Ryan is NOT REALLY a 'deficit hawk'; Biden and Obama are more deficit hawkish

In the context of debate statements, Ryan wants us to believe he really IS a deficit hawk......except he is not now, and never has been. It is a lie.

 

In the debates, and in their campaign speeches, Mitts on R-money and 'Lyin' Ryan want voters to believe they are concerned about the national debt, and deficits.

They are not.

By cutting taxes, including for the wealthiest Americans, Romney and Ryan would increase the debt by decreasing revenue coming in to pay that debt.  There is NO evidence that this stimulates job creation.  Under Romney as governor of Massachusetts, his tax policies resulted in that state having worse job performance than the rest of the country, ending at 47th of 51 (DC being counted along with the states).  Further Romney plans to INCREASE military spending drastically, while cutting more urgent programs that would prepare our upcoming population to actually serve in our armed forces.  The military wants to see more emphasis on early childhood education spending, not spending on more aircraft carriers, double engines for the F-35 fuselages, or any of a number of other hardware items they keep trying to get canceled, but which Congress won't cut, because they bring spending to their districts.

Our military wants more spending on things like......Big Bird.  They want spending which includes recess during the school day as well. They want us to have a pool of available people for the military who are literate, who are math competent, and who are not on drugs, and who do not have a criminal record -----early childhood education results in more graduates with better skills and fewer people falling into drug use and crime.  More recess equates to people who are more fit, another serious problem.

Here is what they have done, which counts more than what they say, because we've seen Romney especially, but also Ryan lie at the drop of a hat, and change what they tell people, depending on what they think someone wants to hear.

 From Think Progress:

Analysis: Paul Ryan Voted to Add $6.8 Trillion to the Federal Debt

By Guest Blogger on Aug 17, 2012 at 2:10 pm

 Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan has gained an undeserved reputation as a “fiscal hawk,” touting his “Path to Prosperity” budget as a responsible plan to rein in what he describes as a “path to debt and decline.” But Ryan’s votes in Congress show that he is as guilty as anyone of running up the nation’s debt. A Center for American Progress Action Fund analysis shows that Ryan voted to add a grand total of $6.8 trillion to the federal debt during his time in Congress, voting for at least 65 bills that either reduced revenue or increased spending. From 2001 to 2008, Congress passed legislation that increased the national deficit by a total of $4 trillion — the number grows to $6 trillion if you add in the how much those policies have cost through 2011. Ryan voted for 90 percent of these deficit increasing bills. What did Ryan vote to spend on? Here is a break-down of his votes:

– Beginning with the Bush tax cuts, since 2001 Ryan has voted to add $2.5 trillion worth of tax cuts to the deficit. – In the last 11 years, Paul Ryan voted for every bill that called for an increase in defense spending. In total, this has added $1.9 trillion to the deficit. – Paul Ryan also voted to increase non-defense discretionary spending — the very thing he is pushing to cut now. He voted to spend $270 billion on Medicare Part D (all of which was unpaid for). He also added $80 billion to the deficit by voting for an agriculture bill in 2002, and he added another $20 billion in 2003 when he voted for changes to military retirement. Lastly, he voted for increased borrowing authority for flood insurance, adding yet another $17 billion to the deficit.

Plus, Ryan’s plan won’t really balance the budget — at least not for the foreseeable future. The Tax Policy Center calculates that under Ryan’s budget plan, the federal government would only raise revenue totaling 15.8 percent of GDP. This would still make the deficit 4 percent of GDP by 2022.