A Budget Shell Game
The House-passed budget would make deep cuts in programs for working families while offering even more tax breaks for the wealthy. Sen. Bernie Sanders called it "a shell game." While Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's rhetoric is about deficit reduction, the plan wouldn't achieve that stated goal. "These guys really are not staying up nights worrying about deficits," the senator told radio host Ed Schultz. The real goal, Sanders said, "is a radical reversal of what this country has been about for 80 years ... to enshrine working families, the elderly, the sick and the poor with more rights, more independence. What they want to do is undermine all of that and bring us back to the 1920s."
