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Here's a look at Paul Ryan's budget proposal via Bipartisan Policy Center.

How Paul Ryan's budget plan compares to that of President Obama and BPC's Debt Reduction Task Force

By Loren Adler and Shai Akabas

Below is the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) summary of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget. All of the information about the budget proposal is taken directly from either The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal or the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Long-Term Budgetary Impact of Paths for Federal Revenues and Spending Specified by Chairman Ryan.

We hope that this comprehensive summary will further clarify the entirety of his plan, and compare it in some key respects to that of President Barack Obama and the plans proposed by the bipartisan fiscal commissions (BPC’s Domenici-Rivlin and Bowles-Simpson).

I still maintain that Ryan is a phony.  Even tho' there are some things he has to say about our fiscal mess that line up with my own views, they are all at the surface.  Once you dig into what Ryan's actually proposing, it's really just more of the same snake oil the GOP's been peddling for 35 years.  Not even guys like David Stockman and Bruce Bartlett are willing to go along with the kind of crap the Ryanites are trying to sell us.