House passes Paul Ryan's budget
Source: USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The House approved along party lines a budget plan that would reach balance in 10 years by cutting taxes, repealing President Obama's health care law and cutting social programs in favor of the national defense.
"What this budget comes down to is a matter of trust," said House Budget Committee Paul Ryan, who authored the budget. Republicans put their trust in individual Americans while Democrats put more trust in government, he said. "Who knows better: the people or Washington? We have made our choice with this budget."
The conservative fiscal blueprint is the final resolution authored by Ryan, who is term-limited as Budget chairman. Like all of his previous efforts, it was approved on a party line vote, 219-205. Twelve Republicans voted against it, as did all House Democrats. The Democratic-controlled Senate has no plans to pass a budget plan.
Ryan's budgets have never stood a fighting chance at becoming law. However, they have served as the defining fiscal vision of how the Republican Party would govern.
Few aspects of this budget has received more attention than Ryan's call to fundamentally alter the Medicare system.
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Complete division along party lines.
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Caused by individual Americans.
You know the old Republican slam that Democrats think government can spend your money better than you can? Well, the government can. I don't want to build a road in front of Republican headquarters or to my competitor's plant. I can't afford to buy an aircraft carrier. And there's a bunch of necessary things I don't even know about. But I can pay taxes, and my money can be used to help buy those things. None of us by ourselves can do what all of us can do together.
219-205 and twelve Republicans voted against it, as did all House Democrats.
We are united against the Ryan/Ayn Rand austerity budget. 
