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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 02:04 PM Oct 2012

Ryan Repeatedly Requested Millions Of Federal Dollars For His Wisconsin District

On multiple occasions during the vice presidential debate on Thursday evening, Rep. Paul Ryan hit the Obama administration for excessive spending by the federal government, saying at one point that “we can’t keep spending money we don’t have.” But during his time in Congress, Ryan seemed to be far less concerned about spending federal dollars, so long as they were being spent in his Wisconsin district.

A new report from the Associated Press highlights almost 9,000 pages of correspondence between Ryan’s congressional office and dozens of federal agencies and departments in which Ryan repeatedly sought millions of dollars for his own constituents, often culled from programs that Ryan is now campaigning to reduce or eliminate entirely:

For 12 years as a member of Congress, Ryan has sought from the federal government money and benefits that in some cases represent the kinds of largess and specific programs he is now campaigning against.

As Mitt Romney’s running mate, Ryan calls those kinds of handouts big-government overreaching. He tells crowds he supports smaller government and rails against what he calls Obama’s wasteful spending, including the president’s $800 billion stimulus program.


A 2002 letter from Ryan sought funding under the Food Stamps Access Research program for a community center in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In his letter to then-Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, Ryan says that the grant would “increase the enrollment of eligibility individuals in the Food Stamps Program by providing laptop computers with touch screens to community organizations for pre-screening of applicants for food stamp eligibility.” Now, years later, Ryan is campaigning on a budget that would cut federal spending on food stamps by $133 billion and kick an estimated 10 million people out of the program.

more:
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/12/1004301/ryan-stimulus-dollars/
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Ryan Repeatedly Requested Millions Of Federal Dollars For His Wisconsin District (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2012 OP
Lies,Hypocrisy of the highest order, Flashmann Oct 2012 #1
Just like SUBSIDY-Sam Brownback's "... experiment ..." on Kansas. Cronyi$$$$$m for Republicans & patrice Oct 2012 #2
Poor Ryan. Gotta be hard to keep all those lies straight! bushisanidiot Oct 2012 #3
HYPOCRITE. bushisanidiot Oct 2012 #4
Some reports I saw today say it was 4 letters, not just 2 TroyD Oct 2012 #5

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
1. Lies,Hypocrisy of the highest order,
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 02:12 PM
Oct 2012

Racism,Sexism,Homophobia,Aversion to fact or reason,Smoke and Mirrors......That's what they have...That's ALL they have.....And Lyan Ryan puts a very nice face on it.....

patrice

(47,992 posts)
2. Just like SUBSIDY-Sam Brownback's "... experiment ..." on Kansas. Cronyi$$$$$m for Republicans &
Fri Oct 12, 2012, 02:35 PM
Oct 2012

"'Jesus' plus nothing for everyone else".

Political POWER built out of SUBSIDIZED DEBT for the chosen few.

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