It’s Official: Ryan Will Challenge Change

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After spending 10 years in Congress reinforcing the status quo and rubberstamping Bush initiatives, Rep. Paul Ryan has officially announced he will be seeking two more years of the same.

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Ryan has proposed opening domestic sources of oil to drilling and using the royalties paid by oil companies to the federal government to fund a “Manhattan Project” to develop alternative and renewable fuels to replace oil.

But we need to ask: Is cheap gasoline the goal of Ryan’s plan? If it is, how will the increased supply effect our demand? If lower gasoline prices are not the goal, why increase supply? Why must we first increase our domestic oil supply in order to wean ourselves off of the addiction? How does THAT work?

If we trade our domestic oil reserves for dollars from the highest bidder in the open market, will automakers make a car that can run on useless paper? That is what he is proposing, to sell off our national reserves of energy for the sake of profits under the guise of funding the federal government to create alternative and renewable fuels. Much like his Social Security fix, Rep. Ryan proposes yet larger government solutions driven by an insurgency of corporate legislation.

Ryan, a Republican ideologically aligned with Big Oil directives has spent 10 years in Congress failing to convince his special interests to increase energy production on the 68 million acres of land they have approval to operate on. What is any different now? Does he believe our nation’s energy crisis is a matter of national security OR a matter of earnings security?

The point here is people should be thoroughly fed up with politicians like Paul Ryan. It has become painfully obvious that signing petitions requesting him to change his votes or marching in front of his office protesting his positions have not only become fruitless, at this stage it is unfair to him. Ryan has proven he is a rigidly partisan politician with his own clearly defined agenda and unwilling to change for the sake of his contituents. Why should he betray his own principles? And why should we ask him to now?

The 1st Congressional District office does not belong to Paul Ryan, it belongs to us an it's up to us to make that change. NOW could not be a better time.