There’s more to it than just the FMLA. Ryan consistently votes for the interests of the wealthy at the expense of the 99%. His attitude is “I got mine, fuck you”.
True enough. He is a Republican after all.
Excuse me, passed me by 
no need to be so rude.:mad:
He’s trying to keep entitlements from going insolvent, which hurts the middle class and poor much more than the wealthy. The wealthy will be fine if Medicare has to start rationing and SS pays out 75% of promised benefits.
C’mon, Ryan’s family owns a construction company. I doubt there were any nights where the Ryan family was worrying about how to pay the rent.
For fuck sake, Ryan’s great grandfather started that company in the 1880s. He wasn’t a part of it. In fact, Ryan’s father died when Ryan was 16. He received Social Security until he was 18, saved from that and put himself through college.
I think Ryan is about to get rolled. He basically said, “Here are my preconditions for running for Speaker. If you don’t like 'em, fuck y’all, I’ll stay in Ways and Means.” The House Freedom Caucus came back with, “No,” and now that he has no leverage left at all, he’s running for Speaker after all. This means a) his whole I’ll-do-it-for-the-good-of-the-party-but-I’d-rather-not was an act, and everyone knows it, which costs him leverage and b) he has no protection against being Boehnered.
He may get a short honeymoon, but long-term, I can’t see him doing any better at this than Boehner did.
The company was started in 1884. I don’t see why you feel that helps your argument. It just shows that Ryan’s family has been well off for several generations.
The company still exists. It describes itself as one of the largest companies in the country in its field, talking about how it’s done business in twenty-five states and handles multi-million dollar jobs. This isn’t some family-run pizza place we’re talking about. This is a major corporation.
And Ryan does have a connection with it. He started working for the family business when he graduated from college. He worked there until he decided to go into politics.
Ryan’s other job was managing the Ryan-Hutter Investment Partnership, an investment fund that his grandmother started up.
It’s true that Ryan’s father died when Ryan was sixteen. And losing a parent is a genuine hardship for any child. But Ryan’s father left a half-million dollar estate behind to his family. Ryan collected Social Security benefits because he was a minor whose parent had died. But he didn’t need the money to support himself so he was able to put it all in the bank and use it to pay for his tuition. So Ryan didn’t “put himself” through college; his college education was paid for by a government program.