Paul Ryan's vision:

David Brooks (who likes it): (emp add)

The Ryan budget will put all future arguments in the proper context: The current welfare state is simply unsustainable and anybody who is serious, on left or right, has to have a new vision of the social contract.

Jonathan Cohn (who doesn't): (emp add)

If you can get past the fuzzy math and sheer indifference to the poor, it's possible to discern a coherent conceit in the Ryan plan: that the burden of maintaining a modern welfare state has become too great to bear.

Which is what you'd expect an Ayn Rand disciple to think: Welfare state. Bad!


posted by Quiddity at 4/06/2011 07:40:00 AM