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Paul Ryan was born into a well-to-do Janesville, Wisc. family, part of the so-called “Irish mafia” that’s run the city’s construction industry since the 19th century.
When his lawyer father died young, sadly, the high-school aged Ryan received Social Security survivor benefits. But they didn’t go directly to supporting his family; by his own account, he banked them for college. He went to Miami University of Ohio, paying twice as much tuition as an Ohio resident would have; the in-state University of Wisconsin system (which I attended) apparently wasn’t good enough for Ryan. After his government-subsidized out-of-state education, the pride of Janesville left college and went to work for government, where he’s spent his entire career
Ironically, Ryan came to national attention trying to dismantle the very program that helped him go to the college of his choice, pushing an even more radical version of President Bush’s Social Security privatization plan, which failed. He has since become the scourge of the welfare state, a man wholly supported by government who preaches against the evils of government support. He could be the poster boy for President Obama’s supposedly controversial oration about how we all owe our success to some combination of our own hard work, family backing and government support. Let’s say it together: You didn’t build that career by yourself, Congressman Ryan.
Thus Paul Ryan represents the fakery at the heart of the Republican project today. It starts with the contradiction that Mr. Free Enterprise has spent his life in the bosom of government, enjoying the added protection of wingnut welfare benefactors like the Koch brothers. If Herman Cain is Charles and David Koch’s “brother from another mother,” as he famously joked, Ryan is the fourth Koch, swaddled in support from Americans for Prosperity and other Koch fronts. The man who wants to make the world safe for swashbuckling, risk-taking capitalists hasn’t spent a day at economic risk in his entire life.
When he was 16, Ryan found his 55-year-old father lying dead in bed of a heart attack.[6][15] Following the death of his father, Ryan's grandmother moved in with the family, and because she had Alzheimer's, Ryan helped care for her while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin.[6] After his father's death Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits until his 18th birthday, which were saved up in order to pay for his college education
Isnt this the Part where you drag out your charts showlng how in the Red The US IS?
Originally posted by neo96
At age 16 his father died, then collected for 2 years while his grandmother was living there taking care of 4 kids plus the grandmother for a whole 2 years.
Yeah that really makes him a "welfare" king
A lot of people voted for Tarp
and a lot of people support "corporate welfare" which is exactly what social programs are.
This thread is about "victims" collecting Entitlements.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by RealSpoke
Read the list of someone else who voted for tarp? and the other guy who has shelled out billions for corporate welfare?
Where are those threads at?
Read the list of someone else who voted for tarp? and the other guy who has shelled out billions for corporate welfare?
Where are those threads at?
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by RealSpoke
Relevance is those people who voted for tarp are evil and there were a lot of people who voted for tarp.
50 million on ss and only singling out 1 guy.
Yep there is a welfare king since never before in this nations entire history there are more people on it now than ever.
And that's not on Ryan.