Anybody But Ryan

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Rep. Paul Ryan has proven himself to be a loyal defender and enabler of the Bush agenda. According to Ryan, the Bush taxcuts for the wealthy are responsible for the recent growth in Federal tax revenue and a growing economy. However, flush with taxcut dollars, Ryan’s expanding economy and corporate handouts can’t even muster the confidence to vote a “stand on its own” minimum wage increase. Combine this taxcut with the failure to raise the Federal minimum wage for low income workers, the unjustified war in Iraq, the plan to destroy Social Security by defunding and discouraging participation, writing loopholes protecting business interests at the expense of employee pensions, drilling in ANWAR under the guise of reduced energy prices, weakening environmental laws to help keep corporate costs down at the expense of public health, the slow and ineffective response to domestic crisis(Katrina), it just goes on and on. Ryan not only supports this and voted for these bills, but has actually co-authored some of them.

Recently, Paul Ryan ambitiously conformed to the will of the executive branch of government authoring an earmark bill that empowers the president to cherry-pick appropriations. Bush has demonstrated over and over again he is above the law, exempting himself over 800 times from compliance of Constitutional bills and laws. America needs change and new leadership and the best time is now during the mid-term elections. Ryan has been a willing and useful tool for the worst president ever. Why would anyone want more of the same?

Paul Ryan has been winning the seat for the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin with up to 65% of the vote. Oftentimes he has been chosen despite overwhelming support for democratic candidates in other races on the same ticket, which would imply that he has bi-partisan support. Don’t be fooled again, our countries poor overall performance is directly linked to those who have rubber-stamped President Bush’s initiatives and ideas, Ryan is right at the top. Congress has been voting along party lines since the great “uniter” was elected. Most of the bills and protections for the people have failed simply because of the incompetence and corporate mindset of Republicans. We can do better with anyone else.

President Bush and his rubberstamp Congress have heaped mountains of debt onto the backs of our children and grandchildren, racking up a string of annual deficits, including the current $296 billion debt - the fourth largest deficit in history. The public trust is being sold out for the sake of economic expansion and privitization. I urge the people of southern Wisconsin to stand up for their Democratic principles. Ryan stands for everything that has gone wrong in America for the past 6 years, and voting for Ryan while ignoring reality does not balance the political conscience under these circumstances no matter of how nice of a guy they think he is. If there ever was a time to seriously consider voting a straight Democratic party ticket, this is it.

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