2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRyan 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 cant keep spending money we dont 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 Ryans 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:
As Mitt Romneys running mate, Ryan calls those kinds of handouts big-government overreaching. He tells crowds he supports smaller government and rails against what he calls Obamas wasteful spending, including the presidents $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/
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)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)"'Jesus' plus nothing for everyone else".
Political POWER built out of SUBSIDIZED DEBT for the chosen few.
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts).
bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)plain and simple
TroyD
(4,551 posts)Is that accurate?