Why Does Paul Ryan Love Ayn Rand???

And we know he does, but he embraces the old snake oil sales woman because he has to.

The late Rand's entrance into this presidential election, thanks to Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, is more serious than it seems. Sweet reason has a hard time with Rand glorifying selfishness as political doctrine. Now that "selfishness ethic" happens all the time, accompanied by vicious attacks on the federal government and people who work for it, in the Republican-run House. It's not all the author's fault, but Ryan's devotion to Rand is yet another Republican insult and injury to classic American ideas of fairness, squareness, and civic-mindedness. In fact, the Ryan-authored House Republican budget document, which cuts the heart out of our body politic, ripping social services and Medicare to shreds, is a pledge to the Rand coat of arms, standing against people who need a little help from other people. And in turn, Rand gives him a rationale for the intellectual poverty of his ideas.

The self proclaimed Catholic has to follow the teachings of the Atheist Rand because he sure is not following Catholic Doctrine. Just ask the leaders of the Catholic church. The Nations Bishops got together and wrote a letter aimed at the Ryan Budget:

Mr. Ryan’s budget “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment,” the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. “These cuts are unjustified and wrong.”

Then of course, a group of Nuns also got together and delivered the same message to Mr. Ryan:

“As Catholic sisters, we must speak out against the current House Republican budget, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan,” reads a statement on the group’s website. “We do so because it harms people who are already suffering.”

At least Ayn Rand is not alive to add her voice to the ones criticizing Ryan!