Subject: Huffington Post: HOWARD FINEMAN: Mitt Romney's VP Pick Resurfaces Fundamental Question: Do We Dismantle the Social State?
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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:13:51 -0400

HOWARD FINEMAN: Mitt Romney's VP Pick Resurfaces Fundamental Question: Do We Dismantle the Social State?
So much for the meme that the 2012 presidential campaign was just a content-free snarkfest of attack ads about secret offshore tax havens and failed Obama promises. By choosing Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate, Mitt Romney assures that the election contest will be in public what it already was beneath the surface: a referendum on the centrality of government social-service programs to the real lives of average Americans.