| Former vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan continues to say some pretty dumb shit! |
"[I believe that] more people depend on government!" Says the former vice president, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin).
So if you're still waiting on federal assistance of Hurricane Sandy relief, federal aid for college, or subsidies for agricultural disaster, don't look at the Republican Party as the saviors of your ills.
The former vice presidential nominee was the running mate of the perennial loser Mitt Romney.
Romney and Ryan both got their clocks clean President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
In his first interview since fading into irrelevance, the Wisconsin congressman outlines his party's plan for dealing with the looming sequester and how to win back voters.
The Washington Post reports that Ryan was among the attendees at President Obama’s second inauguration Monday, which would have been his swearing-in as vice president had he and perennial loser Mitt Romney prevailed in November.
Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee and is the face of the GOP’s efforts to reform Social Security and Medicare, has responded to Obama’s comments on entitlement programs in his inaugural address. Ryan told radio host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday that Obama mischaracterized Republicans’ positions with his reference to a “nation of takers.”
On Wednesday, Ryan told reporters the GOP would insist on spending cuts to control the budget this year.
Ryan has given several taped interviews in Wisconsin since the election. “Meet the Press” said Ryan will weigh in on upcoming budget battles and assess the future of the Republican party in his interview with Gregory.
“I think the sequester is going to happen,” Ryan said on NBC News’s “Meet The Press.”
The sequester — which is the roughly $1.2 trillion worth of automatic spending cuts set to soon hit the Pentagon and other government agencies if lawmakers don’t act — is likely to happen, Ryan said, because of opposition from Democrats to Republican proposals for replacement cuts.
“We think these sequesters will happen because the Democrats have opposed our efforts to replace those cuts with others and they've offered no alternatives,” Ryan said.
Ryan also echoed other GOP leaders as he took a stern posture against Democratic calls to discuss the need for new revenue in the nation’s budget, arguing that the matter was addressed in the recent deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,” which raised tax rates for the wealthiest Americans.
“Well, we already offered that back in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The point is, though, the president got his additional revenues. So that’s behind us,” Ryan said.
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