{"id":22414,"date":"2014-04-02T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22414"},"modified":"2014-04-02T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:19:29","slug":"when-cuts-arent-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22414","title":{"rendered":"When Cuts Aren’t Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CATO Institute<\/a> posted an article<\/a> yesterday about Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.<\/p>\n

The article included this chart which tracks spending in the coming years under Congressman Paul Ryan’s proposed budget:<\/p>\n

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The chart below compares Paul Ryan’s budget against the CBO<\/a> projections of the federal budget<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Notice that there are no actual spending cuts in Paul Ryan’s budget–it simply represents a slower rate of growth.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Chairman Ryan\u2019s budget would spend $42.6 trillion over the next ten years. Opponents will say that Ryan\u2019s budget slashes federal spending, while supporters will say that it includes large budgetary savings. The reality is that Ryan\u2019s budget would increase spending at an annual average rate of 3.5 percent, or from $3.54 trillion in 2014 to $5.0 trillion in 2024. Only in Washington<\/a> would that be considered substantial restraint, let alone slashing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until we change the culture of Washington, we can expect to see Congress<\/a> drive America<\/a> into bankruptcy. If you want to see change, you need to change the people you vote for. Continually voting for the people who keep spending high will not result in lower spending.\u00a0 Most of the establishment Republicans (as well as the Democrats<\/a>) have forgotten their promises to cut spending. Those Republicans need to be replaced by people who will remember their promises.<\/p>\n

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The CATO Institute posted an article yesterday about Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. The article included this chart which tracks spending in the coming years under Congressman Paul Ryan’s proposed budget: The chart below compares Paul Ryan’s budget against the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2587,580,712,614,3415,285,2015,615],"class_list":["post-22414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cato-institute","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-paul-ryan","tag-republican-party-united-states","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-federal-budget","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22421,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22414\/revisions\/22421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}