VIDEO – PAUL RYAN INTERVIEW ON CHRIS WALLACE
Monday, January 30th, 2012REPRESENTATIVE PAUL RYAN, REPUBLICAN, SPEAKING ON OBAMA’S LEADERSHIP AND OUR NATIONAL DEBT, JANUARY 29, 2012
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THE ROMNEY PLAN
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Published on The Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com)
Stephen F. Hayes
November 14, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 09
Is this finally a Mitt Romney that conservatives can love? Or at least support?
Governor Romney spoke last week in Washington to a group closely associated with the Tea Party. And, for the first time, he sounded like a Tea Party candidate, proposing serious spending cuts and—this is important—embracing structural entitlement reform with specific policy proposals.
He’s not Ron Paul, whose plan calls for the elimination of five cabinet agencies, or even Jon Huntsman, who has offered a full, unqualified embrace of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget.
But neither of those men has any chance of being the Republican nominee. Mitt Romney has a strong chance—and with each passing day that eventuality seems more and more likely. What he says on these issues matters. Cheers for Romney.
Romney says he’ll reduce nonsecurity discretionary spending to 20 percent of America’s gross domestic product by 2016, down from more than 24 percent today. This will require real cuts, and Romney says he’s prepared to make them. In the first of what assuredly will be dozens of “day one” promises, Romney pledges on the first day of his presidency to send Congress a proposal that would immediately cut nonsecurity discretionary spending by five percent. He would also push a provision in the budget passed by House Republicans that would return nonsecurity discretionary spending to pre-Obama levels. He wants to cut the federal workforce by 10 percent and cut the pay of those who remain. (more…)
VIDEO – PAUL RYAN- THE SUPER COMMITTEE AND CONGRESS
Thursday, November 17th, 2011VIDEO – REPRESENTATIVE KELLY – WHAT IS WRONG WITH CONGRESS
Sunday, November 13th, 2011REPRESENTATIVE KELLY’S STATEMENT AT THE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE COMMITTEE, June 22, 2011
THE DIVIDER (OBAMA) VS THE THINKER (RYAN)
Saturday, October 29th, 2011VIDEO LINK TO PAUL RYAN’S SPEECH AT THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
- OCTOBER 29, 2011
The Divider vs. the Thinker
While Obama readies an ugly campaign, Paul Ryan gives a serious account of what ails America.
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By PEGGY NOONAN
- EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
Which gets us to Rep. Paul Ryan. Mr. Ryan receives much praise, but I don’t think his role in the current moment has been fully recognized. He is doing something unique in national politics. He thinks. He studies. He reads. Then he comes forward to speak, calmly and at some length, about what he believes to be true. He defines a problem and offers solutions, often providing the intellectual and philosophical rationale behind them. Conservatives naturally like him—they agree with him—but liberals and journalists inclined to disagree with him take him seriously and treat him with respect.
This week he spoke on “The American Idea” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. He scored the president as too small for the moment, as “petty” in his arguments and avoidant of the decisions entailed in leadership. At times like this, he said, “the temptation to exploit fear and envy returns.” Politicians divide in order to “evade responsibility for their failures” and to advance their interests.
- People are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the modern era wore it out.
What was the glue? A love of country based on a shared knowledge of how and why it began; a broad feeling among our citizens that there was something providential in our beginnings; a gratitude that left us with a sense that we should comport ourselves in a way unlike the other nations of the world, that more was expected of us, and not unjustly—
“To whom much is given much is expected”; a general understanding that we were something new in history, a nation founded on ideals and aspirations—liberty, equality—and not mere grunting tribal wants. We were from Europe but would not be European: No formal class structure here, no limits, from the time you touched ground all roads would lead forward. You would be treated not as your father was but as you deserved. That’s from “The Killer Angels,” a historical novel about the Civil War fought to right a wrong the Founders didn’t right. We did in time, and at great cost. What a country. (more…)
VIDEO – PAUL RYAN ON GRETA RE OBAMA USING CLASS WARFARE
Friday, October 28th, 2011VIDEO – PAUL RYAN AT THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION – SAVING THE AMERICAN IDEA PLAN
Thursday, October 27th, 2011PAUL RYAN ON THE PERRY FLAT TAX PLAN
Thursday, October 27th, 2011NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
| Paul Ryan on the Perry Plan: ‘I Can Tell You This: It Would Grow The Economy’
Posted on October 26, 2011 3:11 PM
In a conference call today sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Paul Ryan answered some questions regarding the Perry plan for an optional flat tax. Ryan once proposed an optional flat tax, with two brackets of 10 and 25 percent. “I can tell you this: it would grow the economy,” Ryan said of the Perry plan. “This enters the good stage of the campaign . . . where the candidates are putting forth actual ideas and bold solutions.” Ryan made two counter-arguments, one practical and one political, against the concern raised by Shannen Coffin and others that an optional flat tax will increase the complexity of the tax code instead of reducing it. “The practical argument is, people have their lives organized around the current code . . . You’ve got to give people time to adjust and prepare. When you completely convert over to a system by halting a tax expenditure, you [introduce] a lot of economic dislocation to the economy . . . You can smooth that transition.” (more…) |
VIDEO – PAUL RYAN – 900 DAYS SINCE THE SENATE PASSED A BUDGET
Thursday, October 20th, 2011DON’T FORGET OBAMACARE
Sunday, October 16th, 2011This is the Weekly Standard article that was mentioned in the Uncommon knowledge video interview with Representative Paul Ryan that is posted following this article.
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Don’t Forget Obamacare
James C. Capretta
September 26, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 02
Obamacare’s individual mandate—requiring that all Americans purchase government-approved health insurance beginning in 2014—has always been the law’s most vulnerable provision. It is incredibly unpopular, and not just among conservatives. Polls consistently show that a large majority of the electorate opposes it, including a good portion of registered Democrats.
It is not hard to see why. Conservatives worry that the mandate, which compels all Americans to buy a particular product whether they want to or not, involves an unprecedented assertion of federal power. Many middle-of-the-road voters don’t trust the federal government to do anything well, much less decide for one and all the kind of health insurance everyone must purchase.
And liberals can see that the provision creates a guaranteed marketplace for precisely the private health insurers that the president has spent so much time demonizing as greedy, profit-hungry, and patient-abusing miscreants. The president could have used the heavily Democratic Congress of 2009 and 2010 to push through any number of items on the liberal wish list. But he chose to deplete his entire political capital securing a permanent, guaranteed customer base for shareholder-owned private health insurance companies. Ironic indeed. (more…)