This week provides a stark contrast between a leader actually willing to risk political capital, versus a man who now seeks four more years of politics-as-usual.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, we have House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R – Wisconsin).\u00a0 Tomorrow, Congressman Ryan will unveil a federal budget proposal<\/a> that reduces spending by $4 trillion over the coming ten years, provides pro-growth tax reform and caps runaway federal spending.\u00a0 All without reducing Social Security benefits by a single penny for anyone already receiving them or over 55 years of age, along with Medicare reform that will save it from its catastrophic fate if nothing is done.\u00a0 Congressman Ryan knows full well that by offering budget leadership, Democrats will possess a “political weapon” to use against him, even if it means that “they will have to lie and demagogue<\/a>” to do so.\u00a0 But instead of shrinking, he has chosen leadership.<\/p>\n On the other hand, we have the President of the United States.\u00a0 The purported leader of the Free World.\u00a0 The most powerful man on Earth.\u00a0 The man who formed a blue-ribbon deficit commission, then proceeded to ignore it.\u00a0 Instead of making sure that a Congress dominated by his own party could even manage to pass a 2011 budget<\/a>, instead of offering decisive world statesmanship amid worldwide crises<\/a> and instead of providing leadership in averting a national debt catastrophe, Obama instead focused on unveiling his 2012 reelection campaign<\/a> this week.\u00a0 Instead of offering a plan, the AWOL Obama will apparently just sit back and attack Paul Ryan’s.<\/p>\n So there you have it.\u00a0 One man seeks to cut spending by $4 trillion, and the other man seeks to spend $1 billion getting himself reelected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week provides a stark contrast between a leader actually willing to risk political capital, versus a man who now seeks four more years of politics-as-usual. On the one hand, we have House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R – Wisconsin).\u00a0 Tomorrow, Congressman Ryan will unveil a federal budget proposal that reduces spending by $4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,143,70,84,40,81,59,562,19,465,24,802,61,179,71,28,18],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obama","tag-paul-ryan","tag-spending","tag-stimulus","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}