Paul Ryan: “I listen to the inflammatory rhetoric we are hearing on the House Floor today, and I think that we are looking at two…”

“I listen to the inflammatory rhetoric we are hearing on the House Floor today, and I think that we are looking at two different budgets. It is very important to note that when you are budgeting, what you are doing is outlining priorities. What was our first priority in putting this budget together? When I travel around the First District of Wisconsin, talking to our Nation's seniors who are currently on social security, talking to workers who are about to go on social security, talking to the baby boom generation who are about to enjoy social security within the next 15 years, they want to know that it is going to be there, that the rug will not be pulled out from underneath them. That is our historic commitment that we are pledging in this budget. Our first, preeminent decision is this: We are going to stop the raid on social security. For the first time in over 30 years, we are not going to take a dime out of Social Security taxes to spend on other government programs. That is our driving reform in this budget, which drives other reforms. If my colleagues take a look at this chart beside me, they will notice that our budget sets aside 100 percent of the Social Security surplus.”