Paul Ryan: Cut, Cap & Balance the Budget; Grow the Economy; Save this Country

[moussiagilda]

I'm prepared to get banned from the world for this comment. Call me a lousy, worthless, vapid-headed sockdolager --

but I just noticed this a few days ago. Watch this full-screen -- what is going on in his --

I'm not going to say that. Oh dear. There goes my national influence.

[DillonDee1]

Many in the middle class are working until April to pay off their taxes,

While many on Wall Street have paid their taxes by the end of January!

Some fools say that even if you make the top 10% pay their fair share it wont pay off the National debt,

YES, IT WONT IN 1 YEAR -- BUT IT WILL OVER TIME -- JUST LIKE WE PAID THE WW2 DEBT BY HAVING A PROGRESSIVE TAX RATE FOR YEARS!

[poindexterwitkowsky]

`Republican$ are always saying that they hate"Big Government". What they really mean is that they hate government regulation.Keep in mind that Republican$ don't work for you.They only work for BILLIONARES, CORPORATIONS& WALL STREET. They want to destroy MEDICARE because then they can give that money to the insurance co's. They want to destroy social security so they can give that money to Wall Street firms. They want to destroy UNIONS so that everybody makes minimum wage (like in Texas).

[MegaLife4Fun]

Ryan for President

[grizzlyfan41]

@MegaLife4Fun Oh yes that will be the day....."Lying Ryan" for President! Oh yes, that what out Country needs right now.....another stuffed suit!

[moussiagilda]

I've been talking up Perry recently, feeling he'd be pretty serviceably decent as President, despite his lack of brilliance. But now that your resolve is getting uneasy, now that you're feeling too urged, PLEASE RUN. Nobody has a mind like yours. So we won't be several towns apart anymore, cozy geographical neighbors. So the rest of your life will be more or less exile. The greatest man should have the greatest office. PLEASE RUN.

[bamabelle327]

If some of you don't like this, go to Debbie W. S. videos.. she'll feed you a nice batch falsehoods.

[sutircomed]

Ryan needs to stop drinking that Ayn Rand Kool-Aid.

Rand was an atheist. Gotta love those "pious" Republicans who worship the rich even tho Jesus said it is harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Clearly, Republican hypocrites have much more in common with Rand the atheist than with Jesus.

[RedRedOC]

@sutircomed Interesting.... could you please explain how Ryan's and Rand's economic phlisophies are the same? I'm just curious. Thanks.

[moussiagilda]

@sutircomed How Christian are you? I know lots about theology, and I know lots about Ayn Rand. Let's talk about that.

[sutircomed]

When Republicans are in power they spend like drunken sailors. Check out Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. But when a Democrat is in power, trying to clean up the mess Republicans left, all they talk about is balancing the budget. What utter hypocrites! They have no sincere convictions -- just a lust for power.

[gregjalbert]

Who Killed Economic Growth? : youtube . com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQ

[gregjalbert]

Ten steps to reform the finance sector - that the Administration and Congress MUST do: William Black, author of "Best way to rob a bank is to own one" talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St. -- Pt 1: youtube . com/watch?v=sA_MkJB84VA -- Pt 2: youtube . com/watch?v=ISsR7ZiWlsk - The finance sector is a huge parasite, it transfers wealth from the poor to the wealthy. -- Pt 3: youtube . com/watch?v=F_xdQyfNLnc -- Pt 4: youtube . com/watch?v=aQbcNP0MUQY -- Pt 5: youtube . com/watch?v=IENsfk40sYU

[gregjalbert]

Terry O'Neill: Women Are Hurt Most By Debt Deal Cuts to Medicare, Social Security, Tuition -- youtube . com/watch?v=DgCe882ICEI -- DemocracyNow . org -- Invest in ecocities. EcoCityBuilders . org -- CarFree . com -- BicycleCity . com -- Depave our asphalt suffocated communities. Tax the oil and automobile companies and the rich and restore our clean air, clean water. Invest in small organic local agriculture, healthy organic food for communities. -- DefundWar . org -- Expel war mongers.

[runtimmytimer]

@Warp2567 Your comments solidify my point exactly. You blame the banks rather than yourself or the average individual. Take responsibility for your own actions people.  I haven't had a credit card in over 3 years and oddly enough I haven't borrowed any money during that same time period and have been completely debt free. This really odd thing has happened since I stopped borrowing money. I actually have money because I don't give all my income to the banks and credit card companies.

[grizzlyfan41]

@rororhythm There is enough blame to go around for everyone.....if we had a dollar for everytime MCconnell, Boehnor or Cantor lied, then we wouldn't need to repeal the Bush Tax Cuts, we could just use their "lying money" to help pay off some of the debt!

[grizzlyfan41]

@rororhythm Actually, cutting the Bush Tax cuts will save us about 4 TRILLION dollars over the next 10 yrs......if we cut them, and if my math serves me correctly that is about 1/4 of our total debt......now there is fraud and abuse in Medicare, Medicade and SS, and we need to get rid of that, but do not cut the benefits because that is the ONLY means of income for many seniors and disabled....And as far as "ignorant rhetoric" is concerned you mentioned a guillotine.....now how IGNORANT is that

[grizzlyfan41]

@rororhythm But there is a "song and dance" going on on both sides of the aisle.......Speaker Boehnor knew that his bill wouldn't get passed in the Senate.....and Senate Leader Reed knows that his bill would not get passed in the house.....

[grizzlyfan41]

The President doesn't have to have a plan Mr. Ryan.....he is the "executive branch" of the goverment! He has VETO POWER, he can take the best of both worlds (Senate and House of Representatives). Eliminate the Bush Tax cuts and out of Iraq and Alphghanistan......that would save us ALOT of money; leave Medicare, Medicade and SS alone......

[runtimmytimer]

Here's an idea. How about American's start taking care of themselves rather than worshiping at the alter of the almighty congressman. What I disagree with Congressman Ryan is he's not dealing with the REAL problem. That problem is Americans are too irresponsible and choose to not plan for their financial future. Let's look into ways to incentivize people to take care of themselves.

[Warp2567]

@runtimmytimer what you fail to realize though is when Paul Ryan said that "we're spending so much more money than we have", he's not just talking about our government. He's talking about the entire nation. He does agree that America has a whole is too irresponsible when it comes to spending more than we have. Take that complaint up to the banks and lenders. They are the real crooks who drive our economy down!

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policies America can no longer afford to pay for medicare, social security, unemployment and many other services. We also need to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr in order to compete with China and bring jobs back home. Fiscally responsible conservatives like Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann know this and are currently

working to end these wasteful handout programs and bring the minimum wage down so that America can be great again. God bless the GOP!

[Oranje101]

Why isn't this man running for president?

[grizzlyfan41]

@Oranje101 Because he is not Presidential material......utter fail!

[Oranje101]

@grizzlyfan41

I will say you are quick to the point, but provide nothing more in support of your argument than what a teenager would. "Utter fail!" is a nice retort but does not particularly answer the question in any meaningful way...

[grizzlyfan41]

@Oranje101 Ok....here I go; the man is a joke. That Paul Ryan budget plan is a waste of paper.........Cut , Cap and balance is exactly where it needs to be.....stalled out on the Senate Floor!

[Oranje101]

@grizzlyfan41

The past two administrations spending us into austerity is alot better than actually tackling these problems now though. That way, in ten years the then retiring seniors will have to take the hit, instead of having the cuts phased in. If that sounds good to you, then by all means, let's throw cuts to the wind...

[ttube438]

@Oranje101 still have time to make changes that would not affect retiring seniors. GOP must agree to closing loopholes and Dems must agree to lower rates for small biz.. Slowly increase age for SS, and means test for medicare. The wealthy will pay more for services and subsidize the less wealthy. Repeal obamacare give everyone a HSA or similar high deductible health insurance account. Voucher the HSA for the poor and let people take control of their own insurance.

[grizzlyfan41]

Well, one administration (Obama) is trying to reverse the bad policys of the previous administration (Bush)....I know some may not like it, but I think if we're going to get unemployment down, bring our debt down then there is ONE THING our goverment can do......create jobs, jobs and more jobs! More jobs mean more taxes (revenue for the local, state and FEDERAL goverment) which hopefully in turn will be used to bring our debt down. Allow the Bush tax cuts to expire......get out of 2 wars......

[ominoreg]

Now, that's a speech! 

[666sigma]

Democrats and Neocons have been smoked out. Do not let up on "cut, cap and balance" regardless of the dirty tricks by Obama and Reid.

Stick to the plan. Walk away from ALL negotiations with Obama and the Democrats and FORCE THEM TO COME UP WITH A PLAN OF THEIR OWN.

Take the mesage to the public. Screw Obama and the Senate Democrats.

CUT, CAP AND BALANCE OR BROKE. LITERALLY.

[jimtfmb]

This man should be President.!!!



[benvye]

You keep talking about getting deeper into debt. You're absolutely right. But it is going to take less spending and more revenue. We need to end the tax cuts for the rich-and I don't consider those who make $250k/year rich. I mean the really rich. Stop giving them tax breaks; end the loopholes, in addition to cutting spending. Both sides have to give in and stop using the American people as a political football. If we can't fix this we will all lose.

[itssoEC]

@benvye, tax cuts bring MORE revenue. Historically the REVENUE is an average of 18.5% of GDP, no matter how much you tax. So you must bring up the economy in order to increase revenue.

Taxes are just a percentage. If you decrease the percentage, it takes the brakes off the economy and brings MORE revenue. We need to stop spending more than we can possibly take from people. We're borrowing 188 million every hour. We have about 120 trillion in debt if you include unfunded liabilities.

[itssoEC]

@benvye, The tax breaks are for the the job Providers. They already pay the most in taxes. 

[evilfreethinker]

I'm considered legally blind. I get SSI and Social Security, less than $800 a month. I survive and I do what I can to make it. I am in college to become an Assistive Technology Specialist, I train people who are disabled to use special devices and software to use computers and the internet for employment.. I want to work, I want success. Not everyone on public assistance is bad. If you want people like me off the "dole" then fix the damn economy so I can find a job.

[JohnHenryReaves]

@evilfreethinker I am with you there ... Fix the economy so jobs will be produced and we can get back to work... and also find a way to bring manufactuing and technical jobs back to America, we cannot allow companies like GE to move them to China and Korea and still survive.

[GOPkicksbutt]

Thanks to liberal policies America can no longer afford to pay for medicare, social security, unemployment and many other services. We also need to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr in order to compete with China and bring jobs back home. Fiscally responsible conservatives like Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann know this and are currently

working to end these wasteful handout programs and bring the minimum wage down so that America can be great again. God bless the GOP!

[Norie92]

I keep hearing Obama has nothing on paper, but I was reading about how he had a plan that failed in senate 0-97. Someone explain please.

[divisioneight]

It's a shame that this speech only belongs to the internet. Why doesn't the major news agencies report this instead of 15 minutes about a British newspaper kingpin getting a pie in the face. If all of the Americans heard this, there would be real change for the good.

[GSDebunked]

he says all the right things, but im so suspicious of him, too salesy

[divisioneight]

@GSDebunked:  So does Obama. Do you trust him?

[GSDebunked]

@divisioneight no i dont, obama is a joke

[FrankQ777]

Thank the Republican Party for passing the Cap, Cut & Balance Bill (Leadership) Now let's see the inept Senate do something............

[mcap52]

@FrankQ777 Thank several of the same Republicans who voted to pass this Bill for voting in the past to raise the debt ceiling and put us where we are now. Funny how things change when party power changes.

[risrvt]

LEADERSHIP deficit is absolutely right! Thank you Rep. Ryan for carrying out the will of the people who voted you in - which includes me.

[rockon6191]

I have never seen Mr. Ryan so impassioned. It's great to see him stepping up to the plate and doing what no one else wants to. I'd love to see him formally debate the president on competing budget proposals and solutions to medicare/ medicaid, social security, and the merits of Obama care. If both sides presented their cases head to head, it'd make the choice more clear for America.

[Nokomisclub]

If we survive this debt crisis, Ryan will be recognized as a hero by future generations.

[HermandLo]

@Nokomisclub well, we wont survivi this debt crisis if we are still the world reserve currency. you see its a catch 22 with our monetary sys, the world is willing to lend to us via treasuries because that the safest way to park their USD reserves in their central banks but if we try to cut that supply of treasuries that the world needs; the world reserves liquidity would dry up..just like if we default on aug 2nd. so its damned if you do damed if you dont .....the $ is the world money as well

[HermandLo]

@Nokomisclub you ever wonder why goods and services are so cheap in the states than in jpn or china? WE EXPORT INFLATION....in turn, domestic demand, driven by cheap free credit and debt.

ex. USD is the metric for all prcing for world commodities and intertrade. in order for japan to buy oil from saudis, toyota must first make the car, sell to US, US basically prints USDs, japan in turn send USDs to saudis for oil, saudis park the USDs in treasuries which give congress a line of credit

[HermandLo]

@Nokomisclub think about it, this gift was given to us via bretton woods after ww2 and desolved the gold standard under nixon in 71, then we've been abusing the money supply last 40 years til now. so the question i ask over and over, does such a gift of having the ability to print money with no domestic inflation still be had by americans to enjoy? do we deserve to be kings and consume 1/2 the world resources while the rest of the world survives. with this mess....

[HermandLo]

@Nokomisclub and if the world finally decides to the USD as the world reserve currency, just like the GBP after the ww2 with the british empire. all those USDs and IOUs are coming home to get cashed via skyrocketing interest rates, food and goods inflation, and a debt burden for our kids for generations.

[HermandLo]

@Nokomisclub yes a default would be inevitable because the country holding the global reserve currency title will eventually have fiscal and trade deficits especially if they are consumption-base and export dependent. we cant play god to the world and be selfless and at the same time be selfish with our domestic issues. doesnt work.