Bush & Company

The truth is out: the real reason behind House budget committee chair Paul Ryan's adamant stand on his budget bill that advocates, among other obscenities, the privatization of Medicare.

Ryan and his wife own stakes in four companies owned by his father-in-law which lease land in Oklahoma and Texas to energy companies---Chesapeake Energy, Devon, XTO Energy and an ExxonMobil subsidiary. All profit from the tax subsidies the Ryan plan backs and express their gratitude accordingly.

Not only a clear conflict of interest, this should also be a moral dilemma, Were his plan adopted, underfunded programs, created to benefit the majority, would be further cut, with horrific negative effects on the vulnerable.

The Ryans have already gained $177,000 from these stakes and have assets worth upwards of $2.5 million as well as income from Mrs. Ryan's other family enterprises. Mr. Ryan may have in his sights other unethically gained riches at least equivalent to those of many of his older House colleagues.

The infamous plan can be considered a barometer for what the GOP has become. With poetic justice, without being signed into law, it wields enough power to undo those in the party who are supporting it or who once did.

Now we know the reason why
Mr. Ryan has to lie.
That budget plan is just a way
To make a lot of extra pay.

It's good to be a congressman
So you can write a heartless plan
That overshadows all your peers---
Those other callous profiteers.

Is that the reason that he ran
To be a U S Congress man?