Has anyone ever calculated the social security and Medicare benefits that Paul "Ayn Rand" Ryan and

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his family received when he was growing up? It would be interesting to see, in terms of cash value today, just how much he and his family mooched off of the Americans who really work. Right? If yer on social security and Medicare or Medicaid you are a moocher according to Ryan.

What kind of car did they have? How big was the house? Any welfare benefits involved? Did they accept money from his church? Did they eat steak or was it an oatmeal existence? Any vacations? Hmmm? No doubt they didn't have a phone, what with medical bills, a phone and its resultant costs would be an extravagance certainly. What kind of medical care, emergency or otherwise, did they receive?

It seems he still likes being on the government dole. Can't seem to get a real job actually contributing to society. Still mooching and making all those other moochers pay for his apparent guilt at being the supreme moocher.

[INdemo]

1. Ryan paid a big part of his college tuition with Social Security Benefits

Why doesn't anyone ever ask him about that.

[smirkymonkey]

2. I got mine!

The rest of you can go to hell!

[putitinD]

3. I remember when he and his family showed up for a photo op at a homeless shelter at

Thanksgiving, they were supposed to help wash dishes, they made sure to show up after all the work was done. Paul Ryan did get his photo op washing an already clean pot.

[PatSeg]

6. Oh yes

I remember that! Priceless!

[delisen]

4. would Ayn Rand despise him for his career choice? Lapdog of the Ubermensch?

[csziggy]

5. From his Wikipedia artile I get the impression that they were well off

Paul Davis Ryan, Jr. was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth A. "Betty" (née Hutter) who later became an interior designer[9] and Paul Davis Ryan, a lawyer.[10][11][12] He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite. His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother of German and English ancestry.[13] One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War.[14] His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan (1858–1917), founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central.[15][16] Ryan's grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan (1898–1957), was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.

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When he was 16, Ryan found his 55-year-old father lying dead in bed of a heart attack.[18][21] Following the death of his father, Ryan's grandmother moved in with the family, and because she had Alzheimer's, Ryan helped care for her while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin.[21] From the time of his father's death until his 18th birthday, Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits, which were saved for his college education.[25][26][27] His mother remarried, to Bruce Douglas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan#Early_life_and_education

So his great grandfather started a business which is still in existence. Both his grandfather and his father were attorneys. The Social Security benefits were used solely for his college education and not for support of the family or for his mother's college.

I do wonder if having to care for his grandmother might have created some kind of resentment that led to his apparent dislike of anyone who is not in perfect physical and mental health.