Posted on 04/04/2009 4:33:48 PM PDT by cc2k
CQ Transcriptswire
SPEAKER: REP. PAUL D. RYAN, R-WIS.
[*] RYAN: Hello I’m Paul Ryan of Wisconsin the lead Republican on the House Budget Committee. America is in the midst of an economic crisis. Families and small businesses are hurting and too many Americans have lost their jobs. There is no doubt that President Obama inherited -- fiscal crisis. But the question is busy fixing it or is he making it worse. The president’s budget which passed the House and Senate this week we’ll make the crisis much much worse. Rather than getting spending under control it -- spending out of control. Rather than keeping taxes low to create jobs it chases ever higher spending with ever higher taxes and results in ever higher debt. An unprecedented. Unsustainable. Increase in -- It doubles our national debt in five years in triples our debt in ten years. Put simply. The Democrats’ budget spends too much tax is too much and borrows too much from our kids in their kids.
They’re budget puts all the sacrifice on future generations it makes no tough choices it’s only tough on our children and grandchildren. But it’s not enough for us to just criticize we must also proposed a better way forward and Republicans path. The budget house Republicans offered gives Americans a real choice it curb spending creates jobs in controls with debt. The Republican budget has lower deficits than the democratic plan every year in my -- nineteen has half the deficit proposed by the president. Under our plan the public debt would be three point six trillion dollars lower than president Obama’s plan.
Our budget gives priority to national defense and veterans health care. We freeze all other discretionary spending for five years we enact a spending cap backed up by tough budget enforcement. American families are making sacrifices and tightening their belts Washington should do the same. Our budget also takes steps toward health care reform and retirement security. Our goal is to make quality affordable health care accessible to all Americans.
By strengthening the relationship between patients and their doctors not with a big government takeover. We will preserve and improve the existing Medicare program as well. We have offered a concrete plan a path to prosperity. To tackle our nation’s problems with innovative in principled solutions. America’s not the greatest nation on earth by chance. We earned this greatness by rewarding individual achievement. By advancing and protecting natural rights and by embracing freedom. Our budget reflects those principles and we offer the American people a better way forward thank you for listening.
I like him. I liked him last year when he placed his budget on his website.
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An awful transcription job of a lackluster address.
Hey Republican, President Obama has just gave China and Russia to have a said in our banking,and what the F-— are you doing about it ?
Because the media isn't carrying them. Or, if they do, they aren't promoting them.
The liberals control the media, recall.
The only place you'll ever hear about these is on the conservative blogs and talk radio. They'll get their fair share of discussion there, but nowhere else.
Of course, if Ryan had said he proposed roasting Michelle on a spit, he'd have gotten all the publicity he could handle.
I'm used to having to work around media bias. But this weeks address, I had to fight GOP stupidity (or possibly the GOP or some staffer actively trying to hide this weeks address) and work extra hard to find it.
okie01 wrote:
Because the media isn't carrying them. Or, if they do, they aren't promoting them. The liberals control the media, recall.
Let me take you through the steps.
First, I found this weeks address on YouTube. That wasn't so difficult. It never is. Finding the transcript is the hard part.
From youtube, I figured out who was delivering it. It was Paul Ryan.
Now, usually, searching the presenter's web site, in this case http://www.house.gov/ryan/ will find a transcript. No luck there. Not in the Press Releases. Not in his speeches. Not there.
So then I tried http://www.gop.com, http://www.gop.gov, http://republicanleader.house.gov/, http://republican.senate.gov/ and http://www.prnewswire.com/. The last one is a press release distribution site that has had the Republican Weekly address every week for at least the last 6 weeks. None of those sites had a transcript. Only one had the video.
Then I listened a bit (I have dialup, so this is painfully slow for me), and started searching the entire internet for some of the phrases I heard. And I found it, but it took several attempts to find it on a site that I could post full text from. Part of the problem is that this isn't the best transcription.
It's not just media bias. The GOP makes it way too hard to find their weekly address. If I were a reporter for a Party Propaganda Ministry news outlet, even if I wanted to publish this, I'd give up.
The GOP needs to put these things where people can find them. It would be best if there was an archive of all of them, and a single location where the most recent one is always published. It's insane that they don't do that.
Your point is well taken.
Perhaps you might address a letter to the Michael Steele, at the RNC, describing what you had to go through to get a transcript.
It might not do any good. But, then again, it might. Which would be a feather in Steele's cap.
By all means, don’t link that transcription. Friggin embarrassing job. Obviously, a public school-educated ignoramus typed that up. My 4th-grader could’ve done better.
Ryan voted for the original bailout last October (I can’t even remember what it was for now; FannieMae FreddieMac?) and the 90% tax on the AIG execs. I have no use for him any more.
A court of freaks destroys the foundation of society in Iowa, the Kenyan surrenders to the Muslim world, his wife makes a mockery of everything in Europe, and all this idiot can do is whine pathetically.
It's embarrassing to be registered in the same party with these limp wrists.
I didn’t know Ryan voted 90% tax on AIG. That is a ignorant vote.
I can see where he voted last year for TARP when Bush and McCain said it had to happen. Bush was told the economy would collapse if it was not passed. I believe this was the draw down by George Soros and his alliance that created that scare.In fact if you look at what transpired in a few short hours you would see what Bush and McCain were reacting to. It was a setup. Paulson was suppose to be on Bush’s side but he is a fraud. Paulson said the bailout had to happen or else. The information to Ryan would be the same. Plug those holes or we are doomed.
If what I think is true, you are still correct because Ryan should be speaking out he was wrong on his vote.
Thank you for alerting.
PAUL RYAN VOTED YES ON THE STIMULUS BILL AND HE’S SOFT ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT... NOW HE’S A PATRIOT??????
ALL YOUR GOP ARE BELONG TO US.....
I think Wisconsin is one of the most left leaning states in the USA. THIS IS WHAT THE GOP IS DRAGGING OUT???? WE ARE DOOMED, FOLKS!
Your choice. This is the same guy who said that he wouldn't have voted to tax the AIG bonuses at 90% if he "had known it was unconstitutional."
I think he is a $h!+heel.
Ryan’s not my rep, mine is Jim Sensenbrenner, and what god is smiling down on this congressional district to grant us that I just don’t know. He’s 100% solid conservative, I’m just scared to death that he’ll get sick of the crapola going on in Congress and retire.
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