Posted on 08/29/2014 8:43:14 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
It is no longer a question of how much government Americans want. The only question is how much government Americanscan afford.
And the former Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the answer is becoming clear.
“I talk about this in the book,” Ryan told Watchdog Radio Monday. “About very progressive policies. About the outcomes they produce, and how they bankrupt governments.”
Ryan writes in his new book, “The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea”, that the federal government has expanded entitlement programs, Medicare, Social Security and now Obamacare, to the point where they cost far more than taxpayers have.
“If we keep going on this way, soon, we’ll reach a tipping point,” Ryan writes in his book, “where there are too many people receiving government benefits and not enough people to pay for those benefits.”
Ryan, who said he has not decided about a presidential bid in 2016, added that Americans need to act now to stop from going over that tipping point.
“We need to have a clarifying election in this country, where we give the people of this country a very clear choice, so we can win that election and have a mandate to fix this country’s problems before it’s too late.” Ryan told Watchdog Radio.
Listen to the full conversation Watchdog Radio’s Benjamin Yount had with Ryan. (at source)
America passed the “tipping point” with the election of Barack H. “(Ebola)” Obama. How far the country will fall is not known yet.
What a GREAT CALL, Yogafist. Very good call. The first-line summary from Watchdog Radio's Benjamin Yount ... out of the mouths of babes.
I listened to the whole radio interview. Ryan sounds EXACTLY PERFECT!!! He absolutely articulates everything I mean when I say "limited government conservative!" I hear exactly what I want to hear, straight down the line, and the same as with Yount as he speaks to Paul Ryan. Yount sounds like he wants the same things I do.
The devil is in the details. None, of course, can be discerned in the 10-minute interview. But a lot can be discerned from Yount's written introduction, as you nailed it!
Man. Scary.
egg-zackly
If we’re at a tipping point(indicating urgency), why put out 10 YEAR plans to reduced the budget ?
Yep.
Lesson #1 in how to be a PHONY conservative:
See Paul Ryan.
So says the fake big-thiker who wants to let in millions of poor, diseased, criminal parasites.
we had such an election, two in fact, Obama won both.
Guys like Ryan are created for Republican LIVs.
Ping to my post 27 ...
with 35% of the country on some form of means tested cash payments and another 15% getting medicare or social security, i would argue that democracy no longer works.
you really think anyone on these programs is going to vote for smaller government?
read a comment after obama’s last election: said; “it is now clear the american people have decided to run the current system until it breaks”
i believe that. when the dollar tanks and we lose world reserve currency status, the house of cards comes down. until then; Party On!!
What an arrogant low-IQ POS. What a repulsive statement.
It doesn't matter What or How much government people want. The government MUST operate strictly within Constitutional bounds.
Sounds like he’s not in the “fixed rules, objective truth” worldview,
and therefore, I cannot support him as a leader.
I would submit that the tipping point has already passed, and that 2012 was all the evidence needed.
There are now more voters for freebies than there are voters to pay for them. As the baby boomers retire and the workforce continues to shrink this will do nothing but accelerate. The looters simply outnumber the producers. This cannot be fixed apart from recovering whatever is left after the crash and starting over.
Paul Ryan, the guy who cannot bring himself to name even one useless/destructive government agency he could bear to shut down. Give me a break.
Liberals want big government, democrats want good government, republicans want smart government and conservatives want limited government.
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