Kyle Becker | On 12, Aug 2012

 

In the last three months of the presidential campaign season, there is bound to be a lot of distortion regarding what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan intend to do budgetary wise if they should attain the office of the presidency. The following videos are vital to understanding and informing voters on what exactly Paul Ryan seeks to accomplish with his budget proposals, which is important should they become law under a successive administration.

Paul Ryan lays out his plan The Path to Prosperity in two videos that any voter can understand. In Part One, Ryan talks about federal government spending as a share of the economy:

In Part Two, Paul Ryan talks specifically about reforming Medicare:

In this video, Congressman Ryan, the House Budget Committee Chairman, discusses the difference between measuring government programs in terms of inputs versus outcomes:

On Face the Nation, Paul Ryan talks about politicians’ moral and legal obligation to prevent a sovereign debt crisis:

On Hardball with Chris Matthews, Paul Ryan shows the host that he is not dealing with just another Republican politician who talks a big game about cutting government while having no real ideas:

In this entertaining appearance on CNN with host Wolf Blitzer, Ryan gets into a heated debate with current DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on Social Security reform:

In this video, Ryan deflates the charges of former Obama economic advisor Austan Goolsbee over Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital:

The reason to show videos of Paul Ryan talking instead of simply providing his best quotes is because of the impression he makes when speaking about touchy and technical economic issues. He is obviously cool, collected, and composed even when taking sharp barbs from his opponents. The best thing for voters to do when sizing up a candidate is to hear him speak in his own words, and then to measure his words against his track record.

See Paul Ryan take apart Obamacare in six minutes in front of the president.