PAUL RYAN fun facts...
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- The57ironman
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:10 pm » by The57ironman
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....from the ''for what it's worth'' file...
.....this came in my inbox...
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
This is all true...
PAUL RYAN, WHO IS HE ? ?
Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is
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 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 a 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."
When 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? Nothing will
spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before
the party's over.
Party Hearty folks!
.
....from the ''for what it's worth'' file...
.....this came in my inbox...
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
This is all true...
PAUL RYAN, WHO IS HE ? ?
Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is
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 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 a 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."
When 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? Nothing will
spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before
the party's over.
Party Hearty folks!
.
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:07 pm » by Estanislao
...some more facts, that are NOT so fun:
* Voted in favor of Indefinite Military Detention - (blatantly unConstitutional)
* Voted for the NDAA - (ridiculously unConstitutional)
* Voted against the reduction of Afghan war and troop reduction
* Voted against a balanced budget Amendment
* Voted to increase the debt ceiling
* Voted in favor of military action in Libya (and ground forces and continued force)
* Voted for tax payer funds for NATO for Libya
* Voted for DHS
* Voted to extend the Patriot Act (kills the 4th Amendment)
* Voted against emergency mortgage relief
* Voted against aiding foreclosures
* Voted in favor of the Estate Tax (basically a tax for dying)
* Voted against the Mine Safety Act (basic investigations on accidents)
* Voted against Whistleblower protection
* Voted to keep armed forces in Pakistan
* And of course... he is strongly in favor of the bank bailouts (TARP)
source: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26344/
Judge a man by his ACTIONS, not propaganda.
* Voted in favor of Indefinite Military Detention - (blatantly unConstitutional)
* Voted for the NDAA - (ridiculously unConstitutional)
* Voted against the reduction of Afghan war and troop reduction
* Voted against a balanced budget Amendment
* Voted to increase the debt ceiling
* Voted in favor of military action in Libya (and ground forces and continued force)
* Voted for tax payer funds for NATO for Libya
* Voted for DHS
* Voted to extend the Patriot Act (kills the 4th Amendment)
* Voted against emergency mortgage relief
* Voted against aiding foreclosures
* Voted in favor of the Estate Tax (basically a tax for dying)
* Voted against the Mine Safety Act (basic investigations on accidents)
* Voted against Whistleblower protection
* Voted to keep armed forces in Pakistan
* And of course... he is strongly in favor of the bank bailouts (TARP)
source: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26344/
Judge a man by his ACTIONS, not propaganda.
Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:21 pm » by Middleman
It's an odd kind of resentment, isn't it?
Maybe Obama had it better than Ryan, maybe not. At least Ryan had a Dad who loved him and was involved in his life for for 16 important years. Clearly, they both had it worse than many of us.
The question is, why would the author make a competition of which man struggled harder, when Mitt Romney not only grew up with the privileges of piles of money, he grew up so well connected that he got a legit police uniform from his Dad, the Governor of Michigan, and put a red light on top of his white car and used to drive around pulling people over for fun. This wasn't just a one off thing, he did it for years through high school and into college.
That's a touching part of the story about how Ryan worked crappy jobs to support himself through college. Funny, Obama had to work through college as well. How many tables do you think Mitt bussed? I guess all that prank impersonating of a police officer pays pretty well.
Maybe Obama had it better than Ryan, maybe not. At least Ryan had a Dad who loved him and was involved in his life for for 16 important years. Clearly, they both had it worse than many of us.
The question is, why would the author make a competition of which man struggled harder, when Mitt Romney not only grew up with the privileges of piles of money, he grew up so well connected that he got a legit police uniform from his Dad, the Governor of Michigan, and put a red light on top of his white car and used to drive around pulling people over for fun. This wasn't just a one off thing, he did it for years through high school and into college.
That's a touching part of the story about how Ryan worked crappy jobs to support himself through college. Funny, Obama had to work through college as well. How many tables do you think Mitt bussed? I guess all that prank impersonating of a police officer pays pretty well.
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:44 pm » by The57ironman
Estanislao wrote:...some more facts, that are NOT so fun:
* Voted in favor of Indefinite Military Detention - (blatantly unConstitutional)
* Voted for the NDAA - (ridiculously unConstitutional)
* Voted against the reduction of Afghan war and troop reduction
* Voted against a balanced budget Amendment
* Voted to increase the debt ceiling
* Voted in favor of military action in Libya (and ground forces and continued force)
* Voted for tax payer funds for NATO for Libya
* Voted for DHS
* Voted to extend the Patriot Act (kills the 4th Amendment)
* Voted against emergency mortgage relief
* Voted against aiding foreclosures
* Voted in favor of the Estate Tax (basically a tax for dying)
* Voted against the Mine Safety Act (basic investigations on accidents)
* Voted against Whistleblower protection
* Voted to keep armed forces in Pakistan
* And of course... he is strongly in favor of the bank bailouts (TARP)
source: http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26344/
Judge a man by his ACTIONS, not propaganda.
.
.....i heard that.......hey , at least he voted...........
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Mydogma wrote:...if anyone should be having their emails and privacy scrutinized it should be politicians...not us...
Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:57 pm » by 99socks
FYI.. a bit off topic...
The ironic thing about the "estate tax" is that it only affects the wealthiest Americans... you know, the ones "we" bitch about not paying enough "income tax."
The even more ironic thing... is that there are ways to get around it and not pay at all. The people who know this, got their information from their CPA's and estate attorneys.. which are typically only hired by the smartest 3% of the middle class and the richest 5% of Americans.
So, "we" bitch about rich people not paying income tax, but "we" stupidly petition for them not to have to pay estate tax either, because "we" think somehow it's inevitable that "we'll" be screwed by the estate tax when the fact of the matter is 1) most of us don't have over $5 million when we die (2012/3?) and therefore it won't apply to us and 2) if we were smart we'd do what the rich guys do and not pay for it anyways.
Sigh.
The ironic thing about the "estate tax" is that it only affects the wealthiest Americans... you know, the ones "we" bitch about not paying enough "income tax."
The even more ironic thing... is that there are ways to get around it and not pay at all. The people who know this, got their information from their CPA's and estate attorneys.. which are typically only hired by the smartest 3% of the middle class and the richest 5% of Americans.
So, "we" bitch about rich people not paying income tax, but "we" stupidly petition for them not to have to pay estate tax either, because "we" think somehow it's inevitable that "we'll" be screwed by the estate tax when the fact of the matter is 1) most of us don't have over $5 million when we die (2012/3?) and therefore it won't apply to us and 2) if we were smart we'd do what the rich guys do and not pay for it anyways.
Sigh.
"And don't mind the "harshness" of some people. It's all an act. The meaner the posts, the cuddlier they are in person." -Poooooot
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:23 pm » by Truthdefender
Middleman wrote:It's an odd kind of resentment, isn't it?
Maybe Obama had it better than Ryan, maybe not. At least Ryan had a Dad who loved him and was involved in his life for for 16 important years. Clearly, they both had it worse than many of us.
The question is, why would the author make a competition of which man struggled harder, when Mitt Romney not only grew up with the privileges of piles of money, he grew up so well connected that he got a legit police uniform from his Dad, the Governor of Michigan, and put a red light on top of his white car and used to drive around pulling people over for fun. This wasn't just a one off thing, he did it for years through high school and into college.
That's a touching part of the story about how Ryan worked crappy jobs to support himself through college. Funny, Obama had to work through college as well. How many tables do you think Mitt bussed? I guess all that prank impersonating of a police officer pays pretty well.
His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
> >>>
> >>> He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
> >>>
> >>> His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan
> >>>
> >>> He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan
> >>>
> >>> He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they have five children.
> >>>
> >>> Education:
> >>> B.A. from Brigham Young University,
> >>>
> >>> J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
> >>>
> >>> Religion:
> >>> Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
> >>>
> >>> Working Background:
> >>>
> >>> After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
> >>>
> >>> After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School
> >>> simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as
> >>> an attorney.
> >>>
> >>> In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm,
> >>> one of the largest such firms in the United States .
> >>>
> >>> In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.
> >>>
> >>> He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
> >>>
> >>> In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where
> >>> he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
> >>>
> >>> Some Interesting Facts about Romney:
> >>>
> >>> Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in
> >>> Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing
> >>> 90,000 people.
> >>>
> >>> Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business
> >>> miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy,
> >>> Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group,
> >>> Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
> >>>
> >>> He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial
> >>> campaign 1 year.
> >>>
> >>> He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.
> >>>
> >>> He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.
> >>>
> >>> He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three
> >>> years.
> >>>
> >>> He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four
> >>> years.
> >>>
> >>> He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
> >>>
> >>> Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but
> >>> has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and
> >>> time than most men.
> >>>
> >>> And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of
> >>> his income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe
> >>> Biden gave $300 or .0013%.
> >>>
> >>> Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his birth certificate
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his social security card.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his law degree.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his draft notice.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his medical records.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us his income tax records.
> >>>
> >>> He will show us he has nothing to hide.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show him to
> >>> be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United
> >>> States.
> >>>
> >>> You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the
> >>> Republicans could have selected. At least I know what religion he is,
> >>> and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or
> >>> practice fiscal irresponsibility. I know he has the ability to turn
> >>> this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into. We
> >>> won't like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but
> >>> someone with Romney's background can do it. But, on the minus side, He
> >>> never was a "Community Organizer", never took drugs or smoked pot,
> >>> never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor
> >>> did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US.
For in much wisdom is much grief,
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:29 am » by mediasorcery
you can choose -red- or blue- so at least you have a choice, thats democracy, lol.
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