The Path to Prosperity: America’s two futures, visualized
Yesterday Paul Ryan, House Budget Committee Chairman, released a bold plan, entitled the “Path to Prosperity,” to cut up to $6 trillion in national spending over the next decade. His plan touches on many of the tent poles of American government, from tax structure to entitlement programs, and is likely to reframe the conversation in Washington. As Mike Allen wrote in Politico’s Playbook, this ambitious plan could be received politically as an honest and adult response to the rising national debt or as an overreaching cut in government, delivering many key constituencies to the Democrats in 2012. In order to manage the message Congressman Ryan used traditional media outlets, such as an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal , to explain his plan to the public. Ryan also used YouTube to bring his plan to life and visualize the data behind his decision in a way that he couldn’t through other media channels.
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The Path to Prosperity: America’s two futures, visualized
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on April 5, 2011. Filed under