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Let s start by clearing up a couple things we heard ryan saying at the end, which is the affordable care act of 2010 raids medicare to pay for obama care. there are provisions that affect medicare including enhanced benefits, spending reductions around current plans, including for some high income individuals, raising premiums a bit in order to make it more affordable for other folks. but this was the point i was making earlier about bringing in more income, changing that payroll tax system so that everybody pays who are at the top of the income a little bit higher. this notion that ryan is giving us here that my mom paid into it and now she is taking basically her wages back. that is not how medicare works, right? that s simply not how the system works. so on the one hand it is balsy, they are there having the conversation, but it is not a fair fight that he s suggesting facts that are not accurate. essentially he s doing what democrats have been trying to do for several years, whic ....
Legislature, what did mitt romney do? he reached across the aisle, he extended the hand, he negotiated and balanced the budget without raising taxes. this is the kind of man for this kind of moment we need to lead our nation at this crucial moment. now, you ve heard the president has been talking about medicare a bit lately. we want this debate, we need this debate, and we are going to win this debate. [ cheers and applause ] now, like a lot of americans, when i think about medicare, it s not just a program, it s not just a bunch of numbers, it s what my mom relies on. it s what my grand ma had. ....
Entitlement. the idea it s entitlement is like a thing of going to saks fifth avenue instead of the promise across generations and the idea we value, that we don t want seniors to be living in poverty. by saving, preserving, my mom, all that language, which was in the presentation that says this is how you mitigate the issue for republicans, this is also the difference between nerdland and political land in terms of the facts and the spin. and the thing i love about the story is my mom is retired and she gets to play tennis and comes down to florida, i m thinking, who doesn t want that for their parents? sblu the reality before medicare and social security is that the elderly lived in abjact poverty and the notion we had high poverty rates is going to be dissolved under the ryan plan. all that s true but this is effective from the republican side. it humanizes ryan as somebody who cares about seniors, the alzheimer s grandmother who lived with him while younger, ....
This debate and we are going to win this debate on medicare. [ cheers and applause ] i ll tell you why. there s only one person who treated medicare like a piggy bank. and that s president obama. he took 760 billion dollars from that program to create obama care. that affects current seniors and his campaign calls this an achievement. you think raiding medicare to pay for obama care is an achievement? let s just get rid of obama care altogether. while it is not exactly brave to go into an enclave like the villages, they are elderly individual who is i venture to say like medicare. romney is not only asking for a debate about it, he s practically begging for it. joining me at the roundtable, we ....
He outlasted everybody. and i m proud of that. he wants to be president. it s tempered him for this debate. and i ll go back to earlier campaigns, i watched the hillary clinton/barack obama campaign in south carolina. i watched it. one of the most brutal campaigns i have ever seen. and president obama then senator obama took every punch clinton could throw at him, so these things temper a candidate. i think what paul ryan has done for us, i understand that republicans are willing to have a medicare/medicaid debate. we have usually ducked that, so at least we are willing to address that. but i hear you. and i hear you that medicare is an important part of the federal budget that we have to talk about, but it is not really a debate. in part because what s going up on the whiteboard is not fair, right? melissa, it is not a debate yet, it will be. but actually it has been and actually that was the other thing you saw this week where you had to have john boehner essentially calm dow ....