Another Republican Gone

What positivity has the Republican Party given to the American people lately? There have been 59 Republicans who have left their jobs in our government in the past year including the Speaker of the House, third in line to the Presidency, Paul Ryan. Will we miss any of these people or is it a good thing that they are gone? There have been three Speakers of the House selected in the past few years who have left a job that most have kept for many years after they nabbed such a good job in government. You remember John Boehner, the guy who cried a lot even as he banged the gavel down at speeches. He was against pot in America and now he owns a pot producing factory. Paul Ryan was supposed to trim the budget and bring the deficit down and he failed miserably that now we are expect to add another 10 trillion dollars to the budget within the next few years going the way we are going with Trump never ending security for golf trips and an increased budget for the military and immigration enforcement.

House Speaker Paul Ryan plans to retire at the end of his current term in January and doesn’t plan to run for re-election. The Republican Party has dominated the House of Representatives since 2011. In 2010 the Tea Party was the rage and it created the largest partisan swings in American History. The Republicans picked up 63 seats in the first midterm after President Obama was elected. Obama had a lot of opposition to anything he wanted to do because when there is such a majority against your beliefs that majority gets young Paul Ryan who nabbed the best committee position of all the Budget head. He was in charge of giving the American people the “great” alternative to President Obama’s proposals.

Paul was just 40 years old at the time, a new younger face in government. He promised to get American debt under control. Bill Clinton was the last President to have a balanced Budget. Bush ruined that with all his 911 war spending that has now escalated into a 20 year war costing us more and more money every day. In 2011 Paul had glossy advertisements criticizing the budget pointing out that our public debt was 70% of our economy and would escalate to 90% by 2022 and to 344% by the year 2050 without his amazing savings plan. Well he failed, now he is gone and our budget isn’t any better.

Paul promised that he would cut government spending by $6 trillion dollars. Reduce the Federal Deficit by $4.4.Trillion dollars. None of that has happened. If anything Trump has increased spending on many causes  he believes in and his Cabinet of rich guys are spending tax payers money on free perks for themselves daily. Paul Ryan had more power over our budget than any other person in Congress. He reminds me of the ordinary   guy in the movie called Dave where he trimmed costs line by line. The guy in the movie was successful. Ryan has failed.

In 2012 Paul Ryan ran for the Presidency with Mitt Romney as vice-President and failed. He was billed as the Champion of Conservative Spending. He failed. But as always the Republicans have their Hero’s of the Stupid and elected Paul to be Speaker of the House in 2015. He did spend 20 years in Congress so he will have a good pension of about $85,000 per year with virtually no expenses that he can start collecting in one year at age 50. He currently earns about $225,000 per year. America has been very very good to him!