The New Party of “No”
Kathryn Nix /
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) recently introduced the “Roadmap for America’s Future”, a plan to reduce federal spending, pay off the national debt, and ensure future American prosperity. The Roadmap would create long-term fiscal solvency in the three federal entitlement programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—which otherwise promise to drive the nation into bankruptcy. Rep. Ryan’s legislation is currently the only comprehensive proposal to reverse the federal government’s budgetary woes.
The only acknowledgment Democrats have offered of Rep. Ryan’s proposal has been largely criticism. Alternative solutions heard from the left amount to little more than a weak executive-appointed committee to explore budget reform. This implies a preference to maintain the status quo rather than truly address America’s fiscal future, and will result in nothing short of prolonged change and protection of unsustainable federal spending. (more…)