HANSOM PRECARIOUS POSITIONS

摘要

Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has a construction connection, I was intrigued to learn. Ryan, an Ayn Rand-influenced ideologue who has quickly eclipsed running mate Mitt Romney in the charisma stakes, grew up wealthy in Wisconsin thanks to his family's national construction firm Ryan Inc, which was founded in the 1880s and originally started in road building. I'm not the first to point out the irony of Ryan's attacks on big government given the origins of his own comfortable situation in government infrastructure spending programmes.