Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Paul Ryan slams Obama's Inaugural address on the Laura Ingraham Show (Full Interview 01-22-13)

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday accused President Obama of attacking “straw men” in his second inauguration speech, arguing that the president mischaracterized Republicans’ position on federal entitlement programs. 
“No one is suggesting that what we call our earned entitlements – entitlements you pay for, like payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security – are putting you in a ‘taker’ category,” Ryan said on conservative commentator Laura Ingraham’s radio show. “No one would suggest that whatsoever. ” 
Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice-presidential nominee and his party’s leader when it comes to pressing for federal entitlement reform, contended that Obama made a “switcheroo” in his speech by suggesting that Republicans have referred to beneficiaries of those programs as “takers.” In reality, he said, that term refers to recipients of welfare and other non-“earned” entitlements. 
“I think when the president does kind of a switcheroo like that, what he’s trying to say is that we’re maligning these programs that people have earned throughout their working lives,” Ryan said. “So, it’s kind of a convenient twist of terms to try and shadowbox a straw man in order to win an argument by default, is essentially what that rhetorical device is that he uses, over and over and over.”
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