What volunteer activity would you like to see Paul Ryan try next?

[struggle4progress]

I mean, after the soup kitchen, the campaign is probably looking for ideas

Should he spend five minutes pretending to hammer nails into a completed Habitat for Humanity House after the family has moved in?

Should he hand out bottled water and pretzels at a former Hurricane Katrina disaster relief center?

Should he bring some Abstinence Only pamphlets to a class for teenaged mothers?

[oldhippydude]

1. in new mexico we have a monsoon season..

how about a local favorite competition arroyo surfing...

[pinboy3niner]

2. Hand out Planned Parenthood brochures to people coming out of a Planned Parenthood clinic

Oh, wait...what was I thinking?

[JHB]

3. School crossing guard... at midnight.

Little League coach...in a "no kids" retiree community.

[librarylu]

4. We could use him on the phone bank

at Democratic headquarters - as long as he doesn't say who he is.

[pinboy3niner]

5. closing the barn door

After the horse is out. Duh!

[dchill]

33. Oh!...

Snap!!

[renate]

6. I can't think of anything clever, but I especially love your abstinence pamphlets idea!

[jdadd]

7. Muck out my Barn..nt

[Mz Pip]

8. Shoveling shit in the elephant cage

That's what he's already doing figuratively speaking. He should just make it real.

[crunch60]

9. He should clean the toilets at the soup kitchen, (not pre cleaned ones either)

[raging moderate]

10. Cleaning kitty litter pans in an animal shelter!

I could really use his help every Sunday afternoon!

[raging moderate]

11. Carrying four bags of therapy materials for a public school speech pathologist!

Preferably one that RUNS between six schools, with several flights of stairs, and NO lunch period!
There are plenty of them, all over the United States!
Many of them serve 80 kids! Some serve over a hundred!

[raging moderate]

12. Volunteer public school custodian!

So he could find out ALL the intricate, difficult, demeaning, exhausting, and absolutely NECESSARY tasks these brave people really complete every day!

[Richard D]

13. Pump porta-poties

Seems like a fitting act for one so full of it.

[Control-Z]

15. Yup!

That is the first thing that came to my mind. Or hose them down and scrub them clean after they've been pumped. Something that really puts him up close and cozy with reality.

[pinboy3niner]

25. Reminds me of the old joke...

...about the guy who works at the airport, pumping out aircraft toilet tanks. Everybody tells him that he comes home splattered with shit and smelling to high heaven, and maybe he should find a different job. The guy replies, "What--and get out of aviation?"

[dchill]

34. Using only a straw.

[raging moderate]

14. Volunteer nursing home aide!

Maybe he would finally learn a little empathy and compassion from these wonderful caregivers! And they could use help with their backbreaking, difficult, delicate, heartaching labors!

[Control-Z]

18. I couldn't do that to the

dear, innocent, nursing home residents. They require kindness and compassion from the start. Any lesson he might (though probably wouldn't) learn just wouldn't be worth the pain and suffering he would inevitably cause.

[WallaceRitchie]

16. Unemployment Line Monitor

He can get started on November 7, as part of the line.

[Dirty Socialist]

17. Something Legitimate

OK, so my idea is far fetched. My bad. : (

[freshwest]

19. If he was heavily supervised, I'd have him change diapers on people who are elderly or disabled who

Are taken care of by public workers because his cuts to Medicaid is a death sentence. And because the destruction of the Commons is a death sentence and a coarsening of society because not all humans can make a profit for his rich masters.

I want him to look at their faces and those of their family members, and the patience and humility of those whose mission is to nurse these folks and treat them like human beings instead of numbers on a chart to be written off.

I want him to look in the faces of all who hurt their backs and work three jobs to feed their families. Who are there night and day and work holidays and weekends for low pay and are denigrated by his supporters in hate radio.

I want him to tell them they are 'moochers' and 'takers' and a burden to the 'producers' he represents, if he can still speak in the face of a loving group of people, many who are people of faith, whom he and his followers think are unworthy to live or be paid for their labor.

Jesus might warn him:

For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own soul? Luke 9:25

Jesus would warn Romney:

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? Luke 12:20

If these two men profess one word of the Bible, they will be judged by every word in it.

[mykpart]

20. Washing skid marks from Romney's underwear.

[on point]

21. Hospice for the Uninsured

[Major Nikon]

22. Rounding up stray dogs

It's the only government service he seems well suited.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. 1. Tackling dummy for a local HS football team.

2. Anything that's ever been seen on "Dirty Jobs" -- especially one of the really disgusting ones.
3. Fertilizer taster.

[OldDem2012]

24. Speed bump on a super highway, or crash-test dummy. nt.

[tomm2thumbs]

26. Shine the shoes of a man with no feet

I'm sure he'll figure something out

[Ash_F]

27. Great OP. Hope this story spreads. /nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. The local school's track team is always looking for volunteer javelin catchers.

(It's a pretty high-turnover job.)

[SmileyRose]

29. scrubbing the portalets from the next tea party

You gotta wonder what they eat with the tea when 100 people need 300 portalets.

[gopiscrap]

30. cleaning a just used urinal with his tongue

[NBachers]

31. Step off a coal mine elevator wearing fresh-pressed, starched Round House overalls;

clean shirt rolled up one cuff, watch in place, and a new hard hat.

Extra points for a new, never-used, empty lunch box prop.

[LeftInTX]

32. He should be the boss and force Mitt to clean port-a-potties

Lots of them. Like enough to keep them busy until Nov 6th.

[Iggy]

35. Paulie Needs to Work 3-4 Days at any

Midwestern food bank--where record amounts of food (numerous TONS) are being distributed
to our poor so they don't starve like we're some sort of third world country.

let him look into the eyes of these folks and tell them how he's going to increase job opportunities
for people with few skills.

[begin_within]

36. He should volunteer to live under his Medicare voucher plan