Pathological? Paul Ryan Says 1.4 Million Businesses Filed Bankruptcy Under Obama, Turns Out There Were Only 48,000 Filings
The lies of Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick, are getting out of control. No one will forget the litany of untruths Ryan dropped during
his speech at the Republican National Convention. It was so bad that even CNN’s Erin Burnett, who hails from Wall Street herself, said ”there will be issues with some of the facts. But it motivated people.”
The next day, fact checkers from most major publications reamed the speech as being full of lies and falsehoods. So one would think that Ryan would think twice before trying to pull another fast one, right? Wrong.
The seven-term Wisconsin congressman delivered a GOP attack at a rally Charlotte where the Democratic National Convention is being held. During the speech, where he tried to tie Obama to Carter, Ryan let loose a whopper of a lie.
“In 1980, under Jimmy Carter, 330,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy. Last year, under President Obama’s failed leadership, 1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy,” Ryan said. “Take a look at people who are having a hard time making their mortgage payments, 77,000 delinquent mortgages by the time Jimmy Carter left office. Under President Obama 3 million.”
According to the American Bankruptcy Institute, there were only 47, 806 business bankruptcies last year, not 1.4 million.
Ryan’s campaign later stepped in to do damage control, saying that their candidate was referencing total bankruptcy filings, not just business filings. So the G.O.P. policy wonk can’t keep his numbers straight?
This also comes on the heels of Paul Ryan lying about his marathon finish time. Ryan said that he finished a marathon in “two hours and fifty something” minutes. That would’ve had Ryan running a 7 minute mile the entire race and was, of course, another Paul Ryan whopper. His campaign later “clarified,” confirming suspicions that Ryan had only run one marathon in his life, and had finished in a little over four hours, not the two hours he’d bragged about.
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Yes, RYAN MUNSTER is a DISGUSTING, pathological liar… and so is ROMNEY HOOD. At the RNC Convention last week…they told so many big fat whoppers that it was hard to keep up. Almost everything that comes out of their mouths is a DISTORTION…twisted info, fabricated fairy tales…or worse — for the main purpose of making Pres. Obama look bad…that he is causing our nation to “fail.” They have been doing robocalls telling people their lie about the “welfare to work” c**p that they made up. They continue to lie how Pres. Obama did help the AUTO INDUSTRY….and on and on. BUT…they never mention the AWFUL G.W. BUSH ADMIN. and how they crashed the entire economy…put us in 2 unpaid for wars…and all the other horrific things that GLOBAL WARMING BUSH and DARTH CHENEY did.
The more I hear about Romney & Ryan, the more I wish Black people were as vigilant and passionate about our race and people like white America is about their race of people. White Americans stick together through thick and thin…We as African Americans must work together as a group in order to keep down the racist, the oppressors of our people and all who despise Black AMERICANS. This racial prejudice and racial disrespect is really old. And another thing, why would anyone vote Republican if you do not have millions of dollars in order to reap all of the perks and breaks of the wealthy? Whatever you do, vote and hopefully vote not for the Romney/Ryan fiasco..
What has this comment got to do with the actual point of the post- about Ryan lying over bankruptcy claims?
Deborah, what the blogger said in so may words is that “whites” will stick together even around a lie. African-Americans will not even stick togeter behind or around the truth.
Your failure to understand her comment amazes me.
Notwithstanding Paul Ryan’s obvious “misstatement” regarding the number of bankruptcies, black people have demonstrated incedible dedication and faithfulness to a liar. Barack Obama promiced up all sorts of things, yet he has accomplished virtually nothing with respect to the things that Americans truly wanted him to do, such as get us out of the wars and curtail rampant unemployment. Obama absolutely guaranteed “transparency” in how the government operates, yet it is more secretive than even when Bush was in office, and we certainly aren’t getting 48 hours to read bills before congress votes on them (not even Obama’s first 2 years when the dems controlled everything). Remember the Obamacare legislation and the famous “we have to pass it first, THEN you can find out what is in it.” Obama is the ultimate liar. He has perfected it. Bush and Clinton can’t hold a candle to Obama’s talent for telling lies (and getting away with them).
As for white people sticking together, are you truly that damned dumb? or are you just perpetuating the lie? Only 55% of white people voted for the all-white candidate in 2008, while 43% of white people voted for Obama (the half-black candidate). At the same time, 98% of black people “stuck together” and voted for the half-black candidate, with only 2% voting for the all-white guy. I hardly call 55% “sticking together.” In fact, more white people voted for Obama in 2008, than they did for Kerry in 2004 or Gore in 2000. So get over you racist c**p — white people consider the candidates, and pick one based on political issues. They hardly “stick together” as a group.
I am no fan of Obama or Romney either, but you have to look at the overall picture. Sure Obama promised us jobs, but remember Mitch McConnell, John b***r and other Repubikan ilk made it their mission to stop Obama at all costs at the expense of the middle class, working class and unemployed peoples of this country.
Not one Repubikan created a job. As for the secrecy please elaborate on what secrets you want to know about.
I am sick of the birth certificate bullcrap.
I agree with you Roz but please don’t think that all whites will stick together and vote for Romney. There are many of us who are capable of knowing what it right and what’s wrong and I couldn’t be less passionate about my race – in fact, I am embarrassed to belong to a race capable of such ignorance and hate. I am doing everything I can to help President Obama be re-elected and I know there are countless others like me.
If they are smart they will not vote for the two lieing Rs. No more medicare, no more medicaid, Stoped giving samples already the drug companies are working with them. I would not be suprised if they stop social security sinse nothing else will be secure except those overseas bank accounts and all of those tax forms. VVote your benifits use your brains.
So Boyce, you write a decent argument, and then ruin it by talking about this man lying about his marathon run? What the h**l has that got to do with anything?
What do you expect anyway? They have to make Obama’s case look worse than it is- even though the latter hasn’t been spectacular. They won’t say how they have blocked many of his common sense proposals, and even the ones that Republicans traditionally favoured.
Truth is…everything works in the media like a court of law (sic:of public opinion). The presumption of our peers is that if a man lies about anything then he is capable of lying about everything. He will take whatever (illicit, illegal and immoral) means to attain his goals..I think that was his point by pointing out the lie told about the marathon.
It’s unfortunate, the lies, but what’s more disheartening is that alot of people will believe the lies. Thus, I’m in total agreement with Roz, we have to vigilant not only about our race, but about making sure we are adequately informed about those who are running for public office. Hopefully we won’t and don’t believe everything that’s said by politicians, their main goal is to appeal to your emotions and not necessarily your intellect.
VOTE!!!!
Well then, you wouldn’t believe everything that Obama has got to say either- he’s a politician too.
Grow a brain deborah! If you are African-American you are a good example of a “crab in a barrell”, you are spending so much time defending “white” until you can’t see or exercise common sense.
Ryan is a liar, most of his comments are lies…got it now?
It’s not a matter of “Blacks” sticking together…it’s ANYONE who would rather NOT deal with liars!!! The Republican party is a freakin’ joke! They try to put together this “team” (young and they think attractive) but it’s a bunch of crock with nothing but lies. That makes you wonder…if these candidates are so comfortable making “early lies” (on the way to trying to get into the white house), WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY’LL DO IF THEY SHOULD HAPPEN TO GET THERE? It’s amazing how people will stick together (for the sake of skin color–in the GOP’s case) when they KNOW this team is terrible for the country! They don’t care that the elderly, the middle-class, and the underprivileged will suffer but get this….many of them fall into these categories! It’s sad but it’s a world we live in….
Exactly. Its not just us blacks, its Hispanics, the poor, the young, women, gays, the elderly set to lose out on the winners and losers ruthless ideology of the Romney-Ryan ticket.
DITTO!!!!!!! DITTO….DITTO…!!!!
Thanks pnut, I see your post helped deborah grow a brain. I am African-American, we worry and concern ourselves with every race and equality for all other than US. We need to learn to stand up for US again and support others, but we have forgotten US.
The Republican party are masters of deception. Our American Indian brothers and sisters can testify to that. They informed us that white men speak with fork tongue, remember that, and remember how they end up, in their own land ???
they wiil say,and do anything…..to…..make sure…Obama is not reelected case closed!
Pathological paul. So consider he and Romney in the Oval Office making policy with lies attached to make America A Better Place? Not going to happen.
Allison you concluded this article in two sentences. A person who lie will not make this country better. The Bible specifically points out that a liar will steal and eventually kill. Its amazing that the GOP is touting that they are Christians but yet hold up a lie. Hypocrites from the front door to the back.
And you know it. Obama 2012
If nothing else is clear we now know that we can not believe anything that either Romney Hood or Lying Ryan says. I mean when the media finally comes out and calls Ryan’s speech filled with lies then you know they have gone to far. I also hear they are now running a robocall filled with lies about medicare. Anyone who votes for this ticket gets what they deserve. These two are not worthy of being in the white house!
A lie is a lie. But howcome every time a Liberal/Democrate lies, it’s a “mispoke”?
Do not say that about liberrals, because just like the GOP they have those Dems that stretch the truth to get a point or a vote , the difference is that the Dems are fighting to help those in the poor or middleclass, while the Gop lies in order to make the rich ricjher at the expense of the less fortunate. Even Ann Romney llied in her speech in Tampa, If you believe that her and Mitt had to use an old ironing board for a table when they first got married then I have an organization that needs help let me think of a name for it. They got houses and cars as wedding gifts, just a good old mormon tale.
Are you suprise……he lies about everything ..how low the Marathon what a nut……
I believe he meant the bankruptcies for the whole of Obama’s presidency, not just one year. One year wouldn’t make sense, would it? And he explained that the marathon was 22 years ago and he just forgot the actual time. Not too many of us can remember facts back 10 years ago, much less 22 years. Don’t be so quick to emotionally get all hot and bothered — we’re looking for the most capable people to lead our great country, not the most affable and charming.
everytime I turn on the television or the radio all I hear is how Romney and Paul are such liars. I hear how they say Obama messed up the economy and ruined everything for mankind period. Well you would have to turn a blind eye not to have seen that all this happened before he came into office. He came in and began a clean up regimen behind a clown name Bush. He brought our troops home and got Osoma and that lone seemed to be he impossible for bush yet he came into office and wreak havoc doing the impossible. Yet he cant catch a break. There was so much much damage done by presidents past that it will take several terms to clean this c**p up. Obama didnt cause these problems hes being accused of but it seems everyone is blind to everything. Well im planning to make my vote count. Obama all day over here.
What does Ryans’ marathon lie have to do with anything? Just this: if the man will lie about something so trivial, what will he do about something important? Liars have been known to have character issues, and how can you trust someone like that? Romney and Ryan will say and do whatever it takes to try to discredit President Obama…but no one ever mentions the obstruction President Obama faced with the tea-party congress, and no one ever mentions the incredible debt George W. Bush and congress ran up!
I have to give those tea party republicans their due, they d**n sure know how to lie, and they tell big ones! It just goes to show how desperate they are, I had no idea the White man was so jealous of a Black man.
And still he is on the ticket. . .how can GOP supporters
go along with this? I Just don’t get it. A liar is a liar. . .
how can you trust that person. My mom always told
us “you can’t trust a liar. . .if they lie, they will steal,
and if they steal, they will kill”. . .they need to dump
Ryan!
Is that why his face is always contorted? . . .’cause he’s about to tell another lie? Perhaps he thinks it is cute. . .but I personally think he looks stupid when he makes all the faces.
I’m white and I approve this message
Paul Ryan can crank all kinds of numbers – people will not listen or believe him. He is a liar. In American once you are labeled it’s the end of you. It’s too late for Ryan to recover. After all debates are not only on number. Debates offer candidates chance to lay down their policies. Romney and Ryan don’t have economic recover as revealed in GOP convention. Their recovery polies, I guess is give more tax breaks to the riches to ship jobs to China and to Asian countries where they meet their mistresses. Ryan and Romney should now wait for 2016 elections. Too bad for Romney he is old and may have amnesia. Let us vote for President Obama on November 6.
This dude’s always lying–something’s wrong with him. P.S.–and if you vote for these idiots (Romne/Ryan), then you’s a fool…
This is an issue with the GOP, period. They dont care about truth, they care about speaking in soundbites that their faithful can vomit back to sound like they know what they are talking about. Ryan is another liar from Wisconsin who vomits double speak. Walker broke the unions, undermined public education, our health care, is pushing voucher schools, gutting housing. Ryan is his idol and they sure as h**l think alike. Romney is not the head of the ticket, he repeats Ryan. They dont want you to see the shell game of the agenda, they just want you to focus on what they tell you to say if you are a party faithful. Romney and Ryan, the party of privilege.
To me, its all a game. The Republican and Democrats are controlled by the powerful 10%. They don’t care who get in office.
The powerfully rich will kill anyone who they think will interfere with their control.
I’m not happy with the killing of our brother Muammar Gaddafi and our bothers and sisters over there in Libya and through out the East. So our President, Barack Obama is the perfect person for this enemy cover.
He (President Barack Obama) is the CEO that is controlled by the powers that be that no one seem to want or is scare to talk about other than The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and that is the Jews, or those who call themselves Jews. We need to go and by or goggle “The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews” truly a eye opener!
I have to say that some people just can’t help lying. Ryan is one of those folks. With him it is a sickness. He needs professional help. It is like having a bad heart. And if you don’t go to a heart specialist you will die. If Ryan don’t go to a head doctor he will keep on lying. Remember, birds of a feather flock together…I think Paul Ryan will lie and Willard Mitt Romney will lie and then they will get together and see who can come up with the next biggest lie to tell the American People.
To me, its all a game. The Republican and Democrats are controlled by the powerful 10%. They don’t care who get in office.
The powerfully rich will kill anyone who they think will interfere with their control.
I’m not happy with the killing of our brother Muammar Gaddafi and our brothers and sisters over there in Libya and through out the East. So our President, Barack Obama is the perfect person for this enemy cover.
He (President Barack Obama) is the CEO that is controlled by the powers that be that no one seem to want or is scare to talk about other than The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and that is the Jews, or those who call themselves Jews. We need to go and by or goggle “The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews” truly a eye opener!
These politicians keep telling lies because the people continue letting them getaway with it. We can stop these lies by not voting for the liar; simple as that.
The thing that is surprising to me is you are shocked that the Republican Party would be doing this kind of thing!!!! It is my belief that they will do and or say anything that they think their people and the people who do not what to read and or think for them selves would want to hear and believe…
So has you practiced so will you preached . Ryan thinks that he can get by, on painting mountains lies. This will never happen because the TRUTH will have to be told. The Republican / Paul Ryan is running there slate on pure lies. Just hope that the PEOPLE will see what they are up to . And be stead fast to re-elect our PRESIDENT.
If you must tell a lie tell a big lie. It will be too fantastic to disbelieve. This was stated by a German Propaganda Minister.i
If paul ryan is a christian man – then christanity is a joke. He is the very face of satan yet black church folk align themselves with this demon.
PEOPLE…IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE…PLEASE STOP THE RACE CARD…RYAN AND ROMNEY WANT TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEY WERE THE BEST PICK FOR THAT PARTY…SAD BUT TRUE…SO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE IT IS ABOUT RACE AND WE HAVE TO STOP USING THAT AND REALIZE THAT THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT JUST FOR BLACK PEOPLE HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE US AND HE IS BI-RACIAL SO WHAT IS HE SUPPOSE TO DO STOP IDENTIFYING WITH HIS MOM OR HIS DAD????
The lies of Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick, are getting out of control. Americans Who Are Willing To Turn Their Backs On President Obama And Vote For Worthless Pieces Of Trash Is Just Plain Ignorant. My African American Brothers And Sisters And Other Non-Racial REAL MEN AND WOMEN Please Make Sure President Obama Gets Re-Elected. That’s A REAL MAN Who Can Make Some REAL POSITIVE Changes In The United States Of America. Please Make Sure He Is Re-Elected.
Romney and Ryan are big liars.
Native Americans said White MAN SPEAK WITH FORK TONGUE.I say WHITE MAN SPEAK WITH PIT FORK TONGUE.
You know we are like lemmings, most all of the comment writers seem to be under the impression lies of equal weight have not been made by the Democrats.
Sandra Fluk is about to speak at the DNC. I will bet she says the Romney if elected will stop women from getting a abortion if they want, or need it for health or in case of rape etc.
That will be a lie, because in 1973 Roe v Wade was put into law, only the Supreme Court can over turn that law, it’s not going to happen in our life time!
But it will be said tonight, the Repubs. will prevent women from have the abortion.
Were so emotional and so uninformed, not everyone but most again are lemmings! Any bet takers?
It shows they are taking the low road to oppose the Democrats
Folks read my lips********This lamebrain Ryan is a pathological liar…….Pathological lying is a mental disorder….
JUST SHOW HOW YOU FEEL AND VOTE,EVERY VOTE COUNTS
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If he lie now he show will lie more after he get in the White House we can’t put anyone black or white that lie just to try to get what he want. Lets keep President Obama another 4 years let him finish as we let all the rest,even the ones that should had been put out like Nixon a*s.com!!
To all the people who made comments about RYAN,ROMNEY,and Obama, please make certain that you are registered to vote.Your registration card is updated,know where your polling place is or has moved.I had to update my card and go to new polling place.
I live in Florida expect anything with the GOV we have.Can’t wait until 2014.
If our ppl will wake up and see through the nonsense. Of course Prez O was hoping for change in DC, the problem was, we should have changed the Senate and the House. Oh yeah, we did and look at what happen. Stale mate. Now that we see that the Repubs are just trying to defeat our Prez, we all need to send them a mssg. We will stand with our Prez. Rome wasn’t build in a day and neither will this mess of an economy. I am really baffled at how we as a people are blinded by hatred and lies. I really believe that when Prez O get’s re-elected the Repubs will have to get a grip and allow him to do what we know he can do.
Obama 2012
For the poster who said all white people stick together: I’m white, and I would sooner vote for my chihuahua than for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Romney makes me think of a snake oil salesman and Ryan’s lies turn my stomach.
It’s a good thing America has started to listen with their eyes closed and not the usual face-value first syndrome. As a proud American, we are entitle to the have at least a ounce of truth and not have it diluted by one exageration after another.
Gotta love our REPUBLICANS.
It’s a good thing America has started to listen with their eyes closed and not the usual face-value first syndrome. As a proud American, we are entitled to have at least an ounce of truth and not have it diluted by one exageration after another.
Gotta love our REPUBLICANS.