Paul Ryan: Romney administration would undo defense sequester ‘retroactively’

[maddezmom]

Source: WaPo

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Paul Ryan said Thursday that if Congress fails to pass legislation averting $500 billion in automatic defense cuts set to take effect in January, a Romney-Ryan administration would work to undo those cuts “retroactively.”

The statement by the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee marks the first time that the GOP White House ticket has floated the idea of fast-tracking Republican-authored legislation that would replace the looming across-the-board defense cuts with trims elsewhere in the federal budget.

“I don’t want to get too technical, but in January our intention is, if we don’t fix it in the lame duck, is to fix it retroactively once a new session of Congress takes place,” Ryan said in response to a question posed at a roundtable discussion at a defense-related nonprofit organization not far from Fort Bragg.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paul-ryan-appears-caught-off-guard-by-question-on-gen-dempsey-remarks/2012/08/23/f2c3466c-ed39-11e1-b09d-07d971dee30a_story.html

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poor choice of words, imo.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Cuz Mitt knows from retroactive

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Just another tax and borrow Conservative....

willing to get China to loan us money to pay for the further unnecessary expansion of our military.

Color me "not surprised."

Fiscal hawk my old ass.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Down goes the dollar, up goes gold

i don't think Ryan understands anything except his own ego

[Panasonic]

6. As a gold buyer, I am appreciating Ryan now...

Thanks to his fat ass, gold went up $35, with more on the way up.

Ebay is suddenly undervalued and we're making deals like crazy.

Gold is at $1670 per troy ounce (31.1 grams) folks...

[beac]

4. “I don’t want to get too technical,..."

is Ryan code for "I am talking out my ass and we have no plans or ideas nor the ability to come up with either."

[maddezmom]

7. surprised he didn't use "wonky" again

[Panasonic]

5. Then you will also have to retroactively restore the other 500 million, dumbass..

This is more fodder for Rolls Royce, and more reason why Republicans should be dumped, heavily, and ordered institutionalized until they find a cure for batshittery.

[SoapBox]

8. Looks like Etch-a-Sketch Mittens and Coupon Care Paul,

gots them a lot of "retroactive" undo'n to be do'n, if they get in.

Of course, you will NEVER get into office.

[FreeBC]

9. Republicans just spend, spend, spend.

How does this affect the deficit?

[Doc Holliday]

10. What is it

with all this "retroactive" horseshit??

Do these guys think they own a WayBack Machine© or something?

[wordpix]

11. keep talking, Ryan, and our new Congress will have a D majority

[Blue Idaho]

12. All they have to do is convince congress to blow up the national debt.

I'm sure the Teabaggers will be happy to help them explode the debt.

[Marie Marie]

13. Wow. This whole retroactive thing sure is coming in handy for Twit and Apauling.

[starroute]

14. I think they want to just move it over to the domestic side

Do $1 trillion in cuts to domestic discretionary spending over the next ten years.

In 2010, domestic spending amounted to $537 billion. So if they want to cut that by $100 billion a year, that's about 19% across the board. Including Homeland Security and the State Department. Including hurricane prediction and disaster relief and disease control and food safety. And education and infrastructure.

Everything.

Should we demand to know where they plan for the cuts to fall?