{"id":4058,"date":"2010-03-02T20:34:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T01:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:15:38","slug":"paul-ryan-is-a-politician-worthy-of-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4058\/paul-ryan-is-a-politician-worthy-of-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan is a Politician Whose Agenda is Worthy of Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/510-if-its-broke-fix-it-paul-ryans-plan-to-make-government-programs-sustainable \" target=\"_blank\">discussed previously by CFIF<\/a>, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) is getting some <a href=\"http:\/\/news.goldseek.com\/GoldSeek\/1267558631.php\" target=\"_blank\">much deserved attention<\/a> for his path breaking proposal, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Roadmap for America\u2019s Future<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 The Roadmap lays out a comprehensive vision for matching spending on federal entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security with tax receipts.\u00a0 In other words, it offers specifics on the GOP\u2019s long-stated aim to make government live within its means.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, proposing an elegant, tough-minded legislative solution in an election year doesn\u2019t win many co-sponsors.\u00a0 In Ryan\u2019s case, he\u2019s got 9.\u00a0 The folks at <em>Newsweek<\/em> noticed and are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/234362 \" target=\"_blank\">calling out Republicans<\/a> for their lack of agreement on a substantive way forward.\u00a0 Being a man of substance and conviction isn\u2019t easy in Washington, D.C., especially for a member of Congress.\u00a0 That Paul Ryan is willing to put his policies where his rhetoric is deserves not only a nod, but broad based conservative support as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed previously by CFIF, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) is getting some much deserved attention for his path breaking proposal, \u201cA Roadmap for America\u2019s Future.\u201d\u00a0 The Roadmap lays out a comprehensive vision for matching spending on federal entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security with tax receipts.\u00a0 In other words, it offers specifics on the [&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":[232,235,802,919,461],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-roadmap-for-americas-future","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}