Which Part of the Paul Ryan Budget Does Scott Sumner Disagree With?

    A lot of people hate it as Krugman points out.

    "The latest Paul Ryan budget is getting a lot of well-deserved flak, and so is Ryan himself. The combination of cruelty and raw dishonesty is so obvious, it’s hard to see how anyone can fail to see what’s going on. But Ryan hasn’t changed; his budgets have always been like this, and so has he. Yet for years he was the darling of centrist pundits, who proclaimed him an “honest, open-minded, solution-oriented fiscal conservative.” What were they thinking?"

    http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/same-as-he-ever-was-3/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

  

     However, I wonder what Sumner has to say about it. I mean what he thinks of it I mean really thinks of it. Publicly, he'll shrewdly say nothing about. He's shrewd enough to not say anything publicly about it. However, in his heart of hearts I say he loves it. Morgan Warstler played an interesting game of blackmail-I and all other liberals have to become disciples of his GI/CYB first before they can say a word of defense of UI benefits. I don't get why anyone should put themselves into a such an obligation. 

   "I 'm not "sure" on UI, what I am sure of is people aren't publicly supporting NGDPLT as well as GI/CYB and they are saying, "let's extend unemployment!"

   "I'm against them. I'm not willing to let them have it that easy. North Carolina proved that the "misery" or ending UI may be real, but even MORE REAL is lots of people went and got jobs, far more than the left is reporting:

    http://robesonian.com/news/opinion-opinion_columns/3812943/More-truth-on-those-jobless-numbers

    "Again, if you REALLY care about the unskilled and unemployed, you prove it by be hyper interested in PROVING the only people getting help - aren't being lazy."

    "If you generally, kinda want to not worry about the lazy bit, since there are non-lazy suffering - you are SCREWING the non-lazy, bc you are hurting your argument to the half of voters WHO CARE about not letting people be lazy."

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2014/03/unemployment-benefits-and-my-scott.html?showComment=1396440429127#c2665913611677083195

     So liberals aren't allowed to defend UI without spending most of tehir time pushing GI or they've failed some test he's come up with. How about people like Paul Ryan-they say nothing about GI eitehr not because they're concerned about the poor and unemployed but because they just don't think it matters. I mean I'm supposedly in a straitjacket if you listen to Morgan but Paul Ryan gets no criticism-he says nothing about helping the unemployed whether they work hard or not. I mean they can continyue to offer up fiscal austerity with no clue about what to do for those unemployed or disabled but? Or are they free to keep it going?

    Obama had the right words to describe Ryan's budget. 

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04/02/obama-calls-gop-budget-plan-a-stinkburger/

   It's ironic as Krugman had just talked about how Obamacare is the real ideal of Republicans-it's the only genuine conservative-that is private sector-alternative to basically making Medicare for everyone. 

    "Medicare would become a voucher program by 2024 for those now 55 and younger, allowing them to choose between a fixed payment for private insurance and the traditional plan. The problem with this idea, revived from past Ryan budgets, is that traditional Medicare wouldn’t stay unchanged for long because it will attract the sickest patients and become so expensive that most people would be driven to the private plan. The spending cuts in that plan would quickly make it inadequate."

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/opinion/mr-ryans-faith-based-budget.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

     Basically ACA is the alternative to Medicare. They want to get rid of it for healthcare-replacing it with the pre Obamacare status quo-and Medicare they want to turn into ACA.