The Truth About Paul Ryan-He has even made Atlas Shrugged required reading for his staff

[iwishiwas]

http://www.progressive.org/bybee0311.html
The Truth About Paul Ryan
By Roger Bybee, March 2011 issue

When REPUBLICAN LEADERS chose Representative Paul Ryan to give the response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech, they bestowed their blessing on this fast-rising star from Wisconsin’s First District.

His is the boyishly handsome face and cheery demeanor of free market fundamentalism—a philosophy that has devastated his own district with particularly acute suffering.................
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But a huge majority of voters in Ryan’s district seem to be fooled, or at least fail to see any credible alternative. They keep sending him back to Washington. Last fall, Ryan’s opponents were frustrated yet again as he skated to victory with 68 percent of the vote over barely funded—and thus barely visible—Democrat John Heckenlively. Ryan pulled this off even though on Election Day, cities in his district had jobless rates between 10.3 percent and 13.4 percent.

Despite the hardship in his district, Ryan voted against extending unemployment benefits in November on the pretext that it would add more than “one dime to the deficit.”
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Ryan then turned around and voted for the benefits when they were coupled with an extension of the Bush tax cuts, which would add seven trillion dimes to the deficit.

Ryan is a devotee of Ayn Rand, the literary icon of pure and ruthless free market policies. He has even made Atlas Shrugged required reading for his staff.".....................

[OHdem10]

1. Of course, they must be skilled in the "Virtue of Selfishness.".

[sharesunited]

2. Wake up WI-1 and start voting your interests!

[xchrom]

3. crazy 'misunderestimates' ryan. nt

[snagglepuss]

4. Repiglicanism is no longer a political party but a religion.

How else to explain the irrationality of its high priests and devotees? These people absolutely worship money, for them money sanctifies life, its is the be all and end all.

[iwishiwas]

5. Yes, there does seem to a religious zeal amongst that group.

[snagglepuss]

6. And not just zeal but a wholly unsupportable belief in the invisible hand of

the free market to guide and control and that by strictly adhering to this creed followers will wildly prosper.

[femrap]

7. I'm sure they'll

just read the Cliff Notes...none of them could read the entire book.

[mrmpa]

8. He does know it's a work of fiction, right. eom

[customerserviceguy]

9. I'll admit, I tried reading it a couple of years ago

But it was so laborious, I just gave it up. It's still sitting on the edge of the dresser, untouched for many months. Maybe if I see the movie version when it comes out on Netflix, I might be able to have some images to hang the heavy prose on. It's important to know what delusions your enemy is laboring under, and how poorly he understands them.