What are we to think of the Paul Ryan selection?
He's not a graduate of Columbia University.
He's not a graduate of Haahhvid.
He wasn't selected as the President of the Haahhvid Law Review.
He didn't get a special free quota scholarship
ride through a prestigious ivy league university and, instead, worked his way
through Miami University of Ohio.
For God's sake the man drove an Oscar Mayer Wiener
Truck one summer and waited tables
another!
One morning when Paul
Ryan was 16 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 Alzheimers, into their household and served as the grandmother's primary care provider. His
grandma wasn't vice president of the Bank of Hawaii so she could
offer nothing in return, except the element of "need."
After 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 very 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
sitting Congressman vacated the office before seeking it.
In Janesville, Wisconsin, they don't have a big
political machine to promote you, to criminalize your
opponent; instead Paul Ryan went door to door, sitting at
kitchen tables and listening 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 on which he lived 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 he drives around in it 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 or exotic pedigree; his family background is typically American with Irish roots 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. In that budget he brazenly and heartlessly advocates 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 let
it die without ever allowing it to come up for a vote or proposing a budget of its 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 Hawaii, 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? Nothing will
spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's
over.
Party Hearty
folks! At least until November.
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