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To: Dale Baker who wrote (197110)	8/15/2012 9:04:21 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 541933

KLEIN: Time to clarify a persistent misunderstanding: Paul Ryan keeps Obama’s Medicare cuts. ”Since the Romney campaign wants to run against President Obama's cuts to Medicare, it's something of a problem for them that Paul Ryan's budget includes those very same cuts to Medicare. And so they've come up with a somewhat confused and confusing argument to distinguish the two plans. Obama's cuts to Medicare are different because Ryan ‘keeps that money for Medicare to extend its solvency’ while Obama uses it ‘to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call Obamacare.’ This is basically a misunderstanding of how budgeting works. Or, at the least, it's predicated on the listener misunderstanding how budgeting works.” Ezra Klein in The Washington Post.