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OUR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT???  Lost in America    Well, early Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan,  Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next  Vice President of The United States.  What are we to think of this selection?  He's not a graduate of  Columbia University.  He's not a graduate of Harvard.  He wasn't  Selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review.  He didn't get a  Special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and,  Instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio.  For  God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and  Waited tables another!  One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake  his father up and found him dead of a heart attack.  He didn't write  Two books about that experience.  Instead, he assumed the role of  adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug  use and the art of socialist revolution.  Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from  Alzheimers, into the household and served as the primary care provider  for his grandma.  His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of  Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of  "need".  Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio  he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's  office.  The job must have not paid well because young Ryan  moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer.  No one offered him a  "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000  dollar a year salary.  When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress  he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him.  He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before  seeking the office.   In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big  political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent;  instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and  listen to his future constituents.  After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march  into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over  to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists.  He bunked in his  Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh  change of clothes.  Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville.  He  lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the  neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan.  He hunts with  the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other  civic functions.  For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an  old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and  drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.  No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this.  He doesn't have  a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake!  No one awarded him a  Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected.  No one threw  flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in  Congress.  What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve  to write the House Budget for three years in a row.  He is brazen  and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion  reduction in federal spending over the next ten years!  The House  passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the  Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house,  without ever proposing a budget of their own.   What is wrong with  this guy?  If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget  where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars  to a bankrupt Solyndra?  Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy  1?  Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident  tax returns to claim child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?  I don't know.  Paul Ryan seems heartless to me.  He keeps wanting to  cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA  conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look  at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit!  The guy's no fun at all!  Who wants a numbers cruncher?  Who wants someone spoiling the party by  showing folks the bill?  Nothing will spoil a party quicker than  sending the host the bill before the party's over.  Party hearty folks!  At least until November.