{"id":9267,"date":"2011-04-13T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2011-04-15T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:03:31","slug":"quick-side-by-side-of-ryan-obama-budget-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9267\/quick-side-by-side-of-ryan-obama-budget-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Side-by-Side of Ryan &#038; Obama Budget Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that President Barack Obama has formally responded to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xwv5EbxXSmE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Path to Prosperity<\/em><\/a>, the <em>New York Times<\/em> offers a helpful (if very brief) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/04\/13\/us\/politics\/comparing-republican-and-obama-budget-plans.html\" target=\"_blank\">side-by-side comparison<\/a> of the two.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the differences can be seen in the two sides\u2019 cuts to domestic discretionary spending.\u00a0 Ryan\u2019s plan cuts $1.6 <em>trillion<\/em> over ten years.\u00a0 Obama would cut $600 <em>billion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t say next year\u2019s elections won\u2019t offer a choice of visions\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:\u00a0 <\/strong>For a more detailed side-by-side comparison, care of the House Budget Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/budget.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/ContrastInBudgets.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that President Barack Obama has formally responded to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan\u2019s Path to Prosperity, the New York Times offers a helpful (if very brief) side-by-side comparison of the two. In a nutshell, the differences can be seen in the two sides\u2019 cuts to domestic discretionary spending.\u00a0 Ryan\u2019s plan cuts $1.6 trillion over [&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":[143,70,59,802],"class_list":["post-9267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267","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=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}