A thinker Mr. Ryan may be, he certainly thinks better of the truth.
His major convention speech has been poured over, I will not put the whole lot here because the text contains many links to the speech itself and many other points, but here we see he lies about the big stuff too...
Government debt
" [Obama] created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way and then did exactly nothing."
In early 2010 Obama created a bipartisan committee known as Bowles-Simpson to figure out how to balance the budget and hand its recommendations to the president. The final draft of the committee's report failed to win the necessary support of its members, however, falling three votes short. Paul Ryan was on the committee, a fact that he neglected to mention in his speech. In the straw poll on the final draft, he voted "no" - against the plan that he now accuses the president of ignoring.
Full text etc...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/30/paul-ryans-speech-audacious-untruthsIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.