• • • Ryan Now Rejects Ayn Rand-Will The Real Paul Ryan Please Come Forward? 
Rick Ungar, Forbes - Rick Ungar Atheism  |Atlas Shrugged  |Capitalism  |Paul Ryan  | While defenders [...] have argued that [Paul] Ryan’s devotion to Rand is overstated, it becomes difficult to sustain that position when considering that Ryan is on record as noting that he hands out copies of Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged”, as Christmas presents. He also likes to encourage his congressional office interns to read the book so as to soak up Rand’s philosophy of government. [....] Apparently, [his] recent scrape with the Catholic Church—which has taken extreme issue with Ryan’s plan to disproportionately beat up on the poor by cutting food stamps and other programs for the needy while claiming that his budget is rooted in Catholic beliefs—has caused the congressman to take a crack at at some revisionist history.   Published: 2012-04-26