Paul Ryan voted for:

This is part of Romney's plan. Means testing for social security and medicare.

I've been advocating the same for over 15 years, the clock is ticking. If not addressed soon, there will not be enough to care for those that most need it.
 
I've been advocating the same for over 15 years, the clock is ticking. If not addressed soon, there will not be enough to care for those that most need it.

Yes, and when the GOP controlled the White House and Congress, did they listen to you?
 
I've been advocating the same for over 15 years, the clock is ticking. If not addressed soon, there will not be enough to care for those that most need it.
I'll give you an example of the need for this: I have a nice little military pension and a job that I like with excellent benefits, but doesn't pay diddly squat(there is ANOTHER small state pension waiting at the end of the line, though). Top this off with social security at 65 and it turns out I'll be making more money sitting on my butt watching Jeopardy and going to early bird specials than I am now, still working! This stuff just ain't sustainable. Rush Limbaugh put it very well when he asked if progressives really wanted to pay him social security and medicare. He was making an estimated 22 million bucks a year when he said that. This is a relatively simple math problem in the huge calculus equation that is the screwed up American economy. A conservative blogger said yesterday, "with the selection of Paul Ryan comes Obama's biggest nightmare: MATH"
 
I'll give you an example of the need for this: I have a nice little military pension and a job that I like with excellent benefits, but doesn't pay diddly squat(there is ANOTHER small state pension waiting at the end of the line, though)."

Your own people would call you a leech. And how are you working drawing a military pension?
 
Your own people would call you a leech. And how are you working drawing a military pension?
I don't think my own people would call a 25 year military career "leeching", do you? How about a 10 year 2nd career as a vo-tech teacher? Do YOUR people even think I'm a leech for taking a pension for that? And I still work for the same reasons a lot of other retirees are still working:
1) Remember, I said my pension was "little". I retired as an enlisted man, not a general.
2) I have expensive interests, like eating and paying the rent.
3) I was only 43 when I retired from the military. I wasn't exactly ready for the old folk's home.
 
I'm beginning to believe that Sarah Palin would have been a better choice than Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade

WASHINGTON -- He's been in Congress for nearly 13 years, but Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has only seen two of his bills pass into law during that time.

Ryan, who Mitt Romney has tapped as his running mate, passed a bill into law in July 2000 that renames a post office in his district. Thanks to Ryan, the post office on 1818 Milton Ave. in Janesville, Wis., is now known as "Les Aspin Post Office Building."

The other time Ryan saw one of his bills become law was in December 2008, with legislation to change the way arrows (as in bows and arrows) are hit with an excise tax. Specifically, his bill amended the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 39-cent tax per arrow shaft, instead of a 12.4 percent tax on the sales price. The bill also "includes points suitable for use with arrows in the 11 percent excise tax on arrow parts and accessories."

Kevin Seifert, Ryan's congressional spokesman, did not respond to a request for comment.

UPDATE: 2:30 p.m. -- It appears Ryan had a personal interest in passing the arrow tax bill: He is an accomplished bowhunter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/12/paul-ryan-bills_n_1769816.html

The right will lose again .. just as I predicted .. and the window is closing.
 
Your own people would call you a leech. And how are you working drawing a military pension?

FYI on Military Retirement:

If you retire from the military with 20 years of active service, you immediately begin drawing a pension, which can start at around age 38 if you enlisted at age 18, and had no break in service, and didn't lose any years of active time by serving on Drill Status in the Guard/Reserves.

Only if you retire from the Guard/Reserves with at least 20 years and enough "satisfactory service" points, but do not have 20 years of active duty retirement points, do you have to wait until age 60 to collect your pension.

Many active servicemembers retire well before age 60, and take on a second career while still collecting on their military pension.
 
Whats the over under on how long it will take for Ryan to make a campaign apperance in the critical battleground State of Florida?
 
FYI on Military Retirement:

If you retire from the military with 20 years of active service, you immediately begin drawing a pension, which can start at around age 38 if you enlisted at age 18, and had no break in service, and didn't lose any years of active time by serving on Drill Status in the Guard/Reserves.

Only if you retire from the Guard/Reserves with at least 20 years and enough "satisfactory service" points, but do not have 20 years of active duty retirement points, do you have to wait until age 60 to collect your pension.

Many active servicemembers retire well before age 60, and take on a second career while still collecting on their military pension.

He said pension, not retirement; so your assumption is wrong. There's a difference between military retirement and pension.
 
I love it. It'll force lazy ass occupiers off the streets and into jobs; that, or jail cells. Now all we'll have to do is privatize our prison system, and America will be back on track.
When Prisons are run for profit, more people go to prison and more acts become crimes.
 
Because he'd be lynched at the villages?

are you still floating the lie he's going to end Medicare?.......do you think the people at the Villages are stupid enough to believe you?.....if so, they were already Democrats......Independents and Republicans are smarter than that.....
 
He will be booed out of the state if he makes a public apperance, but they will be smart to keep him in front of "invited (read paid) guests".
 
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