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WillyT

(72,631 posts) Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:14 PM Oct 2013

Watch Your Wallet... 'Paul Ryan Proposes Solution To Debt Ceiling 'Stalemate' In WSJ Op-Ed'

Paul Ryan Proposes Solution To Debt Ceiling 'Stalemate' In WSJ Op-Ed
The Huffington Post | By Ashley Alman
Posted: 10/08/2013 10:46 pm EDT

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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has the answer to the fiscal impasse -- and it's simply "for the president to come to the table," he wrote in a Tuesday Wall Street Journal opinion piece,

Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, accused President Barack Obama of giving Congress "the silent treatment." He said Obama and leaders of both parties have negotiated on budget issues before, and it would be in everyone's best interest to do it again.

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Ryan wrote that his ideas were reasonable to solve the impasse:

This isn't a grand bargain. For that, we need a complete rethinking of government's approach to helping the most vulnerable, and a complete rethinking of government's approach to health care. But right now, we need to find common ground. We need to open the federal government. We need to pay our bills today -- and make sure we can pay our bills tomorrow. So let's negotiate an agreement to make modest reforms to entitlement programs and the tax code.

While Ryan touted his recommendations as "bipartisan" and aligned with Obama's ideas, he failed to address the elephant in the room:

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/paul-ryan-debt-ceiling_n_4067501.html

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Watch Your Wallet... 'Paul Ryan Proposes Solution To Debt Ceiling 'Stalemate' In WSJ Op-Ed' (Original Post) WillyT Oct 2013 OP

YOU get a voucher - YOU get a voucher - EVERYBODY gets a voucher! Marie Marie Oct 2013 #1

I'm telling ya... It's in the air... MannyGoldstein Oct 2013 #2

Paul Ryan seems to have forgotten we already know his idea of "modest" jmowreader Oct 2013 #3

Romney and Ryan lost in a landslide election, the American people have spoken! B Calm Oct 2013 #4

Yo, Paul Ryan Corgigal Oct 2013 #5

Morning Kick !!! WillyT Oct 2013 #6

Marie Marie

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1. YOU get a voucher - YOU get a voucher - EVERYBODY gets a voucher!

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 10:25 PM

Oct 2013

And good luck covering your health insurance costs with that. Wasn't this man and his plan ridiculed enough to make him go sit in the corner and shut up? They never quit...