Ryan’s Family Firm Gains From Government Spending He Criticizes
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Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential candidate, may reprise a favorite campaign theme in his debate with Vice President Joe Biden tonight: Reliance on the federal government is bad.
President Barack Obama “looks to government as the great benefactor,” Ryan said at a “Values Voter Summit” in Washington on Sept. 14. In his own hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan said, “a lot of good happens without government commanding it, directing it or claiming credit for it.”