RW Columnist P. McIlheran writes about "Paul Ryan's plan to save Medicare"

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/119507729.html

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As soon as Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to save Medicare came out, the Congressional Budget Office said it could result in old people spending a lot more out of pocket.

Or maybe not, said the CBO, but critics ignored the second possibility and touted the first as signaling that the congressman from Janesville must hate old people. One wonders: How do these critics use staircases, since they surely doubt that gravity will go on working?

Ryan, the Republican who heads the House Budget Committee, talked of Medicare as part of his bigger plan to stave off national fiscal ruin. He maps out taxes and debt and corn subsidies, but most admirably, he deals with the entitlement programs that make up 60% of federal spending - especially Medicare, the ever rising cost of which will smother us all as the baby boom retires.

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1. They always call it the opposite of what it is.