Eye Recommend --- The Worst of Paul Ryan's Budgets

THE WORST OF PAUL RYAN'S BUDGETS, New York Times editorial -- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/opinion/the-worst-of-paul-ryans-budgets.html?ref=todayspaper

"All the tired ideas from 2011 and 2012 are back:  eliminating Medicare's guarantee to retirees by turning it into a voucher plan; dispensing with Medicaid and food stamps by turning them into block grants for states to cut freely; repealing most of the reforms to health care and Wall Street, shrinking beyond recognition the federal role in education, job training, transportation and scientific and medical research.  The public opinion of these callous proposals was made clear in the fall election, but Mr. Ryan is too ideologically fervid to have learned that lesson...

...And in its laziest section, it sets a goal of slashing the top tax rate for the rich to 25 percent from 39.6 percent, though naturally Mr. Ryan doesn't explain how this could happen without raising taxes on middle- and lower-income people.  (Sound familiar)?"

Yes, sadly, it does sound familiar.  What Mr. Ryan has done with this "new" budget, is show just how deaf to the desires of the people he and his party are.  The country voted "No" on these points in November, choosing instead a President who promised to look for ways to more evenly share the sacrifices that must be made if the U.S. is going to continue to move forward out of recession.  

Perpetually re-introducing the same ideas may be a badge of honor to conservative policy wonks; but the people who soundly rejected these ideas in November--and those people are clearly in the majority--have to wonder when, if ever, these Republican slow-learners will catch up to the rest of us.