Ryan Reveals Romney Plan To Replace Defense Spending Cuts With Food Stamp Cuts

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If Mitt Romney wins in November, he and a Republican Congress will fast track legislation early next year to replace across the board defense cuts with cuts to food stamps and other programs for needy Americans.

“In January our intention is that if we don’t fix it in the lame duck is to fix it retroactively once a new session of Congress takes place,” Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate, told a crowd in North Carolina Thursday, “We have procedural way in the Senate to advance that legislation very quickly and get it to the next President of the United States who I believe is going to be Mitt Romney, to pass that into law and retroactively prevent that sequester from taking place in January.”

Ryan was referring to legislation House Republicans passed earlier this year to avert sequestration — the penalty Congress imposed on itself, on a bipartisan basis, for not reaching an agreement on more targeted legislation to reduce the deficit.

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Ryan says if Romney wins they’ll advance the GOP’s plan and use the budget process to avoid a Democratic filibuster.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-reveals-romney-plan-to-replace-defense-spending-cuts-with-food-stamp-cuts-2012-8

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1. What really galls me is why doesn't anyone, besides me, bring up the fact that the Pentagon

"lost" close to 3 TRILLION dollars? LOST, as in "don't have a clue where it went". And the fact that that 8 BILLION dollars that was on those wooden pallets in Iraq were "pilfered" because it wasn't being watched closely. WTF How long does it take a soldier to realize "hey, looks like about a billion is gone". This, of course, was under Bush and no one, not even a Dem, said "hey, wait just a God damn minute here". Why isn't ANYONE on either side mentioning this? We should give them more billions???? I think not until an audit is done on them.