Paul Ryan is a charlatan and even more a Trojan Horse than Mitt Romney. It is hard to fathom, but I am growing to believe Ryan is a much bigger liar.
Have your ever worked around or interacted with a person who was a bit of a know it all? Yes, sure you have. Have you ever worked around a know-it-all who is a numbers person? They are the very worse when it comes to discussing points and arguing points that include human needs as a discussion factor. They have little to no feelings for human beings beyond their families. Paul Ryan is truly Left Brain Hemispheric Dominant, and he has another problem to compound his aversion to all things human; he was born wealthy and has acquired more wealth via inheritance.
As with Mitt Romney, their family background and the absolute lack of ‘need for anything’, could not help but shape their young lives. Young life experiences and learned tendencies shapes the eventual adult. I will take that thought one-step farther; we never really grow away from of early life experiences. At our core we are the same people as the person who grow from a pre-teen through their teen years into full adulthood. Paul Ryan’s family background and his ‘well-to-do’ family experience probably contributed greatly to an adult with no empathy for people who have life-sustaining needs. He will vote for wars, vote for oil subsidies, vote to spread religious doctrine into matters of State, but he will avoid affirmative (Yay) votes for social programs. And, he will does so despite empirical evidence of human need!
IN 2005 Congressman Ryan spoke at The Atlas Society. Ryan apparently left a trail of adoration, effusive love, adulation and manifest fervor for the philosophies of Ayn Rand, author and novelist. He claims to have devoted much of his post-teen social learning and psychic development to rand’s writings.
The Atlas Society audio linked and transcript excerpt)
(Rep. Ryan is introduced by The Atlas Society’s Ed Hudgins, director of advocacy.)
Some excerpts from the audio (with minute and second markers):
(1:45) I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight we’re engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, that’s what I tell people..you know everybody does their soul-searching, and trying to find out who they are and what they believe, and you learn about yourself.
(2:01) I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. There’s a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well.
“I always go back to… Francisco d’Anconia’s speech [in Atlas Shrugged] on money when I think about monetary policy.”
(2:23) But 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. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
(2:38) In almost every fight we are involved in here, on Capitol Hill, whether it’s an amendment vote that I’ll take later on this afternoon, or a big piece of policy we’re putting through our Ways and Means Committee, it is a fight that usually comes down to one conflict: individualism vs. collectivism.
(2:54) And so when you take a look at where we are today, ah, some would say we’re on offense, some would say we’re on defense, I’d say it’s a little bit of both. And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism—that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism—you can’t find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.
(3: 21) It’s so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rand’s vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are. I always go back to, you know, Francisco d’Anconia’s speech (at Bill Taggart’s wedding) on money when I think about monetary policy. And then I go to the 64-page John Galt speech, you know, on the radio at the end, and go back to a lot of other things that she did, to try and make sure that I can check my premises so that I know that what I’m believing and doing and advancing are square with the key principles of individualism…
(6:53) Is this an easy fight? Absolutely not…But if we’re going to actually win this we need to make sure that we’re solid on premises, that our principles are well-defended, and if we want to go and articulately defend these principles and what they mean to our society, what they mean for the trends that we set internationally, we have to go back to Ayn Rand. Because there is no better place to find the moral case for capitalism and individualism than through Ayn Rand’s writings and works.
As is the case with Mitt Romney, Ryan attempts to either disguise his past or outright disavow a past so ingrained in his psyche, he can never divorce himself from its cognitive influence. Romney continues to attempt to fight-off weekly revelations about his Bain Capital (vulture capital) past. His actions are overtly manifest via his refusal to released tax returns beyond 2011. His 2011 tax return ha been released and there is evidence he released the 329 page return after major shuffling of assets and even shedding of holdings in a Chinese government owned oil company. Ryan has recently ‘rejected’ the teachings (and his love of) Ayn rand. It is worth noting he spoke the disavowals as his quest for the VP slot on the GOP become an oasis on the horizon.
Many authors are publishing pieces related to the 2005 audio. We are going to leave the issue here with opportunity for you to hear the audio (linked above) and with thoughts about just how much Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are birds of father (and they are flocking together) who nest in the same bed of lies and deceit we experienced from 2000 through 2008. The nest is wrought with dangers for middle and lower income Americans. ‘
Romney and Ryan have proven via their statements and actions we are mere “Hunger Game” like pawns.
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