Will The Real Paul Ryan Please Come Forward?
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It was in 2005 that Rep. Ryan, while speaking at a Washington gathering to honor author and libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand, shared the news of Ms. Rand’s impact on his life and career. “The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.”
Ryan would also use the occasion to refer to Social Security as a “collectivist system” that fails to allow the laborer in America to become a capitalist by denying workers the opportunity to hand over their retirement savings to the Wall Street casinos.
While defenders of the Wisconsin congressman—who serves as Chairman of the House Budget Committee—have argued that Ryan’s devotion to Rand is overstated, it becomes difficult to sustain that position when considering that Ryan is on record as noting that he hands out copies of Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged”, as Christmas presents. He also likes to encourage his congressional office interns to read the book so as to soak up Rand’s philosophy of government.
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In an interview in this week’s National Review, Ryan changed his tune on Ayn Rand– if not his budget that is the very embodiment of Rand’s morality and political perspective.
Apparently, Ryan will be removing himself from his own Christmas list this year.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/04/26/ryan-now-rejects-ayn-rand-will-the-real-paul-ryan-please-come-forward/
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