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Getting rid of medicare and lowering taxes for the ultra wealthy are going to be THE issues that WILL sink Mittens and Ryan:

Paul Ryan is in a bit of ideological trouble today after it was revealed that the congressman lied about requesting a stimulus package. Just yesterday Ryan told ABC's Cincinatti affiliate:
"I never asked for stimulus," Ryan said. "I don't recall… so I really can't comment on it. I opposed the stimulus because it doesn't work, it didn't work."

Paul Ryan sought Stimulus money for his district while publically blasting it

August 17, 2012
By: Robert Bowen

Ryan sought stimulus money for his district while attacking the Stimulus publically. Then he covered it up.
At least twice over the last two years reporters confronted Rep. Paul Ryan, on whether he was asking for Stimulus money for his district while blasting it publically. Twice Ryan emphatically denied doing so. Thursday Ryan had to “apologize,” as letters surfaced confirming that he, like so many other Republicans in Congress, is two-faced on the Stimulus.

What says more about his character, the hypocrisy or the cover-up?

Ryan's latest denial came in an interview with Cincinnati's WCPO-TV. “No, I never asked for stimulus,’’ Ryan said. This contradicts letters that Ryan wrote in 2009 to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis seeking stimulus grant money for two Wisconsin energy conservation companies. One of them, the nonprofit Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp., later received $20.3 million from the Energy Department to help homes and businesses improve energy efficiency, according to federal records.

In his letters lobbying for Stimulus funds, Ryan said the stimulus cash would help his state create “thousands of new jobs, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” While Ryan was making those assertions privately, he was making speech after speech saying the Stimulus did not and would not create a single job. His statement about reducing greenhouse gas is a goal that is totally inconsistent with his pro-oil, anti-renewable energy votes in Congress.
An audio tape of Ryan telling Boston's WBZ Radio two years ago that he "did not ask for stimulus money," in response to a caller's question about the recovery program has surfaced. He went further in his cover-up. "I'm not one who votes for something and then writes to the government to ask them to send us money," Ryan said. The Boston globe first reported on this.

Letters uncovered show Ryan also backed the Energy Center of Wisconsin's grant application for stimulus money "to develop an industry-driven training and placement agenda that intends to place 1,000 workers in green jobs."

The letters underscores Ryan's hypocrisy since he attempted to slash the Energy Department programs aimed at creating green jobs and calls for "getting Washington out of the business of picking winners and losers in the economy — and that includes our energy sector." He’s against picking winners unless they are in his District and can help him get votes.

After hearing the tapes, Ryan’s office issued a new statement about the letters “They were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled,’’ he said in the statement. “This is why I didn’t recall the letters earlier. But they should have been handled differently, and I take responsibility for that. Regardless, it’s clear that the Obama stimulus did nothing to stimulate the economy, and now the President is asking to do it all over again.’’

Ryan is not the only Republican Congress Member who criticized the stimulus plan only to seek money later. Georgia's Republican senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, for example, blasted the bill as a bloated government giveaway yet asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to steer $50 million in stimulus money to a constituent's bio-energy project.

"I'm not one of those people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money

Ryan called the bill a “wasteful spending spree” that “misses the mark on all counts,” but wrote a letter to Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in October in 2009 supporting a grant application from a group in his district which “intended to place 1,000 workers in green jobs,” according to the Wall Street Journal,
But on October 28, 2010, in a WBZ Nightside with Dan Rea interview, a caller asked Ryan if he had sought any of the money, to which Ryan responded that he would not vote against the bill “then write to the government to ask them to send us money.” He added, “I did not request any stimulus money.”

Au contraire, mon fraire. According to the Boston Globe, he sent the first of a series of letters on behalf of Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation (WECC), stating that the stimulus money would:


“[C]reate or retain approximately 7,600 new jobs over the three-year grant period and the subsequent three years…

…I was pleased that the primary objectives of their project will allow residents and businesses in the partner cities to reduce their energy costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and stimulate the local economy by creating new jobs.”

Paul Ryan is a Lying Liar

Posted on 08/16/2012

During a television interview today Paul Ryan said he “never asked for stimulus.”

That’s a lie.

He wrote at least four letters asking for stimulus funds in 2009 according to the Associated Press.

Rep. Ryan wrote letters in 2009 to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis seeking stimulus grant money for two Wisconsin energy conservation companies. One of them, the nonprofit Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp., later received $20.3 million from the Energy Department to help homes and businesses improve energy efficiency, according to federal records.

In a letter to Chu in December 2009, Ryan said the stimulus money would help his state create thousands of new jobs, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [...]

Ryan also sent three letters to Chu in October 2009 seeking stimulus money for the Energy Center of Wisconsin, another nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency. The company later received $190,000 in stimulus money to conduct research on geothermal heating and $50,000 more to develop a training curriculum for students at Milwaukee Area Technical College.

This is the really good part


[In] Ryan’s letter to the Labor Department in October 2009, he backed the Energy Center of Wisconsin’s grant application for stimulus money “to develop an industry-driven training and placement agenda that intends to place 1,000 workers in green jobs.”

Not only did Ryan request stimulus funds, he requested funds to save energy, reduction greenhouse gas emissions, and create green jobs.

Green jobs!

Where’s Darrell Issa when you need him? Who knows if Paul Ryan steered funds to the next Solyndra!