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Paul "Mr. Responsible Balanced Budgets Guy" Ryan Created a Trillion-Dollar Deficit and Then QuitBy BEN MATHIS-LILLEY APRIL 11, 201811:21 AM
For years and years, Rep. Paul Ryans self-projected thing was that he was a geeky budget wonk who was gravely, gravely concerned about the American governments unsustainable fiscal future. Liberal critics, meanwhile, have claimed for almost as long that Ryans vaunted plans to balance the budget were baloney and that his only actual interest was in passing massive tax cuts for high earners and corporations.
Now that hes leaving Congress after having just passed major tax legislation and a budget as Speaker of the House during a period of total Republican control over the federal government, we can finally determine who was right. Did Paul Ryan really care about reducing the deficit once he attained the power to do so, or not?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/paul-ryan-balanced-budget-wonk-created-trillion-dollar-deficit-and-then-quit.html
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)a governor or senator, by working people who are the most harmed by the tax law.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)him as a weekend dad is all BS?! He still has other political aspirations?!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)unblock
(52,456 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Damn!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)He will end up on RW tv helping Jim Baker sell buckets of inedible survival food.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)to billionaires!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)THIS tax cut for the wealthiest must be recinded ASAP.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)mcar
(42,439 posts)As a highly paid lobbyist, he'll excoriate Democrats for the deficit. And people will fall for it.
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)blake2012
(1,294 posts)backtoblue
(11,347 posts)He got his payday and he's getting out while the getting is good. Sleazy POS
Zorro
(15,753 posts)They really haven't been doing the job of serving the best interests of the country. Hell, they've hardly even shown up for work for the past six years.
backtoblue
(11,347 posts)When Ryan was talking about being a weekend dad, I thought to myself "how often is he even in Washington?"
zentrum
(9,866 posts)
.hear about it when we reap the whirlwind.
He gave his 1% "constituency" the tax cuts and he knows that eventually it may/will force the cut in all social programs to pay for it.
He sees his pyromania as fully successful.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)unblock
(52,456 posts)lucrative speaking fees and book deals and influence-peddling deals await!
ailsagirl
(22,904 posts)Way to be responsible