pays for that by cutting programs for the poor and programs for seniors and sort of everything else the government does which is a fairly small bit. the big transfer is programs for the poor get cut in order to fund the main priorities of the ryan budget. you can t get away from making deep cuts into medicare, medicaid and food stamps. i thought it was telling when ryan released his response, he didn t say the president has my budget wrong. he didn t say the facts were wrong. he said i m disappointed in the president. he should have been nicer to me. he can t argue with the math because the math is correct. well, this budget, if it goes after the food stamp program will hit the farm economy because the food stamp program is in the farm bill. rural america will have to take a real haircut and the farming community across america which agriculture is one of our biggest industries will feel the effects.
that speech romney kind of pivoted talking more lofty rhetoric. he sounded like a general election candidate. i think we re going to see that playing itself out. one thing i thought was real interesting about this speech, it also was romney on defense. he was definitely trying to react many of the points that president obama made today to the newspaper association. howard, here is more of president obama s speech. i want you to react to it high pressure here it is. i believe this is make our break moment for the middle class. i can t remember a time when the choice between competing visions of our future has been so unambiguously clear. instead of moderating their views even slightly, the republicans running congress right now have doubled down and proposed a budget so far to the
for a subway sandwich, but ryan himself should have known better. i mean, this is something every political figure in wisconsin knows. you don t give away free food on election day. well, there s got to be a commercial here with this video somewhere that the republican party is at the head of a bread line giving bread out to people. i mean, there s got to be a message there because that s exactly what maybe ryan s budget is going to do to some people. that might be a stretch, but i think you know where i m going. do you think scott walker well, you take away their medicare and medicaid. well, that s very true. that is very true. it is a ruthful budget. give them some free food. what about scott walker not appearing with either one of these guys? who s doing this? is walker doing this? or is romney and santorum doing this? that s a really good question. at this point i think santorum is so desperate that he would have been glad to appear with scott walker, to be face to fa
welcome back. today president obama talked about two visions of america. he laid out the real effect of romney-ryan budget. nearly $10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of $1,000 each. if this budget becomes law and the cuts were applied evenly starting in 2014, over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get early education. two million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food. we wouldn t have the capacity to enforce the laws to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food that we eat. that s just a slice of it. the ryan plan would be a double whammy for states already hurting for money when the
is ryan s budget plan a deficit reduction plan? if he was able to follow the actual trajectory then it is. he doesn t really explain how he would get there. he went to the congressional budget office and said the way you will score this plan is follow the rules i set out for you and the rules is you will assume that my plan brings medicare down to this level, taxes to here. you ll assume it brings other domestic spending to there. he doesn t say how he ll get it there. in 2050, the plan expects everything that the government does, defense, transportation, education, infrastructure will be less than 3.5% of gdp. right now it s 12.5. there s no way to get there. if he could cut the budget that