CBPP statement on the Paul Ryan Budget

[hfojvt]

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3712&emailView=1

"The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In essence, this budget is Robin Hood in reverse — on steroids. It would likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times (and possibly in the nation’s history)."


The really remarkable thing is how Republicans can vote for this and NOT pay a political price. This budget is not that much different than the last one, which the House already passed.

Now I cannot remember if they passed it before or after the elections of 2010. Okay, it seems to have been in mid-2011. Long forgotten even by me, to say nothing of the average voter.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. It's our job to make them pay a political price for it. Tell and show everyone you know

what the GOP thinks about the 99%.

[hfojvt]

3. Well I started a thread

and you kicked it (thanks :hi It would be sorta nice if this issue generated even 1/100th as much interest as Trayvon Martin, but that's asking an awful lot.

[mnmoderatedem]

4. well both are important

and as such, I'll give your thread another bump.

[librechik]

2. perfect! Just what the Repubs want. Now if they can just push it as a

document that does the opposite of what it does, everything should be great. And that is their specialty!