Mitt Romney’s recent announcement of Paul Ryan as his running mate makes this election even more about government spending, programs and taxes. Ryan is the primary author of the Republican-led House’s 2013 budget proposal. Consider these five proposals to evaluate Romney’s wisdom in selecting him.
With his selection of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his running mate, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has thrust the vision and ideas of Ryan onto the national agenda, including a fundamental restructuring of our tax and entitlement systems. Even if Romney doesn’t intend to enact Ryan’s Path to Prosperity in plan in its entirety, it can still serve to illustrate the general direction he would like to take the country. So what exactly are those ideas and how might they affect you?
A lot of politicians talk a good game about principles and guts, but very few take risks that really jeopardize their careers.
But Paul Ryan has guts. In October 2008, while the economy was cratering, Paul Ryan stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and encouraged his colleagues to do something incredibly unpopular: Pass TARP, the bailout scheme that helped save the economy.
He was one of only 20 Republicans to vote yea on the measure, which barely passed after failing the first time around.
Here's his impassioned speech.
