Paul Ryan during a Campaign

When Paul Ryan was a child in Janesville, a small town between Milwaukee and Chicago, his parents, and five generations of Irish in Wisconsin, taught him "the power of incentives." When he drew a notable only their pay reduced from four to two dollars. If the note was sufficient, it was nothing. "Hard work is rewarded, and lazing criminalized," says Ryan now.

When he began to study economics, the future congressman understood the lesson of his parents as an example of the national spirit. "We are a country that rewards initiative, encourages self-sufficiency and encourage free enterprise," he writes in his 2010 book 'Young Guns'.

The title comes from a western about the adventures of Billy the Kid and named Ryan and a group that helps candidates advocates state retrenchment. Ryan found a new audience in the Republican wave of 2010 and the Tea Party after years of lonely struggle by the cuts.

The guy from Wisconsin came to Congress with only 28, little work experience and the ideal inculcated by a liberal professor at Ohio University. His family, a clan of Wisconsin dedicated to the construction, as voted for Reagan Democrats, popular in southern Wisconsin, the region bordering Chicago. His father, a lawyer, died of a heart attack when Ryan was 16.

"The whole family took his father's death with great fortitude", reminds ELMUNDO.es Mavis Steil, family friend, in her living room of Janesville. "The father was a very introverted person and very thoughtful. Paul has more the extrovert of his mother’s a brave young man and a very articulate thought. A person with a great strength," says Steil.

Very fond of skiing

The boy grew fast while his mother worked and he took care of an Alzheimer's ailing grandmother. Nothing seemed to indicate that they would devote to politics and only seemed interested in skiing. His boss at McDonald's told that he had "social skills" to work in the box and went to the kitchen.

But the young man took refuge in reading and fell in love with 'The revolution of Atlas', Ayn Rand's novel that mixes sex and railroad adventures with a harsh critique of state intervention. For years, Ryan gave the Christmas book and recommended it to all his colleagues and trainees, but now disowns the atheism of the author. Congressman Rand defines as "the reason" for which he entered politics and Milton Friedman as his "hero".

His landing in the House of Representatives at the end of the Clinton era was disappointed. "As you arrive, you are bombarded with pressure to violate your conscience," he writes in 'Young Guns'.

His colleagues were more concerned with maintaining the position using the budget for local projects at will so that Ryan called "the heart" and "principles" of the party. Found no accomplices during years of war, more tax cuts and subsidized medicines. He voted for some of these measures while campaigning for a plan to privatize the pension system and public health for the elderly and the poor. Without the support of the Bush administration, he was still "crunching numbers."

To save time, when I was in Washington, had sleepovers in the office. The clock has always unnerved this politician now 42 years for death before age 60 from his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Every morning and play sports very careful what you eat. 'Time' has published pictures of him posing with dumbbells and personnel preparation program and is fashionable. Ryan also said he was overwhelmed neglecting his three children and his wife, Janna, a Democrat family tax advisor, and praised President Obama for being "good father" and "husband".

Europe

His moment of glory came shortly before the 2010 Congressional elections. In his fourth term in office was dreamed, the chairman of the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives, and for the first time saw a strong base of critics of the state for bailouts of the crisis and the expansion of public health. He succeeded the House passed its budget alternative to government cuts. The Senate Democratic majority, stopped him, but Ryan became the informal leader of the opposition.

His obsession is that the United States does not become Europe. Democrats, he said, "want to transform this country into a European welfare state from cradle to grave". Ryan says that Europe's dependence on subsidies has made society "mediocre" and "complacent".

"Individuals become more timid, more concerned about their safety than freedom, more concerned about receiving their government subsidies that make progress and get the most out of life. The result is that these countries have many tax and persistent unemployment "writes Ryan, who, through his writings, inspired much of the anti-European discourse Romney even before he chose as a couple to the White House.

The running mate is a good speaker, is released to the public and has a sense of humor. Boasts listening and playing hard rock music complains "lift" lying on the campaign bus of Mitt Romney. The candidate has also become star to his mother, Betty, 78, to force her out on stage at rallies. She usually smiles and wave as him (only him) was to tears.