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Ryan acting like a Trustee

Paul Ryan has proposed a solution to the budget problem which can be considered radical. It includes privatizing SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, and as a result leads to a solution to the health care debate. There is definitely going to be disagreement over this idea, but the article reveals at the end that he is definitely acting like a trustee with this. He is fine if he gets voted out because of this, because he feels that this important and is his duty as a Representative to fix this problem.

1 comment:

Kyle said...

His comment at the bottom of the article definitely demonstrates quite clearly the problems we talked about last week, that the short terms in the House leave the Representatives feeling the pressure to do what's popular because of the frequent elections, even if what's popular isn't always what's best.

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