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The
Ryan Vision: Let's Get This Done
David Limbaugh
Aug 31, 2012
The
Democrats and their mainstream media
cheering section can huff and puff at Paul Ryan's convention speech,
but they
can't blow his house down. It was built on a solid foundation.
So
powerful was the speech that the liberal
establishment is reduced to wailing about alleged lies the speech
contained --
dishonest and easily refuted allegations. Ryan delivered a substantive
indictment of the Obama administration's failed record and a
content-rich,
realistic plan for putting this nation back on track to economic growth
and
fiscal recovery, a plan that includes "protecting and strengthening"
Medicare, not "raiding" it.
Don't
listen to the naysayers. Ryan began with
a humble acceptance of his "calling" and "duty" to help
restore America. His message was positive. "I know we can do this,"
he said, not dwelling on the malaise in which Obama's disastrous
policies have
placed us but offering a specific blueprint to deliver us from this
quicksand.
He
carried forward this same theme throughout
the speech: He said that when he accepted the nomination, he told Mitt
Romney,
"Let's get this done"; and in closing the speech, he converted the
slogan into a formal offer to the American people, promising that if
elected,
he and Romney would put America back on a path to fiscal redemption.
Ryan
offered a succinct but irrefutable
critique of Obama's economic record: 23 million unemployed or
underemployed, 1
in 6 Americans living in poverty and one-half of college graduates
unable to
find work they've studied for or any work at all.
More
importantly, he emphasized that Obama has
no new ideas to deliver us from this quagmire. Under a second Obama
term,
nothing would change -- Obamanomics being but a ship trying to sail on
yesterday's wind.
Obama's
grandiose stimulus plan, involving
"the largest one-time expenditure of the federal government," not
only didn't work to create jobs but also took us into deeper debt. The
money
wasn't "just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent and wasted."
Instead of giving us the jobs we needed, he forced Obamacare on us
against our
will, and he gave us Solyndra and its ilk -- replete with corporate
welfare,
political patronage, cronyism and "make-believe markets." Indeed.
Obama's
stimulus debacle was a microcosm --
albeit a gargantuan one -- of the ideas that Obama has advanced and
that Romney
and Ryan would reject in favor of America's founding ideals. Ryan was
eloquent
in articulating the contrast. Under Obama, he said, the government has
tried to
divide up wealth. Under Romney and Ryan, Americans -- not government --
would
create wealth…
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