Last night, newly ensconced Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan sat down for his first solo interview with Fox News’ Brit Hume and let slip an admission about Mitt Romney’s budget plan — an admission that’s receiving surprisingly little press attention. Asked by Hume when the Romney plan would balance the budget, Ryan said he didn’t know because “we haven’t run the numbers on that specific plan.”
Here’s video of Paul Ryan explaining that he doesn’t know when Mitt Romney’s budget plan would actually balance the budget.
I’m absolutely dumbstruck that vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan doesn’t know when Mitt Romney’s budget plan would balance our nation’s budget because “they haven’t run the numbers.” Shouldn’t that be the kind of information presidential candidates share with their running mates so that they can actually form a coherent message?
JACKPOT!!!
It’s quite clear that Romney and Ryan don’t know what they’re talking about!
Silly. The facts aren’t relevant. What matters is the message. If people are willing to buy it, sell it. If you repeat something often enough, the public will believe it’s true, no matter how crazy. Why, look at our social issues! Who doesn’t accept that the richest are suffering under the burden of heavy taxation while the poor are living in lazy luxury? It defies all logic, contradicts everything that we can see for ourselves, but we believe it.
Ed Gillespie, Romney’s senior advisor, doesn’t know either when queried on that very question by Wolf Blitzer just this week.
Romney and Ryan don’t have budgets – neither of their plans are complete, neither “plan” can be adequately scored or analyzed. The best that can be done is extrapolate from the knowns. Fortunately, the magic of math is that one can extrapolate the unknown from the known. Every independent analysis of both “plans” indicate the same thing – eliminating tax revenue to the extent that both suggest will lead to ballooning deficits. Cutting spending to “balance” the budget doesn’t resolve the economic realities of demand. It worsens the drag.
To call Romney’s and Ryan’s plans irresponsible is too gentle. Both are well aware that their plans do not benefit the majority of people nor establish economic conditions that benefit the majority of people. Their “plans” are designed for the private good of an elite few at the expense of the public good; in short, at the expense of American society at large.
Don’t worry, Pau-LIE and the Kochs will cook up the numbers within a week. Pay not attention to all the asterisks and assumptions of 2% unemployment.
You know, just like how Walker and the DWD come up with their unverified jobs numbers right before the official BLS ones show another month of job losses. Kinda like that. And our gutless media just let them throw these lies out there without challenge.
Jake Formerly of the LP,
Agreed. They may throw in some obfuscating numbers in time, but I think one important matter to consider is both have stated that neither will give details of their “plans” until after they are elected. Romney, incredibly enough, has stated without equivocation that the details of his plan would be unpopular with voters so he won’t release details. Ryan, on the other hand, has been a little more squirmy by deferring to Congress, claiming Congress is the best place to scrap out the necessary cuts to accommodate his Big Oil Subsidies and Big Wealth tax breaks. Either way, their proposals are incomplete in that ideology is expressed, but with nothing concrete to justify how that ideology can be applied to the real world.
The outrage is the two of them are confirmed liars. They both have enough gaffes between them to conclude they are well aware that adherence to their fraudulent economic ideology is the zenith of hypocritical duplicity. Really, the level of guile they both exhibit is incomprehensible. I would like to see, I would like the public to see a complete package released by these two grifters – it is the only way for voters to decide. The president has released a comprehensive plan, despite how much Ryan, Romney and Conservative propagandists try to hammer home the idea that he hasn’t – he has. Without a complete plan from Ryan or Romney there is no way for the public to engage in adequate conversation to debate the merits of each.
What no budget plan, and they want to run our country? and Mr. Romney doesen’t know how much $ he has. Just the fact that he wants to keep it covert speaks volumens. Belive it? Than I have a bridge for you.
Do you know the location of that bridge?
“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason