You have to hand it to Republicans. No mincing of values or fiddling about where they stand, what their priorities are, or their agenda. It's in-your-face unabashed boldness. This is crystallized in their federal budget proposal, crafted by Paul Ryan, conservatives' boy hero budgeter. Americans deserve to know the simple truth of their proposal. Then you can decide if it represents your values and is a fair plan.

Their budget goes something like this: First, they'll need to borrow a trillion dollars from the Chinese (remember, we're broke). Second, they'll give millionaires and billionaires a trillion dollar tax cut (creates jobs!). To pay for it, Republicans gut Medicare and Medicaid of a trillion (they're pesky socialism programs, anyways). Elegantly simple. And downright dangerous.

Take Medicare for example. Their proposal eliminates Medicare as we know it, voucherizing it into oblivion. The nonpartisan, official government budget cruncher reckons it'll cost each senior an additional $6,000 per year in health care costs. So, if you're 54 and want to live to 85, you've got 11 years (before Medicare kicks in at 65) to save an extra $120,000 just to cover the added health care costs under the Republican plan (that's $6,000 times 20 Medicare years). Sound fair and feasible?