Ryan's Budget is a Wildly Cruel Document

Jonathan Chait, New Republic
The new GOP budget unveiled by Paul Ryan is a wildly cruel document. Yet pointing this out, as Democrats keep doing, seems only to flatter Ryan’s self-conception as a serious man telling hard truths. So let me instead concede Ryan’s moral premises. (Throw tens of millions of people off health care? Why not! Slash food stamps? It’ll just inspire the next Dickens!) Instead, let’s judge Ryan by his own standards. Does his plan, however cruel, actually address our fiscal realities? No, it doesn’t.If you want to reduce the deficit, you have to come...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/07/ryan039s_budget_is_a_wildly_cruel_document_253356.html

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