Paul Ryan to teach Economics and Catholicism at Notre Dame, no joke!!!

There was a certain irony and sadness watching Notre Dame burn and learning Paul Ryan will be guest teacher at the University of Notre Dame.

Focusing on Paul Ryan, here's the surreal bit of news:

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan will teach at the University of Notre Dame next school year ... a guest lecturer on "the fundamentals of American government, the current state of political polarization." He'll also teach economics.

Here's what Ryan will teach...?

I guess it's always good to hear from "both sides," even when the losing side won't admit failure. In a normal reality, having been proven wrong to this degree ideologically and economically, most people would slip quietly out of the spotlight. Not Paul Ryan. Here's an NPR interview where Ryan's claims predictions of trillion dollar deficits are wrong:



Pope Critic Paul Ryan teaches his version of Catholicism at a Catholic College: You can't make this stuff up. Yes, he'll also teach topics including Catholicism ...

Ryan: “As an Irish Catholic from the Midwest ... it is an honor to be part of a University where Catholic principles, robust debates, academic freedoms and diverse viewpoints are allowed to flourish.”

Ryan's not so Catholic principles hit the sh** fan awhile back. So for those who don't remember how bad check out the story below. Notre Dame should be embarrassed, and maybe read the paper from time to time:

Paul Ryan visited Georgetown University, the flagship Jesuit school and decidedly hostile terrain for Ryan's strain of economic libertarianism … sought to justify his budget priorities in terms of the Catholic principle known as "subsidiarity." "Subsidiarity" has been central to how the church envisions a just and equitable society functioning in a world dominated by big business and big government, both of which can dehumanize individuals and undermine the common good. "The principle of subsidiarity protects people from abuses by higher-level social authority and calls on these same authorities to help individuals," says the Vatican's Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

University of Dayton theologian Vincent Miller called (Ryan's) interpretation the "careful lobotomization of subsidiarity." In his 1961 encyclical, Pope John XXIII articulated another element of subsidiarity, writing that, "In a system of taxation based on justice and equity, it is fundamental that the burdens be proportioned to the capacity of the people contributing."

When the bishop chairing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' said the GOP budget Ryan spearheaded failed to meet a basic moral test -- and described cuts to programs that fell heavily on children and other vulnerable populations as "unjust and wrong" -- Ryan curtly dismissed those concerns as not reflective of all church leaders.

Pope Francis argued in May, imploring followers instead to focus on combating trickle-down economics and the world of inequality it produces. Ryan has a more condescending response to a pope who blasts "trickle-down" theories as "naïve" and denounces "an economy of exclusion and inequality." "The guy is from Argentina," he scoffs. "They haven't had real capitalism in Argentina. They have crony capitalism in Argentina. They don't have a true free enterprise system."

Paul Ryan's theories have been tested in the real world and failed, over and over again, from the Kansas Comeback to the current corporate tax cut specifically designed to force cuts to our social safety nets. Real Catholic-like:

David Campbell, Notre Dame's Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy and chair of the department of political science, said in a statement that the chance for students to learn from what the school calls "professor of the practice" is unique to the university. "Having former officials in the classroom provides important insights for students — an opportunity to put the theories we study to the test.”

Paul Ryan says successful Universal Health Care Systems in every other country in the World won't work in U.S.?

Paul Ryan decided to leave office by repeating outright lies and fabrications about universal healthcare. This guy is playing Americans for fools and Trumpian dumb asses. He even uses the word "socialism." Ouch.

His latest tweet and video are embarrassing, especially since every industrialized country has the kind of insurance he says just won't work... Ryan: "...it is the hollow empty promise of socialism..."

Ryan says it ends "having choices." Uh, no, Medicare for all would give everyone the choice of any doctor and any hospital. And since we don't have a universal system, why would we create one that lets the government get between ourselves and our healthcare as Ryan claims?



What universal health care does is that it simplifies everything and eliminates the complicated maze we have now, that encourages overcharges, fraud, and bureaucratic red tape. 

Paul Ryan has been saying this stuff for years, and for years, the media has been letting him get away with it. So it's no surprise that he keeps repeating this utter nonsense:

Ryan→ Single-payer, government-run health care would essentially destroy and obliterate the private health insurance system.

Truth-Yes: First, where is this clueless person who loves paying expensive premiums every month, has high deductibles and can't wait for the next major yearly increase that might force them out of coverage?  Yes, obliterate private insurance slowly or...some single-payer systems rely on private insurers to manage their national health care plans or offer elective coverage etc.

Ryan→ Single-payer, government-run health care would essentially destroy and obliterate→ the employer-sponsored health insurance system.

Truth: Yes: Hello, that's what single-payer/universal healthcare does. Plus, employers no longer have the administrative burdened. Plus, it puts us on equal footing with every other industrialized country.

Ryan→ Single-payer, government-run health care would essentially destroy and obliterate →Medicare as we know it.

Truth: Yes: Again, that's what single-payer/universal healthcare does. All the money already in Medicare will be used to help pay for universal insurance.

In what should be a cakewalk for Randy Bryce to replace Paul Ryan (except for the fact Republicans blindly vote party and not their own self-interest), challenger and scary Ryan clone Bryan Steil failed to mention our current health care system costs $2 trillion more than Medicare for all:

Steil repeatedly criticized Bryce's stance, calling it "a $32 trillion government takeover of health care. The plan to pay for the program — so people aren't hoodwinked here — the plan to pay for the program is to raise taxes," he said. Steil called for improving health care by giving more control to patients and doctors.

Wisconsin Republicans embrace Walker's kind of "optimistic vision for the future?"

Scott Walker decided to present his "optimistic vision" of the state with a few recent tweets trashing policy criticisms on the "anger and hate" filled "liberal Far left:"

So let's take a look at the what Walker calls an "optimistic vision for the future," along with a few other examples that are anything but.

Vukmir's "Positively" Blatant Lies: When you can't find much in Sen. Tammy Baldwin's hate-and-anger filled record to criticize, State Sen. Leah Vukmir came up with this positive whopper:

...or this positive swing and a miss...

...or "outsider" and challenger Kevin Nicholson's positive view of Democratic veterans...:

The Democrat Party has wholesale rejected the Constitution and the values that it was founded upon. So I'll tell you what: Those veterans that are out there in the Democrat party, I question their, their cognitive thought process. Because the bottom line is, they're signing up to defend the Constitution that their party is continually dragging through the mud."

...or Wisconsin's own retiring Paul Ryan, whose vision of the future does not include tackling the problem of mass shootings in our schools:

Dumb Ron Johnson's Positive Vision of the Future sees "families, renewed faith" as the solution to mass shootings in schools: Hey, it might take awhile - a half-century or so - but cultural norms might "likely" change?

(On) gun control, in the wake of the high school shooting in Texas that left 10 dead and 10 injured ... Johnson said federal legislation is not the answer, because gun violence is a bigger cultural issue.

"Solutions that will have some impact are going to more likely come from families, renewed faith, communities, from states than anything the federal government's going to pass."

Anger and Hate Parade...

Paul Ryan raises $30 Million from "Extreme Billionaire Activist" pushing "rest of his far" right agenda!!!

We hear a lot about liberal traitor George Soros, because he's one of the few billionaires throwing money at the Democrats. He's bad, real bad.

Heroic conservative billionaires are smarter and real Americans. They've created a network of political front groups, think tanks, and "charities" that influence local races with lots of outside money.

Walker and Ryan's Shi* don't Stink Billionaire Con: Remember this about "outside special interests?"

...or this about those nasty extremist billionaires...

Paul Ryan's "Extreme Billionaire" Con + $30 Million: So Republican hate those extreme out-of-state billionaires? And yet Paul Ryan, caught by MSNBC, went out and cleverly raising $30 million from billionaire extremist Sheldon Adelson, in Nevada? Think any of that money will make it to Wisconsin? We'll be waiting for a Scott Walker apology... 

SHELDON ADELSON has cut a $30 MILLION CHECK to the House GOP-leadership aligned CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND (CLF), a massive cash infusion that top Republicans hope will alter the party’s electoral outlook

“The long-sought donation was sealed last week when, according to two senior Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan flew to Las Vegas to meet with the billionaire at his Venetian Hotel (with) Norm Coleman, the former Minnesota senator who chairs the Republican Jewish Coalition.

“As a federally elected official, Ryan is not permitted to solicit seven-figure political donations. When Ryan (R-Wis.) left the room, Coleman made the ask and secured the $30-million contribution." 

Ryan censored and fired the House Chaplain for his Prayer asking for "benefits balanced and shared by all Americans" in the Tax Cut bill.

Paul Ryan doesn't just attack poor people, he's taken his Roman Catholic "teachings" and oddly weaponized them against religion itself, including a Jesuit Chaplain in the House:

House Speaker Paul Ryan fired the House chaplain two weeks ago ... Rev. Patrick Conroy, a Jesuit priest has served as House chaplain since 2011.

The Chaplain's horrific crime that deserved censorship and termination (I thought Republicans hated censorship)?

Ryan's office first announced Conroy would "step down" in an April 16 statement ... In his resignation letter, Conroy noted that he was stepping down "as you have requested." Conroy told the NY Times that Ryan said to him, "Padre, you just got to stay out of politics."

What was that outrageously political message Ryan will no longer tolerate in the majority Republican government?

A November prayer ... which Conroy appeared to criticize the GOP's tax cut legislation and included the line: "May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans."

The coverage from NPR is scathing. Ryan had nothing to back up the firing:

Republican Walker Jones (NC): "No preacher or priest should feel that someone at the highest level, meaning the speaker of the House, is going to determine whether that prayer was right or wrong because this was given as he felt God put in his heart." 

The Word of God-like Policiticans: Paul Ryan has been using his bizarre interpretation of religion to hammer the poor in bill after bill, and theologians have had it. From 2012, Ryan had another run-in with a group of Jesuits. Check out Chris Matthews on point dissection and other examples listed below:

Paul Ryan visited Georgetown University, the flagship Jesuit school and decidedly hostile terrain for Ryan's strain of economic libertarianism, where he argued for his budget's priorities despite vocal and visible protests by faculty and students … sought to justify his budget priorities in terms of the Catholic principle known as "subsidiarity." "Subsidiarity" has been central to how the church envisions a just and equitable society functioning in a world dominated by big business and big government, both of which can dehumanize individuals and undermine the common good. "The principle of subsidiarity protects people from abuses by higher-level social authority and calls on these same authorities to help individuals," says the Vatican's Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

University of Dayton theologian Vincent Miller called (Ryan's) interpretation the "careful lobotomization of subsidiarity." In his 1961 encyclical, Pope John XXIII articulated another element of subsidiarity, writing that, "In a system of taxation based on justice and equity, it is fundamental that the burdens be proportioned to the capacity of the people contributing."

When the bishop chairing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' said the GOP budget Ryan spearheaded failed to meet a basic moral test -- and described cuts to programs that fell heavily on children and other vulnerable populations as "unjust and wrong" -- Ryan curtly dismissed those concerns as not reflective of all church leaders.

Pope Francis argued in May, imploring followers instead to focus on combating trickle-down economics and the world of inequality it produces. Ryan has a more condescending response to a pope who blasts "trickle-down" theories as "naïve" and denounces "an economy of exclusion and inequality." "The guy is from Argentina," he scoffs. "They haven't had real capitalism in Argentina. They have crony capitalism in Argentina. They don't have a true free enterprise system."

Samantha Bee: "Paul Ryan is a Bad Person!"

No, you weren't being partisan calling Paul Ryan a bad person...even worse. Go to 1:34 into the clip for Ryan's takedown:

 

Ryan, the wonk genius, spews stupid again....Deficits + "Baby boomers retiring was going to do that" = ?

There's no excuse for the following comment...none. It's a lie and another show of ideological obedience. MSNBC:

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says that trillion-dollar deficits could not have been avoided by the GOP-controlled Congress, responding to critics within his party who say that leaders have behaved irresponsibly.

“That was going to happen. The baby boomers retiring was going to do that,” Ryan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” of projections that the country will start running trillion-dollar deficits as soon as 2020.

Here's what FactCheck.org wrote about Wisconsin's embarrassment, Paul Ryan. What he said...:

Ryan: "That was going to happen. The baby boomers’ retiring was going to do that. These deficit trillion-dollar projections have been out there for a long, long time. Why? Because of mandatory spending, which we call entitlements. Discretionary spending under the CBO baseline is going up about $300 billion over the next 10 years. Tax revenues are still rising. Income tax revenues are still rising. Corporate income tax revenues. Corporate rate got dropped 40 percent, still rising."

Which means...he's lying again. At a time when baby boomers were retiring, he's made it almost impossible to save them from certain economic disaster:

Overall, CBO says the new tax law “increases the total projected deficit over the 2018–2028 period by about $1.9 trillion,” mostly because of a reduction in individual income tax revenue and an increase in debt service.

Time with the family...?

What Far-Left "Hate" and "Anger?"

Just once I'd like the news media to get a slick politician like Scott Walker to provide an example, just so the voting public can see for themselves, what he considers liberal anger and hate.

Just one example please from any one of the candidates running for governor? Or maybe just one of the candidates running in the special election or upcoming November elections?

Criticism...Hate, eh, it's all the same? We may not be asking Walker about "anger" and "hate" and his campaigns sharp focus on that ol' divide and conquering strategy, but WKOW's Emilee Fannon did question Walker's comment by asking NextGen America's Tom Steyers about it:

Steyer: "There's no anger and there's no hatred involved, in fact, we're trying to pull the country back together."

Steyer defended the tweet by asking when the last time the Koch Brothers were on a college campus.

“When’s the last time the Koch brothers were on a campus and explained what there doing or explain what their spending and how and why. Fact of the matter is that I do believe money is very corrupt in American politics, I personally show up and also make sure everything we do doesn’t benefit me or impact my personal income."

It's easy to see from Steyer's comment above that he's an "extreme billionaire activist" pushing his "far-left" agenda. Those outside billionaire's and their money, what could be worse...?

In an email from Kate Doner, who was raising money for Walker, to Gilkes, Johnson and Walker, she spells out the fundraising plan: “Take Koch's money -Get on a plane to Vegas and sit down with Sheldon Adelson. Ask for $1m now. -Corporations. Go heavy after them to give. -Create new c4. Club for Growth name has issues."

No one wants these outside billionaire activist donors pushing their agenda in Wisconsin...right?

In addition to Adelson, there was business magnate Carl Icahn who was approached for $100,000 though nothing in the files indicates that he donated; the hedge-fund billionaire Stephen Cohen, who arranged a wire transfer of $1m; and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone who gave $25,000.

Maybe voters are catching on? It's been public knowledge now for a while...

And the money keeps pouring in from out of state:

The Republican Governors Association says it booked the television ads throughout Wisconsin for five weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election. Walker, who was the group’s chairman in 2017, is running for his third four-year term as governor.

Walker is aware a lot of this has been publically documented...sorry, showing his millionaire/billionaire donor list must be what he calls "hate:"

And about that out-of-touch "far-left" agenda, which must be everything not far-right, the angry special interests must be stopped?

But the American public said...

As for Wisconsinites...

One more thing about Wisconsin's homegrown presidential material....

Paul Ryan can't take the heat...quits with huge Taxpayer Funded Pension.

Running from a fight? Yes. Apparently, Paul Ryan can't defend running up huge deficits and then blaming Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Wonder why? Perhaps the CBO's recent report had something to do with it? Here's Paul Ryan's legacy?

Ryan in retirement? Get this...at 50, Ryan will get his $75,000 taxpayer-funded pension for life. 

...(as Speaker) his annual salary will get a healthy bump from $174,000 to $223,500. The Republican from Wisconsin is worth millions, according to his most recent financial disclosure form.

While Ryan leaves the U.S. in deep debt:

As the House prepares to vote this week on a largely symbolic balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, its own budget watchdog delivered a stark reality check Monday that forecasts the return of $1 trillion-plus annual deficits and a ballooning public debt that will approach $29 trillion by the end of the next decade. the latest report is the first since the GOP enacted a $1.5 trillion tax cut ... The tax law that President Trump and congressional Republicans passed in December will cut government revenue by $1.3 trillion from 2018 to 2028 ... When the costs of paying interest on that debt are included, the tax cuts’ total addition to the deficit comes to $1.9 trillion,

The national debt is on track to approach 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2028, said the nonpartisan CBO, which analyzes legislation for Congress. “That amount is far greater than the debt in any year since just after World War II,” CBO said. The expiration of lower individual tax rates at the end of 2025 will add to slowed economic growth then, the CBO added.

There were $1 trillion deficit spending years most recently under President Barack Obama, primarily due to the economic downturn during the Great Recession, but deficit spending had been decreasing in recent years.

The analysis “confirms that major damage was done” by the new tax law and the spending bill, said Michael Peterson, head of the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. “This high and rising debt matters because it harms our economy,” said Peterson, whose group backs fiscal conservatism.

“During a time of low unemployment and economic expansion, we should be taking reasonable steps to put our debt on a sustainable path – but instead we are piling up trillions of bills,” he said. 

Paul Ryan distances himself from Humanity.

I hate to overuse this, but it works to set up this post...I recently tweeted this about the 2nd Amendment.

If you've noticed, Republicans are always protecting their supposed constitutional right to buy or not buy things, like big gulps, pigtail light bulbs, bump stocks, contraceptives, wedding cakes...etc.

All's well, Paul Ryan Defends doing nothing, and Buying Assault Weapons:  It would be easy to called Ryan a soulless ghoul...okay, I'm going to reign it in a little. But really, how can anyone act like he does, so cold, calculating, unemotional...so untethered to real world suffering? Maybe he's proving that someone can act out and become that greedy fictional character in an Ayn Rand novel? Note to Ryan: There are now an additional 17 people who's rights have been denied, forever:

Ryan: "We shouldn't be banning guns from law abiding citizens....so what we want to do is protect peoples rights while making sure people who should not get guns do not get guns."

How has that worked so far? 

The Real Second Amendment Argument Ryan avoids...: I was fascinated by MSNBC's legal chief Ari Melber's piece on the Second Amendment that clearly exposes the vacuousness and mindlessness of just spewing out that old line, "we're protecting our Second Amendment right to bear arms." Melber has never been one to step out on a limb with a controversial opinion, so this means something. A must see:

Americans turn on that phony condescending Paul Ryan, Finally!!!!

Paul Ryan has been exposed, finally, once and for all, done, we now know who and what he is...TOAST. Can you relate...

Sure, pretty disconnected from real people. And the sh** hit the fan:

Last week, in a tweet as tone-deaf as it was condescending, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) sparked national controversy by attempting to use the fact that a secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania got a $1.50 raise per week as proof that the recently passed Republican tax plan is working perfectly.

And it got worse when the secretary he was talking about came forward:

Paul Ryan continues to dig...

While Ryan faced backlash so severe that he ultimately deleted the tweet, his spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, didn’t quite get the memo. She took to Twitter today to post a deliberately misleading tweet, claiming that “successful NYC/DC dwellers” are mocking “an extra $1K.”

Of course, Americans are not mocking an extra $1,000 in their pockets. They are mocking Ryan’s $1.50 weekly wage increase, which amounts to a not-so-staggering $78 per year. Her disingenuous response only reignites what was viewed as a wholly out-of-touch tweet by the Republican Speaker of the House.

Paul Ryan and his staff may try to pander to everyday Americans, but their deceitful tweets prove that they speak for no one but themselves.

 Putting it perspective:

Only a dismal two percent of Americans have benefited from the tax plan with raises or bonuses, and in every case, the raise or bonus was only a mere fraction of what each company was benefiting. Furthermore, most of the employee benefit was temporary; many companies have only announced one-time bonuses, as opposed to permanent raises.

 While many others reap the benefits...guess who:

By lowering the corporate tax rate, America’s biggest companies will be able to add a windfall of cash to their bottom lines. Exxon got $5.9 billion, Pfizer got $22 billion, Merck & Co got $22 billion, and AT&T got $20 billion. The Koch brothers made off with $1.4 billion. Essentially all of the money from the Republican tax overhaul padded the company’s profits, as opposed to translating into permanent wage increases for its employees.

Nation wakes up to Paul Ryan's record of Inhumane acts against Women, the Poor, and Jobless!

Being the speaker of the House is bound to bring out critics, but Paul Ryan has accomplished something more than that, and it has been one thing after the next.  The latest:

“What this is not is an indictment of our institutions, of our justice system,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday about the now infamous “Nunes memo.” “It does not impugn the Mueller investigation or the deputy attorney general,” the speaker insisted. Is this cynicism or naivete? Discrediting law enforcement is the memo’s transparent purpose and why it has been embraced by President Trump.

Mr. Ryan’s staff says the speaker supports releasing the Democratic memo after giving it more scrutiny.

Another way of putting Ryan’s statement; give the Republican memo mileage and media spin. Oh, and Ryan quickly contradicts his previous claims it does nothing to impugn the investigation:

Mr. Ryan bears full responsibility for the deterioration of congressional oversight of intelligence operations ... Ryan’s aid and comfort is helping Mr. Trump impede an investigation into these very issues. It is sad to see the speaker allow the House to be tarnished in this way.

 

Ryan even contradicted Trump:

This memo will actually prove political bias in all of those places, Trump suggested:

The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018

Ryan Pushes Job Training for Food Stamps...and to cut Budgets: Imagine suggesting that every Kimberly-Clark worker who is losing their job was lazy, needed drug testing and had better get in line for job training if they want to see any benefits. That's 600 newly unemployed Americans. Never mind their current skill levels were just tossed away like trash, leaving families struggling to find a way to stay in their homes and pay their bills during a time of record low unemployment. Note: Ryan rolls out the "skills gap" myth again:

[T]he Wisconsin Republican is back at it again, repackaging his proposals … urged congressional Republicans to tackle “workforce development,” … a matter of “helping people”— not a budget-cutting excursive. What Ryan is deploying is a massive bait and switch: Get people talking about beefing up job-training resources for the able-bodied unemployed or underemployed poor. Phase one … would be work requirements. More generally pushing people out of entitlement benefits and into jobs that may or may not exist requires more cover.

He pointed out that there are 6.6 million people on unemployment and more than 5.8 million open jobs. That skills gap, he said, could be filled by the unemployed population if the government provided the facilities to link the two.

Ryan Ignores History. The Past is Littered with Failed Job Training Programs: The simple truth? Unpredictable jobs losses due to technology, automation, markets, outdated products or services...etc. will always outpace any "job training" programs. Sorry Paul, too wonky?

Lawmakers from both parties and at every level of government have struggled for decades to come up with a successful system for job training. The Manpower Training and Development Act of 1962, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982, and the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, have all, according to nearly every assessment, largely failed to address the enormous problems for workers caused by automation and globalization.

If Ryan has some brilliant ideas for overhauling this system, we’d all like to hear them. But if talk about job training is just a pretext for cutting benefits, then it’s just the same old same old from the inveterate enemy of the welfare state.

 Ryan Stands for the Trump Disaster: Ryan's Democratic challenger Randy Bryce tweeted this:

 Who could forget the 13,000 retweets of this:

Ryan passes Junk Science Legislation attacking vulnerable Women...because he can:

In October 2017, members of the House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy … you might not hear much about this draconian measure or the junk science used to justify the harmful and medically unnecessary restriction. Unfortunately, right-wing media are taking full advantage of the silence since last October.

Twenty-week abortion bans are built on the inaccurate claim that fetuses can feel pain by 20 weeks in pregnancy, despite the wealth of scientific evidence to the contrary that such claims do not track with the majority of scientific consensus. As The Daily Beast explained in a May 2016 article, one researcher “told The New York Times that his frequently-cited research ‘did not deal with pain specifically’” and was being misrepresented by anti-abortion advocates.

A ban on abortion at 20 weeks would disproportionately impact low-income people. As the Guttmacher Institute explained, these patients may have to delay an abortion to later in pregnancy “because they had difficulty raising funds for the procedure and travel costs, or because they had difficulty securing insurance coverage.” But anti-choice politicians and right-wing media frequently vilify people who have later abortions and largely ignore the reality that people who seek these procedures do so for a variety of personal and medical reasons.

It's not hard to see Ryan's stark disconnect from the hard realities every American has to deal with outside the bubble in our nations capitol. Ryan isn't really a guy from Janesville, he's a paper thin two dimensional character ripped from an Ayn Rand novel: