[StBernard] paul ryan

[Westley Annis]

RYAN, WHO IS HE ?  

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, nonresident
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.