The big news today is Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan for VP. Paul Ryan will be a great addition to the ticket and will serve our country well as VP, unlike Joe Biden whose continual gaffs have been an embarrassment to this country. Let us take a moment to look at Paul Ryan.
Fox News published the following as Paul Ryan’s personal Bio.
* Born and raised in the community of Janesville; Ryan is a fifth-generation Wisconsin native.
* Ryan moonlighted on Capitol Hill as a waiter at the Tortilla Coast restaurant and as a fitness trainer at Washington Sport and Health Club.
* One of Ryan's summer jobs in college was as an Oscar Mayer salesman in Minnesota, peddling turkey bacon and a new line called "Lunchables" to supermarkets.
* Ryan worked as a marketing consultant for his family's construction business before being elected to Congress. The company -- Ryan Incorporated Central -- began as an earthmoving business created by his great-grandfather in 1884.
* Ryan's hobbies include hunting and fishing. He is a bowhunter and belongs to his hometown's archery association - the Janesville Bowmen.
* For fun, Ryan noodles catfish, catching them barehanded with a fist down their throats.
* Ryan listens to Rage Against the Machine and Led Zeppelin
His political resume includes
* Currently serving seventh term as a member of Congress.
* Ryan was little known outside Janesville when he ran for Congress in 1998 at age 28. He captured 57 percent of the vote.
* Ryan's first budget plan, which he called "Roadmap for America's Future," was released in 2010.
* Early in his career as a representative to Congress, Ryan held office hours in an old truck he converted into an office.
* Ryan was the legislative director for Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, 1995-1997.
Great leaders know how to surround themselves with good people. Assess their weaknesses and hire people who will compliment these weaknesses. Mitt Romney has an illustrative career in the private sector especially with Bain Capital where he helped turnaround failing companies. Granted he was not always successful but during his time at Bain but they had a 79% success rate turning around companies on the verge of bankruptcy. The left likes to cite the 21% of companies that failed and the jobs that were lost but fail to look at the 79% and the jobs that Bain saved. Romney also has experience working in the international community when he turned around the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
Where Romney may be weak is his lack of experience in Washington working with members of Congress. This is why the pick of Paul Ryan is an asset. Paul Ryan has proposed balanced budgets in the Congress that include tax cuts and cuts in spending. Ryan’s budget proposed the following
· The latest full-scale version of the plan, unveiled in March, vows to cut spending by $5 trillion over the next decade, compared against President Obama's plan.
· The plan would, a decade from now, give seniors the option of taking a government payment to purchase health insurance. That payment could be used to buy a private insurance plan, or go toward the traditional Medicare plan. The plan calls for extra assistance to help low-income beneficiaries and those with "greater health risks."
· The plan would overhaul Medicaid by turning it into a block grant system for states.
· The plan would cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. It would implement two individual income tax brackets -- 10 percent and 25 percent.
· The plan would head off the scheduled automatic defense cuts, first by diverting the planned $55 million defense cut in 2013 by implementing those cuts elsewhere.
· The plan vows to bring the size of government to 20 percent of GDP by 2015.
With the election of a Republican controlled Senate that will bring these budget proposals to the Senate, and Ryan overseeing the Senate as VP, we can look forward to a balanced federal budget, tax cuts, and responsible spending in our government. Ryan is a great pick for VP because he compliments areas where Romney may be weak.
Romney has shown us today that he can be a great leader and will surround himself with members of his cabinet that are experts in their fields. Unlike Obama who seems to surround himself with people who make him look smart. We may not agree with everything Romney stands for but today he showed us his ability to listen to his constituents and build a great leadership team.
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