really lonely, is because they want to try to get, put this issue of the differences on medicare behind them. that says to me, i certainly don t compare ryan to sarah palin, but again, there s this it s not just a do no harm, you have to be able to move the ball down the field past the first 48, 78 hours and keep that momentum going. it feels like the other thing going here at the end of the news cycle, friday night, is the tax returns. so now we ve got ryan, right, showing up with two years of tax returns, paying at least a 15% rate. when you read ryan s tax returns, man, he s downright middle class compared to his running mate. so again you stay on the side the higher tax rate again than mitt romney and trying to justify it by saying, i think he was saying romney has already paid. he s paying taxes twice because he earned it as income and is doing it, but that s not true because of the carried interest loophole on the private equity stuff, most of romney s earnings
alzheimer s. medicare was there for our family, for my grandma, when we needed it then. and medicare is there for my mom while she needs it now. and we have to keep that guarantee. my mom has been on medicare for over ten years. and i will tell you exactly how many years over ten years she s been on it. she plays tennis every week, she exercises every day. she planned her retirement around this promise that the government made her because she paid her payroll taxes into this program, which she had this promise with. that s a promise we have to kee keep. here s what the president won t tell you about his medicare plan. about obama care.
down ballot are still playing a little bit of defense. highcamp is the only one to show how to effectively turn that around. you saw how effectively the republicans showed this jujitsu on medicare and the tax, the effect on seniors. there s no cuts being done by anyone in medicare. medicare is growing enormously under anyone s plan. it is around $550 billion a year today. it s going to go even under the to supposed ryan plan to $950 billion ten years from now. then they talk about slowing the growth after that. so we do have to get in nerdland to that s right. we have to get real about this. but the solvency of medicare is not a one-sided question. this is true at any given budget debate. there s certainly the question of cost control but there s also the question of resources. this is when we try to make it on the individual level, you can get a second job, bring in more
want to get wonky on you, but we have not run the number ossen that specific plan. the numbers balance the budget. i would put a contrast. so when ryan wasn t getting wonky on people with details and fuzzgy math, he was confusing his record with requested funds from the obama stimulus. when he did and then slamming the president for not saving an auto plant in his district. under that other guy, president george w. bush. oops. the week s highlight might have been mitt romney trying to use a white board to explain how his plan differs from obama care. he still neglected to write on the board that the ryan plan budget cuts the same 700-plus billion from medicare. cuts he proposes at the same time that he insists on cutting tax rates for americans who are the most wealthy. but then just this morning in his first ever weekly podcast, governor romney made clear he
and essentially they said, my favorite of the lessons learned is bring a third party value day or the, maybe mom. they had a candidate who basically used his mom as validator. here s where the romney plan ended up which was the double speak. they were talking about the $760 billion that obama takes out and they say puts it into obama care. well, it actually goes into obama care for medicare to reduce costs, it s waste fraud and abuse, reduces cost. as of friday on that lovely etch-a-sketch or whiteboard that we had. i have brought a whiteboard in case anyone would like to make any points, kaden, if you are into this. that s okay. so what romney essentially by the end of the week was saying is i ll restore that 760 billion and we are going to approve the program in ten years. so why not go ahead and put that money like president obama wants to in right now? this is part of the blil brilliance of the language of obama care.