Paul Ryan campaigns against defense cuts he voted for

Paul Ryan, fraud

Paul Ryan is showing his stripes as just another typical, hypocritical Republican. From abortion to stimulus funding to the Medicare cuts in his budget, to now, defense spending. Big surprise here: He was for cutting defense spending before he was against it.

Ryan voted for the Budget Control Act, the law that sets up an automatic trigger, or sequester, to cut spending on defense and other domestic programs. The cuts were included in the act to try to force Congress to come up with alternative cuts through a bipartisan supercommittee. But House Republicans, including those on the supercommittee, have been so focused on abortion, repealing Obamacare, and naming post offices, they didn't actually succeed in coming up with those alternatives.

Even though Ryan voted for the BCA, and thus for the sequester, he's slamming President Obama for the cuts. The cuts he voted for. And in doing so, he's embracing something he says he doesn't believe in—jobs created by federal spending.

It’s either lose defense-related jobs in Pennsylvania or put small businesses further at a competitive disadvantage,” Ryan said on Tuesday at a helicopter museum in West Chester, Pa. “I got a good idea—why don’t we take away President Obama’s job and create jobs for everybody no matter what industry they are in?”
Ryan said that “almost 44,000 jobs” are at stake if the cuts go through, breaking with his usual small-government argument that federal spending does not spur employment.

Paul Ryan is as much of a fraud as his running mate.