ryan s medicare plan. betty says america s seniors educate themselves about the issues that affect them and they vote. they know the ryan plan would destroy the medicare they know and love. larry says romney might as well pick paul ryan as his v.p. because the ryan budget is hanging as an anchor around his neck anyway. and richard says quote, they want to pick on the frail and the elderly, but how wrong they are. we want to hear what you think too. head over to facebook and search politicsnation and like us to join the conversation that keeps going long after the show ends. i want to go i want to win [ breathes deeply ] this is where the dream begins i want to grow i want to try i can almost touch the sky [ male announcer ] even the planet has an olympic dream. dow is proud to support that dream by helping provide greener, more sustainable solutions
they want to eliminate certain loopholes. but the ones they re talking about eliminating are the ones the working class needs. not the tax breaks for the millionaires. in paul ryan s budget is millionaire or someone who is extremely wealthy could have a tax break of over $300,000. so i believe that by eliminating the safety net and providing loopholes for millionaires and billionaires, fundamentally the ryan budget that romney has embraced is absolutely unfair. but there s talk in some circles of even running mr. ryan for vice president. i mean, given the power of the senior vote, can he run as a vice presidential candidate with his position on changing medicare? i would probably be in favor of that. since mitt romney has embraced paul ryan s budget, why not put
inside the high takes politics of the federal budget. thank you for being on. my pleasure. your book has to do with the economic problems facing the country. let s start with basics. this graphic is in your book. it does a good job breaking down where we spend our money. in 2011, for example, we spent over $3 trillion nearly 20% was spent on defense. then we had social security, medicare, medicaid, and other benefits made up more than half. and everything else made up 18%. now, what does this breakdown say about the decisions we re going to have to make regarding the budget? well, it basically tells us that in that 18% are almost all the things you might consider investments in the future. medical research, education,
well, i think it means that our country as we know it would be completely and fundamentally changed. for example, the person that was on before talked about medicare. essentially what mr. ryan is proposing doing that the republicans have embraced and mitt romney has also embraced would completely revise medicare into a voucher. but what happens when you run out of money? what happens if you have a major disease? if you eliminate health care reform and give somebody a check, what s going to happen if they have a pre-existing condition? how are they going to be able to find medical coverage? if you just give a state a block grant, a definite amount, what happens when we have a fiscal crisis and unemployment increases and the state runs out of money? essentially, you would have a divide in our country that we have never seen before. and i think one of the fundamental values of our nation is fairness. and if you look at the heart of
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