Ryan Brings Clarity to Our Choices in November

Jim Spence (left)
Commentary by Jim Spence - The selection by Mitt Romney of Paul Ryan to be his Vice President brings clarity to the choices Americans face in less than three months.
Ryan has a record. He actually had the courage to make proposals for budget reforms including addressing runaway entitlement spending. And unlike President Obama, who saw his last two budget proposals fail to garner a single vote from either party in the House or Senate, Ryan’s budget proposal attracted votes, lots of them.
Paul Ryan
No doubt the big government handout crowd in America will be targeted by Obama and Biden marketing gimmicks. The meaningful change to status quo offered by Romney – Ryan will be framed by Democrats as a legitimate threat to their, “We can get something for nothing,” way of thinking. And it is quite possible that there are already so many Americans receiving freebies that the Romney – Ryan ticket won’t be able to convince the majority that fiscal sanity is the only solution to America's downward spiral.
From a campaign tone standpoint it is likely that Democrats will go after Romney and Ryan as not one but a pair of murderers. Recently Democratic attack ads depicted Romney as the blame for a woman's cancer. No doubt progressives will revive the attack ad that showed Ryan pushing granny over the cliff in her wheechair a few months ago when he proposed reforms.
For the GOP the good news is Ryan is not only able to precisely articulate the reasons why America is headed the wrong direction, but unlike virtually every candidate on both sides of the aisle, he can actually explain in clear and simple terms, the correct pathway to real reform. For these reasons Ryan brings clarity to our choices.

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NM Educators Retirement in Deep Water

KOAT - The state retirement fund for teachers, staff and administrators is in jeopardy, one trustee of the Education Retirement Board said. The trustee said a recent report showed that the fund could run out of assets by 2022.
Target 7's Lauren Zakalik talked to about the need to fix the situation. Zakalik said the estimates in the report are based on how the fund has been performing during the past 10 years. The trustee told Zakalik that if nothing changes, taxpayers could be responsible for billions of dollars that would be owed to retired educators.
To keep that from happening, education employees may face some changes. Albuquerque Teachers Union President Ellen Bernstein agrees that things look dire, so she, along with dozens of educators and some ERB members, have come up with a plan. Among the changes would be raising the retirement age of new employees to 55; raising the cost of living adjustment age to 67 for all new employees and increasing employment contributions to the retirement plan as the state contribution goes up, too. Read full story here: News New Mexico

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