Roadmap for America's Future

Representative Paul Ryan is the kind of politician we need more of. He has a plan that actually addresses a root problem: Our nation's fiscal future. His comprehensive plan has three goals:

1. Ensure universal access to health insurance, fulfill the missions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and make these programs permanently solvent.

2. Return Federal spending growth to sustainable levels and lift the debt burden looming over future generations.

3. Promote sustained economic and job growth and put the U.S. in a position to lead – not merely survive – in the international marketplace.

The solution he proposes is actually a set of many actions and policies revolving around giving people responsibility for their health care while putting in place a systematic approach to catastrophic care so a medical calamity doesn't bankrupt the family. He also recommends a simplified tax code and reducing our corporate tax rate, which is one of the highest among industrialized countries.

The GOP should be all over this, but I'm afraid they are still the drunk who hasn't hit bottom yet. If the GOP were smart they'd make this the new contract with America. It is a stark contrast to Democrat ideas, which lately seem to involve socialist-looking schemes and handing out money.

Follow the link and check it out. http://www.americanroadmap.org/