Today Christopher Shays, Republican candidate for United States Senate, released a statement applauding Governor Romney's pick of Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.
"Governor Romney could not have made a better choice for his running mate than his decision to name my friend and former colleague, Congressman Paul Ryan.
Paul will be a Vice President all America can be proud of.
Congressman Paul Ryan and I served together on the House Budget Committee for many years. Together we fought to cut wasteful government spending, to balance the federal budget, and help set the stage for years of economic growth.
Governor Romney said his choice of Congressman Paul Ryan is, 'another step forward to restore the promise of America', and I couldn’t agree more.
My sincerest congratulations to Paul Ryan, a man who has spent the past 14 years serving in Congress. He is an experienced leader, trying to restore fiscal sanity to Washington."
I am not certain what info you are looking for the source from? Please try to be more clear.
Thanks for your imput. I joined this patch blog about 24 hours ago, and I honestly thought I would experience more right wing commentary from Fairfield County. But, I also assumed I would be able to read interesting, informed commentary. I have to say it's beyond disappointing! Norman assails the Bush White House for "7 plus trillion added to the national debt". If adding debt is something that people need to apply lipstick to, in order to hide the fact, then Norman, I think that you may need to go to the cosmetic store before it closes. 12/31/2001 BUSH $5,943,438,563,436 12/28/2007 BUSH $9,229,172,659,218 12/31/2008 BUSH $10,699,804,864,612 12/31/2011 OBAMA $15,125,898,976,397 Now, if you want to count the 12/31 issuance to Bush , who was at that point a lame duck President, and the actual disbursement of funds occurs in 2009 and was the famous Tarp money--then Bush still accumulated 4.75 trillion in 8 years , and included the 'costly wars." Obama, on the other hand saw 4.45 trillion in only 3 years ,even if we dont count the dec 31 2008 increase by the Democratic Congress. So , Norman, when you say debt is bad, and needs disguise, may I safely assume that you understand that 4.45 trillion over 3 years is not better than 4.75 trillion over 8 years? And therefore, since you are obviously unhappy with the issuance of debt, will not be voting for Mr Obama? At the very least, will you correct your numbers please? Karen
Why are you asking me that? Again, very disappointing level of discussion here. I expected more. I read the NY Times and Wall St Journal blogs, and people there have defined positions, but they do not resort nearly as much to outright distortion. This is Fairfield County, The best people here can come up with is accusing Bush of adding 7 trillion to the debt? Telling me that 4 numbers are too many figures to look at? Asking me if the Federal Reserve bank is part of our Federal Govt? Are you all trying to have a discussion? Or do you think spreading misinformation or ignorance to be a challenging endeavor? I give up on this forum. Terrible.
Do you realize you make absolutely no sense? The debt ceiling , if you remember was the contentious issue that occured last summer, that Democrats labeled Tea partiers as "obstructionists" over, when they did not want to vote for the debt increases. I am personally against our level of debt accumulation, so I am against anyone at this point, who decides to increase the debt load, without addressing out of control spending. Mr Obama was fervently for increasing the debt, calling people who threatened not to vote in favor as being tantamount to ruining this country. So, again, Norman, I am happy to set the record straight, but even with cold hard numbers are you really going to allow your statement to stand that Bush increased it 7 plus trillion? Thanks, karen
If you dont know, the answer is "yes' the Federal Reserve (Bank) is an independent part of our Federal Government. Since you didnt know that, I hope you will not then try to explain something to me. As you have sufficiently proved your ignorance. Thanks, Karen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_3wsLd01s&list=LLU4vIbw5pAH7OSANO5t3qtQ&feature=mh_lolz
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/romney-campaign-requested-several-years-of-tax-returns-of-vp-contenders/ "When asked why he does not put the criticism to rest and just release more of his tax returns, Romney has said that no matter how many he decided to make public, there will always be a call to give more. And while Romney’s own father, George Romney, released 12 years of tax returns during his bid for the presidency, the candidate today cites Sen. John McCain as the one who set the precedent to release just two years." ------------------------- http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/07/obama-should-release-his-college-transcripts/ President Obama to the public: I will not show you my college transcripts. Just shut up, read my books, give me more money since the Romney camp is smoking me on fundraising, and vote for me. I'm not done ruining America.
No. The Federal Reserve is in no way affiliated with The Executive, Judicial, or Legislative branches of our Federal Government, in any way. They are a private organization. http://www.monetary.org/is-the-federal-reserve-system-a-governmental-or-a-privately-controlled-organization/2008/02 So, yes, we have an organization that basically prints money for The Government and pretty much runs itself. Scary stuff, indeed. When Romney wins the Presidency, the first thing he should do is appoint Ron Paul as Chairman to the Fed. Bernanke would go down in flames.
Let's end this Ryan vs. Obama on Medicare cuts talking point right here and now. Please read to enjoy: "Well, you know ask the wealthy to pay a little bit more. Cut waste from the government. Reform Medicare. More than $300 billion in savings from Medicare. On top of the savings we’ve already achieved. You know I heard Mitt Romney deride the $700 billion cuts in Medicare that the president achieved through health care reform." --Stephanie Cutter on Face the Nation this morning. President Obama is so incensed that this young upstart Paul Ryan is smarter than him, that he is saying the Medicare tax cuts he (Obama) did are wonderful and newsworthy, but that Ryan's are evil and horrific. Someone bring some popcorn, I'll get the beer. This is going to be an amusing election cycle.
I do not approve of Bush spending. Never said I did. May I ask if you find the truth to be important? Its a simple question.
grades are hardly a relevant issue. We do know however from the little that has been released that he pays a smaller percentage of federal tax than most of the middle class work force. This begs for further examination.
So, you seem to believe what you say. But could you answer an honest question. If Mitt's taxes are released and it shows he paid 17% or 19 or 21% which level will it give you comfort to vote for him. May I suggest that under any scenario, you will not vote for him? If you are honest?
P.S: We know what Paul Ryan is...he thinks that he is a Catholic…wears it on his sleeve, but the Catholic Church is committed to caring for the poor and the elderly. If you asked them what Ryan is, they’d call him a Catholic that doesn’t get it. (You know what you could do with those vouchers, Paulie)
Son of Boss and its related shelters represented perhaps the largest tax avoidance scheme in history, costing the U.S. many billions in lost corporate tax revenues. In response, the government initiated legal challenges that resulted in complete disallowance of the losses claimed by Marriott and other corporations... ...In his key position as head of the board's audit committee, Romney was required under the securities laws and his fiduciary duties to review the transaction. In fact, it has been publicly reported that Romney was the Marriott Board member most acquainted with the transaction and to whom the other board members turned for advice. This makes sense because aggressive tax-driven financial engineering was a large part of what Romney (and Bain) did for a living. For these reasons, it is fair to hold him accountable for Marriott's spurious tax reporting...." http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/opinio...-romney-taxes/
As someone fortunate enough to be in the upper 1% of income level I would expect him to be be paying taxes in the highest bracket of the IRS code. Whatever it was for that particular year. Thats the whole idea of tax brackets, Karen. Why have tax brackets when the super wealthy (Mitt) have ways to shelter themselves. How could it be that some with Mitts income only contributed the same rate as Joe the plummer? Isn't that unamerican? How long has this been going on with Mitt? Its all very relevant my friend, because its about accountability to the american people.