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Paul Ryan questioned over apparent shifts on issues
Paul Ryan questioned over apparent shifts on issues
Mitt Romney's new running mate, Paul Ryan, seems to take new approaches on Medicare cuts, trade with China and stimulus spending as he campaigns in Ohio.
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
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"You're criticizing President Obama right now for taking money from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. But your budget plan includes those cuts. What's your response to that?" asked the reporter, Chris Moody of Yahoo News...A few hours earlier, at a rally at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, Ryan rallied the crowd by criticizing the administration's policies toward China.
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Walsh University is located in Stark County, which has chosen the winning president every election year but one since 1980. The region, once a manufacturing hub, is down to 27,400 manufacturing jobs from 37,800 in 2002. Messages about unfair trade strike home with many voters, who blame foreign countries for luring away factories and manufacturing jobs.
But since its manufacturing decline began, the region has benefited significantly from government tax credits and incentives, which Ryan has repeatedly said he opposes. Hoover Co. had made vacuum cleaners here since 1908, but when it closed a plant in 2007, Suarez Corp. Industries moved in...It formerly made its heaters in China, but returned its operations to the U.S. after some production delays.
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The Obama campaign has seized on Ryan's remarks this week.
"Today, Paul Ryan once again demonstrated that he's been co-opted by Mitt Romney after flip-flopping on his own record," said Obama spokesman Danny Kanner. "Just a few days after being picked as Romney's vice presidential candidate because of his ideas, it's unfortunate and troubling that he so quickly abandons them."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ryan-20120817,0,1246452.story
Mitt Romney's new running mate, Paul Ryan, seems to take new approaches on Medicare cuts, trade with China and stimulus spending as he campaigns in Ohio.
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
<...>
"You're criticizing President Obama right now for taking money from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. But your budget plan includes those cuts. What's your response to that?" asked the reporter, Chris Moody of Yahoo News...A few hours earlier, at a rally at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio, Ryan rallied the crowd by criticizing the administration's policies toward China.
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Walsh University is located in Stark County, which has chosen the winning president every election year but one since 1980. The region, once a manufacturing hub, is down to 27,400 manufacturing jobs from 37,800 in 2002. Messages about unfair trade strike home with many voters, who blame foreign countries for luring away factories and manufacturing jobs.
But since its manufacturing decline began, the region has benefited significantly from government tax credits and incentives, which Ryan has repeatedly said he opposes. Hoover Co. had made vacuum cleaners here since 1908, but when it closed a plant in 2007, Suarez Corp. Industries moved in...It formerly made its heaters in China, but returned its operations to the U.S. after some production delays.
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The Obama campaign has seized on Ryan's remarks this week.
"Today, Paul Ryan once again demonstrated that he's been co-opted by Mitt Romney after flip-flopping on his own record," said Obama spokesman Danny Kanner. "Just a few days after being picked as Romney's vice presidential candidate because of his ideas, it's unfortunate and troubling that he so quickly abandons them."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ryan-20120817,0,1246452.story
Suarez Corporation Industries to move 200 jobs to North Canton from China
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/05/suarez_corporation_industries.html
Paul Ryan did request stimulus funds, but says retroactively he would not have done that (updated)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021146616
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This enquiring mind wants to know, but then.. maybe not.
