More On Balancing the Budget

In our earlier post about balancing the budget we wondered how entitlements would be handled. We have a partial "answer" from Rep. Ryan who, mirabile dictu, chose not to lie.

Byron York who writes for The Washington Examiner reports a question on this topic from a reporter and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's answer:

The reporter then wondered whether the Ryan plan would, in essence, balance the budget only after a large number of the baby boomers were dead. Ryan would never say such a thing, but he didn't disagree.