy coverage at an affordable price and receive subsidies to help them secure coverage if their incomes are low.
- He wants to eliminate the government's guarantee of healthcare.The Ryan plan would also replace Medicareās guarantee of health coverage with premium-support payments to seniors (starting with new beneficiaries in 2023) that they would use to buy coverage from private insurance companies or traditional Medicare.
Under the Ryan budget, moreover, Medicare would no longer make payments to health care providers such as doctors and hospitals; it would instead provide premium-support vouchers to beneficiaries that theyād use to help buy coverage from private insurance companies or traditional Medicare. - Co-Sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act(1) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human and is the person's paramount and most fundamental right; (2) each human life begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, at which time every human has all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood; and (3) Congress, each state, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories have the authority to protect all human lives.
- Wishes to cut government funding of student education.The plan proposed by Ryan (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Budget Committee, would chop away at Pell grant eligibility, thereby reducing total Pell grants by about $170 billion over the next decade; allow the interest rate for federally subsidized Stafford loans to double; end student loan interest subsidies for those still in school; and make Pell spending discretionary -- instead of mandatory -- allowing further cuts down the line. Pell grants, the largest source of federal financial aid, currently help more than 9 million students to afford college. Following last year's budget standoffs, next year's maximum Pell grant of $5,645 will cover just one-third of the average cost of college -- the smallest share ever.
- Learned Economics from Ayn Rand."And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivismāthat Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivismāyou canāt find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
- Wants to give tax breaks to the rich, and cut funding for education, medicare, and other social programs to pay for the breaks.
- Wants to replace Social Security with a privatized retirement plan emphasizing investments in the stock market. Of course, Seniors who had tied their retirement into the Stock Market would have lost everything in 2005, as many people did.The economic crisis of 2008 should serve as a wake-up call for policymakers who seek to hinge Americansā retirement on the stock market. In fact, āa person with a private Social Security account similar to what President George W. Bush proposed in 2005ā³ would have lost much of their retirement savings.
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-co ... ?mobile=nc - His Budget plan would cut 4.1 million jobs.Paul Ryanās latest budget doesnāt just fail to address job creation, it aggressively slows job growth. Against a current policy baseline, the budget cuts discretionary programs by about $120 billion over the next two years and mandatory programs by $284 billion, sucking demand out of the economy when it most needs it and leading to job loss. Using a standard macroeconomic model that is consistent with that used by private- and public-sector forecasters, the shock to aggregate demand from near-term spending cuts would result in roughly 1.3 million jobs lost in 2013 and 2.8 million jobs lost in 2014, or 4.1 million jobs through 2014.*
- His budget plan keeps $40 billion in tax subsidies for Oil Companies.Paul Ryanās (R-WI) proposed FY 2013 budget resolution would retain a decadeās worth of oil tax breaks worth $40 billion. And his budget would cut billions of dollars from investments to develop alternative fuels and clean energy technologies that would serve as substitutes for oil and help protect middle-class families from volatile energy prices as well as create jobs.
(Paul Ryan leases land to Oil Companies, so he directly profits) - Supports neither Romneycare nor Obamacare and calls them "similar."
- Supports cuts to foreign aid/non-military foreign aid, presumably believing that an increase in military spending will help to maintain our bargaining power.
More than seventy retired military officers wrote a letter to Congress urging that the body not cut the budget for non-military means of executing U.S. foreign policy.
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