Paul Ryan Brags About Giving Public School Employee $1.50

[DonViejo]

Source: Mother Jones



BEN DREYFUSSFEB. 3, 2018 2:07 PM

How in the world did Paul Ryan think this was something he should tweet?



$1.50 a week will indeed cover the basic $60 membership to Costco, but it wouldn’t cover the gold membership!

The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78 a year, meanwhile, according to the Tax Policy Center, the new tax changes will hand the richest 1 percent an extra $51,000 a year.

And that’s just now. As my colleague Edwin Rios noted in December, “over time, that disparity gets even worse.”

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/paul-ryan-brags-about-giving-public-school-employee-1-50/

[JI7]

1. Disgusting little Fucker

[busterbrown]

6. Either she's being sarcastic or is

supporting her FASCIST PRESIDENT!

[iluvtennis]

26. Ditto.

[chuckstevens]

2. Let her Eat Cake!

What amoral, self righteous asshole!

[rickford66]

3. She may not have meant it as Ryan read it.

Remember "W" congratulating a woman who had to hold three jobs to make ends meet ?

[Blue_Adept]

4. Isn't @SpeakerRyan his official account?

Sounds like someone squatted the name, got the checkmark. There's something about the framing of many of those tweets and some of the visuals used that doesn't make it seem like his real account.

It also has 11,000 tweets less than his speaker account.

I get the sense that Mother Jones and others reporting on this are going to come out looking bad because of this.

[Skittles]

16. and USA Today?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/03/house-speaker-paul-ryans-costco-tax-cut-tweet-draws-taunts/303827002/

[Blue_Adept]

21. Well, we know fact checking is in short supply in many ways these days

It's not easy to get duped.

Most of these guys don't run dual accounts. When Ryan ended up as speaker, his existing account got renamed to SpeakerRyan.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. No -Here is his personal account

https://twitter.com/PRyan

(created in 2012 and quite active)

[BumRushDaShow]

22. He has a personal account too and that is where it was tweeted and then deleted. nt

[djacq]

5. Is this why Republicans are orgasmic about their Tax Reform?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Brother can you spare a dime?

Paul Ryan is a regular Mother Theresa. It will be a travesty of justice if he doesn't get 30 years.

[rainin]

8. I couldn't find this on his twitter feed. Is this fake? n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

10. I doubt we'd be very good at #FakeNews

[Blue_Adept]

11. It's not on his @speakerryan account

And that's the one that's actually quite active - and older than this one by about three years.

[Skittles]

13. he has deleted but you can still find it

google Paul Ryan tweet

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Republicans don't get sarcasm.

[Honeycombe8]

12. Apparently that's from a UNION negotiation agreement. Not from the tax law.

If I understand the attached article correctly.

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/school-district-of-lancaster-teachers-board-reach-early-bird-/article_cd682cc4-0170-11e8-bd79-b78e0aee4de6.html

It seems Lancaster area is having trouble attracting and keeping teachers. So the Lancaster Education Association got an agreement early, and it included a small raise and not raising their insurance co-pays.

[BigmanPigman]

17. Ryan is referring to a secretary's pay and not a teacher's pay.

As a former teacher in CA the support staff has a different union and pay scale than the teacher's do. Most school districts do.

The teachers in my district went without an increase in pay or COLA for five years and our union had to still fight to keep teachers from being laid off. The support staff was cut in half, teachers had to perform their duties too, they were pink slipped every year and then rescinded. No pay increase meant that teachers who were retiring would have their pensions cut drastically since the amount is based on the salary of the last 5 years they were working. I was the union rep for a short time. It was a nightmare.

[Ohiogal]

28. My husband is a retired teacher

The type of bullshit you describe sounds very familiar.

If any profession needs a union, it's teachers.

[Honeycombe8]

36. So was still union? Unions get raises by contract negotiations and terms of agreement.

Having nothing to do with taxes. If anything, school budgets might have to be cut to pay for the tax cut bill. Even though they are state funded, states get money from the fed for a lot of things, which affects the state budgets.

[BigmanPigman]

39. Yes, still union (or as the GOP spell it...unioM) as in

The State of the UnioM Address. We negotiated with the city since our city union (SDTA) was affiliated with the (CTA) state then the (NEA) national union. The city union is very weak and it was always one or the other...health insur/benefits, pay cuts, or keeping your job with twice as much work and no raise and a cut in benefits.
It never had anything to do with federal tax dollars. CA was 49th, now it ranks 46th or 47th as far as how much the state pays per student compared to the other states. Teachers and support staff are not paid well. People think CA is the forefront and an educational leader. It was that way 20 or 25 years ago but Prop 13 killed funds for education and it has gone downhill ever since. The Charter Schools are really killing our public education here. Schwarzenegger was a lousy Gov and left the state financially damaged and it has taken Gov Brown and a largely Dem state govt to get the economy going again.

In the 2000s schools were hit really hard and haven't recovered much. That is due to the overall economy. However, once they take pay and benefits away you never get them back, even if the economy gets better. The staff is still only half staffed in the schools.

The $1.50 doesn't make any sense to me. Pay increases don't come that quickly from the Fed Govt, in that way or in an amount like Ryan says it does. It doesn't work that way. Even the timing in the calendar year seems odd to me. But I only know from my own experiences in my city and state.

[Honeycombe8]

40. So it had nothing to do with the tax cut bill. Ryan's just posting ALL raises he hears about...

and saying they are because of the tax cut bill.

I wonder if he'll post the savings HE will get from it.

[BigmanPigman]

41. Not only will HE get a tax break but I just read

that the Kochs gave him $500,000. Not a bad little "gift".

[Honeycombe8]

14. I don't see the tweet on twitter, any more. Maybe he deleted when he realized

it's from a union negotiation and not the tax law.

[Angry Dragon]

15. Wisconsin IDIOT

[FakeNoose]

18. Don't worry, this is only temporary

As soon as Lyin' Ryan figures out there's no more money left in the Treasury because it was handed out to the one-percenters - this is going to be cancelled anyway. There will be no raises or promotions, and everyone's taxes will go up by 10%. Oh and next year they're cancelling Social Security and Medicare.

[llmart]

19. Seriously???

He's bragging about that??? Are you fucking kidding me???

Oh well. It might cover her Costco membership but she might not be able to buy a freakin' thing in the store.

I just don't even know what to say any more. I sure hope she was being sarcastic.

[DFW]

24. I heard Ryan deleted that tweet

Maybe someone read it back to hm and asked "seriously, Paul?"

[marble falls]

25. He's stupid enough not realize she was being sarcastic.

[Guilded Lilly]

27. Ryan is and always will be a complete jagoff. Smug punk...

Honestly, the day his goddamn ass is booted out of Washington cannot come soon enough. Hopefully, the boot will leave Mueller ‘s imprint on his butt for the rest of his life.

[LenaBaby61]

29. Karma's gonna hit Ryan ...

More than HARD. HOPE I'm here to see it.

[Proud liberal 80]

30. In his defense

The secretary really was excited about it, I read the article....I bet she is a Trump supporter and will find any reason to support him.

[catbyte]

31. The vile little coward deleted it. Glad it was captured for posterity.

[IronLionZion]

32. They'll cut funding for education programs and scholarships by so much more

you'll see

[Hermit-The-Prog]

33. did I just imagine progressive tax law

Once upon a time, didn't we have a progressive income tax code? Was that pre-Rotten Ronnie or did I dream it?

We haven't eliminated loopholes -- whose purpose I thought was to discourage hoarding and encourage re-investment -- but we seem to have eliminated all pretense at fair taxes.

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Meanwhile, for the people Ryan really represents ...

Link to tweet

[harun]

35. And when their Health Care, Housing and Higher Education costs go up astronomically?

Who they going to blame them? Still keep blaming Obama and Hillary?

They may never figure out how bad they are being robbed.

[erpowers]

37. $72 per Year

According to my calculations that works out to about $72 a year. I guess anything helps, but what can one really do with an extra $72 per year.

If you need an extra $72 per year to be able to afford a Costco membership you should not be shopping at Costco. You are far better off just shopping at a regular grocery store, or Walmart. Instead of paying $60 for a warehouse membership just use the full $72 to buy groceries from a grocery store. After paying the membership fee she will only have $12 dollars to spend at Costco. There is not much one can buy from Costco on $12.

One could likely buy some Tyson Chicken Breast patties for about $10-$12 a pack. A small pack of Costco made cookies costs about $5, or $6. So, she could buy one to two packs of the cookies. There are a few types of candy she can buy that cost less than $12, but she will only be able to afford to buy one pack. Candy is not the healthiest way to feed adults, or children. Other than a few small snacks, and certain types of powdered drinks (how do you feed a family on powdered Gatorade, Country Time Lemonade, or powered Kool Aid?) she would be able to buy a magazine, or two. That is just a waste of money.

I realize that since she has a job she would have more than just the $12 remaining from the $72 to spend at Costco. However, it would still be better for her to shop at a regular grocery store. She seems to have limited resources; therefore, she is wasting $60 on a membership that could be used to buy food. Costco membership are only of value if you discretionary cash. If you are saying an extra $1.50 per week will cover the cost of your membership I do not think you have enough discretionary income to justify getting a Costco membership.

At least at a grocery store she would be able to spend the $60 filling her refrigerator and pantry with food. $60 has the potential to go a long way at a grocery store.

[NickB79]

38. Is it crumbs yet?

[nitpicker]

42. Link to BBC on deletion

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42934772