Paul Ryan: Alarmist or Fraud, or Both

Paul Ryan is the Janesville Republican who accuses the Obama Administration of European Socialism after he voted for the massive government bailouts.

Paul Ryan wants to run for president.

Now he is writing articles for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune. Pleased be alarmed: we can't wait to ignore the crisis in Medicare and Social Security.

...We no longer have the luxury of waiting; with each year of delay, the problem gets exponentially worse, and the likelihood grows that Congress will be forced to react with deep cuts in benefits or increases in tax or debt burdens to intolerable levels...

This is the same member of Congress who served during the eight Bush years and failed, while a member of the majority party, to solve this problem.

But Ryan voted for record spending, record deficits, the war in Iraq, the bailouts and now claims he wants to help solve the problems.

Maybe he should relocate his entire publicity operation to Minnesota.

Comments

[Overburdened Wisconsin Taxpayer]

Hypocrisy is always a fun political subject Paul. While your at it, why don't you address the hypocrisy of the Left? Here is (just) one for you..... Obama campaigned on closing Gitmo and releasing the "torture" pictures. Now that he is in the Oval Office he has done a 180. He has no plan to close Gitmo and he has refused to release the pictures. Why aren't you Lefties lighting him up for breaking his campaign promises? Where are the protesters? Why aren't Keith Oberman & Rachel Maddow outraged?

[mandrake]

Ryan, despite having worked entirely in Congress for his whole career, has a deeply flawed understanding of what OASDI is or how it works. He did debate with Dean Baker, nationally recognized economist at CEPR located in Washington DC, in Janesville two or three years ago. Ryan demonstrated then he is an alarmist and not really interested in solving the actual problem: Medicare costs.

There is nothing wrong with Social Security funding. There is no problem.

There will be a major problem with me if Ryan doesn't leave it alone.

[Irish Frog]

The big problem with entitlements is not the cost of social security, it's the cost of medicare. Social security costs go up as we have more people (boomers), but those costs don't skyrocket unless we have some sort of ridiculous breeding surge. The problem is the government expanding their willingness to pay for the skyrocketing costs of health care for seniors, without finding a way to pay for it by raising taxes. This was done under Bush's "Public Law 108 - 173 - Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003" or HR1 from 2003. Ryan, of course, voted for it. I'm not against seniors, and I'm not against the government paying for things...but I have a big problem when politicians pander to one voting block by giving them what they want without figuring out how they're going to pay for it. I think the vote for HR1 can be found here:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll669.xml

[Brian]

I wish Ryan were right that Obama is a European Socialist. He's not. He's a Geithner, Rubin, Summers hard core market fundamentalist.

Obama took the guys who crashed the plane and gave them another plane. THAT is what Rep. Ryan should be crowing about.

[R.J.]

Ryan just needs to stop listening to the drive-by media.

[Wondering]

"There is nothing wrong with Social Security funding. There is no problem."

Wow. Just Wow. Income falls below outgo in just a few years, and rapidly escalates after that. But. No problem.

[mandrake]

Wondering.

You don't understand OASDI either.
Wow.