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If Mitt Romney wins in November, he and a Republican Congress will fast track legislation early next year to replace across the board defense cuts with cuts to food stamps and other programs for needy Americans.
In January our intention is that if we dont fix it in the lame duck is to fix it retroactively once a new session of Congress takes place, Paul Ryan, Romneys running mate, told a crowd in North Carolina Thursday, We have procedural way in the Senate to advance that legislation very quickly and get it to the next President of the United States who I believe is going to be Mitt Romney, to pass that into law and retroactively prevent that sequester from taking place in January.
Ryan was referring to legislation House Republicans passed earlier this year to avert sequestration the penalty Congress imposed on itself, on a bipartisan basis, for not reaching an agreement on more targeted legislation to reduce the deficit. Sequestration will cause deep, abrupt cuts to both defense and non-defense programs starting early next year, and for the next 10 years, unless Congress overturns it or replaces it with other savings.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-mitt-romney-defense-sequestration.php
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)It is time to get every last Republican off the national stage. It would be even better if they were just out altogether.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)that is what they are all about.
phasma ex machina
(2,328 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)to fight and die for it
ananda
(28,836 posts)They're not even trying to pretend to appear decent.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)the reason the threw akin under the bus is because he said what they all believe.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)we going to keep spending our way to our own demise like the soviets.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)how many times must one see this movie to know it doesn't end well for the empire in the long run?
queenjane
(296 posts)Guess they figure that the rabid racism still prevalent in this country will blind the masses to their destructive aims.
And unfortunately, they are probably right.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,358 posts)... there won't be anybody left to fight their well-supplied wars.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,358 posts)The malnourished won't be healthy enough to qualify for military service.
Johonny
(20,819 posts)we will never hear about the debt again for 4 years. They will start a war with Iran/Pakistan or North Korea and raise the yearly debt over 2 trillion. Then 4 years will pass and we'll get to hear once again how deeply concerned they are about the national debt. It's the same * for 30 years now.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I don't remember them caring too much about it during the W years or Reagan's terms either
IDemo
(16,926 posts)"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed." - Dwight Eisenhower
How literal his quote has become.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Couldn't win a gop primary today, except maybe in new england. Let's build infrastructure and flouridate the water and teach evolution would go over with the baggers like a whore im church
librechik
(30,674 posts)Bucky
(53,947 posts)By criminy, it's a plan!