Today, a smart and courageous bipartisan group of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reject Paul Ryan’s carefree giveaway of taxpayer money to his Wall Street campaign donors and sided with the American people.
Let’s be absolutely clear: Paul Ryan’s budget does nothing except destroy programs that Americans of all ages depend upon. It ends Medicare as we know it, turning the program into a voucher system designed to benefit only the insurance companies who cherry pick which seniors to cover. It reduces Pell Grants for struggling students to a distant memory and purposely makes a college education more difficult to attain. And it reduces benefits for our brave veterans to an unacceptable level, in the ultimate slap in the face to everyone who has served our nation in uniform.
Even some House Republicans agree this budget simply is the wrong path for America. 10 Republicans voted against this plan in an otherwise partisan vote because they know we must protect Medicare programs, student loans and strengthen, not weaken, programs for our veterans. They know that giving nearly $400,000 in tax breaks for every millionaire in our country while our families are suffering from his love affair with Wall Street is not the way to grow our economy or to make lives a little easier for people struggling across the country.
Paul Ryan’s 14 years of poor judgment and self-proclaimed economic prowess culminated in this disingenuous budget, chock-full of the same misguided priorities as last year’s version. Paul Ryan has once again proven himself to be grossly out-of-touch with the real world, instead favoring the comfort of Wall Street’s sweet embrace and the soft glow of television studios.
The people of Wisconsin and America deserve better than Paul Ryan’s political posturing and Machiavellian maneuvering. We deserve a real leader to solve real problems, not a career politician playing economist.
~Rob Zerban
Congressional Candidate