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tazzygirl -> RE: How can anyone like Paul Ryan? (8/24/2012 1:54:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: servantforuse
Smartsub, Paul Ryan didn't come from a wealthy family. Quite the contrary. He grew up in a very modest home in the small town of Janesville, Wi. His father died while he was a teenager.
Ryan was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of the four children of Elizabeth A. "Betty" (née Hutter) and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer.[8][9][10] His father was of Irish ancestry and his mother is of German and English ancestry.[11] He is a fifth-generation Wisconsinite. Some antecedents of Ryan's family arrived in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War.[12] Ryan's great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan (1858–1917), founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central.[13][14][15] However, Paul Ryan's branch of the family has not been involved with the company.[12] Ryan's grandfather was an attorney who was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin by President Calvin Coolidge.[16]
When he was 16, he found his 55-year-old father dead in bed of a heart attack.[6] His grandfather and great-grandfather also died from heart attacks, at ages 57 and 59 respectively, inspiring Ryan's later interest in health and exercise.[16] After his father's death, Ryan's grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, moved in with his family and he helped care for her.[6] His father's death provided Ryan with Social Security survivor's benefits until his 18th birthday, which he saved to pay for his college education.[22][23][24]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan
Son of a lawyer... family with a huge company
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Ryan Incorporated Central has been shaping the earth since 1884. The Company started in Janesville, Wisconsin with a team of mules building railroad embankment in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. As it grew, it added road work and mining in the early 1900's. By the 1940's the Company had become a full-service grading contractor serving both private industrial and public transportation customers, including some of the original work at what would become O'Hare Airport. During the 1970's and 1980's, Ryan expanded its services to include landfill construction and waste remediation, and in the 1990's added golf course construction. Today, Ryan Incorporated Central is one of the nation's premier mass excavation and site-work contractors with expertise in residential, commercial, transportation, entertainment, energy and environmental work. This including extensive experience in power and industrial site-work, state-of-the-art municipal and industrial landfill construction and capping and full service golf course construction. The Company's project size ranges in dollar value from $10,000 to $50,000,000.
http://www.ryancentral.com/history.html
To imply he had a "modest" upbringing is beyond ridiculous.
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