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Cathleen Allison / AP
Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., campaigns at the Peterbilt Truck & Parts Equipment company in Sparks, Nev., Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.
By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
Published Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 | 1:37 p.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 | 3:44 p.m.
SPARKS — In a brief fly-in-and-fly-out campaign stop here Friday, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan promised he and Mitt Romney would wrest the White House away from a president who’s “really bad at creating jobs.”
Reprising his campaign stump speech, Ryan offered a broad five-point plan for creating jobs that included the general campaign themes of lowering taxes, protecting small businesses, exploiting natural resources and fostering manufacturing and agriculture.
“President Obama gave a big speech last night,” Ryan said, eliciting a string of boos from the crowd.
“President Obama’s not a bad guy,” he added, a line the crowd was in no mood to accept. “He’s just really bad at creating jobs.”
As evidence for that claim, Ryan referred to Friday’s jobs report that showed the economy added just 96,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, but only because American workers stopped looking for jobs.
“We learned today that for every person that got a job nearly four people stopped looking for a job,” Ryan said. “They just gave up. We can’t keep doing this.
“Friends this is not an economic recovery. This is nowhere close to an economic recovery. We need a new president and we need a real economic recovery.”
The Obama campaign fired back that Ryan continued his propensity to ignore or bend the facts to fit the context of his speech.
He blamed Obama for a credit downgrade that came about as a result of the gridlock in Congress and touted Romney with cutting spending as governor of Massachusetts even though spending increased by 22 percent, the Obama campaign said.
“There is one indisputable fact that Congressman Ryan can’t change,” Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said. “Mitt Romney’s policies of giving more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans paid for by the middle class, making deep cuts to critical investments like education, and turning Medicare into a voucher system would not take us forward—they’d take us back.”
Ryan's speech starts a busy week of presidential campaign visits to Nevada-- a key battleground state in the fight for the White House. Romney is scheduled to address the National Guard Association convention in Reno on Tuesday, while Obama will rally supporters in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Republicans used Ryan’s visit to Sparks to tout their down ticket candidates in Northern Nevada—giving Sen. Greg Brower and GOP assembly candidate David Espinosa a chance at the microphone.
U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, who has virtually no re-election battle this year, gave the crowd warm-up speech before Ryan took the stage. He introduced the Pledge of Allegiance as a “uniquely Republican thing.”
"We want to start with kind of a uniquely Republican thing, we want to start with the pledge of allegiance," Amodei said.
The quip set off a firestorm on Twitter, with many remarking on Rep. Gabby Giffords’ moving recitation of the pledge at the Democratic National Convention the night before. Giffords continues to recover from the brain injury she received when a gunman opened fire on her campaign rally two years ago.
“Well, you never know what Mark Amodei is going to say,” Brower said when asked about Amodei's remark.
In a brief interview later Friday afternoon, Amodei said his off the cuff comment was not meant to imply the Pledge of Allegiance was uniquely Republican, but that reciting it at the start of a campaign rally was unusual.
Ryan closed his speech with his typical call for support, promising the crowd his ticket would not only work to earn their vote but to “deserve victory.”
"This is what we are committing to you,” Ryan said. "We want to earn your vote this election. We want to deserve victory so we have the mandates and the moral authority to fix this mess. We are not going to duck these tough issues. We’re not going to kick the can down the road. We are going to get spending under control. We are going to get the economy growing and we are going to take responsibility.”
Let's dump the guy that is fighting to bring back jobs and put in the guys that lost the jobs in the first place. Brilliant!!!
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Typically, I do not respond this way, but I think I would rather have a colonoscopy than listen to Lyin' Ryan.
Republican Rule #1: Accuse the other guy of exactly what you are doing.
Bohner and friends should have focused their attention more on jobs, jobs, jobs, economy, economy, economy; instead of women's healthcare issues and light bulbs, don't you think?
Williard and Ryan, hey Willard where did you put that plan, can't find it. What plan? Oh, you know, the plan with the 12 Million jobs in it. Oh, I don't know it is here somewhere.
Romney/Ryan fight for the rich
Obama/Biden fight for the Middle Class
Which side are you on?
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
"The unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, but only because American workers stopped looking for jobs."
It's called "working under the table". It's what employers and employees do when times are really tight. Like right now.
This is just a stupid comment by an ignorant and lying repugnican.
It took the US over 15 years to recover from the Depression.
The GREAT RECESSION was almost as bad. Only an idiot or fool would think that you can recover from the GREAT RECESSION only 4 years.
The fact that the banks did not collapse BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION is the only thing that saved us from another Depression.
Of course, repugnicans think government is bad.
SO THEY WOULD HAVE CAUSED A GREAT DEPRESSION IF THEY HAD THEIR WAY!
Paul Ryan is a fraud. U.S. Added jobs 30 months in a row. Unemployment is down. Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive.
Paul Ryan wants a christian dictatorship like Michelle Backman
Spent his time in college on his dads Social Security reading Ayn Rand.
Paul Ryan does not impress me..
Hey, TeaNutz...
What are Paul Ryan and his do-nothing, 'obstruct the President at all costs since 2008' fellow Congress-people doing to create jobs and grow the economy?
NADA!!!
http://republicanjobcreation.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/politics/s...
http://www.policymic.com/articles/11510/...
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-2012...
"We hate Barack Obama SO MUCH, we are willing to sacrifice America's future in order to defeat him!"
I have a hard time aligning myself with any individual who feels a victim of rape or incest must carry that baby to term. Trust me, if the shoe was on the other foot and Paul Ryan had to carry a baby for 9 months that he didn't want or desire...he wouldn't be subjecting himself to 9 months of morning sickness, doctor visits, buying paternity clothes, worrying about what he can drink, eat, WORKOUT!!! Can you imagine this fitness nut throwing that all away as he balloons up to 250lbs carrying a baby the result of rape??
Never in a million years would this self described fitness guy go thru 9 months of pregnancy.
Please tell us, Mr. Ryan, how many jobs bills were introduced by your Republican Congress this year? Last year? Oh, right: that would be zero.
But your far-right gang introduced no less than 33 resolutions trying to limit women's access to reproductive healthcare.
In the meantime you blocked the jobs bill the President presented over a year ago.
You were one of the Congressmen who met on Inauguration Night, January 2009, where you plotted to block any and all initiatives of this administration. Because, as Mitch McConnell said, your very first priority, from the very first day he took office, was to ensure that Obama was a one-term President.
Yeah, you really care about jobs.
Oh, and by the way: there's a reason that "Lyin' Ryan" moniker is sticking: because it's the TRUTH. You even lie about things that don't matter, like saying you ran a marathon in under 3 hours. Which you later had to admit WAS NOT TRUE, after Runner's World did some fact-checking. Turns out you only ever ran ONE marathon and it was close to 4 hours. Which is quite respectable: you had no need to lie about it. Yet lie you did. Now people are fact-checking your fibs about how many 14,000+ peaks you scaled in Colorado. Yep: you said you climbed 40 of them. Which even the most avid climber would have a tough time doing.
Then there's the complete flip-flop on your hero Ayn Rand. You are on tape saying "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It's inspired me so much that it's required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff." That was at the Atlas Society (gee I wonder where they got their name) in 2005. Fast forward to April 2012 in an interview in National Review, where you said: "I reject her philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview."
Yeah, you're a real straight shooter, Mr. Lyin'.
It took awhile but Romney finally found someone to be his running mate. About Ryan, BIll Clinton said it best in his speech the other night:
"When Congressman Ryan looked into that TV camera and attacked President Obama's Medicare savings as quote 'biggest coldest power play,' I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Because that 716 billion dollars is exactly, to the dollar, the same amount of Medicare savings that he has in his own budget. It takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did."
Watch Jon Stewart eviscerate Mitt and his mutt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07...
Paul Ryan, this Eddie Munster look alike, voted
for the Iraq War and all of the other bush policy
that destroyed our middle class and economy.
THE RYAN RECORD IS MILLIONS OF JOBS LOST!!!!
THIS REPUBLICAN CLOWN FOOLS NO ONE!
He needs to go back to his old job of driving the
weiner mobile.
WE'RE KEEPING OBAMA AND BIDEN!!!
"This is nowhere close to an economic recovery" Yeap, but it sure was one hell of a crash, right? Thanks Bush, where ever you are.
Anjeanette:
Describing Ryan's speech as "exploiting natural resources" tells us all we need to know about your politics.
It took Pr. Bush 8 years to destroy the economy and he want Pr. Obama to fix it in less than 4??? Say what???? And tell me how Pr. Obama is supposed to create jobs when the Republican controlled House won't pass one, not one, jobs bill?
"This is nowhere close to an economic recovery".... Paul Ryan comes to Nevada trying to convince idiot loyalists, is a better discription.
It took Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, the Chameleon and the media just three years to bring the US economy down. (2006-2008)
Rep. Paul Ryan has Zero credibility! He and Mitt Romney have lied, distorted the issues, and are trying to mislead the voters.
Nevadans don't like outsiders, especially lying outsiders, coming into our state and lying, and lying, and lying. Go home Paul Ryan. Go home!
TEA Whiz...
That unabashed arrogance is what 'endears us' to the 'I, Me, MINE!' party and is one of the primary reasons why Barack Obama will win comfortably in November.
I wonder if Paul Ryan & Joe Heck have the same barber...
gmag39.......great comment.
YES, TEA represents the 30% teabaggers who are
and have been stuck in stupid.
You can't fix stupid.
But I can tell you this,
WE CAN OUT-VOTE STUPID.
YES WE CAN!!!
It's time for a new President.
President Obamma is not getting America back on track economically
The unemployed and our economy have been robbed of billions of dollars in ARRA emergency designated funds, that were meant to help millions of struggling unemployed workers and families. The Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration published a serious mistake in the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program guidelines and now is trying to cover this up before the election.
This mistake about "Multiple EUC Claims", first published in August of 2008, in the Q&A section of UIPL 23-08, that was issued by the DOL ETA to ALL states nationwide, does not comply with their own regulations. Just Google up Title 20 Chapter V Part 615 and check out 20 CFR 615.5(2), "the definition of an exhaustee". Then compare this to the mistakes that the DOL ETA has published about "Multiple EUC Claims". The DOL ETA guidelines DO NOT FOLLOW their own regulations.
The DOL ETA has failed in its "regulatory compliance" oversight. This mistake has forced millions of claimants to be paid any remaining balance from any older and terminated EUC08 account they may have accessed in the past. They are paid these older and usually significantly lesser claims until the claimant can exhaust all the old funds. They are NOT ALLOWED to access the current and usually higher paying EUC08 claim based on the most recent benefit year and the state unemployment weekly benefit they were receiving before the feds screwed them (i.e. $450/week on state claim, then forced onto a $81/week older EUC08 claim for 70+ weeks while a 99 Week $450/week EUC08 claims sit and waits for the old claim to get used up).
This is madness, highly unconstitutional, illegal and violations the rights of millions by subverting our laws and regulations. The Obama Administration has been trying to thwart my whistle blower efforts for the past year. Mr. Obama was informed about my efforts and the California CUIAB appeal Case No. A0-265448 on 10/18 and again on 10/21/11 by Dale Ziegler of the DOL ETA. This appeal was won on 10/20/11. It REVERSED the "Multiple EUC Claims" error that I was also the victim of. Nearly $3000 in EUC08 funds have been restored and the case still stands to present day.
They want to cover up this story and stop my efforts. Here is the full story, and evidence I have made public despite this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/09...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/26...
You mean to tell me the Government has been hiding the true picture of unemployment? *gasp* really?
Most of the BlS figuresw used do not even count most people under 35 who do not have land-line phones anymore. By definition 50% of the employment data gathered comes from households so unchanging they still have money to blow on land line phones. Of even these laggards 8.1 % are unemployed. How bad is it in the REAL World? 25-50% be my guesstimate.
Don't believe me read about this problem from the Census people yourself: http://www.ifdtc.org/PC2011/presentation...
Perfume on a Pig comes to mind.
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Mr. O had and has vast experience SPENDING money.
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And Mr. Ryan, what specifically did you and your TeaBagger brethren do to produce a better recovery? Don't lie now! LOL
Yes, Ryan is correct. I am going to give him my vote this time. They better bring radical change whether it is painful or not. I am certain it will be hard, very hard but I will brace myself for it. I would rather take a lot of pain for a short period of time knowing it will cure the illness rather than just a band-aid now and then to try and pacify me.
@TEA, how did World War II get us out of the Depression? Oh, that's right, it was government STIMULUS! The government was borrowing money to pay for war material. Guess what? That's Keynesian economics!
Oh, no! Your own statistics came back to bite!
Oh, no! The unemployment rate when GW Bush took office was 5.7%. When he left, it was 7.8%. Yep, them Republicans create jobs! Oh, wait...
And lets see... the icing on the cake: During George W. Bush's first term, the debt to GDP ratio increased 7.1%. In his second, it rose 18.2%. In Obama's first term, it has risen 10.3%. So, in other words, as a percentage of GDP, Bush created far more debt than Obama!
Facts: The greatest enemy of the GOP.
Exactly what can be expected from a Republican looking for votes: "You didn't fix it fast enough".
Paul Ryan inherited a fortune from his family's participation in Public Works Projects that he now mocks.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/ry...
Ryan represents the overwhelming mindset of the GOP: " Serve the military yourself. I got mine now get away from my feedbag."
Ryan has the next two decades of Military Confrontations with Russia planned intends to borrow trillions from the Chinese to pay for the coming confrontation to "Keep America Free". Oh Holy balls of snot.
The Obama administration is closing coal plants. I see "fairy dust" and instead of Romney I think of Obama..whose fairy dust alternative energy is not going to run your vehicle or heat your house.
The EPA is forcing industry to comply to regulation written in an ivory tower for..pie in the sky..technology that doesn't exist.
Obama does not understand how stuff works..He thinks the government can pass out a food stamps and vouchers or government checks for make-work..and then ban all the polluting equipment needed for growing and transporting the food..and tax the people who own that equipment big bucks to pay for the food stamps, vouchers and government checks..
You can't shut down a coal fired plant..then think you can restart it again by executive order..
There are 15 coal fired plants shutting down because of EPA regulations
What system is currently in place to provide power to the customers who are relying on those plants?
Obama Fairy Dust..??
Alternative energy that doesn't exist or isn't on line or is so expensive no one can afford it..like those new "green" cars?
From the look of those boots it appears Ryan is gettin ready for the BS he is about to deliver.
I still have a hard time believing the republican bench is so thin that they chose this Michael Dukakis style politician instead of a woman.
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't Paul Ryan resemble Alfred E. Neuman from MAD Magazine fame?
Another good Catholic man. I don't know of any policy, executive order, or anything a President or VP can do to revoke a woman's right to contraception or abortion. Would take Congress and even then SCOTUS would strike that down as unconstitutional.