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Choices to individuals. many times i discuss with the democrats, it's philosophical. they think that the person would make a wrong choice. that the government would make the choice for you. >> greta: there's no catch or left services or pay more. there's no catch? >> you're going to have a greater option. and as a member of congress, if we all get a set amount of money, based upon we're working for government, right? then we get a whole list of insurance options and we can take the same amount and we go in and pick which one. you know what judy and i would do when we were younger we'd look for...

Legal caps in the law that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money. and if they breach that amount, across-the-board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you can't turn that off without a super majority vote. we got that in law. >> we got that in law. we've been fighting for that. fast forward to now and paul ryan is thinking the opposite. now he is saying he doesn't like the idea. and it's the president's problem, the president's own making. >> it's the president who first proposed the sequester. >> everybody hates this upcoming made-up crisis, which is good, b...

These. is he saying that every single state is somehow supposed to not only take on the burden of dispensing that money but also the burden of administering these programs? >> yeah. he's talking about something called block grants, and that means that instead of the federal government reacting to a recession, for example, and expanding unemployment insurance, food stamps, the kinds of programs that he was just mentioning, it's now going to be a set amount of resources, a set amount of money every year. so when you hit a recession, what did we just see in the great recession? medicaid spending ...

Coming up -- congressman paul ryan has been a supporter of the automatic military and domestic cuts known as se questions stration for most of his career in the house as he made clear this interview last year. >> what conservatives like me have been fighting for for years are statutory caps on spending, legal caps in law, that says government agencies cannot spend over a set amount of money and if they breach that amount across the board sequester comes in to cut that spending and you can't turn that off without a super majority vote. >> but now it appears that, surprise, paul ryan is changing...