Catholics are taught as a primary duty to take care of the poor. In one famous parable Jesus taught, that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven. I am interested to see by what logic he justifies taking from the poor and giving to the rich?Morally this is not a monopoly by Catholics alone, but shared with other faiths.

Does he suggest that the way to end poverty is to tax the poor so they work harder? Does this smack of “Arbeit Macht Frie” (Work Makes You Free)? If your history is a bit rusty, this was the slogan that hung over the gate to Auschwitz concentration camp. This is not to imply that Herr Ryan is a national socialist, but the further to the right that the party moves the closer to national socialism it becomes. Brushing up on history, the national socialists were the far right in Germany.

As a card carrying member of the “Me Generation” Herr Ryan shows excessive focus on self. Afterall does he and his sidekick Herr Mit think that it is only their efforts that build a company? No other factors of production are included in the equation? Godlike they proclaim that in the beginning there was darkness and out of the void MY corporation was created? So mien herren where were those who worked with you? Where is the public infrastructure upon which your success depends? Could your effort bear fruit if it weren’t for national defense, the public system of roads, airports, education, social security, etc?

So, toward what mortal sin is Herr Ryan heading? Excessive pride (aka hubris)? Isn’t this why God’s favorite angel got kicked out of heaven?

Caveat voter.

Instead of vilifying Ryan we need to focus on his Achilles heel so to speak. The Democrat Party needs to ferret out his weaknesses and transgressions and dismantle his credibility. Romney’s primary Achilles heel is his Ego and vanity. He cannot abide pointed criticism . The strategy in that area is already having the effect to make him slowly unravel. The more he unravels, the more he reveals his true nature.

It’s “fun” to use the Forum for barbed rejoinder but we all would help the Cause more by giving monetary support to offset Campaign advertising costs. If each of us gave as much as $50.00 each that would help greatly.

How could anyone 70 years old with children at age fifty be happy for them when medicare and medicaid is really not there for them? Ryan and Romney pretend that only those under fifty five will be affected but even if that were true it is still a horrible message for all the seniors of today who have their off spring coming up to retirement age; it is the dismantling of American pie and a great program for average Americans. The extreme right hates social security and medicare and now Ryan Romney are trying to portray themselves as hero’s of these great democratic accomplishments so they can get the elderly vote. DON’T FALL FOR IT!

troubled by the Tea Party attitude and the reality that the rich become richer and the poor become poorer during recent Republican administrations. However, I found myself without a national party as the Democratic platform promotes a different kind of selfishness which goes against my own value system and what seems unfortunately a minority of others who, too, cannot identify their basic principals with either national party.

The selfishness of the Republican party is found in its budgetary and tax priorities and desire to protect the wealthiest. The selfishness of the Democratic party is inherent with concepts of “choice” at the sacrifice of human life and issues which at one time were not even discussed because they were seen as so inherently wrong.

I am without a party trying to identify the least of two evils while exercising my obligation to vote

Ryan has sold out. He was raised Catholic, and, one would think, would be concerned with aiding the poor, but he adopted the philosophies of Ayn Rand, which are at diametric odds with his christian upbringing. He professes to be a good man, a moral man, but cannot be while praising his mentor. Rand chose the absolutely uncontrolled laissez faire system of America in the twenties when she came here from Russia, bearing some baggage of her own, and witnessed that totally uncontrolled capitalism lead us into the great depression. Yet she was so obtuse as to not see this and continued to support the interests of the overly wealthy and utterly disregarded the middle classes and impoverished.
The same thing happened in 2008, and Ryan is repeating that same behavior. Other than her extreme sexual behavior, the downfall of her objectevist philosophy was to fail to acknowledge that the source of many of our senses of human rights and liberties came from the christian backgrounds of our forefathers. Yet she continued to impune the church, indeed any and all religion. Now Ryan and Romney, if they get in, may be repeating her failure by placing the wants of the wealthy above the needs of the middle classes, and basically disregarding the human rights guaranteed by our constitution. They may, whether intentionally or not, lead this country out of democracy and into a nightmarish objectivist plutocracy.

I don’t like Ryan either, but this article or commentary – whatever name it goes by — is basically just a diatribe against Ryan whose main “sin” seems to be that he inherited money from his family. Since when did that become wrong? And, no, I am not for abolishing the inheritance tax on estates valued at more than $250,000 (except for family farms, i.e., not corporate farms). Not in one place is a solution offered by this author for solving the undeniable problem that social security, medicare, and medicaid, not to mention welfare, is unsustainable in their current form. These entitlement programs (and I am a SS and Medicare recipient myself) have been ignored so long that the cost is ripping through the federal budget like a Great White Shark on steroids. He has not suggested that it be dumped for current recipients or even those 55 or older, but that it must be reformed for younger people because there simply won’t be enough money to pay for it. No matter whether you like it or not, you can not increase taxes enough to pay for the astronomically growing cost of these entitlement programs. So, this is just another attack piece with no solutions — just finger pointing, name calling, and demagoguery. Shame on you. If you’re going to attack someone’s policies/proposals, then tell the whole truth and then offer a better idea. If you don’t have solutions, you are guilty of the worst kind of political attacks that appeal to emotion with half-truths and no solutions.

Look up “hypocrite” in the dictionary and you’ll find two definitions: 1) Republican; 2) Paul Ryan

With the selection of Ryan, Romney has CONSOLIDATED his victory in November. There is nothing any of you Lefties can do, as individuals, or as a group, to stop that …
But, don’t you socialist-minded dummies dare abandon Obama now:
Repeat with me: Let’s get rid of rich bastards !! Let them rot in jail !! Let them pay more taxes (even more !) !! ; we want to be serfs of the state !!; We want a “fair” society with equal outcomes !!; Welfare for everybody with no work requirements !!; Free quality health care for all !!; More and more benefits for everybody !!; A BUDGET ??! – NEVER AGAIN !!; Obamacare forever !!: Re-elect Pelosi and Reid !!; OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, FOREVER !!!

I hope that he dose he is just like Romney we sure dont need eather one of them and thats for sure

This article seem to just be preaching to the choir. Yes, its important to know that he will benefit from his own plan and where he is coming from, but you don’t seem to have any critical analysis with regards to Ayn Rands book/ideas or his own plans. I guess thats hard to do when they don’t really know themselves!