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| | Young, Wonky, and Proud of It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Styling himself a "big supply-sider," "a policy guy," and a "political entrepreneur," Ryan happily holds forth on some of the driest topics Congress deals with--tax reform, market-based revamping of Social Security and Medicare, and his latest pet project, a redesign of the budget process. |
 | | Ryan refers to the federal entitlements he has set out to reform as "the last great vestiges of the welfare state." Entitlements make up two-thirds of the federal budget, he points out, and "have promoted a collectivist mentality, created a generation of dependency on the government, and eroded financial independence and self-reliance." |
 | | Before his career on Capitol Hill took off, Ryan got a BA in economics and planned to head to the University of Chicago for a Ph.D. But election to Congress put graduate school on hold. |
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