Beau Biden hits Romney on veterans spending

Beau Biden hits Romney on veterans spending
Romney campaign says Ryan budget plan would actually spend more on veterans.
By Scott Kraus, Of The Morning Call
August 23, 2012

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden on Wednesday lit into cuts he claimed Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan would be forced to make to veterans services in order to hit the deficit reduction targets in Ryan's 10-year budget plan.

Biden, an Iraq War veteran and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, appeared in Allentown with Mayor Ed Pawlowski and a handful of veterans in between stops in Philadelphia and Scranton aimed at dinging the Republican ticket on spending cuts contained in Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget plan.

"Paul Ryan's budget, if you believe what it says, would cut the [Veterans Administration] by $11 billion," Biden said. "How is that conscionable to do? At the same time, he is doubling down on the Bush tax cuts."

The campaign is basing the figure on the 19 percent across-the-board cut to "non-defense discretionary spending" it says would be needed over 10 years to reach the Ryan budget's target of $1 trillion in spending reductions — some $900 million of which have not been detailed — in order to reduce the deficit.
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readRyan's bill and know that this was the subject of widespread horror as soon as he put it in front of congress and most Republicans voted for it long before Romney picked him as his running mate.

This is what Michelle Bachmann wanted to do January 28, 2011

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Romney wants to sell it off an privatize it. How is it possible he "believes" in what he wants to do until someone asks him about it and then he denies it?