Government Programs and Taxpayers Financed Paul Ryan: He Didn't Make It on

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http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11664-government-programs-and-taxpayers-financed-paul-ryan-he-didn-t-make-it-on-his-own

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT

It's been some time since it has been revealed that Paul Ryan, presumptive vice presidential candidate, paid for a good portion of his college tuition through social security.

As Raw Story detailed in a 2011 article, based on a profile of Ryan in Wisconsin Magazine:

Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s most outspoken advocate for cutting and privatizing Social Security, has already benefited from Social Security himself, in the form of survivor benefits he received after his father’s untimely death.

From the age of 16, when his 55-year-old father died of a heart attack, until he was 18, Ryan received Social Security payments, which, according to a lengthy profile in WI Magazine, he put away for college. The eventual budget czar attended Miami University in Ohio to earn a B.A. in economics and political science, and landed a congressional internship as a junior.