NN&V Exclusive
(Lori Piotrowski) – The media has gone nuts with Romney’s announcement of the candidate’s choice for a vice president—Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan. Most who follow politics and our government run-amok will recognize Ryan for putting together the Path to Prosperity as well as his responses to the President and others who questioned his policies.
Today, Tuesday, August 14, southern Nevadans will have the opportunity to see Ryan at an event in Summerlin.
The Victory Rally with Paul Ryan will be held at the Palo Verde High School, 333 South Pavilion Center Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89144. Call (702) 614-5900 for more information, or visit http://www.mittromney.com/states/nevada .
Erin Neff, executive director (and former Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist) is urging her progressive friends and followers to show up and “show Nevadans and the rest of the country that the Romney/Ryan plan to destroy Medicare and cut taxes for the richest 1% will not fly in Nevada!”
Look for them on the sidewalk across the street from the high school.
Her newsletter, which was forwarded to me, goes on to list five reasons why the left is afraid of Ryan:
1. Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand. Ryan heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is “virtue.” Rand described altruism as “evil,” condemned Christianity for advocating compassion for the poor, viewed the feminist movement as “phony,” and called Arabs “almost totally primitive savages. “The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Ryan said at a D.C. gathering honoring the author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” “I give out ‘Atlas Shrugged’ as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it. Well… I try to make my interns read it.”
2. Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cut them for millionaires. Paul Ryan’s infamous budget — which Romney embraced — replaces “the current tax structure with two brackets — 25 percent and 10 percent — and cut the top rate from 35 percent.” Households “earning more than $1 million a year, meanwhile, could see a net tax cut of about $300,000 annually.”
3. Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system. A recent study found that had the Ryan Budget been implemented in 2009, 24 million beneficiaries enrolled in the program would have paid higher premiums to maintain their choice of plan and doctors. Ryan would also raise Medicare’s age of eligibility to 67. [See this video to disprove this claim.]
4. Ryan thinks Social Security is a “ponzi scheme.” Also, since 2005 Ryan has advocated for privatizing the retirement benefit and investing it in stocks and bonds. [See this video for more information.]
5. Ryan’s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years. Ryan’s budget calls for massive irresponsible reductions in government spending, which the Economic Policy Institute estimates would suck demand out of the economy and “reduce employment by 1.3 million jobs in fiscal 2013 and 2.8 million jobs in fiscal 2014, relative to current budget policies.”
By and large, I think conservatives know these reasons are straight out of the Democrat’s scam bag.
Here are a few ideas for signs:
Dems’ Medicare plan: Medicare bankrupt by 2024
Dems’ Medicare plan: Drive 20% of hospitals out of business
Dems’ plan: Steal $700 billion from Medicare
Dems’ Medicare plan: Fewer doctors, fewer hospitals
Dems’ Medicare plan: Unaccountable board makes your medical decisions
Medicare as we know it ends Medicare as we know it!
Okay, so some of them are a bit long for signs.
Show up and let Neff and her cohorts that Nevadans do want “change”—“change we can believe in”—and that their vision “will not fly in Nevada!”
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