Democrats Vote to Sustain Corporate Welfare

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House Passes Paul Ryan Budget Proposal in Partisan Vote

The resolution passed 235-189, with no House Democrats supporting its passage. Just four House Republicans – Reps. Walter Jones, David McKinley, Ron Paul and Denny Rehberg – opposed the bill.

Rep. Ryan, who is from Wisconsin, unveiled the "Path to Prosperity" earlier this month. Democrats dubbed it the "Road to Ruin."

Republicans say the plan would save money by changing the Medicaid system, ending corporate welfare, privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and reducing discretionary spending below 2008 levels. And, over the long term, the GOP plan would transform the nation's Medicare program, changing it from a government-run system that pays seniors' health bills into a system where seniors buy insurance plans subsidized by the federal government.

Boehner said Ryan's budget proposal is "a serious step in the right direction."

"I'm just hopeful that the president will begin to get serious about the long-term fiscal crisis that our country is facing. It's serious," Boehner said. "It needs to be dealt with now, and we owe it to the American people, we owe it to our kids and grandkids to begin to cut spending and begin to transform these programs so that we can save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paul-ryans-budget-proposal-passes-house-democrats-medicare/story?id=13384520

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Yet they still don't mention about getting us out of two bs wars.

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Republicans say the plan would save money by ... ending corporate welfare

Sure, that's what they say. That doesn't make it so, however. I mean, I remember that they said there were death panels created by the health care reform bill. That surely wasn't so but that is what Republicans said. Look at the Ryan proposal and how it gets rid of Medicare, for example. What is replacing Medicare? Yes, subsidies to private insurance companies. Is that how corporate welfare is ended?

Edited April 18, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

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I remember that they said there were death panels created by the health care reform bill. That surely wasn't so

It wasn't? Somebody better tell Paul Krugman...

Edited April 18, 2011 by Some Old Guy

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It wasn't? Somebody better tell Paul Krugman...

Krugman? Krugman claimed that the health reform bill established death panels? When? Where?

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Krugman? Krugman claimed that the health reform bill established death panels? When? Where?