Posted on 06/14/2016 4:10:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Ryan and like-minded establishment Republicans have struggled to reconcile their desire to unify the party in advance of a tough fight against Democrat Hillary Clinton while at the same time separating themselves from some of the positions and rhetoric of Trump, who defeated 16 rivals to win the presidential nomination
Ryan said "the smarter way to go" would be to have a "security test" for Middle Eastern immigrants to ensure proper security screening. He noted that the House passed legislation to tighten visa restrictions that President Barack Obama signed into law, but that the Senate had blocked another measure that would provide greater security screening
"This is a war with radical Islam. It's not a war with Islam. Muslims are our partners," Ryan said. "The vast, vast majority of Muslims in this country and around the world are moderate, they're peaceful, they're tolerant. So they are among our best allies, among our best resources, in this fight against radical Islamic terrorism."
Trump has been resolute in demanding tighter immigration policies. The massacre of 49 people at the nightclub by gunman Omar Mateen, 29, whose parents were born in Afghanistan, has prompted the Republican candidate to intensify his rhetoric as he tries to garner support from Americans with deep security fears.
Trump noted that Mateen's parents were born in Afghanistan. Pointing to specific incidents such as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he said threats were posed by people with roots in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia.
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I suspect that untraceable folding green is high on his list of likes.
I don’t want to lose heart, but we have a republican nominee who recognizes that America does not have to bring in millions of Muslims from the worst parts of the Middle East. And we just had a horrific terror attack.
And the republican party is attacking its nominee! They are embarrassed that he stood up for America. I’m hearing it described as their “worst nightmare”.
Obama embarrassed himself today angrily protecting Islam from even being named.
The wife knew her husband was planning jihad, she helped him, just as Trump predicted goes on with these attacks.
In what other culture will a wife keep her mouth shut as her husband plans mass murder? Only Islam.
The truth is that Obama and Hillary AND the republicans are covering up not only that it was Islam, but that there even was a terror attack.
We MUST bring more Muslims here, according to their PC fantasy. But foreigners have no such right to come here, there is no such need, except to turn America Islamic.
Trump cannot win while being stabbed in the back by his own party. I’m watching America being destroyed by these people. Meaning by the republicans, the media and of course the absurdly leftist democrats.
Hillary is openly promising no borders and no limits on Muslim immigration. It will be all over except the funeral services for freedom in America.
Rather than control Islam, they are going to take our guns, they are going to blame us for the killing.
Maybe Trump will rally, I hope so, but right now we are watching the American people being massively lied to and sold down the river.
And now my only solace is that when this is all over I will wish for the destruction of the republican party? That is no consolation as it will leave us in the hands of the democrats.
This is simply the GOP plan to ensure Hillary wins in November and Ryan is the GOP candidate in 2020. That’s all this is.
But by 2020 there won’t be a GOP or an America, only a disarmed, Global Socialist state run by the Government Party who will tell the people who their President will be every four years.
Go ahead, Paul. You distance yourself from Trump at your own career’s peril. Don’t you sense the zeitgeist of the country now? More of every kind of American prioritizes security over
PC doormat behavior.
Where are the conservatives in the House? I know they are out numbered, but surely they could cause Ryan enough trouble to indicate that he had best pull back his mouth or they will harass and hobble him every day.
This is also the leadership of the US on both sides demonstrating that it has been bought by Saudis.
What a natural born coward.
Obama disgraced himself today and Ryan’s reaction was to attack Trump for protecting America. We are finished.
This weakling isn’t fit to lead against the forces of evil in this country. He should be replaced as Speaker.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash
Government Programs and Taxpayers Financed Paul Ryan: He Didn’t Make It on His Own
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT
It’s been some time since it has been revealed that Paul Ryan, presumptive vice presidential candidate, paid for a good portion of his college tuition through social security.
As Raw Story detailed in a 2011 article, based on a profile of Ryan in Wisconsin Magazine:
Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s most outspoken advocate for cutting and privatizing Social Security, has already benefited from Social Security himself, in the form of survivor benefits he received after his father’s untimely death.
From the age of 16, when his 55-year-old father died of a heart attack, until he was 18, Ryan received Social Security payments, which, according to a lengthy profile in WI Magazine, he put away for college. The eventual budget czar attended Miami University in Ohio to earn a B.A. in economics and political science, and landed a congressional internship as a junior.
Ryan’s congressional ascent, all the way to the top spot on the Budget Committee, began with his Social Security-funded college education.
In addition, Ryan’s grandmother, a beneficiary of Social Security and Medicare, moved back into the Ryan family home when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
No one, even Ryan, argues that young Paul returned all this government program money – the very programs at the epicenter of his plan for destroying their current structure and leaving seniors to the vagaries of Wall Street gamblers. Nor, now since he is in an adult in a better financial position due to having a taxpayer funded job, a wealthy wife, and an extended family business that has now prospered, not even now has Ryan offered to repay the government for the assistance his family benefitted from. (His mother almost certainly also received social security benefits when Paul’s father died.)
In fact, Ryan’s family business is a prime example of one that could not have thrived without government assistance: in the form of roads that allowed it to move its heavy equipment from site to site, government contracts (it cites “highway interchanges and entrance roads” as one of its earth moving projects), and government zoning approval and incentives to businesses whose projects the Ryan Incorporated Central Works on. That, by the way, is only what can be gleaned in likely government financial benefits to Ryan’s extended family firm from their website. Lord knows what an actual audit would turn up in government money adding to the firm’s profit.
But the biggest hypocrisy of Paul Ryan is that he has spent most of his adult life on the taxpayer payroll, first being elected as a US congressman in 1998, now serving his 14th year – and the favorite for a seat even if the GOP ticket loses because he is apparently going to run simultaneously for both VP and being re-elected congressman from Wisconsin’s 1st District, located on the Illinois border.
What has allowed Ryan to become an inside the beltway and corporate media-accepted “bold thinker (when he is really an Ayn Rand economic terrorist) is his cushy taxpayer funded salary and benefits as a congressman since 1998. (He is only 42, so this has been his primary source of income for most of his adult life.) And this is what he gets from our taxes:
The current salary (2011-2012) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $174,000 per year….
As it is for all other federal employees, congressional retirement is funded through taxes and the participants’ contributions. Members of Congress under FERS contribute 1.3 percent of their salary into the FERS retirement plan and pay 6.2 percent of their salary in Social Security taxes.
Members of Congress are not eligible for a pension until they reach the age of 50, but only if they’ve completed 20 years of service. Members are eligible at any age after completing 25 years of service or after they reach the age of 62. Please also note that Members of Congress have to serve at least 5 years to even receive a pension.
The amount of a congressperson’s pension depends on the years of service and the average of the highest 3 years of his or her salary. By law, the starting amount of a Member’s retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of his or her final salary.
As for medical and insurance and healthcare, most Americans can only dream of the coverage Ryan has received because we pay for most of it. According to the Annenberg Public Policy Fact Check:
Like other large employers, the government pays a large share of the cost of coverage. On average, the government pays 72 percent of the premiums for its workers, up to a maximum of 75 percent depending on the policy chosen. For example, the popular Blue Cross and Blue Shield standard fee-for-service family plan carries a total premium of $1,327.80 per month, of which the beneficiary pays $430.04. Washington, D.C.-based employees who prefer an HMO option might choose the Kaiser standard family plan. It carries a total premium of $825.15 per month, of which the employee pays only $206.29.
In addition, members of Congress also qualify for some medical benefits that ordinary federal workers do not. They (but not their families) are eligible to receive limited medical services from the Office of the Attending Physician of the U.S. Capitol, after payment of an annual fee ($491 in 2007). But services don’t include surgery, dental care or eyeglasses, and any prescriptions must be filled at the member’s expense.
House and Senate members (but not their families) also are eligible to receive care at military hospitals. For outpatient care, there is no charge at the Washington, D.C., area hospitals (Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center). Inpatient care is billed at rates set by the Department of Defense.
That’s some fat deal on healthcare, pension, and salary that Paul Ryan has had since 1998 on the taxpayers’ tab.
Ayn Rand, Ryan’s heroine, calls the poor parasites. Ryan champions the takers, sort of an adaptation of the master race as defined by whoever is a “taker,” a crusher of those who get in one’s way to the acquisition of vast wealth and power.
Perhaps it is the supreme irony that Paul Ryan is the ultimate leech and parasite, living off the taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars.
That is because these Republicans are TRAITORS to our country..absolute TRAITORS..they could care less about keeping this country safe..these so-called Republicans ALL have armed protection, REMOVE IT and see how fast they change their mind..they think that bringing in these Jihadists that they will vote Republican PLEASE..they will NEVER vote Republican because the Democrats will give them freebies
I once thought Ryan might have a bright future but he is clearly finished. He won’t recover from this.
The muslims/Saudis have deep-pockets and you’d better believe the GOP have been poisoned but deep!
Ryan and the GOP elites are on the take.
Like I posted earlier..by 2020 you will have 20 million Amnesty voters plus millions of new refugee voters, ALL will vote Democrat..November will tell the story of what America we will be, I have a feeling it wont be the country I will ever recognize again
Ryan must come to grips with a certain fact.
He is personally responsible for the rise of Donald J. Trump.
I wish that Ryan would also say something smart about health screening.
Syrian refugees are a health hazard to US by bringing flesh-eating leishmaniasis disease
22 Percent of Resettled Refugees in Minnesota Test Positive for Tuberculosis
More than one-third of refugees in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis
CDC Official Says 'Thousands' May Have Arrived in US With Zika
Measles outbreak traced back to inmate at Arizona immigrant detention facility
More ammunition for the nomination of Paul Nehlen!
But will Badgers listen?
Buy an AR if you don’t have one. Don’t hesitate. Buy more ammo. Lots of ammo. If you live in a city, get out. “Winter” is coming.
Just a minute, Mitch McC would take issue what that!!!
Here’s the formula:
Most muslims are not terrorists
Most terrorists are muslims.
And the math doesn’t tell the story.
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