Paul Ryan on MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show

[AcebassII]

Fix our broken health care system and you will fix medicare! Single payer, Medicare for all!

[MsKhejalati]

both of these guys make me sick to my stomach

[patty0130]

Hope you guys have plenty of money stored up because Ryan is gonna make you spend it all on healthcare - which you'll get if you're lucky LOL

[avenuePad]

Can't stand politicians like Paul Ryan. Social Security was actually running a surplus, but the Republicans raped the coffers. There's a reason why Republicans aren't in power right now - they're incompetent.

[2846odlab]

P: Ron Paul and VP: Paul Ryan 2012

[unclelight]

Ryan, Boner, and the rest of the GOP want to take your childrens retirement (social security) and give it to the the bankers on Wall Street. These niggers suck

the bankers cocks and swallow! America deserves better!

[theonemanparty7]

@unclelight congratulations you have the handling of macroeconomics and of debt crisis as a high schooler. are you like 17?

[MsZeitgeist85]

No it is not going bankrupt you fucking crook, it is being looted by the Medicare Part D that you helpt create that robs money from Medicare.

Why do people elect a charlatan con man like Paul Ryan?

[ryanjurek]

@MsZeitgeist85 Ok, assuming you're right.. wouldn't you agree that government spending on entitlements needs to be cut?

[MsZeitgeist85]

@ryanjurek If they are going to cut entitlements they should start with the pentagon and farm subsidies. The stuff we don't need not the sturff we do need.

[theonemanparty7]

@MsZeitgeist85 entitlement spending causes twice the debt/deficit then does military spending. agree both, but you can't stop this unless you reform entitlement now as the entitlement pay-as-you go system rises exponentially especially as pop growth slows down. (economist magazine discuses this in its september issue? i think.. . )

[MsZeitgeist85]

@theonemanparty7 And tax cuts for Dick Fuld contribute to the deficit more than anything and this is something that every Republican stubbornly defended.

If you want to talk about entitlements talk about Medicare Part D which is something that Paul Ryan wrote that wastes billions a year from drug companys ripping off the system by charging full retail price on everything.

Paul Ryan has zero credibility on fiscal issues and does not belong on the budget committee.

[unclelight]

The very first thing Boner, Ryan and the rest of the right wing clan will do if they get the majority will be to CUT TAXES FOR THE WEALTHY! Just like Bush did. How's that trickle down economics working for you? Suckers!

[ryanjurek]

@unclelight Here's the trickle, Uncle... Almost every small business in this country makes more than $250,000 (highest tax bracket). According to a CBS news article, 42-44% of Americans are employed by small business owners (companies employing less than 50 people). When you attack small business owners with higher taxes, they employ less people. The result: The largest source of employment in American shrinks.

Higher taxes for the "wealthiest" Americans means a top-down trickle of poverty.

[janelasdedeus]

Common sense... but we are irrational beings.

[Vetwolf13]

Ryan is a corporate nigger!

[msm318]

Why so, vet?

[lmswentzeljr]

I was reading up on this guy he wants cut medicare, social security, and cut the top tax rate to 25%, This guy is scary smiles alot but is no diffrent than Sarah Palin.

[unkeeaf]

Hey Imswentzeljr, were you also reading up on the fact that we are going broke? Put you head back in the sand - everything will be alright.

[lmswentzeljr]

@unkeeaf How about when go to war and invade countries that is also expensive and bankrupting us as well,.

[lmswentzeljr]

@unkeeaf we are also going bankrupt because of the massive tax breaks Bush gave to the wealthy.

[darklegionnaire13]

Wrong. Revenues actually increased after Bush cut taxes. Bush was no fiscal conservative however. His deficit spending put us in a bad way, and Obama is literally tripling down on that debt with plans to add a massive new entitlement to the ones we can't even afford now.

[msm318]

amen, dark. how do we school the morons?

[lmswentzeljr]

@unkeeaf ll

[mcap52]

do you realize that every government socialist program we have is bankrupt?The progressive plan to spend our way into the positive is bass ackwards,but I guess progressives don't care as long as they have the "Nanny State"taking care of them.

[lmswentzeljr]

@mcap52 Fine lets get rid of everything the, lets get rid of coproate welfare, tax breaksd for the wealthy and military defense contract welfare as well.

[darklegionnaire13]

His plan is to wean America off Medicare and Social Security which is bankrupting our country and is unsustainable without drastic measures. Ever heard of the Laffer curve? When you cut marginal tax rates, revenues to the government actually increase.

[3martijns]

obammie and his Comrades are Ruining the USA!!

[wildbrush81]

At last, a brilliant man with real solutions and common sense. PAUL RYAN 2012!

[flobrew]

I'm a gay conservative. Is there any reason I wouldn't vote Republican? Hot! But seriously, brains and charm. And he's obviously quick as hell. The President in the "summit" didn't want him to speak, because he was right and made sense. He's right about and has realistic ideas about health care. Damn the Dems. for saying Republicans don't want HC reorganization. It's bad policy NOT to want it. It's insane to let things stand from a fiscal standpoint. (course sanity hasnt been synonymous w/ gov.)

[nickd4818]

I only hope this guy runs for President some day. If you put him and Obama in a debate I think most reasonable people would prefer Ryan's vision for America.

[Reckless3057]

lol SEIU posters...

@yoda002, wow dude your not getting it.

@adamconcrete, tax credits (rather then exemption) will increase cost by definition not make anything more affordable, but i agree indivduals not companies should get it. none the less, it will incease prices. forcing pre-existing conditions will increase cost by definition. no price increase can be explained as arbitrary in free market economics only political rhetoric.

[geezlueeez]

Paul Ryan should run for President for sure. I wish he would at least come be in my state and district....

[1Tarz]

I wish more Republicans were just like Rep. Ryan - common sense and well spoken.

[jmiester25]

@1Tarz ....lol u wanna take that statement back after what he just proposed in the past month?

[kmg501]

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Wow, Ryan knocked it out of the park here... Looks like Ryan has a plan that is superior to the Democrats plan. I'm still against all government involvement but this is a step in the right direction.

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[EverybodysSenator]

So the Liberals come up with an Imaginary 275,000 people over 10 years, 27,500 per year, could (not will) die prematurely if we don't pass Socialist healthcare which they want to include the payment to kill more than that per year with coverage for abortions. If it was retroactive to include these "High Minded" Libtards maybe they would have a point, retroacively that is. Of course, then they probably would not have been born to make the point. RETRO SOCIALISM circa 1951 to 1971.

[adamconcrete]

If We Dont Facts:

Up to 17 million more people will be uninsured by 2019

Insurers can continue their massive and arbitrary premium rate increases †such as Anthem

Blue Cross raising rates for customers in California by nearly 40%, and rates in Illinois going up by as much as 60%

As many as 275,000 people could die prematurely over the next 10 years because they don't have health insurance

The average family's health care costs will nearly double by 2020, from $13,000 to $24,000

[geezlueeez]

@adamconcrete

NO one is saying we shouldn't worry about healthcare, we just want people like Paul Ryan's opinion to be heard. His facts are clear, and he's also made it clear that the Healthcare summit was just a show for the american people, the president never meant for any bypartisanship to come of it.

[adamconcrete]

Under Presidents Plan Facts: If you're uninsured, you could receive a tax credit to help pay for coverage if needed †part of the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history

Even if you currently have health insurance, there will be new protections from insurance company abuses, and tax credits will make coverage more affordable

You will never be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions

You will never again be hit with arbitrary health insurance premium hikes

[radishthegreat]

The words "President" and "Facts" should never be used together without the words "lying about" in between them.

[Adimari]

Paul Ryan has a way of turning conversations into a logical respectful exchange of facts. I like that about him.

No insults, no mocking, Ryan let the facts speak.

[phillipstr07]

How about 2012: Ron Paul and Paul Ryan... what a fiscal duo that would be.... plus just awesome :)

[newrunner91]

@phillipstr07 totally agree with you. Fiscal responsibility from our electe politicians would be refreshing.

[yoda002]

Ratigan was kissing his ass!! This guy cares about the top 2% and thats it!!  He would sell his own mother to make money!!

[richardsimones]

Because he knows a lot about economics? Good call bra.

[sliderinvestments]

Ratigan used to be somewhat conservative (and pretty good host) as host of "fast money" on cnbc. As soon as he went to msnbc he turned into an angry, raging liberal

[dmv92117]

Ratigan was actually calm and agreeable with a conservative. i almost fell out of my chair.

[NoCensorshipYT]

@dmv92117

LOL! I know.

Too funny.

Ratigan is usually such a liberal troll.

[siasina]

He has never said he's a liberal or conservative for that matter. And beside some occasional outbursts, he's actually been criticizing both dems and repubs.

Question authority regardless of who it is. If you remember he burst out against Wasserman-Schultz, a dem congresswoman, and the liberals were crying out how he was so unfair.

[qnahum]

Ratigan was pretty centrist at CNBC, I wouldn't figure that would change at MSNBC.

[kelley4444]

Ryan is the best elected spokesman for fiscal conservatives. He should run against Feingold and Tommy Thompson can take out Kohl.