Paul Ryan Never Grew up, Never Appreciated What Others Gave Him

Madison, Wisconsin—There was a report months ago unknown persons shot out the windows of a SUV while a family slept at night on the southwest side.

Asked around about it, the verdict was: Kids.

Kids didn't understand the results of actions, what they did to the family, neighbors, community, how something like this violence could traumatize a family, inflicting a home, the sanctuary, the scared foundation of America.

Thought about this wanton act on reading reports House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek reelection.

From the time Paul Ryan was a college student paid for in part by Social Security survivor benefits, he took, and took, and then lived on the public dole for decades with his tax-payer-financed salary with benefits most any Wisconsin family would envy.

Why Paul Ryan would mutate into a zealous ideologue to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is inexplicable.

Like a malignant child, Paul Ryan never understood the work generations of American families accomplished to create Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, so Ryan has no compunction about destroying social insurance.

Paul Ryan just took, born into privilege, growing "up in a big Colonial house on a wooded lot, and his extended clan includ(ing) investment managers, corporate executives and owners of major construction companies," (Los Angeles Times).

Paul Ryan is the Koch brothers representative, and Ryan needed a gerrymandered congressional seat to stave off Wisconsin voters.

Ryan's biggest accomplishment: Bequeathing future generations with a $ trillion deficit, purposely imperiling social insurance from which he took.

Lawrence O'Donnell gamed out Paul Ryan's scenarios in December 2017, and guessed a future presidential run is likely.

As Paul Ryan lives on his tax-payer-financed pension, a presidential run is not necessary.

A simple thank you to the Americans whom Paul Ryan betrays will do.

Everything about you is a fraud. Your fake earnestness, your pseudo policy chops, your smart-for-a-country-boy act, your hostility for the poor masquerading as patriotic. EVERYTHING. You are a coward, a liar, a stooge and a hack. That is all. Carry on… https://t.co/2JuUhRhEiT

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 4, 2018

BREAKING: WE JUST REPEALED PAUL RYAN

Now it's time to replace him. Chip in to help us build this campaign and give #WI01, for the first time in 20 years, some real representation.https://t.co/SgSfzooZOR

— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) April 11, 2018

Lying Paul Ryan in Dec 2017: 'Not quitting anytime soon'.

In Washington Paul Ryan Is Considered a Serious Thinker

The Philosophy Prince: How Paul Ryan
convinced Washington of his genius
- by Alec MacGillis

"Let me not be alone in the back of the crowd," wrote Richard W. Rahn, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's chief economist, on the Wall Street Journal editorial page, "as I tip my hat to my longtime colleagues on the economic barricades: Thank you, Mr. Gilder, Mr. Kemp, Me Laffer, Mr, Mundell, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Ture, Mr. Wanniski and all the others who helped invent this economic miracle."

One week later the country in the great crash of 1987 "'came within an hour' of the disintegration of the stock market," as noted by Felix Rohatyn, a partner of Lazard Freres and Company. (Johnson. Sleepwalking Through History, America in the Reagan Years; W.W. Norton Company, 1991. p. 381)

The massive deregulation advocated by the likes of Jude Wanniski and George Gilder led directly to the crash of 1987.

Another round of deregulation begun a decade later and accelerated by George W. Bush led to the crash of 2008 and the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Today, Congressman Paul Ryan (who has spent his entire adult career insulated in Washington) and Mitt Romney (a leverage buy-out artist) advocate still more deregulation.

They appear not to have learned anything from recent history and the last 90 years of macroeconomics, or at least nothing can pierce their extremist ideology.

Early in his career as a congressional aide, "[Paul Ryan] nagged Cesar Conda, now Marco Rubio’s chief of staff and a Ryan admirer, so often with questions about supply-side economics that Conda lent him two books to keep him busy—Jude Wanniski’s The Way the World Works and George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty, both foundational tracts for trickle-down Reaganomics," reports Alec MacGillis in the current issue of The New Republic.

Ryan of course is the same creature of Washington who called for ending Social Security in a speech to fans of Ayn Rand, another rightwing whack the coddled Ryan champions and whom Ryan has said is "the reason I got involved in public service."

Ryan and Romney are "preaching the same empty conservative sermon" that has brought us disaster before and will again if we elect these two phonies, as noted by David A. Stockman, who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985.   End Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, increase defense spending, attack Iran, lower taxes on the one percent and in the words of Richard W. Rahn, we can expect another "economic miracle."

This career Washington ideologue and leverage buy-out artist are the perfect front-men for today's GOP and Tea Party—deluded, dangerous and ahistorical.

The fact the Romney was caught on tape saying he doesn't care about working people is a lucky break.

As for Congressman Ryan, his insular background and hostility to social insurance will out to a wide audience as the campaign nears a 45-day sprint to election day as Congress maintains its 11 percent approval rating and the GOP ticket appears in free fall.

Even Scott Walker is running from it.