7 ways Paul Ryan's budget would hurt the poor:
1. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Kill Millions Of Jobs. His plan would cut the budget by $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years. These budget cuts would raise the unemployment rate, shrink the economy and eliminate 2 million jobs in 2014 alone.
2. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Cut Medicaid. His budget would slash Medicaid spending by $756 billion and turn the program into a block-grant program for states. It also would eliminate Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, which would have provided Medicaid coverage for an estimated 12 million more people.
3. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Let States Kick People Off Of Food Stamps. His budget would turn the food stamp program into a block-grant program for states. It also would encourage states to limit the amount of time that the unemployed can access food stamps and limit food stamp eligibility mostly to workers.
4. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Cut Medicare. His budget would cut Medicare spending and turn the program into a subsidized private-insurance program. This would translate into less health care for seniors as well as more expensive health insurance.
5. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Repeal Obamacare. If it stays in effect, Obamacare would reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 27 million by 2023, according the Congressional Budget Office. Yet, while claiming to repeal Obamacare, the Ryan budget does keep as government income the various taxes and penalties that are part of the Obamacare legislation.
6. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Deny Welfare Benefits To People Who Aren't Working. His budget would limit eligibility for the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) welfare program mostly to people that are working.
7. Paul Ryan's Budget Would Cut Funding For Programs That Help The Poor. His budget would cut funding for a variety of domestic programs -- potentially including child care, education, women's preventive health care and domestic violence prevention.
The Ryan budget benefits the top 10%, the wealthiest Americans and corporations while actually making the poor poorer and increasing txe on the middle class Americans. This budget policy cost Republicans the 2012 election and ahould cost Republicans even more seats in the 2014 Congessional elections.
