What I have in common with Paul Ryan

[kpete]

SAT AUG 11, 2012 AT 05:13 PM PDT
What I have in common with Paul Ryan
by Cali Scribe

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.......... like me, Paul Ryan lost a parent -- a father -- at a young age; he was 15 when his father died. And like my family, his family got Social Security survivor's benefits. He was able to save his benefits and use those to pay for his college education at Miami University in Ohio. For my family, the survivor's benefits helped my mom pay the mortgage on our house -- she had a good job but it would have been a lot harder to make the payments, even in the 1970s -- and provided extras like going to Girl Scout camp and church ski trips, my new bike in 8th grade, my second sister's wedding, and all sorts of other "frivolities" that make life a little better.

And Paul Ryan, with his proposed cuts to Social Security, would like to see no other child to have the same benefits that he, and I, and many other children were able to receive.

This is just one reason why we need to support the re-election of Barack Obama, and to support the election of Democrats in the House and Senate, to derail these plans of Ryan's and others that would leave millions of American children in poverty.

Oh, one more thing, my dad was in the Navy during WWII -- I don't think he went off to war for his children and millions of others to be left destitute due to a twist of fate.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/11/1119140/-What-I-have-in-common-with-Paul-Ryan

[CanonRay]

1. Why does a guy who was helped by Social Security

want to destroy Social Security...I just don't get Ryan.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Because he is making much more from the Kochs than SS ever gave him. He's got his...

...fuck everyone else.

[cali]

5. He comes from a wealthy family. He married into a wealthier one.

His family didn't even need the benefits to get by and he was able to pay for college with them.

He's an entitled little shit.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Then, that makes him even a BIGGER asshole than I thought...

He's a punk.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Fuck everyone else...

is the only concept driving modern day republicans.

[RockaFowler]

9. It was good for him - he doesn't care about everyone else

[jeff47]

11. Well, my inappropriate pseudo-psychology would be

That young Ryan was greatly scarred by the loss, and remained emotionally stunted. He's still 15.

And like a lot of 15-year-olds, Ayn Rand makes sense to him.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Yup, I read Ayn Rand between 14 and 16...

But I could never get through Atlas Shrugged...

[Cooley Hurd]

2. My father died in a boating accident when I was 2 1/2...

There were 6 of us, ranging from 2 1/2 to 18 years old. MY father was, unfortunately, not well-insured so the SS checks were EXTREMELY important to us. Mom worked full time - as a cook in a restaurant - throughout the 70's and 80's to keep everything together and died just short of her 70th birthday in 1999.

Under Paul Ryan's budget, survivor benefits would be severely cut. A woman in the same situation as my mother would be forced to work a second job... maybe even a third. Given how working in that hot kitchen took years off my mother's life, those additional jobs would've killed her long before she actually died. Not to mention, the little time she COULD spend with us would've been taken away by the second job.

I hate this Ryan punk with the intensity of a thousand suns. His plan would be the nail in the coffin of the middle class.

[cali]

6. +1

[Scuba]

10. + Another

[UTUSN]

4. R#6 & K n/t

[JohnnyLib2]

8. My background is similar, child beneficiary. This realization should wake up millions of 'us'.

K & R