Posted on 05/02/2016 3:39:05 PM PDT by cotton1706
Yes, it appears Paul Ryan is still straining to hear the will of American taxpayers as he works to maneuver them into bailing out Puerto Rico.
The word “NO” shouldn’t be that hard for Ryan to hear on this issue. A significant number of Republicans in the House caucus are rightly opposed to putting taxpayers on the hook to clean up Puerto Rico’s mess. Moreover, a whole lot of American taxpayers are literally shouting at Ryan, saying, “Don’t do it!”
Just check out reader comments like this one on a recent Wall Street Journal article about Ryan’s efforts to push the bailout through the House:
This is a federal government problem only because the federal government has decided that it is.
It isn’t. If the island defaults, the creditors – the ones who injudiciously loaned money to a profligate entity – will take a haircut. Will there be repercussions? Of course. Hardship? Well, yes, when you default massively you can expect some hardship until you figure it out. So what? Our feds can’t do the few important things right because they’re trying to do thousands of things they have no business poking their nose into.
(Excerpt) Read more at paulnehlen.com ...
Why doesn’t he just pretend NO means it will SCREW THE TAXPAYERS??
What a piece of garbage fraud this guy is.
Most politicians in peacetime go into the field out of a desire to be loved, as well as out of a desire to enrich themselves personally.
The desire to be loved is extremely strong in these people. I believe many of them actually get to where they gage how well they are doing and decide what to do next by trying to figure out “will more people love me if I do ‘X’ or will fewer people love me?
When they get to DC, they’re far away from their constituents, most of whom start to seem like rubes and hicks anyway. And they daily come in contact with people who know just how to press their buttons.
Paul Ryan obviously has let himself become convinced that if he bails out Puerto Rico with taxpayer money, the number of new people who will love him will take a huge jump.
In fact, no one in Puerto Rico will even remember his name. Local politicians will take whatever short-term glory there is to be obtained. The money will disappear very quickly, and they’ll put the blame on him.
Failure to communicate. That is what we have hear.
Paul Ryan and other Republicans and conservatives fail to educate the public (including us conservatives) on what happened in Puerto Rico.
This is just one example of GOP leadership failure to communicate on almost every issue.
In the case of P.R. Republican Fuentes was governor 2008 to 2012. He inherited a mess and took action to fix the mess. But he lost re-election because the Democrat lmore free money and free everything. After he took office, he destroyed all the good that Fuentes had done. He drove P.R. even deeper into debt... on purpose. This Democrat came from professional victim department where he learned that the worse off you are, the more you get help. So he purposely made P.R. worse off.
But what Republican tries to learn the facts or educate anyone?
Ryan, you dweeb, do the right thing. No bailouts!!!
Tweet, call, email your Congress Critter and say, “No PR Bailout!”
At this point, anyone who thinks Ryan is anything but a NWO/CFR globalist traitor is sadly mistaken.
His initials aren’t ‘PR’ for nothing.
Let Puerto Rico go. Let them be their own country. What good are they but to sink into a monetary hole we are always bailing out and have criminals and nasty types move to NYC all the time from there, anyway?
Proud RINO?
No, I meant PR as in Puerto Rico.
P_aul R_yan/P_uerto R_ico...maybe that wasn’t such a good connection now that I think about it.
But ‘proud RINO’ fits quite well!
“Ryan, you dweeb, do the right thing. No bailouts!!!”
Here’s the problem with that:
The right thing (for taxpayer and for PR) is to let them use Chapter 9 Bankruptcy code - which would take some congressional action.
The wrong thing is to take the “assets” on the Feds balance sheet.
the problem stems from the folks lobbying - the folks who actually want a “bailout” (the option where the Fed buys the assets at face value - and they get paid) are calling the extension of the bankruptcy code a “bailout”
It’s a clever game they are playing.
It’s true if they just leave the debt in default that this would be the worst option for the average PR citizen.
If they BK creditors will have a seat at the table.
If they get bailed out by the Fed - well the party just continues, they borrow more money and spend until they need another bailout.
“At this point, anyone who thinks Ryan is anything but a NWO/CFR globalist traitor is sadly mistaken.”
Some of us knew this many years ago. Ryan was raised from a pup to be a globalist.
If no bail out then keep an eye on PR properties.........there should be some great deals.
This weasel needs to be Cantorized.
We better do it before he not only bails out Puerto Rico, but then makes them the 51st state.
No one American dollar for Puerto Rico, period.
They already got 70B
What suckers we are.
Pusillanimous Reprobate...
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