PAUL RYAN, WHO IS HE ? ? ?

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PAUL RYAN, WHO IS HE ? ? ? - 8/16/12




Well, early last Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan,

Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice

President of The United States.



What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia

University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the

President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota

scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his

way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar

Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!



One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his

father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books

about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early

age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of

socialist revolution.



Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from

Alzheimer's, into the household and served as the primary care provider for

his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so

she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".



Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was

hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job

must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and

fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the

University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.



When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he

didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He

waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the

office. In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to

promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door

to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.



After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into

Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street

to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used

the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.



Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville. He lives on

the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight

other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club

and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.



For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old

bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives

around to meet with those who need his help and attention.



No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal

pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize

two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down

their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.



What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to

write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and

heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in

federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three

years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate

has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their

own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion

dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500

million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt

Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident

tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for

their children living in Mexico?



I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut

government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA

conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that

$16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all!



Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by

showing folks the bill and demanding fiscal responsibility!



Well, I guess I do.