{"id":72,"date":"2010-09-19T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-01-05T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:35:17","slug":"ryans-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Ryan&#8217;s Roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Rep. Paul Ryan (R) presented a fiscal roadmap for Republicans that he claimed would cut the deficit in half by 2020.\u00c2\u00a0 At his request,\u00c2\u00a0 the CBO analyzed a version of the\u00c2\u00a0 plan and agreed that the version they were asked to analyze would indeed cut the deficit in half by 2020.\u00c2\u00a0 What Ryan (and Republicans in general) don&#8217;t say is that the plan the CBO was asked to analyze was only half of\u00c2\u00a0 Ryan&#8217;s roadmap &#8212; the half that comprised his\u00c2\u00a0 spending cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 When you include the other half &#8212; his tax cuts &#8212; the deficit in 2020 is as large as ever.\u00c2\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/06\/opinion\/06krugman.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/06\/how-to-read-a-cbo-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Republicans are not serious about deficit reduction &#8212; they just want us to think they are.<\/p>\n<p>Edit:\u00c2\u00a0 Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/08\/further-adventures-in-fake-deficit-hawkery\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Rep. Paul Ryan (R) presented a fiscal roadmap for Republicans that he claimed would cut the deficit in half by 2020.\u00c2\u00a0 At his request,\u00c2\u00a0 the CBO analyzed a version of the\u00c2\u00a0 plan and agreed that the version &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=72\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}