Reagan Budget Director: Paul Ryan’s Plan Is A “Fairy Tale” (Congress, Iran)

[zaybu]

Specifically, Stockman observes, Ryan's "phony" budget plan:

• Maintains Defense spending that is nearly twice the $400 billion (adjusted for today's dollars) that General Eisenhower spent in the 1960s
• Shreds the safety net provided by $100 billion in food stamps and $300 billion in Medicaid
• Does not cut one dime from Medicare or Social Security for another decade
• Includes no serious plan to create jobs
• Radically cuts taxes on the richest Americans while eliminating tax breaks that mostly help the middle class
• Fails to even consider a "value-added sales tax," which is the only way the country can begin to climb out of its budget hole

In short, Stockman says, Ryan's plan is "devoid of credible math or hard policy choices."

Reagan Budget Director: Paul Ryan

[VMH2507]

Well at least it is a plan. Where is the Democrats plan?

[MTAtech]

Originally Posted by VMH2507

Well at least it is a plan. Where is the Democrats plan?

Here:
The Obama Budget: By the Numbers - Katy O'Donnell - NationalJournal.com

[Finn_Jarber]

Of course it'a a fairytale, but it tickels the ears of the Twit crowd.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by VMH2507

Well at least it is a plan. Where is the Democrats plan?

"At least it's a plan" said the Captain to the Kamikaze squadron

[Zimar]

Originally Posted by VMH2507

Well at least it is a plan. Where is the Democrats plan?

Really, is this a thing now?

So in a couple of years, when Republicans want to go into Iran, are they going to be telling us "We have a plan! Do YOU have a plan?? What, you don't want to bomb the crap out of Iran??? THAT IS NOT A PLAN!"

[Ponderosa]

Reagan's budget director? Who cares? Reagan was a RINO.

[jt800]

Originally Posted by MTAtech

Here:
The Obama Budget: By the Numbers - Katy O'Donnell - NationalJournal.com

Is that the one Congressional Democrats refused to vote on until Republicans forced a vote and not one Democrat voted in favor of?

[jt800]

Bill Clinton's White House chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, appeared at the University of North Carolina a year ago and had this to say about Paul Ryan:

“Have any of you all met Paul Ryan? We should get him to come to the university. I’m telling you this guy is amazing. ... He is honest, he is straightforward, he is sincere. And the budget that he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit just like we did, by $4 trillion. … The president as you remember, came out with a budget and I don’t think anybody took that budget very seriously. The Senate voted against it 97 to nothing."

[LoveToRow]

David Stockman? Really?

Criminal and civil charges

On March 26, 2007, federal prosecutors in Manhattan indicted Stockman in "a scheme ... to defraud [Collins & Aikman]'s investors, banks and creditors by manipulating C&A's reported revenues and earnings." At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil charges against Stockman related to actions he performed while CEO of Collins & Aikman.[15] Stockman suffered a personal financial loss, estimated at $13 million, along with losses suffered by as many as 15,000 Collins & Aikman employees worldwide. Stockman said in a statement posted on his law company's website that the company's end was the consequence of an industry decline, not fraud.[16] On January 9, 2009, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced that it did not intend to prosecute Stockman for this case.

Link: David Stockman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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