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Townhall…
America
Ready for Paul Ryan’s Adult Conversation
By
Star Parker
Aug
20, 2012
There’s
a line of thinking on the political left that Mitt Romney served them
up a
great softball in picking Paul Ryan as his running mate.
According
to Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, “Ryan brings to the Romney
campaign
the tea party’s style of magical thinking, a blissfully simplistic,
ideologically driven world view that seems to think candidates can win
votes by
promising to reduce popular government services.”
Republican
candidates, they say, are ducking for cover to avoid being branded with
budget
reforms that Ryan, as Chairman of House Budget Committee, has proposed,
particularly for Medicare and Medicaid.
Vice
President Biden, eloquent as always, told a mostly black audience in
Virginia
that Republicans want to put “y’all back in chains.”
Although
Biden has taken flak for this nauseating remark, he should get credit
for
summing up how Democrats really think. That government running your
life makes
you free and that anyone who proposes freedom and choice wants to put
“y’all
back in chains.”
Earlier
this year, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the non-partisan
Congressional Budget
Office, sent a report on the nation’s budget to House budget committee
chairman
Ryan.
Here’s
what he said:
“The
explosive path of the federal debt that the Congressional Budget Office
(CBO)
projects under
what many
observers would view as current policies underscores the need for
policy
changes to put the nation on a sustainable course.”
“The
aging of the population and rising costs for health care will push
spending for
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care
programs
considerably higher as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).”
Elmendorf
concludes that without major increases in revenues and/or substantial
cuts in
spending “the resulting budget deficits will increase federal debt to
unsupportable levels.”
So
Paul Ryan’s high crime is being courageous, honest and leveling with
the
American people about the tough realities facing us.
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the rest of the article at Townhall
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