Paul Ryan Supported Green Auto Loans Before Launching A Political Attack On The Program

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Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, the father of the GOP’s slash and burn budget, is once again coming under scrutiny for asking the federal government for clean energy stimulus money.

Last month, Ryan was called out for securing more than $25 million in stimulus funds for clean energy programs in 2009 — even while publicly calling the program a “wasteful spending spree.”

And now more documents show that Ryan sought federal funds for advanced auto manufacturing projects in 2008.

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Without mentioning his prior support, Ryan has repeatedly attacked Obama over clean energy loan guarantees:

RYAN: That’s why we’re offering big solutions to the big problems we have today and I would just say, if you take a look at the president’s policies he calls them ‘investments.’ It’s borrowing money and spending money through Washington, picking winners and losers. Spending money on favorite, you know, people like Solyndra or Fisker. Picking winners and losers in the economy through spending, through tax breaks, through regulations does not work.”

Ryan seems to be hoping that voters and journalists have a short memory.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/11/826331/paul-ryan-supported-green-auto-loans-before-launching-a-political-attack-on-the-program/

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