Paul Ryan on Fox News Sunday

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan on Fox News Sunday: Rejecting the President's Path of Debt, Doubt, and Decline January 29, 2012 Chris Wallace: President Obama laid out his agenda for 2012 in the State of the Union speech, now the Republicans are preparing to issue their plan in a new budget. The man behind the plan is Congressman Paul Ryan, Chair of the House Budget Committee. Congressman, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Congressman Ryan: Thank you, thanks for having me back. Chris Wallace: Let's start with the President's State of the Union speech this week and his central argument that the Democrats are looking out for the middle class while Republicans want to protect the rich. Take a look: President Obama: We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules. Chris Wallace: Isn't that a strong, at least, political message? Congressman Ryan: The irony of this is the President's policies do the exact opposite. I was there, so I've heard this speech a couple of times now. We basically got this: the President can't run on his record, it's a miserable record, he's not going to change his tune and moderate like Bill Clinton did in 1996 because he's really stuck with his ideology. He has no choice but to divide, so he is going run a very divisive campaign for political gain, and he has a concept of inequality where he uses the kind of rhetoric we use but the policies he's producing will result in crony capitalism, will result in giving more power to the government to supervise our lives and to give us a stagnant economy, where the rich and powerful are the ones who are picking. What I am trying to say is he is giving us a future of debt, doubt and decline. He barely even mentioned the budget, the deficit, or the fact that was the day which marked 1,000 days since the Senate bothered even passing a budget. It is a record they can't run on so the President will use this divisive rhetoric and the outcome of these policies is to consolidate power in Washington where you have crony capitalism which his rhetoric tries to decry.