Duane Campbell
We have often argued here that the election of 2012 is
critical. As voters we have a major choice. Do we follow the Republican model of continuing the current Depression, cut
taxes for the rich, and cut programs for the working families? Do we follow the lead of Bain Capital
and Casino Capitalism ? Or, do we
invest in working America and put people to work ? Do we insist that the government hire teachers, police
officers, and invest in the future.
That choice has become even clearer with the selection of
Paul Ryan as the Vice President candidate on the Republican ticket.
John Nichols, a progressive journalists , was the keynote
speaker at an event we conducted on the media in 2002, writes from Ryan’s home
state of Wisconsin.
He says of Ryan, “ The hyper-ambitious political careerist—who has spent his entire adult life as a
Congressional aide, think-tank hanger-on and House member. Or, to be more
precise, a hypocritical big spender—at least when Wall Street, the insurance
industry and the military-industrial complex call.
Ryan has been a steady voter for unwise bailouts of big banks, unfunded
mandates and unnecessary wars. Few members of Congress have run up such very
big tabs while doing so little to figure out how to pay the piper. How has Ryan
gotten away with his fool-most-of-the-people-most-of-the-time politics?”
Most of all, Paul Ryan is the author and primary advocate of the Ryan
Budget, the Republican plan to cut the government. We should judge he and Mitt Romney from this plan.
