Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand: Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do! Even Harder On The Kid!

Paul Ryan has become one of the most powerful men in the Republican party. He is the one that all the others look to for brains and he was reaching the peak (no, not the widow’s peak that is so prominent on his forehead) , so much so that many in his party have looked to Ryan as a viable running mate for Willard. Vice-President Ryan had such a nice ring to it: Romney-Ryan, or as Sarah Palin might say, “Ryan-Romney” sounded like a winning ticket.

If only the fickle b*tch, Fate, had not stepped in and made an issue of the Bastard Child who sprang from the very loins of an atheist! Ryan is a good Catholic, after all. How could the smart one be so stupid to think that this tainted love affair, or any product of it, could survive and move forward after pressure was brought to bear by Ryan’s beloved (Hah!) Church.

Prior to Ryan’s recent speech to students at Georgetown University, ninety faculty members and priests signed a letter of protest, that outed the product of Rand and Ryan’s mind weld. A portion of that letter follows:

“However, we would be remiss in our duty to you and our students if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and the sick, and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few. As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has wisely noted in several letters to Congress – ” a just framework for future budgets cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor persons.” Catholic bishops recently wrote that “the House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria.”

In short, your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her call to selfidhness and her antagonism toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and love.”

Religion, or lack of it, is not supposed to make a difference and is not supposed to serve as a litmus test for public office, but the climate of the country has changed. No religion? No public office! And it must be the ‘right’ kind of religion…

Of course Paul has to deny!

Ryan and Rand’s child did not come into the world wrapped in the words that are etched on the plaque inside the Statue of Liberty:

“Give me your tired, your poor, 
Your huddled masses.The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-lost to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Instead, the Ryan/Rand child (let’s just call him Budget) begins and ends with selfishness and greed.

The greed and selfishness has more to do with ethics than religion. An atheist can still be kind, unselfish, honest and ethical, and usually is, but Ayn will long be remembered for saying things like the individual should “exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself”. Ayn believed that generosity, even kindness and compassion for those less fortunate was weakness to be despised, because it is immoral. Poor? Disabled? Mere parasites feeding off society. It is no wonder that Ayn’s genetic contribution is apparent in Budget, and she has her fans, even in the midst of the break-up.

Her devotees say that we cannot afford a safety net for the poor; let them eat rice (and beans); better yet, let them eat nothing at all. And then the Ryan/Rand child wants to take from the impoverished what little they have in order to pay for charity for the rich. That little bastard Budget does that, you know. One would think that those who claim to live by ‘godly’, or even moral tenets, would find this idea abhorrent.

Poor, dumb Paul was duped. Like many men, he must have been blinded by love, a love he now renounces and denies. She was just someone he never knew…