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- Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand.
- Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cuts them for millionaires.
- Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system.
- Ryan thinks Social Security is a "ponzi scheme."
- Ryan’s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years.
- Ryan wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more more than 1 million students.
- Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil.
- Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies.
- Ryan claimed Romneycare has led to "rationing and benefit cuts."
- Ryan believes that Romneycare is "not that dissimilar to Obamacare."
- Ryan accused generals of lying about their support for Obama’s military budget.
- Ryan co-sponsored a “personhood” amendment, an extreme anti-abortion measure.
You don't pick a candidate this extreme unless you don't think you can win on your own. We saw the same thing last election when John McCain picked Sarah Palin. At least the Republicans have learned something from that debacle, and have vetted Ryan thoroughly. Hell, Romney's been quoting Ryan on his budget plan for his whole campaign. But basically, Romney's really going to have to step up his voter suppression now that he's lost the moderate undecided vote.
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I suppose we should be shaking his hand and thanking him. Choosing such a fanatical whackjob for his VP has just about assured Obama a second term.
@ZombieMom_Speaks - I dunno, we have 3 months in which the whole Euro zone could take another big hit, which would directly impact our economy. Our economy drops again, there goes Obama's edge. Even if Europe can wait until November 7th to take a dive, whoever wins the election is going to be going into 2013 with a new hit on our economy to deal with.
You could add that he collected Social Security after his dad died...to pay for his college education. I wonder how much he got in Pell Grant money, before he decided it was all socialistic?
@GodlessLiberal - True, but Obama is used to working a budget under pressure. We're still recovering from Commander Chimpy's disastrous policies and while Euro could cause problems here, he's already had a trial by fire in working with someone else's screwups.
re 11: and Ryan got huge backlash after calling the generals liars. he apologized the next day but you know he needs to believe they are liars since he hasn't changed that part of his budget plan, or any part for that matter.
13. He used to drive the Oscar Meyer weiner truck.
Everybody knows the middle class is collapsing. Social mobility, opportunity, and higher education are pretty much the domain of the wealthy. So who is voting for these douches? I don't get it.
at a Romney/Ryan rally today Ryan said this country is based on an ideal. he finished that idea by saying (and i'm paraphrasing) "We follow the laws of God and Nature, not government", but let's break that down. Ryan is, in his own words, a Catholic and his economic plan is based on Catholic values yet he has a problem with that. the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops have denounced his plan and has said it is not in keeping with Catholic values. a group of Catholic nuns are presently on a national bus tour. the purpose of the tour is to make people aware that Paul Ryan's plan is immoral and Sister Simone Campbell who is spearheading the bus tour has said Ryan's idea of the Catholic teachings is incorrect so one has to ask, what does Ryan think God's laws are? that's not to mention we actually are a nation of laws legislated by a democratically elected government.
you might add another point:
13) Paul Ryan has signed the Grover Norquist Pledge each time he's run for office. i heard Grover Norquist confirm that about 1/2 hour ago when interviewed on a special edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews. even republicans, almost all of who have signed the pledge are beginning to break ranks from that pledge since the American public has become aware of the pledge and that it supersedes and overrides the Congressional Oath to serve the American people to the best of one's ability.
taking the Congressional Oath after having signed the Grover Norquist Pledge is like swearing on the Bible to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God while crossing your fingers behind your back.
there is a wisdom i'm hearing out there that Romney has up until now played everything safe but finding himself sinking not only in nationwide polls particularly among swing States but even within his own party he picked a radical in Paul Ryan to try and inject some life into his campaign. to me it's a bit reminiscent of John McCain's decision to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate.
I'm sure that by mid November, Romney will have retroactively chosen someone else than Paul Ryan as his vp candidate.
Everybody across the political spectrum whines but Republicans make themselves heard at the ballot box as well--and that's where it counts.
voting is stupid. and I'm pretty sure I could Google about 12 reasons why everybody involved sucks.
You're doing it wrong.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/mitt-romney-would-pay-082-percent-in-taxes-under-paul-ryans-plan/261027/#
is way better to troll with
haha, he had a lot of candidates to choose from, and he picked another dumb shit, right wing, stereotypical, greedy, rich ass politician. I can't wait to see the debates!
What? I never saw this coming. I thought you would embrace the Republican candidate.
It is sort of funny how anyone who supports balancing the budget is always cast as extreme.
Romney's scary enough all on his own!
@nerdyveggiegirl - I'm with you on that one. The debates should be hilarious. /stocks up on popcorn
@TheTheologiansCafe - There's a big difference between balancing the budget and budgeting an increase in military funds and help for rich people while slashing anything that would benefit the poor or sick.
@GodlessLiberal - Bingo.
(Rec'ing through comment. The pc I'm on is not letting me rec anything!!!)
@TheSutraDude - You know, if it wasn't that the republicans willingly supported this Norquist bastard, I'd think him culpable for treason. Stand him up and shoot him in the street.
@Outdoor_Furniture_Design - i've thought it treasonous too that Norquist, a powerful Washington lobbyist blackmails politicians with the threat of losing their elections if they don't sign on his dotted line. Boehner too who told Americans Norquist is just some random person he did not want to answer questions about and a week later his republicans met behind closed doors with Norquist. republicans in Congress today lie to us because they know if they tell the truth Americans will vote them out of there.Romney was caught lying about his taxes in 2002 and he's asking us to trust him again, as he did before he was caught in 2002.
it's fair to say i am worried about our future, no matter what.
12 Things To Know About Barack Obama:
1. Obama re-signed the Patriot Act
2. Obama signed NDAA, a Bill which declares America a warzone and allows any American to be imprisoned indefinitly
3. Obama also signed into law "Free Speech Zones," under which protesting in certain areas is a felony
4. Obama endorses the use of Drone attacks, which to date have killed more civilians than enemy combatants
5. Obama continues the needless, expensive wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. If the US spent half the amount of money on education and science that it does on war, mankind would likely have moon bases and hydrogen cars already
6. Under Obama's presidency, over 100 million Americans are in poverty and 15% are jobless
7. Obama failed to actively oppose SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA
8. Obama supported bailouts for banks and corporations--bailouts which were promptly wasted, mismanaged, or turned into retirement bonuses for fatcat CEOS. One company bought twelve lear jets with their *bailout*
9. Despite promises to the contrary, Obama has done nothing to legalize gay marraige on the national scale
10. Instead of providing **Free** health care, Obamacare forces Americans to buy health care from the government or other insurance companies, who are already exploiting the fact that everyone **must** have insurance. When auto insurance became mandatory, premiums increased by over $300 percent
11. Obama has made several important foreign policy blunders, including telling Putin that he would be much more supportive of Russia in the next four years, which succeeded only in pissing off Medvedev (the actual Russian president), the Caucauses, and many other US allies in the region.
12. The United States has options besides Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is long past time we woke up and realized it.
13. Paul Ryan would not look good in a swimsuit.
Hook me up with where you got the Pell Grant remark from.