West Chester resident Bob Gross served in the military. He’s a former Marine, and he’s tired of the nonsense.
“Where do you begin,” Gross said. “The country is $6 trillion in debt. We’re socializing and nationalizing our businesses, and we’re wasting billions on companies like Solyndra that go bankrupt in a couple of days.”
Gross added, “I am tired of the nonsense in Washington.”
Gross echoed the sentiment expressed by who visited the in West Chester Tuesday.
“Government is important to a society,” Ryan said. “But it is not the nucleus. The nucleus is ‘we the people.’”
Ryan added, “Government’s job is not to pick winners and losers in the economy. That job is for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our risk-takers.”
Ryan also said that the Obama adminstration is out-of-touch--that Obama doesn't understand the needs of the American people.
"Remember last time around when Obama said people in states like Pennsylvania cling to their guns and their religion," Ryan said. "Well as a catholic deer hunter consider me guilty as charged. That's what freedom really is."
Ryan shared the stage Tuesday afternoon with several southeastern Pennsylvania Republicans including Congressmen Jim Gerlach and Charlie Dent as well as Chester County Commissioner Ryan Costello.
“I know you all believe in hope and change like I do because I hope for a change in the White House this November,” Costello said.
Ryan and the other speakers said that this election could define a generation, and that the idea of what America would be in the future was at stake.
“America is not just a place,” Ryan said. “It is also an idea.”
Ryan added, “The idea of America is that our rights come from nature and God, not government.”
Besides the several thousand Romney supporters that attended the event, there was a small contingent of about 25 protesters at the rally Tuesday.
“As Paul Ryan prepares to roll in here, I’m proud to stand here too,” said West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta. “Obama and Romney represent two separate visions for seniors, for students and for the poor.”
Congressman Jim Gerlach said that because of his stance on Medicare, the Democrats like to portray Paul Ryan as “the man who would push grandma off a cliff in her wheelchair.”
“By picking Ryan, Romney shows that he is serious about turning the country around,” Gerlach said.
“I want to earn your support,” Ryan said. “I want to reaffirm our nation’s founding principles so that we can get people back to work.”
“Our duty is to save the American dream for our children,” Ryan added. “We will not replace the country’s principles. We will reapply those principles.”
"I like what Romney and Ryan represent," said West Chester resident Bob Whetstone who attended Tuesday’s rally. "Small government, a controlled economy—all the things I'm concerned about."
Ryan did not mention abortion or the much talked about inflammatory comment from Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) that "legitimate rape" victims rarely get pregnant. The topics were brought up on protesters signs.
Did you attend the rally? What did you think of the speech? Share your thoughts in the comments area below.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/ "[To] anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."
“The Paul Ryan-deranged Left developed a strange new respect for Fox News overnight. Progressives lavished praise on Fox for publishing a “fact check” of Ryan’s GOP convention speech that called it “an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies.” Naturally the highly retweeted column included too-good-to-check falsehoods like this one: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. The plant closed in 2009 while Obama was in office. What these genius libs failed to note is that the piece was an opinion column written by progressive activist Sally Kohn.” So much for your comment about the FACT CHECKERS at Fox!!
If you're disputing any of the facts that Sally Kohn posted in her article, by all means -- show me where those details have been proven false. I won't hold my breath.
When the last bit of remaining work from 2008 was completed in 2009, it was decommissioned.
In the meantime, maybe your fact checkers can tell me where the "lie" was in this part of Ryan's speech: "President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory. "A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.” That’s what he said in 2008. "Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight." Ryan makes no accusation; places no blame; and doesn't even claim that then-candidate Obama made a promise he couldn't keep. Factually, everything Ryan said was truthful. The claim that a lie is in there somewhere is an amazing over-reach, even for a bunch of Democrats!
QUOTE Especially in Janesville where we were about to lose a major factory. A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that G.M. plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, ``I believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years.'' That's what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns where the recovery that was promised is no where in sight. UNQUOTE His crystal clear insinuation is that Obama was to blame for not only the plant closing but for that promise to keep it open not being kept. There are quite a number of other lies and untruths that peppered his speech.
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How convenient!
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. "You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn’t have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it." And PolitiFact doesn't seems to agree with this comment either... "He (Mitt Romney) was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in 10 legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded. State spending rose 22% (double the rate of inflation) and Romney increased corporate taxes and state fees by $750 million a year, outstripping his tax cuts. Also 49 out of 50 states in the US balance their budget every year because it's in required their State Constitutions.
That education provided by the "big government program" opened the doors so he could turn around and work for the government and receive a government pay check.
To me, Ryan's point was that the people of Janesville was told that Government involvement would make everything all right - economically speaking. Of course, after four years an improved economy with more jobs for the working class didn't happen. It's time for a change. That's what I think Ryan was saying.
I can believe that Social Security and Medicare are going to be the death of American society, yet still take the full measure of benefit afforded by a system I have paid thousands into for decades, as Ryan's parents certainly did. I claim benefits my family justly deserves ... and paid for. I'd be stupid not to. But just because Ryan benefitted from all that his parents "paid in" does not mean that he is now so beholding to those programs and unable to suggest corrective action, especially when everyone can see the economic peril they pose to everything else the Government does that's good.
- The ACA calls for a (Reduction in future growth) of Medicare spending (over 10 years). - It is Medicare Part A's trust fund that is set to be insolvent by 2024 and without the spending cuts proposed by the President (about $415 billion) in Future growth payments to hospitals through Medicare Part A, the trust fund won't be able to fully pay the projected benefits for 2016. - This comes directly from the Medicare trustees estimations. - This is exactly why Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" keeps the reductions, which Romney himself approves. The plans are almost exactly the same. The difference is in who will pay for the $716 billion reduction that keeps the trust fund for Seniors, solvent for a longer period of time. - Romney and Ryan places the financial burden on Seniors patients who use Medicare Part A, which was set up as a "trust fund". - The Presidents plan, ACA, slows the future growth of payment to hospitals, without putting the financial burden on Seniors, thus keeping Medicare Part A solvent for Seniors through 2024.
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http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2012/08/08/impressions-the-jamaica-50-independence-grand-gala/ You can see that the organizers set the seating arrangement and for security reasons (I have put on larger events like this) you sometimes have to clump your "celebrities." And given that this took place in Jamaica, which can be specifically dangerous and also probably a lower security budget, there would be nothing unusual at all about this.