We already made the mistake of electing someone like that and are still paying for it.
RYAN = EPIC FAIL
Just another Republicrat. Any chance of running for pres. he just lost.
Another PhonyCon Wisconsin Liberal PhonyCons were pushing off as Conservative.
Now the PhonyCons are pushing another Wisconsin Liberal...Scott Walker...who pushes Illegal Alien Amnesty as much as Ryan does
How about Paul and his fellow Elitist Eunuchs give up their salaries and perks? My guess is that Paul Ryan doesn’t have the cajones or guts to join our military and fight for his country, ya think? How did we get so many gutless slimes elected to the US Congress and in this Administration? They’re not worthy of licking our troops boots, in my opinion.
Two things: 1) What did they put in Ryan’s water? 2) What in the heck do “they” have on that guy?
Is he just trying to keep his cushy job? He hasn’t been there that long and he already needs to go.
Funny how everyone talks about how Ryan is pushing the cuts in military benefits.
Hello!!!?? Patty Murray is just as responsible!
Democrats set Ryan up to take the fall for this because the Military vote has always swayed to the right.
Sad part is, even conservatives are willing to sacrifice Ryan on the alter for Democrats.
Another reason NOT to vote Republican ever again!
The damage will be VERY hard to undo.
Ryan has committed political suicide with his budget cutting vets benefits. He will rue the day he did it. I don’t believe he ever served in the military.
And their families taken care of to the nth degree.
The stupidity is beyond belief.
The UNIPARTY cares about one thing and one thing only- retaining the status quo.
Thank God Ryan outted himself before we voted for him.
POP
(Piss On Paul)
Right alongside Christie, Jeb, and lots of other RINO's. Run til the end......
Did anyone think he wouldn't have to get reduction in military benefits as well as a concession?
I’m concerned that conservatives are now using the language of the Left. This is NOT a cut, but a reduction in the rate of growth. COLA has been manipulated for years, and doesn’t actually track with inflation, instead being pegged to the growth in other folks wages (among other things).
But Paul Ryan is still a RINO just in general terms based on this failure of a deal. But don’t play rhetoric games like a commie lib.
When was the last welfare benefit cut?
It is a breach of faith with those who served and by serving carried on under an agreement by the terms of which they would endure hardship and danger and even postponed present benefits not just for themselves but for their wives and kids for a benefit to be derived later-as pension. In other words, they lived up to the terms of their contract and the government now breaks it's part of the bargain. That is unfair because the government has the unilateral power to break the agreement and, so long as the government majority holds, our veterans are without recourse.
Worse, the doublecross extends not just to the kind of healthy veterans in their 40s and 50s whom Paul Ryan describes in an attempt to justify his doublecross to be in their peak work years but it applies to veterans who came back from their service missing arms, legs, the ability to walk, the ability to sleep, the ability to think normally. These capacities they have sacrificed by them because they were patriots but it was a sacrifice made while they believed in the deal.
Meanwhile, Paul Ryan contrives a budget compromise which continues to compensate those who have rendered the country no service whatsoever, who are fully able-bodied both mentally and physically, and who do not work. It is immoral and it is, inevitably, bad policy.
We subsidize indolence, selfishness, dependency while we punish industry, selflessness, independence. Immoral policy, it goes without saying, is bad policy in practice. It shapes expectations, it conditions the culture, it degrades all the virtues and condones failings of character.
We have by this deal when it is consummated, and it no doubt will be consummated, in effect said to the Democrats that the entire Ponzi scheme which is the financial operation of the federal government is one that we accept in principle provided only that we can tinker at the margins and, so long as we can appear to make progress, so long as we can publicly posture and deprecate the scheme and promise to reform it, we will condone it in practice and in reality where it counts.
The entire motivation by Paul Ryan and the Republicans whom he represented in the negotiations was to secure one commitment and one commitment only, a commitment directed not at the Democrats, or even secured from the Democrats, it is a commitment directed against the base of his own political party. Paul Ryan sold out the veterans so that he could sell out The Tea Party. There will be no more government shutdowns, The Tea Party now has no leverage to impose a shutdown on the establishment wing of the Republican Party.
Take that Ted Cruz, take that wounded veterans.
I don’t believe we have to worry about Mr. Ryan being Presidential material, he gave that up when he decided to work with the Commie Pat Murray.