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DUBUQUE, IA – Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan kicked off another battleground state bus tour Monday night here and told voters it is all about family.
“Janna and I are kicking off a bus tour today in Iowa. I live two hours east of here in Janesville. We wanted to start here in Loras because this is where my grandfather went to college,” Ryan said, speaking inside the field house at Loras College.
“It is great to have family with us on the road. It is great to have family with us as we do this bus tour through Iowa,” he continued, noting that his wife’s family is from nearby Clinton, Iowa.
Ryan was joined by his three kids -- Liza, Charlie and Sam -- his wife Janna and her two sisters on the two-day bus trip and even reminisced about his connection with Dubuque.
“On the way over here, I had this song ringing in my mind. A song I grew up hearing all the time in southern Wisconsin: ‘Dubuque, Dubuque, da da da da da da da Dubuque, Dubuque. I know you have that thing in your mind,” the seven-term Wisconsin congressman sang to the roughly 1,000-person crowd inside as well as later to the several hundred people who were kept out of the event by the fire marshal.
Just a week ago, Ryan was in Lima, OH kicking off a three-day bus tour for the GOP ticket. Mitt Romney currently trails President Barack Obama in both key Midwest states.
The new Des Moines Register poll released late Saturday night found Obama leading Romney 49 percent to 45 percent in the battleground state.
During Monday night’s event in the Hawkeye State, Ryan explained to the crowd it’s a “difficult reelection” for Obama and that the president must “win Iowa to win this thing.”
Ryan’s rally on the northeast boarder of Iowa marks his fifth event in the state and is just two days before the first presidential debate.
“We are entering the debate phase, the choice phase of this campaign,” he told the enthusiastic crowd.
Tuesday, Ryan holds three events along the Mississippi River in Iowa to conclude the “Real Recovery” bus tour in the towns of Clinton, Muscatine, and Burlington.
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I wonder if Ryan feels like Palin did last election, sinking ship syndrome.
I thought Paul Ryan's explanation in Sundays interview with Chris Wallace About how they would cut taxes made perfect sense
His statement that Obama's vision of the budgetary pie as fixed to a limited size that must be divided into continually smaller pieces to meet governments demands was a great analogy
His explanation of the Romney/Ryan plan that "the pie" is not a fixed size but can be grown also made clear sense
He went on to explain that by taking away deductions for the wealthiest tax payers they would PAY more tax on their income without raising their effective tax rate and that the increased revenue would allow for a 20% tax cut for middle and lower income earners
I have never heard Ryan or Romney talk of Raising taxes on anyone
Family incomes are being decimated under Obama's no growth policies ($4600.00 less in annual take home pay for middle class Families)
Our Military budget is being decimated by sequestration and the impact will trickle down into the economy. This administration can not even get absentee ballots to our troops in time for their votes to be counted let alone protect our foreign dignitaries abroad
Our education system is shameful! Chicago's strike is total and complete evidence that teachers are there for the money not the children.
What has this administration done in nearly 4 years to fix American schools? Nothing, but they've made damn sure that the hot lunches are healthy even if the kids can't read whats on the menu, or count the money correctly to pay for it
We have propped up countries that have the worst human rights records on the planet, thrown allies under the bus, Disillusioned ourselves into believing that the death of Bin Laden = the death of Al Qaeda, buried our head in the sand over Iran's nuclear program, Snubbed word leaders across the globe, sold thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels, Buried a U.S. Ambassador and three brave Navy Seals, the list goes on and on!
Obama is a looser. He's an actor and has been playing charades with the American people for long enough.
I shudder when I think of what lies ahead if given 4 more years to continue to play this game with the world.
hold on a minute there:
"Our Military budget is being decimated by sequestration and the impact will trickle down into the economy"
thank the GOP congress for this one they voted against the debt ceiling and came up with this sequestration. Mr Ryan refused to sign off on the super committee recomendations that put the country here
"Our education system is shameful! Chicago's strike is total and complete evidence that teachers are there for the money not the children."
Mr romney would eliminate the Dept of Education. That's sure to make things better.
kandibar: Spoken like a true working class person. Your knowledge of wealth is limited by your own economic income. Can you possibly conceive that the small amount of federal tax increase on the wealthiest Americans would not even be felt at their income level? These people spend more on a single party than the tax increase would amount to. Now, the traditional argument that people give me when I point that out is this. Well, the wealthy are entitled to all the wealth they can make. They shouldn't be taxed at all. Government should not take away any money they make. It's socialism! No matter that the argument now has shifted from "no new taxes" to "no taxes at all." That, of course, gives away the level of formal education among the right wing.
SCORE KEEPER and TJEFFERSON :Spoken like true Jack Asses Yes the elimination of the department of education would be the first place to start if you want to fix the broken mess.They are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on programs that do not teach our children. Urban schools are the worst, the children from the most disadvantaged families are the biggest losers. for decades their liberal politicians have dumped tons of money into education and the kids still can't read and write!
That is the answer to any problem if you're a liberal... Just throw more money at it it's bound to get better
As for my limited knowledge of economics I run a small business I make payroll every week, I pay venders every day, I pay taxes, and fees, and would love to hire more people but I can't because of the high cost of doing so and the economic uncertainty that are a direct result of President Obama's
policies.so please don't assume that I am not able to conceive the point you try to make
Unlike you I am not foolish enough to believe that taxing the wealthy until we've bled them dry is the answer to this countries problems. My business is dependent on other successful businesses in my neighborhood, if they are not making money they do not spend money at my business.
We could today right now tax the wealthiest in our country at an effective tax rate of 100% and it would barely put a dent in paying off the debt that this country continues to build...We don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem!
all you libs harp over and over again about Romney outsourcing jobs to China What about Obama outsourcing our DEBT to china? Why not tell me where you stand on that?
Also please could just one of you explain to me why you on the left feel that the government is entitled to other peoples money, property,wealth?
I believe that everyone should pay income tax. I don't care if it's a @!$%#ing dollar, until everyone has skin in the game and has experienced the government taking what is yours to redistribute as they like the mind set of the takers will never change
you people just don't get the bold reality that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money to spend
It never ceases to amaze me that a democrat would rather live equally in economic poverty, Than unequally in economic freedom, and to think that redistribution of a limited amount of wealth is a better reality than creating you're own unlimited potential wealth? Please explain to me how that is a bad thing?
Do you people tuck you're children into bed at night and remind them to make sure that they only achieve mediocrity? Don't believe that you have limitless potential and for God sake don't ever become one of those successful 1% ers?
If not you should be because that is what you preach here day in and day out the same mantra over and over again
I dare you tomorrow at breakfast before you send junior off to school tell him how awful it would be for him to be successful and maybe when you actually hear the words roll off your tongue you will finally hear just how ridiculous you @!$%#ing sound
And where in the hell do you get you're information that the argument has shifted from "no new taxes " to "no taxes at all" Please give me a source because I do not believe that any republican has said anything close to that
Do you people just pull things out of your ass to post on here?
I would just like to point out TJERRERSON you're comment above "these people spend more money on a single party than the tax increase would amount to"
When "theses people" as you like to call them spend money on a party they are boosting their local economies,they are creating business for caterers, florists,liquor stores, grocery stores,tailors,hair salons, grounds keepers,entertainers,domestic service workers.
Just stop for a moment and think about how one party can generate such a flurry of financial activity for so many people
I think you're just hacked off that you're not on the guest list
During Monday night’s event in the Hawkeye State, Ryan explained to the crowd it’s a “difficult reelection” for Obama and that the president must “win Iowa to win this thing.”
It is also quite difficult for the Romney/Ryan ticket since these two want to implement the Bush Policies only on steroids. They want to give MORE tax breaks to the 1% while cutting Benefit Programs for the middle and lower class. They are war hawks that have not seen enough wars and care nothing about our troops. This is why these two egotistical selfish individuals refuse to discuss the specifics of the plans they want to implement which calls for more sacrifice by the 99% while the 1% continues to bask in their increasing wealth. Romney/Ryan have a strong desire to turn this country into a corporate entity where "corporations are people" with all the power and money.
American Family Values: "To Be, or not to be," that is the question with this election. Do yourself a favor and vote Democratic, be democratic, and most importantly be kind to all whomever they vote for. In the end (four more years) it won't matter because it took 50 years to get to this point in time. In another 30 years all of us "old folks" will be dead. Maybe China will rule, who knows. Take care of today and love the life you're in by loving the people you're with - you know family.
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I have been voting for 32 years now. Ive voted both Repub. and Demo. I'm not much for the bleeding heart train, or all that PC garbage; BUT, for this election, I am going to do something Ive never done before; I am going to vote a straight Demo ticket. After seeing the T-party in action, and how it has invaded the Repub. party; I just can't see doing anything else.
"There are two types of teabags in this world; one is full of tea, the other is full of $hit."
Sense_not_cents: I've been voting since 1958 and have generally followed a pattern of voting for whom I considered to be the best person regardless of party. My wife of fifty-one years was a registered Republican and generally voted a straight ticket. So, did her sister who is ten years older. In 2008, my wife became so outraged with the Republican Party that she wrote three HOT letters to the RNC and promptly went to City Hall and changed her registration from Republican to Democrat. So, did her sister. We both consider the appointment of Sarah Palin to the 2008 ticket as Vice President an act of treason. Can anyone imagine that poorly educated, mindless, air head in the presidency had she and McCain been elected and McCain had died in office? Apparently, McCain's own campaign staff thought the same of her as my wife and I. Anyway, back to my point. My wife and I will vote straight Democrat and we will use our education, wealth, and any influence we might have to encourage others to join our patriotic campaign.
Did you listen to the Ryan interview on Sunday with Chris Wallace NO TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH was what Ryan said! THEY WILL PAY A LARGER TAX BILL BY TAKING AWAY DEDUCTIONS FOR TOP WAGE EARNERS AND PASS THAT SAVINGS ON TO THE MIDDLE AND LOWER CLASS EARNERS
Can I state that anymore clearly for you to understand?
mabye if he says: "Read my lips...", then we'd believe him!!!
kandibar: Spoken like a true working class person. Your knowledge of wealth is limited by your own economic income. Can you possibly conceive that the small amount of federal tax increase on the wealthiest Americans would not even be felt at their income level? These people spend more on a single party than the tax increase would amount to. Now, the traditional argument that people give me when I point that out is this. Well, the wealthy are entitled to all the wealth they can make. They shouldn't be taxed at all. Government should not take away any money they make. It's socialism! No matter that the argument now has shifted from "no new taxes" to "no taxes at all." That, of course, gives away the level of formal education among the right wing.
Is Ryan's dog on top of the bus? Oh, that was Mitt the sociopathic animal abuser that did that. A dog is too expensive for Eddie Munster Ryan's budget.
He forgot to include "straight" before "family".
Paul Ryan seems like a nice kid, but his economic theory is purely Minarchist. So many working class voters do not know what that means, nor do they seem to want to know. Somehow, so many on this website post silly, trite BS which tells me that economics is not the issue among the right wing. I think they just don't have the formal education necessary to comprehend it, and therefore, it won't affect them. It appears, though, that a good many other people understand what Ryan is saying and they continue to leave the Republican Party in droves. In short, here is the definition of Minarchist.
"In the strictest sense, it maintains that the state is necessary and that its only legitimate function is the protection of individuals from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud, and the only legitimate governmental institutions are the military, police, and courts. In the broadest sense, it also includes fire departments, prisons, the executive, and legislatures as legitimate government functions."
So, when Republicans speak today of smaller government, that is what they mean. That is their theoretical model for America. Ryan's House Budget is based on that model. If you haven't connected the dots yet, then let me go on.
Do you see anything about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, farm subsidies to protect family farms, small business protection from giant corporations, or government regulations to prevent to protect you and your family from contaminated food, con artists selling you contaminated medicines, etc. etc.? None of that is there! Why do you think Paul Ryan wants to privatize Social Security and end Obamacare?
Paul Ryan and his minarchists who make up "the movement" in the Republican Party today believe a free market system, even though it has natural cycles of high prosperity and extreme economic depressions, should be left to regulate itself according to the Darwinist argument, "the strongest in nature will survive and the weak will die out." John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard Oil Company, said it best. He said: "The natural end of capitalism is monopoly." Think about it. Today, Wal-mart should be left alone in the free market system to control its prices and wages to compete with small businesses in your town. I say again, he has told you that he is working out of that theoretical model to implement his ideas. How many times must you hear it before you believe what this reactionary revolution is all about?
The 47% Ghost will haunt them to their grave.........
Speaking of Ghosts: Yes and across the nation we are stressed to the limit. Crowd control security forces, the city and state police, are ticketing violators making arrests, filling the prisons with demonic anti-family zombies. The mobs, unruly crowds, in unauthorized parades, ad hoc stop-the-traffic activity and large gatherings on foot are blocking traffic chanting anti-family slogans, singing jungles and demonstrating against families of all kinds. It is preventing Congress even trying to propose and sponsor legislation and acting to outlaw anti-family activities; business mergers, acquisitions, divestures, take overs. Every time there is pro-family event scheduled by the conservatives, there are huge spontaneously demonstration by the anti-family crowd, thousands show from nowhere. When conservatives invented family values out of thin air, there has been a virtual uprising of groups, individuals, deliberates, notables, leader from all walks of life who are against family values. These evil mongers are anti-family, can you believe that there could such a group. The news media, advertisers, traveling passengers, and devout Church goers are all irritated by children, yet the anti-children, anti-family crusaders are busy trying to prevent families. This invisible army threatens the United States, and is largely unseen because the media cameras are blinded and silenced. The noise dampened, blocked out, using carefully placed advertisements, flashing lights and distractions.
The terrible power of the anti-family establishment, is alien to our being, and yet the anti-family crusades, follows every family friendly tour, just look behind the bus, with the all-seeing eye, that sees people who aren't there at all. Very scary. Those anti-family groups are always a danger, but then they do sort of fade a way.