Paul Ryan on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews

Paul Ryan joins Chris Matthews to discuss fiscal challenges and "A Roadmap for America's Future"

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[kndrice99]

Exactly. Bush was not the answer, but neither is Obama.

[troymcclure99]

It depends which European countries you mean - they're not all the same. Scandanavia, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries actually have lower unemployment rates than the US, some close to 3%. You're looking at the mediterranean countries who were hugely irresponsible and corrupt. You can have successful countries which have socialistic elements as well as capitalist ones.

[daniel clark]

funny how democrats say we cause the debt by funding war (I though you were suppose to do that when attacked remember 9/11 dumb ass what if we didn't fund protection) the blame is on you for supporting those who are too lazy to get a job get off the couch fat ass hipsters and do something with your life didn't you notice how the only thing you can remember OBAMA for is raising the debt with a overcomplicated plan (Obamacare) and a terribly planned stimlus

[troymcclure99]

Yes the EU's money lending strategy was poorly managed and the level of debt was covered up by various western banks. But the irresponsibility of these countries cannot be denied. They knew they were taking too much. I was referring more to the examples of northern European states as individual models with low poverty levels and a high quality of life, better than the USA.

[Dkouts57]

how many of those Mediterranean Countries got loans from German and northern European Banks and were insured by American companies and then bundled in security packages to be traded by American brokerage firms?

If the Mediterranean countries were Irresponsible and corrupt for borrowing what were those countries and banks that

Loaned money

insured the money loaned

created derivative securities to trade

rated them top grade

???

who was more irresponsible? get your facts checked

[stephen98991]

Is that happening during the Obama administration, with our unemployement?

[V. Sealy]

Republicans are historically the military hawks in congress and senate, they will spend any amount of money on funding wars, weapon research and development then they want to speak to the deficit as if it just, suddenly, began to be a debt burden on our nation. America cannot continue to police the globe and remain solvent. you have to raise revenue (taxes) Cut the military budget, cut handouts to Israel, Egypt, and a host of other countries, and take care of our citizens/nations vital needs.

[deanosumo]

Nice ad hominem. Where's your argument? Bet you feel brave on the interwebs. I doubt you would call me dumb to my face. You're probably a 135 pound internet warrior.

The mortgage crisis played a big part in the economic crisis. That, and a lack of regulation on Wall Street, as I mentioned a month ago. Debt crisis- I repeat, defense spending and tax cuts got us into that fuck up.

[MACampstube]

CORRECT!

[MACampstube]

Nick is right.You are dumb, deanosumo. Must suck to be that stupid.

[unfad1ng]

it ussually does but not always. If for example you were to raise taxes on butter to 600 %, that would not increase revenue. Then if you cut the buter tax from 600 % to 50 % you would ended up with a massive increase in revenue by cutting taxes