completely changed medicare as we know it by replacing it with the paper service voucher program as they dub it. now, it is an alternate, a choice. walk us through the process of changing it because mr. romney objected to the first one because it wasn t a choice. was that what changed your mind? mitt romney came out with his medicare reform plan first before we did in the house. as we got into looking at this issue talking with democrats, it evolved to be a plan that is now bipartisan. this medicare reform plan originated in the clinton bipartisan commission to save medicare. a bill with bipartisan support in congress today. what mitt romney is talking about is making sure that we keep the medicare program intact for people in or near retirement and preventing the raid that president obama has put on the program to pay for obama care. by repealing obama care we can restore medicare and we are offering a bipartisan solution to make sure it is there for future retirees when they
need strong allies, and peace through strength. strong national defense. that s the kind of foreign policy we need to have a strong america and we think that president obama s foreign policy has hollowed that out. is it easier to and just on china and trade, and next part of the problem, china holds so much of our debt, almost half of that money is borrowed from foreign countries and so, because of the president s agenda, a big deficit, trillion dollar deficits every year, because of the president s agenda of not even offering a plan to get this deficit under control, the senate hasn t passed a budget three years and on china to float the bonds. we need spending under control and the deficit under control to where more independence as a country. the more we rely on countries like china, the cash throw, our government and deficit, the less we have on foreign
anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft weapons and there s evidence that they ve received some of the weapons though not in the numbers that they want. how they got there, we don t know whether they re through a third party or ally m the region, i think what we re attempting to do now is establish relationships with those groups who are in syria, so that we have some influnce to to shape events in a post assad regime. and that s the thing that takes place geopolitically and a plan to secure and general, if i could unpack what you said, reading between the lines. what i hear you saying, while the president may not publicly be talking about it, behind the scenes at the cia and other counter intelligence and terrorism efforts, something is being done on the ground to try to help forward the cause of the united states and other allies, very much concerned about what happens to the chemical weapons. we can rest assure that that is actually taking place. and i mean, i don t ask the ceo tho
you said you opposed the stimulus package and asking for stimulus projects and were you against it, for it while were you answers it, can you clear at that up. sure, so my office sends tens of thousands of letters to versus federal agencies and this goes through what we call a case work system and we treat it as a case work for constituents and i take full responsibility for it, whether it s my intention to send letters supporting stimulus, this doesn t change the the fact that the stimulus was a bomb, it didn t work, it s a boondoggle and borrowing and spending, spending on things like solyndra, that doesn t create a job. in the past republicans said i m against ear marks, but if this is going to pass with ear marks i didn t know about the letters until recently and they were brought to my attention, they were to the case work system and i take full responsibility for that and the plan i m trying to make is stimulus was a failure
of things that people are going to vote for this fall and i don t think they ll accept what they ve seen. and paul ryan is talking about 700 billion plus out of medicare and waste, fraud and abuse, and that sounds hypocritical to them. we voted repeatedly in the house, before having the budget, and repeal all of obamacare, including this raid on the medicare program. the democrats argue that your first proposal would have completely changed medicare, by replacing it with the paper service voucher program that you ve done. now it s an alternate. now it s a choice and welcome us through the process of changing it because mr. romney checked into it and it wasn t a choice. was that what changed your mind? mitt romney came out with your medicare plan first before we did in the house and as we got into looking to the issue and talking with democrats, it evolved to be a plan and this medicare reform plan in the bipartisan commission to save medicare