Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) Delivers Weekly Republican Address On Responsible Spending

April 4, 2009 - WASHINGTON, DC - House Budget Committee Ranking Republican, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), today delivered the Weekly Republican Address.

Following is the text of Rep. Ryans address:

Hello, Im Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the lead Republican on the House Budget Committee.

America is in the midst of an economic crisis. Families and small businesses are hurting, and too many Americans have lost their jobs. There is no doubt that President Obama inherited a fiscal crisis. But the question is, is he fixing it or is he making it worse?

The Presidents budget, which passed the House and Senate this week, will make the crisis much, much worse. Rather than getting spending under control, it sends spending out of control. Rather than keeping taxes low to create jobs, it chases ever-higher spending with ever-higher taxes and results in ever-higher debt an unprecedented, unsustainable increase in red ink. It doubles our national debt in five years, and triples our debt in 10 years.

Put simply: the Democrats budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much from our kids and their kids.

Their budget puts all the sacrifice on future generations. It makes no tough choices. Its only tough on our children and grandchildren.

But it is not enough for us to just criticize. We must also propose a better way forward. And Republicans have.

The budget House Republicans offered gives Americans a real choice. It curbs spending, creates jobs, and controls the debt.

The Republican budget has lower deficits than the Democratic plan every year, and by 2019, has half the deficit proposed by the president. Under our plan, the public debt would be $3.6 trillion lower than President Obamas plan.

Our budget gives priority to national defense and veterans health care. We freeze all other discretionary spending for five years. We enact a spending cap backed up by tough budget enforcement.

American families are making sacrifices and tightening their belts. Washington should do the same.

Our budget also takes steps toward health care reform and retirement security. Our goal is to make quality, affordable health care accessible to all Americans by strengthening the relationship between patients and their doctors, not with a big government takeover. We will preserve and improve the existing Medicare program.

We have offered a concrete plan a path to prosperity - to tackle our nations problems with innovative and principled solutions. America is not the greatest nation on earth by chance. We earned this greatness by rewarding individual achievement, by advancing and protecting natural rights, and by embracing freedom. Our budget reflects those principles, and we offer the American people a better way forward.

Thank you for listening.

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[DillonDee1]

Germany & France have the strongest economies in Europe.

If you live in those countries, your family income over $500,000 will be taxed at about 50%.

We need to put these rates into effect in the USA

We've let the super rich off too easily for too long in our country

[tbwil11]

@GOPkicksbutt Your sarcasm wasnt witty the first hundred times you posted it. No one in the GOP is advocating a drop to $2 in the minimum wage to compete with China. They are however advocating tax code reforms and a corporate tax cut which will bring jobs back. Why dont you grow a pair and get an original thought instead of posting this horseshit over and over and over on conservative vids, troll?

[allgoo19]

RIP, Paul Ryan's political career. ^_^

[GOPkicksbutt]

The ONLY way to bring jobs back to America is to lower the minimum wage to $2/hr.

This is the only way we can compete with China. Ryan and my fellow republicans need to act on this now. Employers also should not have to carry the burdern of paying for health care either. Go et em Paul!

[trump4prez]

He so smart and nose wut he's saying!!1 Just listen to him becuase he makes sense!! Duh!! Obama's a negroid from Africa. vote for Trump!!!

[clos19851]

finally someone with a spine. bring back the gold standard so usd goes back up and we can build stuff in house again.

[pa15632]

Paul Ryan,

I hope you run for President. Finally someone with some common sense, and financial sense who is there to work hard for what is RIGHT with America. I am tired of progressives trying to remake America into a European social democracy.

Thanks for all your hard work on the budget. I hope congress has the spine to do what is right for the sake of my childrens' future.

[rickbar123]

DEAR RYAN, FUCK YOU YA FILTHY RIGHT WING SCUM BAG. NOTHING BUT THE RICH MANS LAP DOG. GO SEND SOME MORE JOBS TO CHINA WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT THE US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

TAKE YOUR FAKE FREEDOM TALK AND DROP DEAD. WE ARE NOT ALL TEA BAGGERS OUT HERE.

[snowjohn75]

Paul is looking out for the u.s. budgets?

[jsimmons58]

I want to know why the republican plan does not have as its bedrock, the Fair Tax!

If you have not taken the time to examine this approach-please do your children and their children the favor.