There is an e-mail going around with a long list of proposed federal spending cuts which is being attributed to Paul Ryan.
I did some digging. This is sort of an executive summary of HR 408 by Jim Jordan of Ohio. The official title is the Spending Reduction Act of 2011 which tells you how seriously anyone took these suggestions under Obama.
Ref:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/08/about-those-republican-cuts/
and
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/ryanbudgetcuts.asp
Second link includes the text you might be seeing.
It's a nice list but to my mind it's mostly just cosmetic trimming around the edges. If anyone's really interested in cutting spending, there are multiple government departments that could profitably be taken out behind the D.C. barn and shot.
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