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All the pressure is on one leg. he wants to reduce taxes on the whole. he wants to increase military spending and cut the deficit. that means everything we do to improve the quality of life at home, build highways, build public transportation, clean up the water, have the fbi out there helping us, it all has to get slashed deeply. >> well, you know, the right wing calls ryan a deficit hawk. but look at his record. he voted for the bush tax cuts adding $1.7 trillion to the deficit. voting to exte...

That talked about this plan and how cruel it was. to your point about the white catholics in the rust belt, a lot of them are unemployed. a lot are men that have lost their jobs. i think the poverty thing will be a bigger issue than we think. >> briefly, theres a notion in washington that hes a budget hawk. hes not a budget hawk. hes a poverty hawk. hes a charity hawk. he wants to cut certain parts of the budget and he says it will go to deficit reduction but he doesnt want to cut other things. ...

Guy rich, he puts his must be in a tax haven overseas and if he has extra, he opens a factory in china. >> is this guy a fiscal hawk or does he simply spend money at liberty when he likes the project? whether its prescription drug, t.a.r.p. of bailout of rich people, bailout of corporations or banks. it seems like ryan only starteded worrying about paying for things since obamas been elected president. under p., he didnt worry about the price tag. what do we make of that, michael? just a simple ...

The entire second george w. bush term in office was his failed effort to privatize social security. we played a clip of him after the 04 election where he got elected saying he planned on spending the capital on selling the public on the privatization of social security. paul ryan was the republican in the house pushing for the same thing. one of the things that was interesting, though, was that in paul ryans version of it, it would cost $2 trillion in government spending costs to move social se...

Paul ryan was the republican in the house pushing for the same thing. one of the things that was interesting, though, was that in paul ryans version of it, it would cost $2 trillion in government spending costs to move social security into a privatized system. did he ever propose paying for that $2 trillion? did he think that should be deficit finance? >> no, i mean, it was very much the same kind of problem that were seeing in the rest of his fiscal plan. why this guy has a reputation as a fisc...

Tune of $9 plus trillion, the bush tax cuts plus the doubling down of the romney/ryan tax cuts and increase defense spending, theres no way you can do that without jamming the deficit into the stratosphere. same problem. and again, an underlying theme here towards social insurance. thats a guaranteed benefit so important in medicare, so important in social security. gone under this kind of privatetization. >> was there any evidence under the bush years when mr. ryan was in congress, sort of a ba...

Theres no way you can do that without jamming the deficit into the stratosphere. same problem. and again, an underlying theme here towards social insurance. thats a guaranteed benefit so important in medicare, so important in social security. gone under this kind of privatetization. >> was there any evidence under the bush years when mr. ryan was in congress, sort of a back bench member of congress, but a rising star. one with a hot following. was there any evidence of him being a fiscal hawk in...

The 04 election where he got elected saying he planned on spending the capital on selling the public on the privatization of sulocial security. paul ryan was the republican in the house pushing for the same thing. one of theeresting, though, wasn paul ryans version of it, it would cost $2 trillion in government spending costs to move social security into a privatized system. did he ever propose paying for that $2 trillion? did he think that should just be deficit finance? >> no, it was the, very...

Of latinos, for example, that dont go regularly to church, but want to make sure that their politicians are respectful of the church. how they discuss politics and the church. ive got to tell you something. know whos been really good at this? biden. >> i was going to say -- >> went to mexico and prayed and wept and that said more to many people than a lot of this discussion about if youre a budget hawk or poor hawk or all of these things which are valid, but i think its just the tone. the respec...

Youre going to cut taxes to the tune of 9 plus trillion, the bush tax cuts plus the doubling down of the romney/ryan tax cuts over ten years, and youre also going to increase defense spending, theres absolutely no way you can do that without jamming the budget deficit into the stratosphere. so same problem. and again, an underlying theme here of a real antipathy toward social insurance. that kind of a guaranteed benefit thats so important in medicare, so important in social security, gone under ...