Paul Ryan

[Bailey Guns]

Got some reading to do. Don't know anything about him.

This may be the best VP pick in my lifetime:

The following is a brief biography of Rep. Paul Ryan, selected to be Mitt Romney's running mate.
Political
* Currently serving seventh term as a member of Congress.
* Ryan was little known outside Janesville when he ran for
Congress in 1998 at age 28. He captured 57 percent of the vote.
* Ryan's first budget plan, which he called "Roadmap for
America's Future," was released in 2010.
* Early in his career as a representative to Congress, Ryan
held office hours in an old truck he converted into an office.
* Ryan was the legislative director for Sen. Sam Brownback
of Kansas, 1995-1997.


Personal
* Born and raised in the community of Janesville; Ryan is a
fifth-generation Wisconsin native.
* Ryan moonlighted on Capitol Hill as a waiter at the Tortilla Coast
restaurant and as a fitness trainer at Washington Sport and Health
Club.
* One of Ryan's summer jobs in college was as an Oscar Mayer
salesman in Minnesota, peddling turkey bacon and a new line
called "Lunchables" to supermarkets.
* Ryan worked as a marketing consultant for his family's construction business before being elected to Congress. The company -- Ryan Incorporated Central -- began as an earthmoving business created by his great-grandfather in 1884.
* Ryan's hobbies include hunting and fishing. He is a bowhunter and belongs to his hometown's archery association - the Janesville Bowmen.
* For fun, Ryan noodles catfish, catching them barehanded with a fist down their throats.
* Ryan listens to Rage Against the Machine and Led Zeppelin

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz23FUdwcgb

[yankeefan98121]

Not in love with the pick, but I still stand with my "anybody but cuntlips (berry)" vote regardless

[bogie]

He's pretty sharp and at least he's got more gonads than some of those other jokers. Mitt could have done worse.

[wctriumph]

No changes here, same old Repub/Dumbocrat BS. Military will get it budget, no programs will be cut, money will continue to be wasted and borrowing from other countries will not lessen.

TEA

is the only chance to start turning things around.

[Scanker19]

I don't trust people with two first names.


Edit: How did this post get ahead of the two post after it that I read before posting this one 6mins after it says it did?

[4gunfun]

Dang, I wanted John McCain Great pick! Ryan can actually write a budget unlike BHO.

[stevelkinevil]

as others have said "meh"

[bryjcom]

Meh.... he won't change a thing...

[Bailey Guns]

Meh.

His "radical plan" to balance the budget is to grow it a little less fast for a decade and hope no one notices. Also to hope the US economy bounces back - hard.

Hardly radical, though it's convenient for both sides to say it was. I guess Mitt is feeling his lack of chops on the economic side, though. Wisconsin isn't a swing state, is it?

Forgot to mention...

The plan calls for cutting gov't spending by $5 Trillion over the next 10 years. I don't care how you slice it, that's a pretty significant amount. It also calls for reducing the corporate tax rate by 10 percentage points to 25% and for instituting two individual tax brackets...10% and 25%.

Those are some pretty radical steps. Probably more necessary at this point than radical.

Meh.... he won't change a thing...

Yeah...move along. Nothing to see in a $5 Trillion spending cut.

[kanekutter05]

I'm excited about the pick if for no other reason than Ryan pisses off the unions and dems as much (if not more than) Palin did. I like pissing dems off