With all of America waiting to see if the teabaggers in Congress are really willing to shut down the Government in order to blackmail the the rest of the country, Ryan told us about the GOP plan on CBS' Early show, this morning His claim was that the GOP budget proposal, lowering corporate taxes even further, would have America operating in the pink Can America survive this kind of a practical joke like this?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/05/earlyshow/main20050754.shtml

Today, we will get Paul Ryan's full budget proposal. Reportedly, its primary feature will be to kill Medicare and Medicaid and turn all that over to the private insurers. Can't wait to see how that works out.

thats the exact opposite of what i read yesterday...i haven't heard anything like what your saying here

It seems like all the Republicans want to do is keep cutting taxes for wealthy Americans and corporations then complain about deficits.

Its class war and if you point it out your a communist. We are just supposed to take it like good americans.

Yes, the exact opposite is what we've come to expect from right-wing think tanks and pundits.

seems like its the liberals that are fighting everything... they argue and try to stop it, and don't put anything on the table themselves... what a bunch of losers...

where is the liberals budget plan?

This might help.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/senate-democrats-release-government-funding-proposal-votes-likely-next-week/

6.5 trillion, not bad, but no details whatsoever...

Yes, but the same is true of the Republican budget proposal. I expect that we will be hearing all the details over the net few days. Reportedly, the republican will be going first, today.

The Republicans have a proposal for a continuing resolution to keep from shutting down the Government. they will vote for the resolution as long a Democrats vote to fully fund the Pentagon through Sept 30. This would completely scuttle Democratic plans to make cuts in the Defense budget. http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/republicans-prepare-short-term-continuing-resolution/

And we see how well the democrats do dealing with the budget. Oh that's right they haven't even got around to making one for the budget cycle we are in right now. Pathetic!!!

you sure are coming up with whats the Republicans are doing, where is the Democrats proposals? the republicans are putting their cards on the table... Democraps are just stalling, so they can tear apart the republicans ideas... this country is going to hell with these two groups

Yes, I am. Why don't you tackle the Democratic side? I gave you a good place to start above.

Nice try..

This drivel is simply for the rest of this fiscal year.

We are here because the leftists didn't have the balls to produce a budget before the election..

6.5 billion in cuts... whoaaaaaaaaaa.. Im so fning impressed..

no, you gave me nothing... there is no news on what the democraps are doing, because they are to busy crying about the republicans, like you are... if they were doing something, you would have already posted it by now...but since you haven't, there is nothing to post...

This country is having a severe crisis of cognitive ability for example: What does it mean to ANYONE to read the words "create new jobs" on anything congressional?

OH YEA MAN - the repubs, man, they gonna create a million new jobs, while those liberals are crying about defunding planned parenthood and lowering corporate taxes.

While that alone is cause for intellectual concern, there is still more that comes from the mouths of those who seem to be intellectually challenged at the moment.

OH YEA MAN - we have to give those big corporation incentives to stay here in the U.S. and provide more jobs. So we have to lower taxes man - those liberals don't get how the free market works...

So here's the big queston folks - what kind of jobs are we talking about here?

Second question - has anyone considered the possibility that the government knows exactly what's going to happen?

Bestinshow brought up the topic of class. It's a good subject but I doubt that few on these forums or in the general population have any clue how class is defined today or even what it means in today's economy.

We are not stuggling alone in this economic storm - the world, with precious few exceptions, are with us.

When all the Federal entitlements cease or are stripped to bare budgets (of personal agenda), the bureaucracy will shrink (more people out of work & fewer people receiving benefits) equates to less consumerism.

Less consumerism equates to those Major Corporations closing up unprofitable areas of business – more people out of work, less consumerism.

The pattern does not stop, but all the while those few who are at the top of the class chain will still be at the top and those (in government) who have been of most use to that corporate class will be required to keep the people placid and country all together as mass unrest becomes eminent.

As I said – this is not a U.S. problem – this is world economic crisis. Day by day the poor become poorer and their options become fewer and fewer and their apathy becomes a mindset. WE THE PEOPLE are the majority, but poverty, denial, misinformation, fear, and EGO are preventing WE THE PEOPLE from acting for our own good – the good of the many who are the people and not just the consumers of debt that keep the money, and the power, in the hands of the Corporate class.

We are currently being primed to become the wage slaves that once drove this country to unions. Wisconson, Ohio and others are leading by example - break the chain, lower pay and benefits, and at some point the current minimum wage will be a commodity many will sell their labor for, regardless the demands placed upon that work force.

Education - do you realize that in this country those with a four year degree are few - do you realize how few there will be when getting a position that would pay for that education is a matter of who you know?

EGO is the first thing that needs to go - it seems to be preventing higher cognitive functions.

The one thing i will congratulate barry for... he did increase funding so it is easier to get government backed student loans, with a lower interest rate... i think mine is at 4.5% right now, and is offering them to any that wants them....

way to go barry, the one good thing so far!!!