TWO AND A HALF CHEERS FOR RYAN-MURRAY

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American Spectator:

My life’s work is devoted to cutting the federal government in half. In fact, I have published detailed plans regarding how to do that (it’s called entitlement reform), in far too many places already (just a start on what needs to be done), including in my 2011 book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb (HarperCollins), in this column, and with every free market think tank tuned in to the real world.

 

In fact, I’m probably the only person in Washington who thinks the legislation that would have that effect over the long run can and quite possibly will be enacted within the next 10 years (politics operates in cycles, like a pendulum, thank you Barack Obama). And I have worked directly on that project with Paul Ryan — he is one of the few people in America who understands that if these reforms are done right, the poor, seniors, those in need of health care, working people, America, and the taxpayers will all be vastly better off.

 

I say that so you know where I am coming from in analyzing the Ryan-Murray budget deal.

 

What’s in the Deal

The deal involves an exact compromise between the federal discretionary spending totals proposed in Ryan’s 2014 Republican budget ($967 billion) passed by the House and Murray’s 2014 Democrat budget ($1.058 trillion) passed by the Senate earlier this year, setting federal discretionary spending for 2014 at $1.12 trillion. That result was effectively set by how your friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans voted last year. So calling that “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.

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Paul Ryan & the GOP Must Own the Cuts to Veterans Benefits

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 18th at 11:51 AM |

Republicans in the Senate want to restore veterans benefits to the Paul Ryan – Patty Murray Budget plan. Harry Reid is blocking the amendment so Republicans are blaming Harry Reid ...http://www.redstate.com/2013/12/18/paul-ryan-the-gop-must-own-the-cuts-to-veterans-benefits/

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18Dec

 

Pensions of disabled veterans are cut so we could give unauthorized welfare to illegals and study duck penises

 

By: DrJohn

 

And so hookers in Nevada could get tax exemptions.

 

Fox News

 

A final effort by Senate Republicans to halt cuts to pensions of military retirees failed late Tuesday, after Democrats blocked an amendment to the controversial budget bill.

 

The two-year budget agreement, which cleared a key test vote earlier in the day, was expected to get a final vote no later than Wednesday.

 

Ahead of the final vote, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., tried unsuccessfully to use a parliamentary tactic to force a vote on the amendment, which he wrote to undo the cuts for military retirees.

 

A provision in the already House-passed bill would cut retirement benefits for military retirees by $6 billion over 10 years.

Sessions wanted to instead eliminate an estimated $4.2 billion in annual spending

 

http://floppingaces.net/2013/12/18/pensions-of-disabled-veterans-are-cut-so-we-could-give-unauthorized-welfare-to-illegals-and-study-duck-penises/

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Patty Murray said on the floor of the Senate today that the pension cut for disabled veterans was a copying error and it will be addressed as soon as the bill is passed.