Times talked about mr. ryan having dangerous ideas and trying to become chairman of ways and means committee. can you imagine someone with this idea over the tax code and safety net? this is frightening to many people who want to see this kind of politics continue to be marginalized in this country. i ll tell you what, the only takers in this country are employers who pay below the minimum wage, below the poverty line and then require that their employees get food stamps and low income heating assistance and those things. paul ryan is saying the ryan republican budget is the only thing in the country. we need to take the message. now the choices are clear and the choices are very stark. a republican ryan budget sucks the life blood out of the
Don t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt. in fact for the next ten years, it s going to be in a sustainable place. the question is, can we do it smarter, can we do it better? if the only goal of a budget was to make it as small as possible, congressman paul ryan would be your man. his budget reduces the deficit by an additional $2.75 trillion compared to senator patty murray s plan. but the race to a budget is not the goal of a budget. foumtly a budget is a reflection of your core values, and which investments you believe are necessary. to those who say government should treat its budgets the way households do, it s important to point out that a family s budget works the same way. parents don t pull their kids out of school or deliberately starve themselves or stop going to the doctor for the singular doing mattic purpose of spending as little as possible. and taking out kretic is both part of american culture and key to growing the economy. for instance, 71% of americans
Know from the europeans that austerity doesn t work and what irks our republican colleagues when we tell them all we re trying to do is follow the european model of austerity, which doesn t work. behind closed doors, you can tell us, it s just us here, there s nobody else in the room. do they admit that government spending stimulates the economy? is this just for show? is this like boehner s op-ed where it s gauzy rhetoric meant to blur the distinction between cutting spending and creating the blessed american dream. one-on-one, do republicans admit to you, chris van holland, that they need federal money to stimulate things things in their districts. we were up until 11:30 last night debating the house republican ryan budget. one republican after another would say that this government spending actually does not create one single job. and then you say to them, well how is it that when you invest in building roads and bridges, which is good for the economy and our transportation syst
The momentum. but that s exactly what this republican budget would do. according to the nonpartisan congressional budget office it would result in 750,000 fewer jobs by the end of this year. so we ve seen from some of our european partners that as you tartd and slash-and-burn budgetsing slows down your economy. rather than helps job creation. so they re taking us in exactly the wrong direction if those, if author those of us who want to make sure we get more people back to work. congressman val holland, if i may, while you re saying that and you re saying they re trying to take us in this wrong direction, why do i feel like this is the first time i ve heard democrats, including the president, actually speak up and say hold on a second, we really don t actually have a big deficit problem. i feel like in a lot of ways, a lot of democrats have conceded the point it s not whether we should slash the deficit, just how. well because we have two issues, joy, right now our focus has to be
Altar of deep cuts and an austerity philosophy. i want to bring the panel in because you know, the congressman talks about making smart cuts now. what s in it for democrats to do any grand bargaining at all. any savings that would be applied in cutting the budget, would not be applied to their priorities. it s not as if you re going to reduce government spending on x and spend it more on the poor, spend it more on things democrats care b. why are democrats arguing for a budget at all? you and i don t agree on this, joanne. i think long-term, as congressman van holland says, you have to create a sustainable budget path. with the baby boomers, retirement and all sorts of other huge coming costs, we need to have some modest sensible reforms that don t hurt people. those are possible to do. small changes yield huge savings. having said that the republicans aren t actually in favor of fighting the deficit.