{"id":15481,"date":"2012-08-13T19:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T23:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15481"},"modified":"2012-08-13T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T23:50:35","slug":"with-ryan-obamacare-deficits-front-and-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15481\/with-ryan-obamacare-deficits-front-and-center\/","title":{"rendered":"With Ryan, ObamaCare Deficits Front and Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll add my voice of support to the chorus here, and say I think Paul Ryan is an inspired choice to be Mitt Romney\u2019s running mate.\u00a0 One of the benefits of selecting Ryan, is that Romney gives conservatives a chance to articulate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/313825\/obamacare-changed-everything-yuval-levin\" target=\"_blank\">dramatically different trend lines<\/a> between the parties when it comes to reforming Medicare.<\/p>\n<p>Under ObamaCare, $700 million is ripped out of an already teetering Medicare system to pay for new entitlements.\u00a0 By contrast, Ryan\u2019s reform grandfathers current seniors while converting Medicare into a voucher program for younger Americans.\u00a0 Whereas ObamaCare creates new spending commitments with the same pile of money \u2013 thus spiking deficits \u2013 Ryan\u2019s reform (and by extension, Romney\u2019s) caps Medicare\u2019s subsidy at a level that makes federal spending more sustainable over the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign just got serious.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to the next 12 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll add my voice of support to the chorus here, and say I think Paul Ryan is an inspired choice to be Mitt Romney\u2019s running mate.\u00a0 One of the benefits of selecting Ryan, is that Romney gives conservatives a chance to articulate the dramatically different trend lines between the parties when it comes to reforming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,235,160,35,802,61],"class_list":["post-15481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficit","tag-medicare","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obamacare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15485,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15481\/revisions\/15485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}