5 Things Mitt Doesn't Want You to Know About Paul Ryan

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By Elizabeth Hartfield | ABC News

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1. His budget plans include big cuts, and there's ample room for Democrats to continue with their "Romneyhood narrative." The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates 62 percent of Ryan's cuts are to programs for the poor.

2. Ryan's budget proposals have included big changes to Medicare - including gradually replacing the program with a voucher program for private health care, and gradually raising the retirement age. That could scare older Americans, a crucial voting bloc.

3. He voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. While a lot of other Republicans did too, and it was proposed by the Bush administration, some have viewed it as a rejection of the conservative economic values Ryan and hard-line fiscal conservatives espouse.

4. He's easily pegged as Washington insider. He's been in Congress since 1999, and before that he worked as a congressional staffer. Congressional approval ratings are abysmally low- a recent CBS News/NY Times poll showed that only 12 percent of voters approve of the way Congress is doing its job.

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ThinkProgress:12 Things You Should Know About Paul Ryan
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/11/677171/12-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan/

[Zax2me]

1. Boy, that was quick! She came up with that really fast.

Who is Elizabeth Hartfield at ABC?
Like her!

[patrice]

2. The basic assumption is the haves have because they DESERVE all that they have, i.e. Prosperity

Gospel, and because they deserve to have, it is their responsibility to tell those who do not have what they are allowed to have.

HOW do we address this set of assumptions?

The only thing I see out there that addresses this is the moral approach that the Nuns On A Bus are doing.

There is another way, isn't there?

How do we address these assumptions, not as the Prosperity Gospel, not within the milieu of religion, but as economics?

The only thing I can think of is Supply vs. Demand side economics, but I'm wondering if there aren't more ways to talk about these assumptions.

[Doctor Jack]

3. A Quote From "The Dark Knight" Works Well Here

"You hammered to the point of desperation and in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand"



We can save "some men just want to watch the world burn" for the VP debates.