Paul Ryan: Americans giving up on economic recovery

Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. speaks, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at the Veterans Memorial Civic & Convention Center in Lima, Ohio.

/ AP

LIMA, Ohio - In one of his harshest indictments to date of President Obama's handling of the economy, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told an audience on Monday that Americans "are beginning to give up hope" on the economic recovery.

During a town hall meeting, the first stop on a bus tour across Ohio, Ryan said, ""People are beginning to give up hope. People are beginning to think that the American dream's not for them because of this stagnant economy. And when you take a look at what your government's doing to you in every nook and cranny of America, it's not good."

Ryan also said that the Obama administration has threatened to veto a defense spending bill if Congress tries to reinstate funding for the nation's only tank-manufacturing plant, located in Lima. The Pentagon has said it has enough of the vehicles and is trying halt production of tanks for several years, but Ohio legislators like Sen. Rob Portman and Rep. Jim Jordan -- both of whom spoke before Ryan at the event -- have lobbied to keep the plant open.

Ryan painted the decision as another example of what he called Obama's determination to focus spending cuts on the military, which he said will weaken the nation's defense.

"Look, Lima, I know you understand when ... you have a president who has proposed again and again to shut down this tank factory -- the only one we have -- over a budget gimmick, " Ryan said. "If we keep doing this, if we keep showing that the only thing we want to do is gut our military, that projects weakness abroad. And by projecting weakness abroad, our adversaries are so much more tempted to test us, and our allies are so much less willing to trust us."

[Mick_from_Amsterdam]

"And when you take a look at what your government's doing to you in every nook and cranny of America, it's not good"

Thus spake Paul Ryan...the zombie-eyed granny starver!

For a bunch of bible-thumping, born-again hustling phonies...the Republican party seems to be trying to elevate stupidity, venality and hypocrisy to the status of religion.

As a highly-organized group, Republican legislators like this Ryan thingee have worked since 2009 to stymie and fillibuster to death all administration efforts to relieve the oppressive burden placed on America, and especially on middle-class Americans by the Bush/Cheney Gang...they worked tirelessly AGAINST the interests of the citizens they claim to represent...

Purely for partisan political gain...just so they could have some creep like Ryan say, "Look folks...Obama has done nothing to relieve your suffering..."

"Put us back in POWER...we know how to end the economic crisis..."

"After all...WE CREATED IT..."

"And we want to be rewarded for having done so...AGAIN"

[WHAT-IS-HE-SMOKING]

"Ryan also said that the Obama administration has threatened to veto a defense spending bill if Congress tries to reinstate funding for the nation's only tank-manufacturing plant, located in Lima. The Pentagon has said it has enough of the vehicles and is trying halt production of tanks for several years, but Ohio legislators like Sen. Rob Portman and Rep. Jim Jordan -- both of whom spoke before Ryan at the event -- have lobbied to keep the plant open."

So how many of you would want the army to buy more tanks that they don't need or want? And by the way, the republicans agreed that if they and the democrats could not come up with a budget that these cuts to the military would happen. NOW THEY DON'T WANT IT. FLIP-FLOP-FLIP-FLOP.

[fiberglass3]

The lack of compromise by our Republican leaders is disingenuous at best and almost criminal at worst. To hold the American people and our economy hostage with the hopes of putting the blame on President Obama just so the Republicans have a chance to control the White House is not patriotism, it is self-serving.

[jimbom121]

Good thing Ryan is woking so hard to pass a real jobs bill...oh wait.

[chevyhotrod]

by 76SpiritOf September 24, 2012 10:38 PM EDT
So your solution is to put the GOP back in power?

Lets see when Bush left office the economy was in a free fall with 800,000 jobs being lost per month!

When Obama took over banks were going under, the survival of the auto industry was very questionable and the dow was falling like a brick to less than 7,000.

This is all a result of the so called trickle down and deregulation of the investment banks.

I am sorry but only a fool would want to put in those who want to double down on the policies that created the great recession.

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President Bush bailed out the Auto industry first, President Obama gave the owership to the unions.

President Bush bailed out the banks first and within the first year much of the money was paid back with interest.

The Democrats took over the House and Senate in Jan. 2007, 18 months before the so called free fall.

Look up campaign contributions for Fannie, Freddie, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, AIG and Bear Sterns for the past 20 years and learn something instead of spewing your Democrat talking points which has no basis in reality.

[jimbom121]

President Bush bailed out the Auto industry first, President Obama gave the owership to the unions
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You mean profit sharing?

[rogget]

Yes, GM got a bail out. Now they are unable to pay by 25 billion dollars to the taxpayers. Ford said they were so happy they did not fall for the bail out. 25 billion more on the national debt. There has been no trickle down from Obama to the middle class of which I am one. Obama has not helped the middle class at all.

[Jaylah54200]

Well, he's half right.

If Romney/Ryan get elected, I'll know there's no hope for an economic recovery in this country for at least the next four years.

And with four more years of Bush-policies, it's going to take even longer (i.e. more than two terms) to even start turning things around again.

[chevyhotrod]

It's always somebody else fault isn't?

The policies of the Democrats in bed with Fannie, Freddie, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, AIG and companies like Bear Sterns is what brought our country to its knees. President Bush tried to stop them no less than 13 different times and the Democrats and some Republicans stopped him every time he tried.

[rayward73446]

Ryan is for more GOP pork barrel projects that the military does not want or need. His saber rattling is a precursor of the hawkish administration that Romney and Ryan would be. We do not need more useless wars started over non-existent threats, we need good paying jobs, and millions of them. Ryan can talk numbers and talk about his war mongering, but the truth is something he seems to know nothing about. Ryan has lost all credibility with myself and millions of voters all over the country because of his aggressive demeanor and continued use of lies that have proven to be lies.
Romney and Ryan talk a lot about Obama, because they have nothing to offer voters in the way of what they will do. They have no job creation plan, no plan to fix the financial sector, no plan to reign in miss-conduct on wall street. They attack and attack and still attack president Obama because they are not prepared to do anything but bring back "trickle down economics", which is what got us in this big mess in the first place.
Obama has the right ideas and plans to grow the middle class, we the people just need to vote House republicans out of his way to see real progress, and possibly, as President Clinton stated, "create a real boom economy".

[chevyhotrod]

"useless wars started over non-existent threats"

So, September 11, 2001 was a non-existing threat?

You cannot create a boom economy with trillion dollar deficits. President Clinton balanced the budget with a GOP House and Senate.

[jimbom121]

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11

[davidd5063]

The last time the US deployed a tank was the first Iraq war back when I had hair. I think we lost one (1) tank in that war when one of our accidentally shot his own guy. The vast majority of the Serbian tank force was destroyed from the air less than a decade later. So why again do we need to keep this one tank factory going and keep buing a few tanks a year to gather dust and rust some more? There IS a reason there's only one you know.

[davidd5063]

Tanks are an OFFENSIVE weapon, and in the absence of sufficient numbers of infantry to hold ground, a largely WORTHLESS weapon on the modern battlefield.

[chevyhotrod]

"The last time the US deployed a tank was the first Iraq war"

So the USA did not deploy any tanks in second Iraq war or in Afganistan?

You better check your facts again.

[sjc_1]

Millions of people might give up if Romney/Ryan got anywhere near the White House.

[chevyhotrod]

Millions of people have given up under President Obama and more people are on food stamps than anytime in US history.

[Paul_I]

Americans are not giving up. We are working hard and we believe in our future. We reject doomsayers who doubt our resiliency. And we see the hypocrisy in Ryan constantly calling for cuts in expenditures and then calling as a sign of weakness military cuts in expenditures for things the military says are wasteful and unnecessary. Pork anyone?

[76SpiritOf]

Good point.

Do any of you GOP rocket scientists want to discuss the impact of austeritiy measures on the European economy.

If you elect Romney, that what we'll get here.
Another great recession that will ruin us all!

[chevyhotrod]

Do any of you GOP rocket scientists want to discuss the impact of austeritiy measures on the European economy.

When you run out of other peoples money, it is gone and there is no one to replace it, except borrow your way out of it, which never works.