Paul Ryan Taps Packers Mojo, Reaffirms Plan to Tackle Nation's Debt
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan campaigned in Waukesha on Monday and held a town hall meeting that was dominated by the economy. Ryan promised an Aaron Rodgers-eque all-star performance to address the nation's financial problems.
Capitalizing on Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers' all-star performance Sunday night, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Waukesha crowd Monday that Americans can expect a similar game-changing performance from him and nominee Mitt Romney, if they are elected in three weeks.
Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch all tapped into the Packers' 42-24 upset win over the Houston Texans during the morning rally.
Ryan did away with the typical stage and podium, and instead opted for a more personal town hall format. Roughly 1,500 people packed the cozy confines of the Van Male Field House. Ryan took six questions from random members of the audience – from a 13-year-old to a union laborer.
Walker received a raucous standing ovation as he entered the gym through an entrance adorned with the American flag. Walker survived a heated recall race, and fired up the crowd before introducing Ryan.
“A couple months ago when we turned on that TV. We knew then, even before he made the announcement he had what it took to be the president,” Walker said. “When he announced Ryan as his running mate, we also found out he had the courage and passion. America more than ever needs a comeback team, and we have a team with the skills and qualifications to get the job done.”
With the debt clock ticking in the background, it was clear that the economy would receive the lion’s share attention, and it did. Ryan opened with a presentation on the growing national debt, which was complete with graphics to illustrate his points.
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“Before Obama came into office, every man woman and child bore a $36,000 share of the national debt. Now every child born in this country is $51,000 in debt,” Ryan said. “We have to go to other nations to borrow money to pay for our government. We can’t keep doing this. We lose our sovereignty.”
Ryan once again outlined Romney’s five-point plan to kick start the economy. He touched upon his plan for Medicare reform, vowed to repeal Obamacare, and denounced Obama’s job-killing tax plan and policies.
“The president has been going around the country saying he has a plan,” Ryan said. “That’s the problem. The president gives lots of speeches, but he doesn’t put anything specific on the table.”
Ryan turned his attention on the voters for the second half of his appearance and fielded questions from the audience. Again, most were focused on his plan to fix the economy. A union laborer, who supports the Romney/Ryan ticket, asked what they would do for workers if elected.
Ryan responded by chiding Obama for job-killing policies he’s enacted over the past four years. He claimed Obama would raise the taxes businesses to roughly 40 percent, and make it difficult for workers to find gainful employment.
“This tax increase that he is talking about doesn’t even pay for 10 percent of his proposed spending increases,” Ryan said. “It’s really the businesses that create our jobs. It’s a million small businesses. This tax increase is expected to lose us 710,000 jobs.”
Ryan said he would keep the tax rate competitive with countries around the globe to keep investment in America. He also criticized Obama for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, which he claimed would create tens of thousands of jobs.
Ryan promised a thriving economy to a 13-year-old boy in the audience who wanted to know if the United States’ financial circumstances would turn around.
“We can turn this around if we put the right ideas in place, and the right leaders in place.”
However, President Barack Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner issued a statement pegging blame for the struggling economy on Ryan.
“Congressman Ryan voted for the very policies that drove up our debt and deficits – two wars on the credit card, a new prescription drug benefit that wasn’t paid for, and massive tax cuts skewed toward millionaires and billionaires,” Kanner said. “Now, Mitt Romney and Congressman Ryan are proposing to increase defense spending by $2 trillion and have proposed $5 trillion in specific tax cuts, but refuse to provide any details about how they’d pay for it until after the election.”
Watts
1:00 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Nobody cares about reaffirming anything, until they are ready to provide some actual details. Because as of right now, this all sounds like a magic trick.
Keith Best
3:14 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Watts---kinda like Hope and Change eh?
Which has proved to be EPIC FAILURE!
mhazzard
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Hope and change impossible anyway as long as republicans retain any power...
Cazzie
10:04 am on Friday, October 19, 2012
but mhazzard..Dems are in control with exception of House..and the first 2 years it was total control by Dems. Just like your leader-big O. you would like to blame someone else. Put on your man pants. This is Obama's economy-he campaigned for and got the job to fix it. He made it worse. How's that hope and change workin'?
Tim
2:27 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
"magic trick" Only to the un-informed blue fisters such as yourself. Try getting your info from someone other than Rachel, Chris or Ed. Then maybe, just maybe you'll wake and stop drinking the kool-aide.
Watts
3:25 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
OK Tim, how about I get my info from you. Can you send me the link to where Romney or Ryan have mathematically explained how this is going to all work for them? Because I watched Ryan squirming when the moderator pressed him for those details in the debate and I know that he classically dodged this even on the ideologically friendly Fox News interview with Chris Wallace. We have all seen the clip enough, so for a few extra laughs, here is Colbert's poking fun at Ryan's dodge...
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419835/october-05-2012/recap---week-of-10-1-12
So we all await your brilliance to show where they have detailed this all out. Or, is the reality that you are the lemming, blindly following your talk radio saviors?
Greg
3:42 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
That video is so racist.
James R Hoffa
5:17 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
@Watts -
Does Hoffa really need to educate you on this? Not too bright, are we?
Tax increases on businesses, such as those proposed by Obama/Biden, are passed on to the end consumer by higher prices. Higher prices leads to diminished demand for goods and services. Diminished demand leads to less need for labor. Less need for labor leads to less jobs and lower wages because of an oversupply in the labor market. Less jobs and lower wages leads to less government revenue received in the form of taxes because of the reduction in the size of the collectable base, not to mention increased spending on social safety net programs.
The perfect formula for a stagnant or diminishing economy.
As to the details on Romney/Ryan's tax plan:
Apparently, you weren't listening very well.
1) The tax cut does not amount to $5T over 10 years as erroneously stated by biased third party studies that rely on assumptions, speculation, supposition, etc.
2) If you cut the size and spending of the federal government, as Romney/Ryan are proposing, then a tax cut doesn't necessarily need to be 'revenue neutral.'
James R Hoffa
5:17 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
3) The middle-class, and especially those on the lower end, would primarily benefit from the reduced rates, as deductions/loopholes/etc are going to be eliminated on the upper end so that the effective tax rate of those earning more than $200k/yr will remain at the status quo, while everyone else's effective tax rate will either also remain at the status quo or decrease, even if only slightly. Both Romney and Ryan have definitively stated that the eliminated deductions/loopholes/etc will not effectively raise anyone's taxes who are earning less than $200k/yr.
4) By reducing the rates, you encourage business investment and growth. You also maintain end consumer prices and increase competition, which effectively helps to lower end consumer prices. Encouraged business leads to more jobs. More jobs leads to more people working and paying into the government as opposed to leaching from it, which translates to a larger base from which to collect revenues and less expenditures being made on the social safety net programs. More people working with a reduced tax burden leads to more money in people's pockets to spend. More money in people's pocket to spend with steady or reduced end consumer prices leads to increased demand for goods and services. Increased demand leads to even more business investment and growth, which leads to more jobs, etc.
The choice is obviously clear to anyone with half a brain!
ROMNEY/RYAN/THOMPSON 2012!!!
Watts
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Hoffa, I am not going to hear you regurgitate what some conservative site fed you as what they think is the Romney/Ryan plan is. Post a link to any video or printed materials where they themselves say what it is. Otherwise, you are just repeating conjecture of what it might be.
James R Hoffa
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
@Watts -
Hoffa doesn't regurgitate, this is Hoffa's own analysis based upon the information available from the Romney campaign website and from what Romney and Ryan have asserted in public comment - all primary sources.
Unlike you, Hoffa is able to think for himself and doesn't need third party secondary sources to do it for him - perhaps you should give thinking for yourself a shot some time, as you may end up liking it!
James R Hoffa
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
@Watts -
Hoffa doesn't regurgitate, this is Hoffa's own analysis based upon the information available from the Romney campaign website and from what Romney and Ryan have asserted in public comment - all primary sources.
Unlike you, Hoffa is able to think for himself and doesn't need third party secondary sources to do it for him - perhaps you should give thinking for yourself a shot some time, as you may end up liking it ;-)
mhazzard
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Patch is a newspaper for republicans who have the ability to stay "frozen" they're entire lives...
Watts
3:20 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Yet Hoffa still can't provide a link to that the math on their site and is just making this all up.
Nuitari
3:26 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Of course one such as Watts would look forward to magic tricks, pony rides, and balloons. Shows the elementary level of his thinking.
Watts
4:02 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Way to show that you can't even follow the simple logistical flow of a couple of posts in a forum. I equated the lack of any details Romney/Ryan plan to being a magic trick, which I am not falling for, unlike some others here. So to say that I am looking forward to these things, is to show complete ignorance of even being able to follow a simple statement like that. But then again, what should I expect from somebody who is satisfied with Pizza Hut. Not showing much of a skill set for critical thinking. So you can enjoy your Romney/Ryan magic show with your pizza hut.
Keith Best
4:09 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Hey Watts-- question for you.
What makes you think a FIRST-TERM senator who spent most of that FIRST-TERM running for another office, knows anything about running anything? And let's not forget Obama was a state senator before that who spent most of that FIRST-TERM running for another office. Obama never ran anything............hello Watts are you out there????
Watts
4:54 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Hey Keith, Obama has already proven himself as correcting the course from the atrocity that was the last Republican administration that tanked this nation. Was it as fast as anybody wanted...no, but it has undeniably improved.
Now I will make the same offer to you, that I did to Tim. Prove that you aren't simply a lemming and show me exactly where Romney or Ryan has detailed their plan? Otherwise, you are just blindly following the magic man with your fingers crossed. At least with Obama, we know that we are on a corrective course, so I have idea what would motivate anybody to abandon that course for the great unknown of this mysterious plan that Romney/Ryan refuse to address and that economists say is impossible by what they have so far said.
So show that you have substance to contribute or just move on with those nit-wit talking points that you pull off those fringe conservative sites.
Craig
5:18 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Watts: You are not very bright are you? I am guessing about a 5W bulb is brighter. What has Obama done to "prove himself as correcting the course"?
I would like a serious answer, not some BS you got from his campaign. Give me even one specific example.
Jacob Stein
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Watts I am with you. I love Obama's plan of crapping rainbows and spitting sparkles while raping the unicorns (Middle Class) I fully support your mentality and wish I could have some of whatever meds you are on so I can share in your realm to the fullest.
Watts
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
@Craig
Another unoriginal, schoolyard comment. The offer is open to you, as well to prove that you have anything going in that head of yours. Just show me where the details are for this plan that you support.
For me, it is easy. Just look at the employment rate, just look at your 401k. The Dow Jones is just about double what it was when it hit bottom from the Bush recession. The housing market is now turning around. And I could go on and on and on. There isn't a single indicator out there that isn't showing improvement.
Watts
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
OK, Jacob has proven it. This is nothing more than a thread of kids with nothing of any substance tos ay, but to make goofy kid comments. Let me know when you guys grow up and maybe then you can communicate as an adult.
Craig
7:33 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Watts: I asked you for an example, and you give me the DJIA?
You are aware that the market prices are based on supply and demand, and Corporate profitability? For the outdated tungsten fillaments, this can mean more OUTSOURCING to increase said profits. Remove 401(k) plans and the Dow, and the only arguement left is unemployment. This you claim is going in the right direction. Those who ran out of Unemployment Compensation are no longer considered unemployed by the Gvt., those who are underemployed are also not figured into the rate.
So all we have learned from your tirade is you got squat. Nothing is improving.
How's that hope and change crap working for you now?
Bren
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Another cozy, well controlled event, replete with "softball" questions. Of course Paul Ryan tried to ride the coattails of the Packers' victory--I would have been disappointed in his campaign strategists if he hadn't.
Yes, someone was there.
Johnny Blade
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Paul Ryan had no problem voting for every freakin bailout put in front of him .. ohhh they are to big to jail so bail them out with taxpayer money ... what does the great investor Jim Rogers say about bailouts .. it is like Christianity without hell .. I think that sums it up .. Only the uber wealthy don't have to take responsibility for thier actions just us servants .. SO we get a choice between two Goldman Sachs candidates .. oh what choice, hahahahahaha!
splinter
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Still waiting for detailed answers for:
(1) What are your plans for tax reform?
(2) What are your plans for entitlement reform?
(3) What are your plans for overall spending reforms?
Why these questions: See CNBC's "Are we rich or poor?" debate (worth watching):
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1604902615
Or just read some of the CBO's recent reports (google "CBO entitlements projections").
We need tax reform (keep in dead simple) and spending reforms (both near term and long term). Big spending reforms. In exchange, add a near-term high-rate of return investment in our infrastructure (grid, bridges, etc).
Tired of both parties being wedded to their "bases". Time for some common sense. Both Romney and Obama have it in them. Let's see it.
Nick Poulos
11:46 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
We must #Re-Elect #Obama. And, Wisconsin voters who have that privilege to correct this sin against humans need to reject Ryan twice. His allegiance to Ayn Rand's #Objectivist Philosophy, alone, is sufficient for every voter to cast her or his vote for Obama n 2 take up the rallying cry and put Democrat Rob Zerban in Ryan's Congressional seat.
Ryan has an allegiance to Rand's immoral ethics; he publicly admits he is her disciple. the media reported that he is so driven by her thinking that he forced his staff members to read her atheistic, immature, self-centered drivel and pay homage to her principles of living in order to work for his office(:that alone should worry you).
As thoughtful Americans we cannot allow Ryan and the Randians to do further damage to the Nation's social contract between its citizens. We need #Zerban 2 take Ryan's place. We need to Stay the Course with Obama.The diversionary effect of televised debates should not blind anyone to the truth, which is something neither Romney nor Ryan can afford to deliver.Again: "Truth is un-hidden-ness";"Truth is un-concealed-ness." Neither is in the Republican "play book" or vocabulary.
Anyone interested in delving into these assertions about how and in which ways Rand and her disciples have, and would, further hurt the USA should start with Gary Weiss's well-researched "Ayn Rand Nation" following it up if they can accept the immature immorality of the characters w "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged."Re-elect O
James R Hoffa
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
@Nick Poulos -
Still peddling the same old cut and paste BS, eh?
Did you miss your flight to Guyana?
Johnny Blade
3:20 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Nations social contract .. complete hogwash .. how about the nations CONSTITUTION ... You statist commie bastards who don't think it is immoral for the government to steal from some to give to others is unbelivable .. WE are 16 trillion in debt that means we are living way way beyond our means now .. what is your answer to that spend more???
Mary Ann
3:20 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
I have said the same thing. I hope Ryan loses twice. That is my wish for him!!! Put him out of a job, just like his Janesville people who lost jobs, let him really see how it feels! But some other jerk will hire him. The poor normal person in his mansion house, connected thru the woods to his former house as a kid. We saw it on TV Ryan, you are not a middle class normal Joe.
WEACHATER
7:33 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Here ya go Nik Pustule, check out this great ad for the great "O".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax-2i71bqGw
Keith Best
11:31 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Speaking of "Atlas Shrugged", Part II is in theaters now. See what happens to an economy when you over -tax and over -regulate, now on the silver screen, similar to what the Obama Administration is doing to this country.
Another 4 years of Obama and the USA will be a shell of it's former self as an exceptional country.
Gordon E Lang
7:33 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
As mostof you were not at Paul Ryan's Town Hall Meeting at Carroll University the attached link is of Paul's presentation. Decide for yourself but please vote for Romney/Ryan on November 6, 2012 or before absentee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUvSxA5M6k&list=UUnB0XuVKojvIzILMEgnVCyA&index=1&feature=plcp
morninmist
4:55 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012
#lyingRyan goes for photo-op!
@SpudLovr
Ryan built that --> Donors pulling $$$ from soup kitchen Ryan visited http://huff.to/Wt2MgY #wiunion #wiright #p2 #ctl #1u
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