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Paul Ryan: America Deserves A Better Path

By: Caleb Howe (Diary)  |  March 15th, 2012 at 05:52 PM  | 

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Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan will announce to the public next week the GOP budget proposal. In advance of that, he’s released the below video, a “trailer”, highlighting the importance of what is happening in Congress right now. h/t Philip Klein.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin previews next week’s FY2013 budget proposal.

You know, I was here — in Congress — in 2008 when we had the economic crisis. It was a terrible time. Millions of people lost their jobs. Trillions of dollars of wealth: gone.

That crisis caught us by surprise.

Let me ask you a question: what if your President, your Senator and your Congressman knew it was coming? What if they knew when it was going to happen, why it was going to happen and more importantly, what if they knew what they needed to do to stop it from happening and they had the time to stop it? But they chose to do nothing about it, because it wasn’t good politics?

What would you think of that person? It would be immoral.

This coming debt crisis is the most predictable crisis we’ve ever had in this country. And look what’s happening.

This is why we’re acting. This is why we’re leading. This is why we’re proposing – and passing out of the House – a budget to fix this problem: so we can save our country for ourselves and our children’s future.

… what more is there to say?

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  • kipling

    Why wait when you can do the wrong thing early?

  • Whacker77

    I agree with everything he said, but he was one of the many high quality candidates who left us hanging with this mess.

    • garfieldjl

      Plus, if he was running he would no longer be able to work on budgets that actually would start to get spending under control.

    • http://sandysalt.blogspot.com/ Sandy Salt

      Why waste two years of your life trying to unseat the Joker, only to be ripped apart by the MSM buzzsaw and lose the election. All the smart ones stayed on the sidelines because they saw 2012 as an iffy proposition at best. Why not make a bigger difference where you can vice fight the losing battle and lose your seat.

      Why do think that the better candidates stayed out of this mess? It wasn’t because they thought Romney would win it all, but rather that it was highly unlikely that anyone was going to beat Obama if the economy was at least not bad. The fact that gas will be $5/gallon could turn the election, but there was no way of knowing that a year ago. I would have loved to see a real American standup and pound the Joker into the ground, but there is a short supply of heroes at the moment.

      • LibertyWins

        I could see it happening. May be DeMint?

        • annie54

          n/t

    • Kyle-MI

      Right now there is no one with the intelligence and courage to take his place. I am not even sure I want him to be any part of a new administration. I think he is more useful in the House where the budget gets set anyway.

      Of course, saying that he would make a better president than the current field is setting a very low bar.

      • Ausonius

        We have no budget, and even if we did have a “budget,” it would be an over-budget budget, thanks to the presence of moronic RINO’S and equally moronic Dems.

        Only if Dems and RINO’S are booted out, and only if BIG BRObama is booted out, only then will Ryan’s presence in the House be of any importance.

  • lineholder

    I may not be able to take all the pieces of the puzzle and put them into place across the entire spectrum of every area of industry that exists in our country.

    But I can say that based on what I know about what’s going on in the health care industry alone…we will be facing an economic crisis within the next five years if the trajectory we’re traveling on does not change before that time. There is still time to change the direction we’re heading in!!

    Looking forward to video!!

  • californiatransplant

    …but instead chose not to…

    • lastgopinillinois

      The only good thing about Simpson/Bowles was the proposed overhaul of the tax code to a flat tax and eliminating subsidies/tax credits. The rest of it was tax increases (supposedly for deficit reduction, but we all know the dimocruds would have spent it too). Simpson/Bowles did not address the 60 trillion pound gorilla in the room (entitlements).

  • lastgopinillinois

    We can somehow get rid of Harry reid in the Senate.
    So how is the budget mess Paul Ryans fault ????
    I like his path to prosperity, but I think it could be improved upon if we could get control of the Senate.

  • bpgmswv1646

    Should have run for President.

  • septembergurl

    He is the kind of leader we need.

  • littlehouse18

    but who is really going to see it other than the conservative faithful?

  • rbdwiggins

    The severity of wealth destruction?… Maybe so…

    But, “that crisis” was wholly predictable.

    The warnings were abundantly clear as early as December of 2000…

    The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities

    And, every attempt to enact meaningful reform of the GSE’s was systematically and shamelessly thwarted by those who benifited politically and finacially from the redistribution of wealth made under the guise of economic and social justice and emphatically denied there were problems.

    Just the Facts: The Administration’s Unheeded Warnings About the Systemic Risk Posed by the GSEs

    • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

      If you make loans to people with no job and no prospects obviously there will be a crisis. Ryan is neither a leader nor courageous from what I’ve seen. He is an obedient tool of the establishment who needs to get attention for himself every so often. After we gave the House all those people in Nov. 2010 along with the national capital to defund ObamaCare, they refused to discuss it and sent Ryan out to talk about “his plan” and diffuse the national attention that was focused on ObamaCare. They put a bill to defund O’care in the Appropriations committee where it’s been “held up” ever since.

  • unsk

    Ryan knocks it out the park with this video and in the process puts a big fat bullseye on all those RINO’s who refuse to cut spending – and that means you , Willard.

    Why are we so hellbent on nominating a guy who vows not to cut spending in this time of a clear debt crisis? Has the Republican Party gone insane?

    The only way to raise taxes that comes close to covering our bad Nanny State debts is through a VAT, which of course Willard supports. But guess what, did that tax and spend scheme work in Greece, Portugal, Spain or Italy? Hell No! Everywhere it has been tried the increased revenue is only matched by more insane Progressive spending.

    A VAT would only further strangle our manufacturing sector and reduce our productive capacity in the economy. We would see millions more jobs leave offshore and would be left with an economy that depends more and more on the handouts of foreign strangers who are often not our friends – which I’m sure Willard and his Big Corporate-Big Bank Cronies know all too well.

    The total wealth in an economy directly correlates to the ability to fund debt. The more wealth, the more debt one can fund. Total wealth after the dust settles is a function of much a country produces. So why does Willard so often endorse all the Progressive Big Nanny State policies that hamper our productive capacity?

    The real only way out of our debt mess is to severely reduce our government spending on welfare and vigorously increase our productive capacity which will cause us to export much more and import much less. Exactly what Willard seems to oppose. Or does Romney support all this Progressive crap because destroying America’s productive capacity what his Multi-National Corporate Cronies really want?

    Or perhaps can you give me a better reason why Willard seems to want to endorse all those Progressive policies that have laid America prostrate and vulnerable to her enemies?

    The thought of voting for Willard – a guy who would clearly sell out America for his Cronies makes me want to barf. So tell me why so many Republicans want to vote for this guy?

  • rockymtn1776

    Most Americans are good, decent prople who do deserve better than they have gotten in the last several years.
    When the majority of voters agreed with Obama that he should fundamentally change America, all problems became much worse. Obama did inherit an awful mess from Bush, he took it and made it far, far worse. We may someday be able to ciorrect the huge amount of damage done by Obama but we cannot overcome those who put him in office. I see only one way out of this and we will never be the same nation we once were.