Tag Archives: federal budget reforms

More Deficit Battles

Posted on April 16, 2011 by billmanzi

The deficit wars continue to rage, with both parties outlining deficit reduction visions that are miles apart. For people who take this issue seriously there is some prospect for success, despite the starkly different visions laid out by both sides … Continue reading →

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The President Strikes Back

Posted on April 15, 2011 by billmanzi

President Obama, having ceded the initial ground on deficit reduction to Republican Paul Ryan, answered the Ryan plan in a speech this week. The President, in broad brush strokes, offered that we need to attack the deficit in a more … Continue reading →

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Paul Ryan Headlines the Main Event

Posted on April 11, 2011 by billmanzi

The budget battles now move into high gear, with political punch and counter-punch being launched. President Obama, through his spokesman David Plouffe, who appeared on all four major Sunday talk shows, is now prepared to join the deficit reduction debate … Continue reading →

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The Main Event Part 2

Posted on April 5, 2011 by billmanzi

Today is the day that Paul Ryan will unveil the House budget for FY2012. He has released this video, which shows some of the numbers that should be of great concern to all. He is taking some incoming flak, although … Continue reading →

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The Main Event

Posted on April 4, 2011 by billmanzi

While Congress continues to battle over this years budget, with a potential shutdown looming Friday, Rep. Paul Ryan was on Fox News talking about the House budget for the next fiscal year, which he will unveil Tuesday. Ryan appears ready … Continue reading →

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Social Security and the Deficit

Posted on March 13, 2011 by billmanzi

With all of the political focus on the deficit and real solutions to the deficit problem social security is once again a focus of both left and right. Of course any serious notion of deficit cutting has to address the … Continue reading →

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Ryan, Republicans Step Up on Entitlements

Posted on February 17, 2011 by billmanzi

Well on this blog I have (in order) praised, criticized, and now must praise again Paul Ryan. My praise does not necessarily stem from agreement with all of his prescriptions for solving the budget deficit problem. But he now says … Continue reading →

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The 12 Percent Solution Part 2

Posted on February 13, 2011 by billmanzi

Some Morning Joe clips, including a Rand Paul clip, talking about spending at the federal level. Today on Fox News Paul Ryan was on with Chris Wallace talking about cutting and deficits. So at about the 8:40 mark of the … Continue reading →

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The 12% Solution

Posted on February 12, 2011 by billmanzi

The President spent his weekly address on the upcoming budget submission, and on the federal deficit. He, like the Republicans in the House, has chosen to emphasize reductions or freezes in spending on the so called discretionary portion of the … Continue reading →

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Rand Paul: Real Republican Ideology

Posted on February 5, 2011 by billmanzi

Rand Paul, in the inverse of the politically weak House Republican effort, took to the Subway interview series on ABC to talk about the $500 billion dollar in cuts he is proposing to this years budget. Unlike the House Republicans, … Continue reading →

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