If you don't want to read the budget document, you can watch it here on this three minute YouTube video. Never has a budget discussion been so riveting.

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StickerShock
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Jun '10
StickerShock

He should be president.  What an excellent presentation!

Ryan/West 

Whiskey Sam
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Jul '10
Whiskey Sam

The image of that graph should make it blatantly obvious to anyone who doesn't grasp how serious the spending/debt problem is.  Ryan gives me hope that the GOP finally is getting serious about this.

Jason Hart
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May '10
Jason Hart

Terrific video; great way to convey the numbers without Perot-ing Ryan by putting him in front of an easel and having him flip through charts. Love the simple, compelling presentation and its use of technology!

(Yes, I turned Ross Perot into a verb. "Ryaning" or perhaps "Ryanification" will be used in the future to refer to a political party developing courage and convictions. Trademark - me.)

Lela Gilbert
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Jan '11
Lela Gilbert

Great video, great post. I wouldn't have seen this otherwise. THANKS Mollie.


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Sep '10
Patrick in Albuquerque

What, no teleprompter!


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Aug '10
nordman

Ryan is far more Tea Party than he is  GOP.   

With a few more  guys like this,  America stands a chance. 

Bravo,  Mr. Ryan,  Bravo!  

Robert Dammers
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May '10
Robert Dammers

Could you lend him to us to help give George Osborne a backbone?  Thought that's unfair.  Desperate as our plight is, I fear that yours is worse just at the moment.

The best performance I've seen from a Republican for a long time.

tabula rasa
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Jun '10
tabula rasa

I've always been a good Republican, and Ryan gives me hope that the party has returned from its partying to sanity.  If they don't give Ryan's plan a chance, and just play politics as usual, our future is bleak.

And isn't it amazing what real sincerity sounds like.  This guy runs circles around "the One." 

Big John
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Feb '11
Big John

Thanks for posting this.  The visuals are powerful (Ryan in shirtsleeves is as potent as the superimposed graphics), but Ryan's mastery of his message is the most impressive thing about this.  Reasoned, temperate, serious.  What a role model for his fellow legislators there and around the country.  Thanks to his district for returning such a leader, not simply an elected official.


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