SHE WON'T GO!
As we’ve explained many times here at B&P, Rand Paul was able to win the Republican nomination in 2010 partly by promising voters that he would never ever ever vote for a budget that was not balanced. He ridiculed Trey Grayson for saying that this was not practical and that a multi-year plan could be feasible. Paul scoffed: “those who would propose a ten year plan to balance the budget might want to remember the Soviet agricultural five-year plans. Remember all of the balanced budget plans we’ve had over the last 30 years and that’s why we get nowhere… someone’s going to have to think outside the box and we’ll have the courage to stand up and say no”. Once Paul was sworn in, he promptly offered a three plus year plan to balance the budget.
And now? Welcome to Rand Paul’s five-year plan to balance the budget:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has ratcheted down his proposal to cut $500 billion from the federal budget for fiscal year 2011.Paul on Tuesday introduced an amendment on the Senate floor to cut $200 billion over the next six-and-a-half months.
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Paul has come down from the $500 billion in spending cuts he called for at the beginning of the year. That plan would have kept 85 percent of federal spending in place and would have not cut Social Security or Medicare, according to Paul’s office.
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An aide to Paul said the senator wanted to see if he could attract more support by offering different levels of cuts.
Yes, Rand Paul is another one of those compromising politicians saying one thing in order to get elected, then springing out a watered down version of the budget that simply borrows more money from China, as he once said. But don’t worry, he still left in all of the money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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