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Paul Ryan Factbox, Nomination Reaction And Lifetime Donors

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Reuters summarizes the key facts about the 42-year old House Budget Chair and potential future American vice president.

  • Ryan, 42, a rising star among the populist Tea Party movement and fiscal conservatives who dominate the Republican Party, has served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives since first being elected in 1998.
  • Ryan attracted attention when, as chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, offered a controversial plan in January 2010 to reform the tax code and eliminate the federal deficit. The plan relies on tax cuts and would minimize federal spending while drastically overhauling Medicare, the popular government-run health program for the elderly.
  • Romney endorsed that plan during the primaries, and by adding the Wisconsin congressman to the ticket, he makes the document the centerpiece of his run for the White House and raises the possibility that much of the campaign debate will be about spending, deficits and Medicare, rather than job creation.
  • Ryan could help Romney gain ground in his home state of Wisconsin, a battleground state that seems to be leaning toward Obama after a polarizing battle over the unsuccessful recall of the state's Republican Governor Scott Walker.
  • But because of Ryan's plan to cut Medicare, Romney also runs the risk of alienating seniors, a group that has narrowly backed Republicans in recent elections.
  • Before being elected to Congress, Ryan was an aide to conservative U.S. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas and has worked with U.S. Senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin. Ryan also worked for former New York congressman and one-time Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp. These experiences make him a creature of Congress - a political body that has become increasingly unpopular among voters in recent years.
  • Ryan is a fifth-generation Wisconsin resident. He grew up in Janesville before attending college at Miami University in Ohio. His father and grandfather died of heart attacks in their 50s, making him mindful of a healthy lifestyle and he exercises frequently.

And here are select reactions from various individuals across the political spectrum to his nomination:

WISCONSIN GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER, REPUBLICAN

"Governor Mitt Romney made a bold and reform-minded selection in Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. This election has to be about who is going to look out for the next generation. America needs a comeback team to turn around the economy and to turn around the fiscal status of our country. Romney and Ryan have the ideas and the experience needed to take on these core issues. This is a great day for Wisconsin and an even greater day for America."

OBAMA CAMPAIGN MANAGER JIM MESSINA

"In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy. ... As a member of Congress, Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes."

FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT, REPUBLICAN

"Like Governor Romney, Congressman Ryan understands that government doesn't create jobs, people do, and that the best way to create jobs is to get government out of the way. I'm confident that Congressman Ryan will be a great partner for Governor Romney in getting America back to work."

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS, A CONSERVATIVE ADVOCACY GROUP

"Tea Party Patriots welcomes the selection of Paul Ryan as the vice-presidential running mate for Governor Mitt Romney. With this selection, Governor Romney and the Republican Party make it clear that they have accepted the Tea Party Patriots' values of fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets as the best course of action for economic recovery and restoring personal freedom and individual responsibility to our national values."

MARY KAY HENRY, PRESIDENT OF THE SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION

"Representative Ryan has made a name for himself by fighting in the halls of Congress for tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations while proposing to gut vital services like Medicare and education, and eliminating any sense of retirement security for working families. His no-holds-barred record of attacking seniors, children, and working men and women is frightening for the 99 percent of Americans who are not rich -- but for Mitt Romney it was a calling card to choose him as a running mate."

U.S. SENATOR ROB PORTMAN, REPUBLICAN

"Mitt Romney has made a great choice in Paul Ryan. He is an accomplished public servant and a leading voice on the most pressing issues facing our country. Paul is one of my best friends in Congress and someone I have worked closely with as a former colleague on the House Ways and Means Committee."

FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR TIM PAWLENTY, REPUBLICAN

"Congressman Ryan is a respected leader and a bold thinker regarding the changes needed to restore America. His selection will also help Governor Romney win the key swing state of Wisconsin. I am excited about a Romney-Ryan ticket and look forward to doing all I can to help them win this election."

FORMER U.S. SENATOR RICK SANTORUM, REPUBLICAN

"Congressman Paul Ryan is an outstanding choice as our country's next vice president, and today's announcement demonstrates Governor Romney's commitment to returning fiscal sanity back to Washington, D.C. I have long supported Paul Ryan's fiscal and entitlement reforms to return our country back on a path of fiscal health. At a time when our country is at an economic crossroads, Congressman Ryan's depth of knowledge on how to tackle these challenges is unparalleled. ... He is solidly pro-life, pro-family, and will be an advocate for our military and our national security priorities. I look forward to supporting the Romney-Ryan ticket in the weeks to come."

RICHARD TRUMKA, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL-CIO

"Whether its outsourcing American jobs or picking his running mate, Mitt Romney's proven just how bad his decision making is for working people. Aligning himself with the poster-child for ending Medicare and Social Security puts to rest any suggestion that Romney has a clue what the middle-class needs. We're witnessing the radical Tea Party extremes drive its final nail in what was once the Republican Party."

LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL, REPUBLICAN

"Paul is a good friend and one of the smartest guys I served with in Congress. He has the courage of his convictions, which is what our nation needs."

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, DEMOCRAT

"By picking Representative Paul Ryan, Governor Romney has doubled down on his commitment to gut Social Security and end Medicare as we know it. Romney's choice demonstrates that catering to the Tea Party and the far-right is more important to him than standing up for the middle class. The months ahead will provide Americans with a clear choice between the Romney-Ryan plan to gut Social Security and Medicare and Democrats' balanced approach to deficit reduction that combines smart spending cuts with asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Democrats in the Senate look forward to engaging in that debate."

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI, DEMOCRAT

"There is no question that former Governor Romney now owns the Republican Ryan budget that puts millionaires ahead of Medicare and the middle class. Congressman Paul Ryan led House Republicans in voting to end the Medicare guarantee, which increases costs on seniors and weakens America's great middle class in order to give tax breaks to millionaires, Big Oil and corporations that ship jobs overseas."

JUSTIN RUBEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MOVEON.ORG, A LIBERAL ADVOCACY GROUP

"Romney and Ryan are the 1 percent Dream Team. Representative Paul Ryan is an extremist ideologue who wants to end Medicare, radically redistribute wealth to the top 1 percent, and throw America's middle class under the bus. Ryan's proposed budget would cost America more than a million jobs in less than one year. Like Romney, Ryan believes the poor and middle class should pay more so the rich can get richer. Romney's choice of Ryan is sure to energize MoveOn's more than 7 million members as we work to ensure voters know the truth about Romney and Ryan's extreme plans to demolish Medicare, raise middle class taxes to fund tax cuts for billionaires, and destroy jobs."

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Finally, from Open Secrets, here is a list of the industry support for Paul Ryan throughout his career, and his oppoent, Joe Biden.

 

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Sat, 08/11/2012 - 15:10 | 2697654 10mm
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Nothings changed.Beans,bullits and a plan.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:11 | 2697737 YouThePeople
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Hanging on every syllable, 'he talks rhet-or-ic just like your ev-er-e-day li-ar' (cue applause)

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:14 | 2697741 Flakmeister
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Hilarious shit flying around here.... Imagine LoP getting called a Librul.... Too fucking funny....

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:19 | 2697750 Bicycle Repairman
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Ryan is 42, which means he is the Republican party's idea of the future.  Time to pull the plug on the Republican party and participation in the electoral process.  I do not even need to see how Ron Paul is treated at the convention.  I'm done.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:33 | 2697770 Everybodys All ...
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Honestly, from what I've read of your prior posts it would appear you would find a problem with Ron Paul as well.

Would anyone care to list the democratic versions of Ron Paul.There must be at least a couple hundred from the commentary here.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 21:03 | 2698061 Bicycle Repairman
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My disagreements with Ron Paul are many, but they do not begin until issue #5 on my priority list.  To me Ron is a very good start.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:31 | 2697768 shovelhead
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I think it's important to argue about who gets to drive the Locomotive over the cliff.

The tracks are laid, there ain't a brake and it's close enough to be over except the screaming hasn't quite started.

Seems to me the face in the engine's window doesn't much matter at this point.

But feel free to pick a prom date to snuggle up to as we ride in our cattle car on the Hellbound Train.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 18:30 | 2697931 Moe Howard
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OOOOOOHHHHHHRAAAAAHHHH! Over we go!

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 16:55 | 2697799 Duke of Con Dao
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here's a picture passed to me by a Pulitzer holder named Jane.

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/293093_143355899137476_155354...

would you call this iconic? hint: the candidates and rolls royce 

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:22 | 2697844 americanspirit
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All this political 'who flung dung' debate is going out the window when Israel attacks Iran in a few weeks and Iran sinks a few US capital ships because of American 'support' for the assault. There will be so many beer-soaked monkeys lining up to wave flags and chant USA USA that Obama will win by a landslide - ensured by all those German voting machines. At that point all those domestic anti-terrorism laws they've been quietly passing will come into effect, gold AND silver will be confiscated, dissent will be so broadly defined that the kind of comments seen routinely here on ZH will result in internment in concentration camps, and universal military service will ensure that there are no unemployed young people around to cause trouble on the streets. I am very afraid that all this has gone way too far to be stopped, and hiding out whether its in Montana or South America won't keep the hunters, who are itching to get in the game, from finding their prey. These are the final days of the great American experiment in liberty - sold down the river for the proverbial 30 pieces. Short of global nuclear war and a return to the stone age by a few survivors I don't see any way this is going to turn out well. But then I identify way too closely with Jeremiah, and I'm just an old fart with streaks in his underwear and hair in his ears, so I'm sure that I'm just a tad too gloomy about all this.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:26 | 2697850 Jam Akin
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Unfortunately I fear you are correct in much of what you say.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:54 | 2697885 FreudianSlip
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Get the moneychangers.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 21:01 | 2697982 knukles
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Well said.
Including the hair and streaks.

 

Mrs. Knukles tells me I can't hear worth a shit and my streaks have hair in 'em.
Booyah!

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:23 | 2697846 putbuyer
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Ryan is a constitutional conservative and believes in the rule of law.  Nobody is perfect, but he is damn good enough.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 23:30 | 2698233 Savyindallas
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Cut out the totally ignorant, stupid statements- -you have no clue what you are talking about.  His hot air and rhetoric are not supported by his votes on key issues  -medicare prescrition bill, Tarp and baillouts, Patriot Act, NDAA  -any war or issue that israel and Neocons want  - he's another establishment conman.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 17:49 | 2697880 FreudianSlip
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For all our bitching about presidential political choices how many of us actually KNOW our local elected officials.  How many of us have EVER reviewed our local government's FULL LINE ITEM ACCOUNTING and ANNUAL BUDGETS?

 

Grassroots is starting locally.  Why not demand our local governments post an entirely transparent full line item accounting online for every citizen to review?  All that accounting is already being done, just post it online.

 

Just for starters, when people actually see how much money and where money is spent by their local school board heads will roll.  You have fat salaried/benefit/pension administrative staff associated with your school district you have never seen and have no idea where their offices are located.  Start with your school district because as a nation we spend the most on education but are consistently beat out by third world nations in our educational levels.    

 

Cut the corruption locally, start with a full and complete accounting of how every dime is spent in your community and work your way up to your state and then federal level.

 

Stop the rampant government controlled financial bleeding...and it starts at HOME.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 18:07 | 2697900 New_Meat
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"Cut the corruption locally, start with a full and complete accounting of how every dime is spent in your community and work your way up to your state and then federal level."

What an idea!  And I'd like to add, a) validate all local voting rolls, up to and including picture ID to vote, and b) add pictures to all EBT/SNAP cards.

Here in the COMMONwealth, b) has been rejected because "it would be too expensive". (that is, it would cost $7/each).  I'm not sure where a) has ever been seriously considered.  I'd like to know that.

- Ned

{and, curiously enough, the Plimouth Colony starters started out with a commune, 1/2 died, Gov. Bradford then turned to the "free market principles" then extant and, voila, the first Thanksgiving ensued.}

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 19:24 | 2697984 america4me2
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Simply delicious.  Lets start first thing Monday.  Clean up the financial mess in your community, and just keep kicking it up a notch until we get the raghead out of the oval office.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 18:27 | 2697924 flattrader
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Actually I know my municipal govt quite well...well enough to start a recall movement and about to lauch a state audit.  This fucking state of affairs is so bad that reps, dems, libs, union, non-union...the whole cross section of the city, nearly 75% of the voting public, is in revolt.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 18:24 | 2697920 Reese Bobby
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Please save us Barack Romney! Please!

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 19:06 | 2697970 GeneH3
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Makes his whole staff read Atlas Shrugged. Right, it does not compute. Like Greenspan, he knows better. That makes him worse than the stupid TPTB.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 19:50 | 2698002 FleaMarketPete
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Anyone but Obama.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 19:16 | 2697979 knukles
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Everybody.
Just shut the fuck up.
It ain't gonna make any difference anyhow.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 20:39 | 2698038 Binko
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My god, you are right!! Where's the damn half man / half fish! Without a fish-man it's obvious to all that evolution is bunk!

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 22:48 | 2698174 arby63
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A lot of you are just full of shit. You wouldn't be happy with any VP pick. Trolls are alive and well for sure; nevertheless, someone was going to get picked and many (or most) are about the same flavor. Ryan sure is a relatively decent choice.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 23:05 | 2698194 cjbosk
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Just a few facts for the hedgies:

1) Tyler(s) Durden are always wrong, been predicting the end of days, every day, since I've been coming to the site.

2) Ron Paul. He's nice, he's old, he's pretty smart, but let's face it...he could NEVER, and I mean NEVER run the country. You and I both know that we'd have prostitutes bouncing on bong hitting libtards on every corner of the country. Probably not the best thing for the kids while waiting at the bus stop. He wouldn't know foreign policy if it was an organ. He's not the most articulate bloke I've seen in a while and he's just fuckin' old!

3) So we've got Obummer, the teleprompter and chief. The brutha from anotha mutha...who couldn't run a Dairy Queen, who bows down to foreign dignitaries...or 'em as we call them "tar babies", "sand niggers", you get my drift. The same lunatic that can't institute a budget in 3.5 years, much of that time with complete control of the house and senate. A guy that loves socialism, hates the rich, loves the lazy and makes idiotic comments like "you didn't build that". All the while, he's sucking Valerie Jarret's cock, cause afer all, she's the real swinging dick here isn't she.

4) And now we say, Ryan this, Ryan that, and Romney this and Romney that. Listen, if we're going to have any hair of a chance of having an economy, a "system", order, et. al. This is our ONLY chance. Now there are some on here that would like to see everyting collapse because they think it increases their odds of being competitive. Think again, if you live in your parent's basement now, you'll be living in it regardless of who's the next president and regardless of whether or not we have a metldown of the sytem.

Stop bitching just to bitch. Obummer is the worst president in the history of the world. He's not a leader, hes a retard. He's not intelligent, his a complete mental midget, a moron, a village idiot. And no, Ron Paul will never, ever, ever, ever win...get it through your thick skull. He can be the next treasury secretary at best.

And last of all, don't hate the player, hate the game. You're watching the game and best you play by the rules.

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 23:24 | 2698223 Savyindallas
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What a retard you are  -Ryan is a stooge of AIPAC and the Banksters. He voted for the Patriot Act, the NDAA, every war the neocons and Israel want, the medicare prescription bill, Tarp and every other baillout -

Sat, 08/11/2012 - 23:41 | 2698242 cjbosk
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Redneck in Dallas, What's your solution, I'm all ears?

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 01:00 | 2698326 Apostate2
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Bullseye.

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 01:34 | 2698355 Lednbrass
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Another guy who would be in London if stupid were an Olympic sport.

The Tylers have been dead on right about a helluva lot- notably the progression of events in Europe, the instabilities created by HFT's and their effect on retail small investors leaving the markets, the whole Arab Spring thing, and numerous others.

Your problem seems to be that you have the time and attention span of a fruit fly, and someone speaking in long term macro level events and trends is somehow wrong if it doesn't happen by the next episode of American Idol.

If you take your car to a mechanic and he says you have a slow leak in your radiator, can he predict exactly at what date and time it will run out and overheat? No- and it certainly doesn't make him wrong for stating that it will eventually blow and continuing to run the engine after that will destroy it also. Can an architect looking at a building with large cracks visibly moving through the foundation and saying that it will fall predict the date and time it will finally cause the building to collapse? No, and once again they are no less correct for it.

Complex events are occuring and many interactions of different parts and variables are playing out under the hood, nobody can say for sure when the car leaking radiator fluid will stop- but stop it surely will and the engine will burn out.

The fact that you are just too damn dumb to understand that large and vastly complicated systems cannot be wrapped into a neat little package and that there comes a point where the structural damage is too deep and severe to be repaired any longer is nobody's problem but yours. For you I recommend that you keep watching network news, take out another mortgage and along with your life savings invest it in stocks, and just have a good time. Don't worry- be happy! Smoke some Hopium, pop another little blue Delusional because everything is fine and mathematics doesn't matter- its just for dumb nerds anyhow. All will be well in the land of the Romulans, all you need to do is vote Mitt and ignore everything he has ever done in his political life.  We only need another great and powerful Oz head, those guys behind the curtain are insignificant. After all, hope is a wonderful plan with a fabulous track record, we just have to believe more!

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 07:28 | 2698508 Apostate2
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Romulans, Wizard of Oz, car maintanence and oh, let's not forget Reid and his imaginary friend nor Pelosi's seance with dead white women. Get a grip. Nothing that is done cannot be undone. Complex yes, but duh, that is life. Start putting one foot in front of the other and move in the right direction. There are no halting places. Make your decision and take courage in that. Spare me the the ad hominum from those that see beyond where the sidewalk ends. 

Tue, 08/14/2012 - 12:58 | 2704149 LooseLee
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Rules? What rules? Who, besides the commoner, has to abide by any rules? Screw your conformity to mediocrity. Some of us strive for Truth & Justice!

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 00:14 | 2698287 Bloodstock
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Now we'll never know why Rand Paul endorsed Mitt.

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 00:51 | 2698319 slewie the pi-rat
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never heard of him

what's his handicap?

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 01:18 | 2698338 slewie the pi-rat
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the NFL has started: can Ryan deliver the Packer fans and the NFC?  the GOP has balance now with mittens' newEngland Patriots always tough in the AFC (at least untiil the big game)

the Dems are also appealing to both divisions with prez0's chi-townBears still looking for their first injury as biden's Ravens avoid arrest for the first week of the pre-season...

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 05:03 | 2698442 BeetleBailey
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Romney/Ryan

Obama/Biden

Unofficial ZH poll

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 11:07 | 2698683 Sathington Willougby
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Giant Douche

Turd Sandwich

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 11:14 | 2698695 Sathington Willougby
Sun, 08/12/2012 - 11:18 | 2698706 Tunga
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Earn cash voting from home! 

 

See how it's done at boguselection.com!

 

Easy to see how to do it! Hurry. Not all offers accepted. 

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 12:05 | 2698759 MFLTucson
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SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID, DEMOCRAT

"By picking Representative Paul Ryan, Governor Romney has doubled down on his commitment to gut Social Security and end Medicare as we know it.

The liar is at it again.  The ObamaCare healthcare fraud takes $500 billion out of Medicare. Where the fuck is the media??  Do these lies just continue?  

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 13:05 | 2698834 loveyajimbo
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A good summary of the pathetic liars the Dems have become... here is a good Mish article that totally debunks the Dem "tax teh rich" bullshit:

 

I have a set of questions for the "fair share" tax proponents.

  1. Would fair share tax hikes be enough to fund US government spending?
  2. What if we took 100% of the profits of Walmart and Exxon Mobile?
  3. What if the corporate tax rate was 100% for every corporation?
  4. What if we confiscated 100% of the wealth of the super-wealthy including Warren Buffet and Bill Gates?
  5. What if we did ALL of the above? Would that balance the budget?

To meet total spending requirements of $3.2 trillion, but not counting $117 trillion in unfunded liabilities, not only would we have to do everything in the five point list above, but we would have to take the combined salaries of all players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the NHL, cut military spending by $254 billion, and tax everything people make above $250,000 at a 100% tax rate.

That's what it would take to meet the 2012 budget of $3.8 trillion. It would do nothing to pay down the existing national debt of close to $16 trillion. It would not come remotely close to meeting $117 trillion in unfunded liabilities.

Sun, 08/12/2012 - 21:29 | 2699853 Beltway1776
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You forgot to mention that Ryan voted for the patriot act, creating DHS and the TSA, TARP, and the auto industry bailout. He also supported the NDAA and when that passed voted AGAINST removing the provision of indefinite detention of Americans. While supporting the pointless trillion dollar invasion of Iraq, he also voted to not cut the military budget so the US can keep troops in some 130 countries that are absolutely no threat to our security. So he's a white Obama basically, which isn't surprising at all given the two-party dictatorship we live under. 

Want change? Maybe it's time to stop voting for Coke and Pepsi. If you want small government and are a real conservative you might want to look at the Libertarian Party. Although I'm sure clueless Republicans will continue to vote for whoever is under the Republican banner no matter what their record is. It's OK - go back to the TV, nothing to see here.

Tue, 08/21/2012 - 14:08 | 2724591 monad
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Get it over with. Change his name to Ron Paul before the demented catch on...

 

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