Paul Ryan: “in 2 minutes I will try to answer all of that diatribe. It is going to be very challenging. Number one, the last speaker…”

“in 2 minutes I will try to answer all of that diatribe. It is going to be very challenging. Number one, the last speaker talked about all the new spending. Every time we brought a spending bill to the floor of the House, an appropriations bill, a budget bill, a Medicare bill, what did they do? They proposed more spending. Our budget on Medicare, $400 billion. Their bill on Medicare, $1 trillion. What did our budget on Medicare come in at? $319 billion because competition is working. Mr. Speaker, let us put this in perspective. Look at the rhetoric we have been hearing tonight: deep cuts; draconian cuts to government; we are hurting women; we are hurting children; we are hurting children with cystic fibrosis; we are taking picnics away from tourists; we are burning the house down. What is this budget doing? Mr. Speaker, this budget, if it does not pass, the government will spend over the next 5 years $13.855 trillion. With this budget, the government will spend over the next 5 years $13.795 trillion. We are talking about growing entitlement spending at 6.3 percent instead of 6.4 percent, a one-tenth of 1 percent reduction in the increase of spending. Yet you would think the world would be coming to an end. There is a difference here. There is a difference in philosophy. Mr. Speaker, it is this: they are talking about tax cuts. They are talking about big tax cuts. Their definition of tax cuts is not raising taxes because this budget does not cut taxes.…”