October 21, 2015

More things the media isn't telling you about Paul Ryan

Adel M Stan, American Prospect - In 2005, at a meeting of an Ayn Rand fan club known as the Atlas Society, Ryan voiced his contempt for Social Security, decrying it as a “collectivist system.”

His idea for reforming Medicare is to voucherize it, leaving seniors with a fixed amount to apply to their medical bills, regardless of individual circumstances.

Ryan is a no-exceptions anti-choicer, and an opponent of programs that help the poor, such as food stamps, whose funding he proposed cutting by $150 billion over the course of 10 years.

He’s such an anti-choice zealot he’s earned a 100-percent rating from National Right to Life, having cast votes for bills asserting that human life begins at fertilization, another based on false “fetal pain” science, and one that would apply 14th-Amendment protections to fetuses. One of these anti-choice bills, postulates Kevin Drum of Mother Jones, would theoretically allow a rapist to sue the woman he raped if she aborts a pregnancy produced by the crime.

In 2013, he did the bidding of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, threatening to shut down the federal government if the contraception mandate in Obamacare were allowed to stand.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Ryan fabricated positions he ascribed to President Barack Obama. In his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he recast the $716 billion in Medicare savings budgeted into the Affordable Care Act as a cut to the Medicare program.

He even claimed that Obama had promised to keep open a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, and blamed the president for its closure. Never mind that Obama never made such a pledge and that the plant had closed during the presidency of George W. Bush.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Paul Ryan is a devotee of Ayn Rand. Rand was anti government and a social darwinist. I wonder what she would think of Ryan. He has only intermittently held private sector jobs. The rest of the time he has been on the government payroll.

Hey, Ryan. Put Ayn Rand into action. Get yourself a real job in the real world like the rest of us.

Anonymous said...

Ryan is the creation of an inept Democractic Party in Wisconsin. He has never faced an adequatedly funded candidate, despite each's more than adequate credentials to be above average office holders. Ryan's district would seem to be populated by right-wing ideologues. But his district is surrounded by districts represented by Gwen Moore and MarK Pocan and an Illinois Democrat. My question is, why have Ryan's opponents been so woefully underfunded?

Alan Blover said...

Ayn Rand supported a woman's right to have an abortion. Furthermore, she was a devout atheist. How can that not have come up during the Q&A of Ryan at an Ayn Rand event?