Ryan: 'I don't see us tackling' entitlement reform this year

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 01/12/18 01:02 PM EST

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) acknowledged Friday that entitlement reform isn't likely to happen in 2018.

"I don't see us tackling it this year," Ryan said at an event in Wisconsin. "You're going to have to find bipartisan consensus to fix these thorny, long-term problems, and we don't have that right now."

Ryan appears to be backing down for previous he statements he's made about turning to entitlement reform in 2018.

"We're going to have to back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and deficit," Ryan said in an interview in December.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/368740-ryan-i-dont-see-us-tackling-entitlement-reform-this-year

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[Raster]

1. and guess what, Lyin' Ryan*?

This may be your last year in Congress... Your "I am a policy wonk" pseudo-intellectual charade may be coming to an end.

#RyanAsshole

[bearsfootball516]

2. He's scared of voter backlash

It's midterms this year and with a blue wave coming, the last thing he wants is to make it even bigger.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. So Ryan is reading the tea leaves

and they are telling him,he screwed up royally. And his Congressional Career is about to end.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Must be an election year. Heh.

[louis-t]

5. He's afraid to do it in election year and

DEBT AND DEFICIT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE YOU ASSHOLE SO STOP SAYING THAT!!!1!!!!!1!

There, I feel better.

[SHRED]

6. This year or any year

A blue wave is coming.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. If you have EARNED an entitlement, why should it be taken away, you asswipe? nt

[niyad]

18. they are benefits, something that lyin' ryan and company think are only for them.

[pangaia]

8. It ain't reform you are after, Shithole. It is fucking with human beings.

And sooner or later, when you fuck with human beings, they stop taking the shit any more.

[niyad]

19. what is a person called who enjoys watching, indeed creating, suffering? oh, yeah, ryan,

pukes, sadists, murderers. . . .

is there any moral difference between the pukes and those who participated in the Holocaust?

[pangaia]

21. Very, very good point. about the Holocaust...

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Right! Now that they've created the deficit and the polls are blowing hard against them

it is best for them to pass on the problem to the next Congress and the Democrats!

That will minimize the damage and ensure a shorter opposition role

[pbmus]

10. Ryan is on the Trump train and its going down...

v

[Kristofer Bry]

11. No, Paul, but I Can See a Lot of Voters Tackling You!

Think of it as the unfriendly version of the Lambeau Leap.

[cstanleytech]

12. When he or other Repugnants say something like that I keep a careful eye out for the knives

that they probably are holding ready to stab a lot of people in the back with.

[niyad]

17. that was my first thought. I do not, and never will, trust that hateful asshole.

[strangedaysindeed]

13. Everything he says is wrong

They are not entitlements, they are earned benefits.

The Repugs have been using the debt and deficit as an excuse for robbing the common wealth for decades.

He's only suggesting they'll take a break in 2018 because it's an election year.

We have one chance to throw the buggers out.

[withoutapaddle]

14. too late

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141959846

[lark]

15. Don't believe him for 1 second,

He's just waiting for the deficits to skyrocket, caused by his cherished tax cuts for the rich, and then he'll say this isn't what we want to do but it's necessary, so what choice do we have? Our rich people have sucked up all the money so now we have to steal our workers' SS savings and greatly reduce spending on Medicare and Medicaid. Oh, that growing the economy thing through tax cuts, well, we're still waiting for the jobs and wages, which will come (wink, wink) but have to juice the economy by stealing SS $$ first.

OK, he won't use those exact words, but that's exactly what the RW wants and have planned to do this for decades and you know Ryan will do everything humanly possible to steal all working class $$ and benefits.

[dalton99a]

16. Yep, he already lit that time bomb

[Marie Marie]

20. Gee, I wonder why?

What could it be, what could it be? Hmmmm. (Do I need that sarcasm thingy?)

[AZ8theist]

22. the solution is an easy four words...

"RAISE YOUR FUCKING TAXES" you hypocritical lying shithole.....

[hibbing]

23. It's not "reform"

I wish the media would call it what is is, cuts instead of reform. The Iron Stache is coming after him hard, I would rejoice if this evil jackwad got voted out.


Peace

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Translation: We don't want to lose the mid terms n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

25. I thought repairing and building infrastructure was one of tRump's speaking points

He didn't talk about entitlement (actually "earned benefits&quot reform, other than to tell his Red Hats that they didn't have to worry about changes to Social Security or Medicare. He didn't lie to us, did he? Donnie Two Scoops would never lie, believe me!

[Motley13]

26. Guess not, he would lose & hopefully will anyway

his opponent is even in the polls

[procon]

27. Why? Would that look a tad too racist to pull off now? nt

[bunny planet]

28. not entitlements

EARNED BENEFITS - not entitlements Eddie Munster

[Vinca]

29. Well, poor Paul. He won't have the joy of starving Grandma this year.

[riversedge]

30. midtems are scarying the Repugs!