From the Office of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives

[BigBadBrian]

LINK

Chairman Paul Ryan Outlines New Budget: The Path to Prosperity
Posted by Don Seymour on April 05, 2011

In this morning's Wall Street Journal, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) outlined The Path to Prosperity, our new budget proposal for creating a better environment for private-sector job growth, stopping Washington from spending money we don’t have, and lifting the crushing burden of debt that threatens the future for our children and grandchildren.

David Brooks of the New York Times says The Path to Prosperity is "the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes." While we encourage you to read Chairman Ryan's full op-ed, here are some key excerpts:

Creating a Better Environment for Private-Sector Job Growth: According to recent analysis, Chairman Ryan says The Path to Prosperity "will help create nearly one million new private-sector jobs next year, bring the unemployment rate down to 4% by 2015, and result in 2.5 million additional private-sector jobs in the last year of the decade." And "it would result in $1.1 trillion in higher wages and an average of $1,000 in additional family income each year." The budget will also “focus on growth by reforming the nation's outdated tax code.”

Stopping Washington from Spending Money We Don’t Have: Ryan says The Path to Prosperity "cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president's budget over the next 10 years, reduces the debt as a percentage of the economy, and puts the nation on a path to actually pay off our national debt." There a number of common-sense savings, including "reforming agricultural subsidies, shrinking the federal work force through a sensible attrition policy, and accepting Defense Secretary Robert Gates's plan to target inefficiencies at the Pentagon."

Lifting the Crushing Burden of Debt That Threatens Current Retirees & Future Generations: The Path to Prosperity "will not affect those in or near retirement in any way," says Ryan. But "[s]tarting in 2022, new Medicare beneficiaries will be enrolled in the same kind of health-care program that members of Congress enjoy." The plan also builds "upon ideas offered by the president's bipartisan fiscal commission" to "save Social Security for current retirees and strengthen it for future generations." And there's more. Auto-pilot spending is driving our debt crisis, but The Path to Prosperity protects these programs for current retirees while lifting the crushing burden of debt that threatens our children and grandchildren.

The Path to Prosperity also repeals and defunds the president's health care law, ends expensive taxpayer support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and calls for a free and open market for American energy exploration and production. And there's much more. Again, read the whole op-ed by Chairman Ryan here.

And stay tuned to Speaker.gov and Budget.House.gov for more information.

[BigBadBrian]

Common-Sense Troop Funding Bill Deserves Bipartisan, Bicameral Support
Posted by Don Seymour on April 07, 2011

House Republicans will vote today to fund our troops for the rest of the fiscal year and cut an additional $12 billion over the next week while preventing a government shutdown. This is the latest effort by the House to resolve last year’s budget mess while making real spending cuts to create a better environment for job growth. You can read the bill online here.

Speaker Boehner told Good Morning America today that passing this troop funding bill will “ensure that the government is open” while we continue to “work to reduce spending.”

In fact, this troop funding bill reflects a bipartisan, bicameral agreement that was reached last December on funding for the Department of Defense. In the months since then, the United States has become involved in a third war, making it all the more critical that this legislation be enacted now.

Moreover, not a single Senator has raised an objection to the policies in this bill. There is simply no policy reason for the Senate not to follow the House in passing this troop funding bill.

The American people want Washington to stop the spending binge that is hurting our economy and threatening job growth without shutting down the government. It’s been 47 days since the House passed H.R. 1 and Senate Democrats still haven’t passed a bill to keep the government running for the fiscal year or offered a credible plan to cut spending. This troop funding bill will give them another week to offer a credible plan that shows Washington is serious about addressing its spending addiction.

[kwame k]

......and your thoughts on this are what, Forrest.

BTW, how many Op-Ed spams are you going to post on the same fucking subject in the Front Line today?

[Kristy]

......and your thoughts on this are what, Forrest.

BTW, how many Op-Ed spams are you going to post on the same fucking subject in the Front Line today?

Go find a brick wall and bash your head against it. As unproductive and insane that may be it makes more sense to do that then to ask brian here any sort of coherent rational question.

[FORD]

Brian and his heroes Jockstrap Ryan and Oompa Loompa BONER fail to grasp the obvious.....

You talk "budget cuts" one second and then immediately talk about MORE money to fund useless fucking occupations that have NOT ONE FUCKING THING TO DO WITH DEFENDING THIS COUNTRY.

Uh, you assholes want to SERIOUSLY save money? Start there.

Then, close every stinking tax loophole. That includes personal taxes, corporate taxes, and especially inheritance tax (For Christ's sake, there MUST be a 100% inheritance tax in place before Poppy Bush dies or we'll never get rid of the BCE)

Budget "crisis" solved. Because it never was really a crisis, just 30 years of outright theft.

[BigBadBrian]

Brian and his heroes Jockstrap Ryan and Oompa Loompa BONER fail to grasp the obvious.....

You talk "budget cuts" one second and then immediately talk about MORE money to fund useless fucking occupations that have NOT ONE FUCKING THING TO DO WITH DEFENDING THIS COUNTRY.

Uh, you assholes want to SERIOUSLY save money? Start there.

How about we also do away with welfare, food stamps, and 99 weeks of unemployment compensation?

Why should I pay someones healthcare bill? If they're self-employed, paying your own way is part of the cost of doing business, right?

Welfare and paying out unemployment has cost us twice as much as iraq and Afghanistan has, and your boy is getting us involved in another conflict. I don't hear you bitching about that.

[kwame k]

How about we also do away with welfare, food stamps, and 99 weeks of unemployment compensation?

Why should I pay someones healthcare bill? If they're self-employed, paying your own way is part of the cost of doing business, right?

Welfare and paying out unemployment has cost us twice as much as iraq and Afghanistan has, and your boy is getting us involved in another conflict. I don't hear you bitching about that.

Your stupidity never ceases to amaze me, Forrest.

I'm self employed and I pay double the taxes because of it and now you're telling me that having health insurance is the cost of doing business.......the whole idea was to make health care affordable so everyone could get health insurance, jackass. As it stands now, no small business can afford to offer insurance to their employees and if you're self-employed the cost is through the roof and even the bargain insurance is so worthless it's not worth having.

Welfare should be a temporary solution with the end goal of getting people back to work. Unemployment should be viewed as the same. Yet, I see no Repuke or Demo even addressing the issue of getting people back to work......of course there's not a ton of good paying jobs out there so if you want to cut welfare/unemployment create jobs.

Bullshit......you got a link or some actual source [other than a talk show or Op-Ed piece] for this dumb ass statement

Welfare and paying out unemployment has cost us twice as much as iraq and Afghanistan has, and your boy is getting us involved in another conflict. I don't hear you bitching about that.

[kwame k]

BTW Forrest.......we just dropped some bombs in Libya as part of a joint effort and we are not invading!

Has Rush given you the date when our troops are invading or are you so upset that your boyfriend BecKKK is going off the air that your grief has clouded your judgement!

[FORD]

How about we also do away with welfare, food stamps, and 99 weeks of unemployment compensation?

How about we herd people up into boxcars and drag them off to concentration camps? End result is the same as what you and Ryan are proposing. Hitler was just more honest about it. Furthermore, unemployment compensation has nothing to do with "welfare", since everyone who IS employed pays into it. They call it unemployment insurance for a reason. Like any other insurance, it's there when you need it, but you hope you never do. And it shouldn't run out until you have a job. If you can't find a job within 99 weeks, then the problem is NOT with the unemployed, but with the lack of fucking jobs due to outsourcing, mergers, and the other byproducts of 30 years of unrestrained predatory capitalism.

As for food stamps, they're the most fool proof "stimulus plan" the government invented. Every cent of it gets spent on food, which keeps grocery store clerks, truck drivers, farmers, and food factory workers employed. Who the fuck would oppose that?

Why should I pay someones healthcare bill? If they're self-employed, paying your own way is part of the cost of doing business, right?

You pay someone else's healthcare bill every time you pay private insurance too. Except for the fact that 30-40% of it goes to pay some fucking pig CEO's salary.

Welfare and paying out unemployment has cost us twice as much as iraq and Afghanistan has, and your boy is getting us involved in another conflict. I don't hear you bitching about that.

Better get your eyes checked. I'm on record against this Libyan clusterfuck, just like all the other bullshit in that area of the planet.

[ELVIS]

the whole idea was to make health care affordable so everyone could get health insurance,

You're an idiot if you believe that...

[Kristy]

STFU Elvis

[Kristy]

How about we also do away with welfare, food stamps, and 99 weeks of unemployment compensation?

Why should I pay someones healthcare bill? If they're self-employed, paying your own way is part of the cost of doing business, right?

Welfare and paying out unemployment has cost us twice as much as iraq and Afghanistan has, and your boy is getting us involved in another conflict. I don't hear you bitching about that.

I have to ask, what decade do you live in? If you haven't noticed, healthcare cost are through the roof especially for small business owners. For example, you dumbass, when I worked in a music store I put in roughly 32-34 a week which barely qualified me for any health insurance at all. Now my boss who was also the owner had to pay into that, PLUS workman's compensation, PLUS my wage, PLUS his business rent and insurance, his apartment rent, his part in child support, his car insurance, and other miscellaneous bills such as internet, phones, heat, whatever. When health care stating rising he found himself paying more into and getting less out of it so something had to go and employee health was the first to be cut not only for me but for himself as well for that alone is what was costing him twice as much. Whatever the fuck the color of the sky is on your planet, paying his way wasn't what it was all about.

As for welfare, I agree there are way too many who suck off the system like your mother in her latest porn flick and that does need to be revamped but not cut. Welfare is a system that is too over bloated to be probably run anymore and yet it can be easily fixed if the government looked into it and make some serious changes. Cutting it is not going to solve any problems, rather, only create more homelessness, more of a burden on those with health issues on the taxpayer and further increase the gap between the have and have nots which only in turn makes for a weaker nation. Poverty is not socialism, it's a fucking disgrace in this country. I would much rather pay for someone to have a decent meal every night then drop another god damn bomb in a country and see so many innocent lives being destroyed in one context or another.

Food stamps? Been on them myself for six months at a cost to the taxpayer of $48/month to live on. That's right, I robbed the employed for a grand total of $288 and still had many a night where I went to bed hungry; I was lucky, I had some opportunity to find work where others may not. Going to bed starving for a night or two is bad enough but there are too many who do it for days and days who are hard-working people who may be more than down on their luck. I'm sure you don't understand but once your mother kicks your sorry ass out of her basement will you only begin to grasp that price of food and what it cost just to survive day by day in this country is what really "paying your own way" is really about.

Seriously, you have no clue. And what's sad is that you never will. You can hardly think for yourself, much less speak for yourself. Politely fuck off back to your "sources" (i.e., your right-wing forum boards) and copy & paste your useless propaganda there.

[knuckleboner]

Common-Sense Troop Funding Bill Deserves Bipartisan, Bicameral Support
Posted by Don Seymour on April 07, 2011

This troop funding bill will give them another week to offer a credible plan that shows Washington is serious about addressing its spending addiction.

haha. in no way is this a common sense troop funding bill. it is very clearly a bill the republicans do not want to see passed. this is a PR exercise only. they designed it not to pass by including a COMPLETELY unrelated rider about abortion in D.C. it has nothing to do with cutting spending or funding the military. it's sole purpose is to get democrats, especially those in the senate, to vote against the bill so that republicans can self-righteously claim that they don't want to shut the government down, but the democrats voted to do so, and voted against the military.

i will not claim that in the many months of FY2011 funding that the democrats are blameless. but this particular bill the republicans put forward is nothing more than a politcal posturing and intentional waste of time.

[Seshmeister]

You're an idiot if you believe that...

I always prefer when people post 'your an idiot' it's the irony that keeps giving after all these years.

As far as the motives for the crap healthcare bill I am pretty sure it did start out as 'a way to to make health care affordable so everyone could get health insurance'.

Owned and effectively corrupt politicians from both parties turned it into what it is now...

[ELVIS]

So it's the honest politicians that want to give everyone sick insurance ??

Listen closely...

Big Brother doesn't give a FUCK about you or me...

They do not care how much sick insurance costs...

They don't care how much gas costs...

They don't care if you have a job...

They don't give a FUCK! AT ALL!!!

[Seshmeister]

There is no Big Brother. There are a collection of 100s of thousands of individuals who work for the government all with their own agendas most of which involve clinging onto their jobs so that they can feed and clothe their families.

[ELVIS]

Bullshit...

[BigBadBrian]

Your stupidity never ceases to amaze me, Forrest.

I'm self employed and I pay double the taxes because of it and now you're telling me that having health insurance is the cost of doing business

Yes it is. pay for your own healthcare, you freeloader. Hey you might have to go mow a few more lawns with your "groundskeeping service," but that's life.

Bullshit......you got a link or some actual source [other than a talk show or Op-Ed piece] for this dumb ass statement

Go look it up, Lazy (laziness is also probably why you want others to pay your healthcare bill). I found it online. Get to it, boy!

[BigBadBrian]

i will not claim that in the many months of FY2011 funding that the democrats are blameless. but this particular bill the republicans put forward is nothing more than a politcal posturing and intentional waste of time.

True. Like the Dems don't pull the same shit. Hey, if the dems want our military to be paid, all they have to do is sacrifice a few abortions in DC. That's not too much to ask, is it?

[BigBadBrian]

[Kristy]

True. Like the Dems don't pull the same shit. Hey, if the dems want our military to be paid, all they have to do is sacrifice a few abortions in DC. That's not too much to ask, is it?

It is when it came to time sacrifice for you. Shithead.

[Seshmeister]

Bullshit...

Are you sure you are clean and sober these days, you seem to have a real dose of paranoia?

[Hardrock69]

Funny.....I saw an idiot Retardlican on the Senate Floor today claiming that 90% of all abortions provided by Planned Parenthood would be cut off by passing the Retardlican budget package.

Funny thing is, there are NO abortions funded by Federal dollars whatsoever.

CNN had the head of Planned Parenthood on immediately following the speech by that Retardlican troll.


Amazing.....a Retardlican caught IMMEDIATELY in a FUCKING LIE! ON NATION TV no less!

Who woulda thought?

[hambon4lif]

There are a collection of 100s of thousands of individuals who work for the government all with their own agendas most of which involve clinging onto their jobs so that they can feed and clothe their families.

Which will be right next to impossible once the shutdown happens. A few people my gal runs with have government jobs, and they've all been receiving e-mails for the last week or so warning them they may be furloughed. Not only will they have no job to go to, they won't be making a fucking cent either. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.

It's going to be interesting to see how the government gets away with leaving 800,000+ people to twist in the wind.

[Guitar Shark]

Well, they will almost certainly get paid retroactively, but that's little consolation to the folks that live paycheck to paycheck of course.

[ELVIS]

Are you sure you are clean and sober these days, you seem to have a real dose of paranoia?

Paranoid of what ??

I just don't want government deciding what's best for me...at all...

[BigBadBrian]

Funny.....I saw an idiot Retardlican on the Senate Floor today claiming that 90% of all abortions provided by Planned Parenthood would be cut off by passing the Retardlican budget package.

Funny thing is, there are NO abortions funded by Federal dollars whatsoever.

BULLSHIT...more liberal lies. Federal dollars help fund Planned Parenthood and they are the nation's leading abortion provider. Federal money shouldn't fund this.

[BigBadBrian]

KEY FACTS: Bipartisan Agreement on Spending Cuts to Support American Job Creation
Posted by Speaker Boehner Press Office on April 08, 2011

Just a short while ago, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced a bipartisan agreement on historic spending cuts – the largest cuts in American history – to help create a better environment for private sector job growth. Watch Boehner’s announcement here:





You can read the joint statement by Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) here. Boehner said the agreement will “cut spending and keep our government open� – this agreement alone will cut hundreds of billions of dollars in spending over the next decade – and will “help create a better environment for job creators in our country.� Here are some key facts on the bipartisan agreement:

THE LARGEST SPENDING CUT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. The agreement will immediately cut $38.5 billion in federal spending – the largest spending cut in American history in terms of dollars – just months after President Obama asked Congress for a spending “freeze� that would mean zero cuts.

HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN SPENDING CUTS OVER THE NEXT DECADE. The agreement will cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the federal budget over the next decade – “real money,� as the Wall Street Journal editorial board recently noted.

OFFICIALLY ENDS THE “STIMULUS� SPENDING BINGE. The agreement begins to reverse the “stimulus� spending binge that began in 2009 – signaling the official end of a period of unprecedented government intervention that former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and other economists say hurt job creation in America by crowding out private investment.

SETS STAGE FOR TRILLIONS MORE IN SPENDING CUTS. Clears the way for congressional action on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget – The Path to Prosperity – which cuts trillions in spending and offers a long-term blueprint for American job creation.

GUARANTEES SENATE VOTE ON REPEAL OF OBAMACARE. The agreement reached with Senate Democrats guarantees a Senate debate and vote on legislation that would repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care in its entirety. The House passed such legislation in January as part of the Pledge to America.

NEW TOOLS IN THE FIGHT TO REPEAL OBAMACARE. The agreement will generate new tools for the fight to repeal Obamacare by requiring numerous studies that will force the Obama Administration to reveal the true impact of the law’s mandates, including a study of how individuals and families will see increased premiums as a result of certain Obamacare mandates; a full audit of all the waivers that the Obama Administration has given to firms and organizations – including unions - who can't meet the new annual coverage limits; a full audit of what's happening with the comparative effectiveness research funding that was in Obamacare and the president’s failed “stimulus� spending bill; and a report on all of the contractors who have been hired to implement the law and the costs to taxpayers of such contracts.

DENIES ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO THE IRS. The Obama administration has sought increased federal funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – money that could be used to hire additional agents to enforce the administration’s agenda on a variety of issues. This increased funding is denied in the agreement.

GUARANTEES SENATE VOTE & DEBATE ON DE-FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD. The agreement with Senate Democrats guarantees a Senate debate and vote on legislation that would end federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

BANS TAXPAYER FUNDING OF ABORTION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The agreement includes a complete ban on local and federal funding of abortion in the District of Columbia, applying the pro-life principles of the Hyde Amendment (“D.C. Hyde�).

MANDATORY AUDITS OF THE NEW JOB-CRUSHING BUREAUCRACY SET UP UNDER DODD-FRANK. The agreement subjects the so-called Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the job-destroying Dodd-Frank law to yearly audits by both the private sector and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to monitor its impact on the economy, including its impact on jobs, by examining whether sound cost-benefit analyses are being used with rulemakings.

[FORD]

BULLSHIT...more liberal lies. Federal dollars help fund Planned Parenthood and they are the nation's leading abortion provider. Federal money shouldn't fund this.

You mean the same Planned Parenthood that was founded by Prescott Bush and a few of his friends?

[BigBadBrian]

You mean the same Planned Parenthood that was founded by Prescott Bush and a few of his friends?

Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, didn't offer abortions when first founded.

Federal money should not be used to fund abortions.

By claiming conservatives want to hurt women's healthcare by defunding PP, the Democrat's are truly The Party of Fear and Ignorance.

[Seshmeister]

[ELVIS]

That twit is supposed to be an american ??

[hideyoursheep]

That twit is supposed to be an american ??

We say the same thing about you. Ironic, eh?

How about we also do away with welfare, food stamps, and 99 weeks of unemployment compensation?

Why should I pay someones healthcare bill?

How much do YOU pay for YOUR healthcare, Brian? Hmm?

Worried about someones foodstamps? LMAO. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the well over 700 BILLION those corporate goons recieved in one lump sum to bail their asses out after CREATING an economic catastrophe. You know, those "self-made" conservative Wall Street thugs that you worship.

Sorry, Gump- that's welfare.

You are fucking DUMB, and I wouldn't let you NEAR a fucking checkbook.

[BigBadBrian]

We say the same thing about you. Ironic, eh?



How much do YOU pay for YOUR healthcare, Brian? Hmm?

Worried about someones foodstamps? LMAO. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the well over 700 BILLION those corporate goons recieved in one lump sum to bail their asses out after CREATING an economic catastrophe. You know, those "self-made" conservative Wall Street thugs that you worship.

Sorry, Gump- that's welfare.

You are fucking DUMB, and I wouldn't let you NEAR a fucking checkbook.

I don't believe you read the GOP Plan, did you Mr Shortbus?
You know, the part about ending corporate welfare done by both parties?
And yeah, I pay for my own healthcare. How about you? Or are you another private contractor that can't afford it? Hmm?

[knuckleboner]

Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, didn't offer abortions when first founded.

Federal money should not be used to fund abortions.

By claiming conservatives want to hurt women's healthcare by defunding PP, the Democrat's are truly The Party of Fear and Ignorance.

technically, federal dollars are NOT used for abortions. federal law prohibits that already. planned parenthood also fundraises, and the entire amount of funds they use on abortions comes from their private fundraising.

[BigBadBrian]

technically, federal dollars are NOT used for abortions. federal law prohibits that already. planned parenthood also fundraises, and the entire amount of funds they use on abortions comes from their private fundraising.

Technically that's correct, and a typical liberal talking point, but you don't actually believe that, do you?

PP doesn't actually seperate its funding into different categories of what they use it for. If PP gets rid of ALL abortion services then there is no debate and then EVERYONE would be for the program. Also, why doesn't PP provide services for males in this modern age?

[Seshmeister]

Abortion lowers crime significantly.

It's in everyone's interest to pay for it.

[Seshmeister]

That twit is supposed to be an american ??

The best stand up out there.

[BigBadBrian]

Abortion lowers crime significantly.

It's in everyone's interest to pay for it.

No.

Here in the States most people are personally against it on moral grounds. Even most liberals are. Saying we should fund it so blacks and other inner city dwellers won't procreate and cause trouble is ridiculous. That IS what you're saying, right Sesh?

[Seshmeister]

I'm saying that people who don't want a kid rarely make great parents and those kids will be stealing your car in 16 years time.

Fuck those who impose their 'morals' on other people, they should look to themselves first.