Ryan: 'helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government' what about YOU Leech?

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/paul-ryans-cramped-vision.html

And it will be silent when the elderly cannot keep up with the costs of M.R.I.’s or prescription medicines, or when the poor and uninsured become increasingly sick through lack of preventive care.

More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nation’s Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nation’s moral obligations.

Mr. Ryan’s budget “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment,” the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. “These cuts are unjustified and wrong.”

Mr. Ryan responded that he was helping the poor by eliminating their dependence on the government. And yet he has failed to explain how he would make them self-sufficient — how, in fact, a radical transformation of government would magically turn around an economy that is starving for assistance. At a time when state and local government layoffs are the principal factor in unemployment, the Ryan budget would cut aid to desperate governments by at least 20 percent, far below historical levels, on top of other cuts to mass transit and highway spending.

..........This republican attitude and racist bigoted notion that helping the poor by eliminating the very help that they so desperately need is really sickening to behold.

And WHO exactly are the poster boys for DEPENDENCE ON THE GOVERNMENT? The republican party that's who, leeches like romney and ryan have been sucking off the government teet, supplied by OUR hard earned money for far too long, and when they insult and hurt the poor and not as privileged as they are, it should IMMEDIATELY be thrown back in their faces and we should remind Americans that it is THEY, the republicans who are absolutely dependent on US to keep them in limos and mansions purchased with billions that are hidden offshore, THEY are the vampires, totally dependent on government money to give them eternal life while we less fortunate victims just bleed to death in slow motion.

Fuck you ryan and romney and all you fat, bloated leeches

[kestrel91316]

1. Helping the poor by starving them and letting them lie ill and dying in the streets.

Yep, that's exactly what Jesus would do.

[Philosoraptor]

2. Screw em' if they can't keep up with the lucky 1%ers

[meow2u3]

3. Ryan would also "help" a drowning person...

...by ripping off his life vest and telling him to swim--while he's sinking!

[Bluerthanblue]

5. +1000

exactly!! well put.

[Philosoraptor]

4. .

[treestar]

6. The poor are not "dependent" on the government

That's a right wing smear they've been able to make into a "truth" by constant repetition.

[Philosoraptor]

8. but politicians definitely are

[smirkymonkey]

7. God, I am thinking I hate this guy more than Romney

They are starting to make W look like a teddy bear.

[baldguy]

9. Same old, same old

[Philosoraptor]

10. I wonder why we always put up with it?

[baldguy]

11. Because the GOP has been able to convince some of those who subsist on those table scrapes

That they aren't really poor.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. I think that says more about those who subsist on table scrapes while thinking

they aren't really poor, then it does about the greedheads in the GOP.

[Philosoraptor]

13. A total disconnect between very rich and the very poor

All I know is, it'd be easier for a poor person to live like romney/ryan for a week than it would be for the billionaire to live like a pauper for the same amount of time.

[HughBeaumont]

17. We cling to the Horatio Alger myth.

"One day, through hard work and determination, our ship's gonna come in. And when it does, I'm NOT going to be taxed!! So don't you harm the Very Wealthy Man, because one day, that Very Wealthy Man is going to be ME!!"

There's kind of a reason why a rags-to-riches story is news . . . because it happens so infrequently. But the GOP thinks you can build an economy off of this, the impossibility of service economy sustainance be damned.

[Philosoraptor]

18. It's much easier & quicker to just inherit millions from daddy

[JHB]

14. The audience he's addressing understands perfectly, no need to explain

They believe there's a vast army of layabouts and moochers who are the cause of all our woes, an army fed by their tax dollars by Democrats buying the votes of "those people, you know who we mean."

No amount of facts about who receives how much and for what, or how many of the recipients are working, or the actual size of that part of the budget compared to others and how guys like Ryan conflate benefits they themselves use with "welfare" will budge their brains, because they saw someblody with an iPhone buying their groceries with food stamps.

[Philosoraptor]

15. & it IS a racist meme, the old dog whistle again

If a relative of theirs, or they personally are FORCED to go on welfare or medicaid or food stamps, it's perfectly fine, cause they are of the correct, paler Americans. I think it was Jesus who told us to help the poor.

[HereSince1628]

16. Yep, this is Ryan's standard approach to the republican working class base

That base, on the brink of poverty themselves, feels threatened by people in poverty who are struggling to find a way out.

It's not merely resentment about tax dollars being spent on 'those people' it's about the working class republicans' fear of losing their meager yet marginally advantaged socioeconomic position over the destitute.

Maintaining the evidence of not being at the socioeconomic bottom, is critically important to maintaining the self-delusion of being middle class and having middle class values, even when the middle class has tens of thousands of dollars more household income and believes in things like social safety nets.