Palin wrote that Congress needs to balance its budget now. Palin: Ryan budget plan a 'joke'

Sarah Palin has a message from one former vice presidential candidate to another: Rep. Paul Ryan, your budget is a “joke.”

The House Budget Committee chairman released his annual budget proposal Tuesday, and the wish list of GOP priorities includes big changes to Medicare and food stamps and ending control over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.


But while Ryan’s budget is well-received among many conservatives, the former Alaska governor said the plan doesn’t do nearly enough.

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“The latest Ryan (R, Wisconsin) budget is not an April Fool’s joke,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday. “But it really IS a joke because it is STILL not seeing the problem; it STILL is not proposing reining in wasteful government overspending TODAY, instead of speculating years out that some future Congress and White House may possibly, hopefully, eh-who-knows, take responsibility for today’s budgetary selfishness and shortsightedness to do so.”

“THIS is the definition of insanity,” she continued.

Palin wrote that Congress needs to balance its budget now; if it can’t, it won’t be able to in the future, she said. She referenced the Wisconsin Republican’s home-state March Madness heroes, the Wisconsin Badgers, who are in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Final Four, as examples.

“You’d think one who is representing the mighty Badgers, who made it to the Final Four based on sacrificial work ethic and discipline that obviously pays off in the end, … would understand that future success depends on hard work and sacrifices,” Palin said.

There is plenty to cut, Palin argued, as “every omnibus bill is loaded with pork and kickbacks.”

In the meantime, Palin said, the “joke” wasn’t funny.

“As my Dad would say after these April Fool’s announcements, ‘This would kill a lesser man.’ This out-of-control debt is killing our economic future,” Palin wrote.

Ryan dismissed Palin’s criticism when asked about it Wednesday, saying she should take a closer look.

“I’m a big fan of Sarah Palin and she has been very supportive of my earlier budgets. This cuts more spending than any other budget I’ve ever written,” Ryan said on “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday. “I think she ought to take a look at the details, and I think she’d probably be pretty pleased. If she liked what we did before, she should clearly like what we’re doing here, which is very much in keeping with our constitutional principles: limited government, economic freedom, balancing the budget, creating jobs.”