"Isn't that all a budget is? Numbers that have been run?"

[phantom power]

Last night, newly ensconced Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan sat down for his first solo interview with Fox News' Brit Hume and let slip an admission about Mitt Romney's budget plan -- an admission that's receiving surprisingly little press attention. Asked by Hume when the Romney plan would balance the budget, Ryan said he didn't know because "we haven't run the numbers on that specific plan."

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...how can you claim to have a budget and also to have not "run the numbers?" Isn't that all a budget is? Numbers that have been run?

The bottom line is that, by Ryan's admission, the Romney campaign is promoting a budget plan despite not knowing what it actually accomplishes. If that's not grist for the media grinder, then what is?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/15/we-havent-run-the-numbers-a-startling-ryan-admi/189369

[1-Old-Man]

1. I have done something that apparently no reporter has, I've read his "budget". Its no budget at all

It is a political statement, it has a couple of pages of charts with numbers on them toward its end, its got a pretty blue cover, but despite all of that its not anything that you could call a budget, not at all.

[spanone]

2. so ryan abides by a budget yet he has no inkling what's in it?

and they want to run america?

[TwilightGardener]

3. I haven't run the numbers on my husband quitting his job and us buying a

really nice beach house and retiring in our early 40's as beach bums, either--BUT it's a great plan, you have to agree.