Billy Long Doesn't Plan On Cutting the Federal Deficit Until 2040

Our puppet in Washington once again did what he was told without questioning much. Ten Republicans voted against it noting the cuts in the Ryan budget didn't go deep enough. One of those Republicans wasn't Billy Long. Billy Long voted to pass the Paul Ryan budget.

Now on the surface Paul Ryan's budget sounds great until you start doing the math. We know Billy Long isn't very good at doing math. The budget cuts in the Ryan plan total $5 trillion dollars, but that's over ten years which means all they have really done is cut $500 billion per year. When you are talking $16 trillion in debt, those ten Republicans that voted against it demanding bigger cuts were on the right side of the argument. Of course this is a little better than where we have been.

Conservative radio host Mike Church talked about how little the Ryan budget really does. He noted on his conservative Sirius Patriot radio show real deficit reduction won't come from the Paul Ryan budget plan until 2040, and by then there will be plenty of other Congresses that have long forgotten this bill and voted in other budgets.

As well American Vision also reported:

American Vision reports:

All told, Ryan proposes to slash federal spending by $5.3 trillion over the next decade compared with President Obama’s latest budget blueprint, with the biggest savings taken from health programs — including the repeal of Obama’s initiative to expand health coverage to the uninsured — and entitlements for the poor. . . .

But don’t be fooled by the big numbers. While an improvement over Obama’s, the Ryan plan does not propose to eliminate deficits until 2040—28 years of more deficit spending! And the big $5.3 trillion number—that’s spread out over a decade. Deficits, in other words, will still reign:

The national debt would continue to rise. . . .

So obviously Billy Long, who voted for the $2.4 trillion deficit ceiling increase late last year isn't nearly fed up enough of federal deficits.

Republicans voting against the Ryan budget were Reps. Justin Amash (Mich.), Joe Barton (Texas), John Duncan Jr. (Tenn.), Chris Gibson (N.Y.), Tim Huelskamp (Kan.), Walter Jones (N.C.), David McKinley (W.Va.), Todd Platts (Pa.), Denny Rehberg (Mont.) and Ed Whitfield (Ky.).