that's what house budget chairman paul rian explains in his youtube video. epublican proposal for the 2012 budget, rian is daring to take on the third rail, proposing cuts in entitlements like medicare, cuts of $389 billion over the next decade. cutting another $735 billion from medicaid, and he says repeeling the president's health reform law could, over time, save $1.4Ñi trillion.Ñoó these days, rines is getting called everything from reaganesque to ruthless. but back in his home town of janesville, wisconsin, theñr seven-term congressman is known simply as paul. >> paul understands that if we don't fix this we are going to be in trouble. >> reporter: with the national debt topping $14 trillion, folks in his district say they appreciate rian's willingness to risk his political future. >> i think there's some really difficult questions that have to be answered, how are we going to fund our future and howçó are we going to do that and not have the country go broke? >> reporter: janesville has been hurting ever since g.m. pulled out and many here say we need t