Ryan: I put out a budget plan to get the consensus of one person in congress: me. I didn’t put out a budget to get a consensus of the majority of congress, but here’s the point – i was trying to get this discussion about entitlements at an adult level, clearly that’s not happening.
i want to give younger people the option of having the same retirement you and i have if they want it or not. that’s not privatizing…
wasserman-schultz: investing in the stock market is a risky game…
ryan: if it’s good for you and me and our families, why isn’t it good for everybody else.
here’s the point – if you can let me, this is your time, so it will just take a long time. leaders are supposed to fix problems. we have a 99.4 trillion unfunded liability. our government is making problems to americans that it has no way of accounting for. you’re showing that you have no plan to get this debt under control. you’re saying you’ll stabilize it but then it’s just going to shoot up. my argument is: that’s europe.
we spent too much of our time and our intellectual effort measuring compassion for those in need by measuring inputs: how much are we spending, how much are we increasing spending, how many programs are we creating. but we’re not measuring outcomes: are these programs working? are people getting out of poverty?
the growth rate of medicare in this budget is the same one the president proposes in his budget. so for the chart my friend from maryland used saying this is what the republican budget does growing medicare out into the future…
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