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In reply to the discussion: Three Pages Of Rand Paul’s Book Were Plagiarized From Think Tanks [View all]Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They let corporate lawyers do all of that and put their name on it after their lawyers look at it.
Then they take credit for it.
It's all ghost written.
These people are cast as spokesmodels. It's been that way since Reagan on the Republican side. The Democrats who are ACTUAL workhorses are hammering out details clause by clause. Republicans have to take everything to a lawyer for review because it's WAY over their head. I guarantee you that Paul Ryan didn't actually write the budget that is his claim to fame. He's a con artist. That's what it takes to be a Star. Kinda funny how someone is booked solid on all of the Sunday Talk and the appears EVERYWHERE after that on morning shows and yet in the middle of that schedule they manage to pump out a 91 page budget complete with charts and graphs including this absolute NONSENSE graph:

Because everyone knows current trends are fixed in stone for the next 70 years.
Meanwhile, the Paul Ryan Plan zeros the debt in 30 years.