Op-Ed: A view of the 2012 GOP Ticket
Confronting lingering right-wing skepticism about his conservative pedigree, Mitt Romney’s safe and uninspired campaign just took on a much harder edge as he opted for free-market ideologue Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Vice-Presidential nominee.
Americans will now be able to see, with unequivocal clarity just what the Republican Party has in store for them.
Ryan, along with his head of the GOP ticket are the perfect corporate stooges. Back in 1999 he voted in favor of repealing the Glass–Steagall Act which regulated banking. He wants to keep tax-cuts for the rich and tax-breaks and subsidies for corporations, but not for the average citizen. He represents the end of public education and the expansion of the prison industrial complex. He wants to privatize Social Security by handing it over to risky Wall Street investors.
The Tea Party’s mania surrounding Ryan is the latest example of Republicans with selective amnesia as Ryan was part of Tom Delay’s spend all congress. He voted for all of the Bush’s unfunded budgets and tax cuts for the top one percent of income earners. He voted for their federal intrusion into public education thru the No Child Left Behind act, also without funding. He voted for the massive Bush Medicare Part D expansion. Ryan actually voted with the Bush Administration’s agenda of unprecedented expansion 94% of the time.
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