Tag Archives: Paul Ryan

GOP death-budget plan would slash Kentucky Medicaid payments by 32 percent

May 11, 2011 – 12:07 pm

Under the U.S. House GOP death-budget plan authored by Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., and Hal Rogers, R-Pork, Kentucky’s Medicaid system will shed almost 50 percent of its projected enrollment by 2021, and reduce federal funding by nearly 32 percent, leaving scores of impoverished Kentuckians without insurance and placing a greater burden on the state to [...]

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Yarmuth trounces GOP’s death-budget

April 5, 2011 – 3:48 pm

A major tip o’ the cap to Barefoot & Progressive for this footage of Louisville 3rd District Rep. John Yarmuth dispensing with the awesome. In today’s episode, Yarmuth chastises the Republican Party’s hideous “budget plan,” which amounts to an egregious heist of wealth from the 98 percent of Americans by the top two percent, who are currently [...]

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Hal Rogers’ death-budget goes under the microscope

February 7, 2011 – 4:37 pm

With a Republican-dominated House of Representatives, just how badly are the poor and middle-class gonna get shafted via the Congressional budget? According to the Economic Policy Institute, the answer is “shafted like fresh meat in an episode of Oz,” while only cutting four percent of the projected 2011 deficit and impeding economic recovery at the same time. [...]

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