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Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’
While trying to blame President Obama for the sequester, Rep. Paul Ryan referenced the smart cuts that the House passed. Those ‘smarter cuts’ would take away food and healthcare for hundreds of thousands of kids.
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Transcript from ABC News:
KARL: Well, let’s get to the biggest other issue out there right now which is these automatic spending cuts. You’ve been pretty clear. You’ve predicted for some time that you think that this so-called sequester is going to happen.
Let me ask you this, congress is now on recess for ten days, the president is playing golf in Florida this weekend. Is there really any everyday underway to try to avert these cuts right now? Are you even trying.
RYAN: Well, there have been from the House Republicans.
Let’s take a step back. Don’t forget it’s the president that proposed the sequester and designed sequester and House Republicans who twice passed legislation replacing the sequester with smarter cuts in other areas of government.
Rep. Ryan proposed (R-P90X), and the House passed, the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012 last summer. After it died in the Senate, the Sequester Replacement Act was slightly tweaked and brought back by House Republicans during John Boehner’s fiscal cliff Plan B fiasco.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) noted during the Plan B debate on the House floor that the Ryan/GOP cuts would throw a combined 600,000 poor children off of food stamps and Medicaid. Literally, Paul Ryan is trying to protect the defense industry by starving hundreds of thousands of economically disadvantaged children.
The “smarter cuts” that Rep. Ryan is touting would slash food stamps, and throw 300,000 children off the program. The cuts are so extensive that they would eliminate food assistance for 1.8 million adults and children. Ryan’s cuts would also eliminate Meals on Wheels, federal funding for child protective services, and healthcare for disabled adults and children.
Children may have a “right to life” in the Republican Party, but the conservative culture of life doesn’t include food. If kids want to eat, they’re on their own.
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Zarrakan
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:15 am
You cannot have an economy based on people who have no money to buy things, and continuing to give all money to the rich will increase unemployment. I made a video about unemployment, and how we can fix it. It’s at my YouTube channel Zarrakan, and here’s the name:
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Watch it, share it, and join the fight against those who want to kill all of us with destructive social policies.
Michelle
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:15 pm
If Children want to eat, their parents should feed them!! I agree there are people who are going through tough times and need help. Unfortunately, there are many more taking advantage of the system. The government could make these cuts and still help the people who really need it.i totally support Paul Ryan!
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:21 pm
I f I didnt know any better it seems you are talking about the defense industrial complex
Tony Gramps
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 8:15 am
Glad to see a common sense comment on the articles coming from this source. we need to address the real problem and not just treat the systoms. education reform, school choice, the best jobs program is havea lower min. wage , so teens can get jobs allow job creators to keep more of their money and less regualtions to be in the way. forcing the productive to pay more to bigger govt. merely masks the systom briefly and then it gets worse, because the productive lose the incentive to work harder. Our nation lacks leadership and in the old words of Irish wisemen and women a fish stinks from the head down.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 8:28 am
Economics is a social *science*. Can we base future economic decisions on math?
With that, your voodoo solutions on economics don’t add up.Never have never will.When tax rates were at 90% at the top end America had its greatest growth of the middle class.You people always idolizes the leave it to beaver mentality,well that was set in a time of 90% tax rates.Or you just look back at that time when the blahs and women knew their “place”?
jean
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Supporting this guy is like saying let them starve and who cares. Really cuts where kids are concerned certainly is not the answer. Paul Ryan is looking to make a name for himself well I have one for him it is radical right tea party person.
Shawn
Feb. 21st, 2013 at 11:31 am
You cannot have an economy based on people who have no money to buy things and would rather get by on the meager amount of free money from the government, rather than make an effort to better their situation. The biggest problem with people like you is that you believe EVERYONE who says, I can’t afford it, I can’d do it.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 21st, 2013 at 12:22 pm
You seem to forget that for the most part people do not hire themselves. There have to be jobs to get people off govt help.
Remember you could be one of those people at any time
Zarrakan
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:15 am
Paul Ryan wants to murder children. Republicans want to murder children. How can any of you vote Republican given their evil policies? The Republicans are Socialist Pigs in that they want to enjoy all the benefits of socialism, but not allow anyone else to unless they are WHITE WEALTHY HEALTHY RICH STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN MEN. I made a video about it at my YouTube channel Zarrakan, and here’s the name:
Socialist Pig
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Watch it, share it, and join the fight against those who refuse to acknowledge reality.
blu
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 9:45 am
You are so out of touch with reality…. Get your facts straight before you make unreal accusations such as this…
JOsh
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 6:16 pm
This is so incredible I’m inclined to think it’s a conservative troll…
kyotee
Feb. 21st, 2013 at 12:27 am
You. Are. Crazy.
Steve Buller
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:19 am
“Ryan’s cuts would also eliminate Meals on Wheels, federal funding for child protective services, and healthcare for disabled adults and children.”
Can you spot the mistake?
poor word choice with the term disabled; “… for individuals with disabilities.”
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:28 am
How is it a mistake. It works both ways. Surely you got more then that out of the article?
Elizabeth 44
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:43 am
His way is more politically correct. Its an effort to stop defining individuals by their disability.
Reynardine
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:08 pm
See here: I am old. I don’t feel defined by it, but plainly spoken, I am old, and if someone moused around and called me “chronologically challenged”, I just might prove it by knocking them upside the head.
Charles Miller
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:55 am
Why does Paul Ryan hate the troops? Reducing food assistance will hurt millions of working people, including many lower ranking service men and women with families.
valerie bobincheck
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Several years ago, I was a volunteer coordinator for Family Services at a military base. I got several companies to donate new baby clothes and diapers. The base refused to allow it because it would look like the military could not ‘take care of it’s own”.
Jerry Blackburn
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:09 am
In order for there to be obscenely rich people in a world with 7 billion people and dwindling resources, a few hundred million people are going to have to starve to death. It’s basic economics. Just ask Ayn Rand:
Taganov: ““Don’t you know,” he asked, “that we can’t sacrifice millions for the sake of the few?”
Kira: “You can! You must. When those few are the best. Deny the best its right to the top-and you have no best left. What are your masses but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it? What is the people but millions of puny, shriveled, helpless souls that have no thoughts of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their mildewed brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life?”” ~ Kira, Ayn Rand’s hero from We The Living.
Reynardine
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:32 am
I may vomit.
Ronald
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
This quote shows who the true elitists are.
robyn ryan
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
Rule by divine right went out in most of the world after WWI.
And the graveyards are full of indispensable people.
Galt’s Gulch lasted until everyone realized their ideas were useless without labor to build them. Toilet paper, refrigeration, delivery service, alcohol, heating systems, cigarettes. All the products of those useless mud people.
We need to demand fair recognition and compensation for OUR labor.
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
“When those few are the best. Deny the best its right to the top-and you have no best left. What are your masses but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?”
Since Rand herself took advantage of Social Security benefits (and no doubt took some form of healthcare assistance when she required lung surgery following decades of smoking), it seems she wasn’t above being one of the “mud to be ground underfoot” or “fuel to be burned” when it suited her . . .
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JOHN NEWSOME
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Jerry i sure hope you are one of the few–You could never stand to have it hard–Just like the few that you embrace-Well i have news for you–Never again will the rich have all the wealth of this world- The masses will kill them off. This time the rich will beg the poor to protect them–But the poor will not hear their pleas–Its all over for the rich bastards of the world–They stole everything they own–Its all she wrote–Their days are over.
det0918
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
What your saying reminds me of what happened in France – this country is getting there as well there are a lot of similatrites to ROME before it fell
det0918
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
People might was to do some research because the “culling” as they call it – or the thinning of the heard – is EXACTLY what the elite of this world are in the process of doing – they meet secretly and have been for years- they are doing it with passing laws that doctors can only prescribe drugs (legal)- not learn how to actually cure people – through the water and food supply, vaccines – I could go on and on -a doctor who was privy to this, for awhile, got out – fears for her life – They need 90% of the population gone – and the rest to have for their slave – manual labor – might sound crazy to you – just hide and watch-
jonas mas
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:15 am
Whats next from Ryan ? Funding for a large enough oven to bake seniors into Momtarts and Poptarts ???
Reynardine
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:35 am
It’s been done.
Reynardine
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:03 pm
(The old lady said tartly)
sitsmack
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:44 pm
Building large ovens would stimulate the economy and create jobs. Good idea.
oldladyDem
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:39 am
I’m shocked, shocked. Round up all the usual suspects, you know, the GOP.
Sharon Williams
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:53 am
He’s an ass…as a lifelong Wisconsin gal of 58 yrs…I’d love to know why people voted him in also…thank God in heaven he didn’t make it to vice president…it seems God knows something about children and the ederly and not seeing people suffer that repug Ryan doesn’t…Shame on repugs and voter’s who think its ok to starve children..to take away benefits from people who need them…are their abusers…yes…find a way to weed them out and preserve the benefits to those in need…
Matt Chavez
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Why is it our job as Americans to continue to support a Government that doesn’t support us? All members of congress are MULTI I repeat Multi-millionaires. The budget isn’t out if wack because of Government programs to help the less fortunate or because of the war or even because of the USPS. The budget is out of wack because of gross spending in DC. Why do our government officials continue to make 100k per month that we provide in taxes but our middle class struggles to make ends meet. Granted I think people should work hard for their money & work hard to better their lives but really? Why aren’t there salary cuts for 5 years. I’m sure our Government officials can take a 40% cut in wages for 5 years & survive. Why are we taking from the poor & not from the people proposing the cuts? It’s not rocket science that we have too many chiefs making too much money. I just don’t get it.
Reynardine
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Constitutionally, they cannot have their salaries cut because this can be used as a way to coerce their votes. Whether they could vote themselves a decrease by unanimous vote, I don’t know.
A Nuffer
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Thank God Ryan did not make it to the VP slot…what a sack of excrement this loser is…
Brandon
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
These journalists never ask the right questions. Instead of asking how he’s going to “balance the budget” how about asking How this will grow the economy. It has been proven time and time again that austerity measures does not lead to economic growth. The Republicans like to make the American people think that we have a “debt crisis that is bad for the economy today” when we really have a building debt that will, 10-20 years from now, have severe consequences if health care costs are not brought under control and Social Security is put on a more sustainable path. The fact of the matter is after the stimulus runs out we’re running at 21% GDP for spending and around 16% for Revenue. We have not been below 20% of GDP for spending since the 70′s and we have always been around 18% of GDP for revenue. You bring spending down to 20% and Revenues up to 20% and we no longer have a budget issue. Easier said than done I know but like i said the biggest issue facing the country is out of control health costs 10-15 years from now and a social security program that is going to be depleted in 2033 because of an aging population and not some imaginary “debt crisis”.
texican
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
47 million people on food stamps? Remove 600,000? Surely, those removed would be those that were the least needy?
Anyone seen a starving person in America lately? Walk the grocery stores, and it’s easy to spot those on food stamps… they have carts full of expensive cuts of meats and other luxury foods. And, they waddle. Only in America do you have obese ‘hungry people’.
Ronald
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Just how exactly do you KNOW these people who “have carts full of expensive cuts of meats and other luxury foods” are on food stamps? Do you follow them to the checkout to see if they use their SNAP cards to pay for those items? Do you have any studies that back up this claim or are you just projecting your prejudices on people without any actual knowledge?
det0918
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:49 pm
Idiots aren’t they? – They don’t need facts – they live in la, la land -and are upset because the rest of us can actually think and are not blind sheep believing every lie they try to pass off as truth
Some days I think I may look like a “icky” person at the grocery store – and unfortunately – I’m fat too! However, I make a very, very, very good money, have a Master’s degree – and don’t live on food stamps – but if he seen me he would probably say I do
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:54 pm
And what would you have them look at?
majii
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:10 pm
I’m a retired teacher, kid grown and gone, and I buy what I want when I go to the grocery stores, from T-bone steaks to high-priced cheeses. I’m fairly certain that he’d think I have an EBT card, because, you see, I’m also black.
robyn ryan
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
I think you need to get out more. You haven’t the vaguest concept how lucky you are and how close you are to joining the ranks of the forgotten.
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:39 pm
“Walk the grocery stores, and it’s easy to spot those on food stamps… they have carts full of expensive cuts of meats and other luxury foods.”
Really?
Well, I guess by that “logic”, the people living in multi-million dollar mansions must be getting housing assistance.
SMH . . .
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Sabyen91
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Yes, those moochers and their uppity Mac and Cheese!
diane
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
I am 58 and disabled.
I don’t care how they define me. I paid for Social Security from the time I was 16 till I was unable to work.
Michelle
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:01 pm
you certainly deserve your funds paid in, but due to the previous mooching and over borrowing and over spending, chances are you aren’t getting what you paid in…not even close.
Gindy51
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Wrong, actually people who are still working and will work in the future will not get all they paid in. Those older than 65 and retired will get more than they paid in. They will live longer and suck more out of the pool than those younger than themselves.
How do I know this? I watched my parents pull way the hell more out of SS than they put in.
det0918
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 6:59 pm
No, the government and the elite are going to make sure the elderly don’t live long though their drugs and flu shots – and they are working on sterilizing kids with the crap they put in vaccines, water, food and air supplies – don’t they keep telling you their immune systems are weak????? And they will get weaker if they have anything to do with it – for the dummies who don’t educate themselves
Never fear – the elite have a plan – for those who they don’t need and are the “takers”
Diana Souligny
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
The GOP and DEM brothers are determined to have us live in a continual state of fear. As a disabled person who worked for 32 years, I was allowed a CODA for 2013 that does not even cover my medicine co-pays. The meds & co-pays both increased. I’m frightened the day will come when I will have NO benefits at all. Ah, The Golden Years!
Michelle
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 12:59 pm
oh God forbid people have to start taking care of themselves for a change! Bad bad republicans wanting people to be self-sufficient instead of relying on Daddy Obama and his “entitlements” to get by. I would rather starve than be a sheep. If someone isn’t given things left and right, they will actually have to step up and work for it. I did! Why is anyone else any different? These types of assistance are just that…assistance, not dependence. Can’t anyone see the bigger picture. We are bleeding our government dry! It’s not the government’s job to take care of us. If so many people weren’t abusing the system, we wouldn’t be in this position to tighten our belts. Majority of those cut probably are illegally on the system anyways.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
What part of PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE you dont understand.If you get of your holier than thou ayn rand bullshit for a change people want to work.Its your reich wing heroes that dont want to provide a living wage,so called right to work laws,union busting,infrastruture rebuiling and many other things that would help the people.
Dick Cheney once said, “Pi$$ on ‘em!” And, Ronald Reagan replied, “That’s a Great Idea. Let’s Call it ‘Trickle Down Economics!”
And it worked.Being pissed on and they laugh all the way to their tax free accounts knowing they have dumbasses like you to carry their water.
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:48 pm
“I would rather starve than be a sheep.”
“Please proceed.”
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Lori
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Shame on all those hungry toddlers not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps! (And, they’re probably wearing expensive boots–bought with all that money they’re saving on food by using food stamps.) How dare they abuse the system & bleed the government dry by needing food & shelter in order to survive? Shame! Get to work, you hungry children!
majii
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:30 pm
You are making some inaccurate assumptions, Michelle, when you assert that “we” want the government to “do” something for us, and asking why don’t we “try” living without it. Most of us posting here at PoliticusUSA are those who are professionals or who were before we retired, but you seem to automatically assume that we’re looking for some sort of handout. Nope. Not true. I’ve never used any form of government assistance, never drew one cent of unemployment, and throughout my long career, I paid for my own health, life, and real estate insurance. You may not want to admit it, but you, too, benefit from what government has to offer to every American citizen. Tell you what, it’s getting close to the time for Americans to file their income taxes. To demonstrate that you “take” nothing from the government, you can prove it by avoiding the following deductions when you file your taxes:
*real estate taxes/home mortgage deduction
*child care tax
*child credit deduction
*the deduction you take for yourself and/or your spouse
*the medical deduction
*the deduction for the supplies you buy and use on your job
*any other deduction that allows you to lower your tax rate
*state income tax
*Also, stop using any services//items provided by federal, state, and/or local governments. This bans you from using the post office, public schools, libraries, roads and bridges, airports, and any enterprise that has access to these. It might even require you to move out of your house, if you own it, or are buying it.
Talk is cheap, Michelle. Action is better. I’ll only believe that you expect nothing from the government when you eschew all tax breaks/ government offers of any kind and avoid using any service funded by you and I and the millions of other taxpayers.
You make a common mistake that millions of other Americans make, and it’s that you look at the government as a separate entity from yourself. It’s not, because we, the citizens of the good old USA, ARE the government. Government is a construct citizens create to make decisions on their behalf. We created the government. So, yes, we ARE the government, and this includes you.
labman57
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Of course it’s smart. Kids can’t vote!
Brandon
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
Michelle your mistake is that a majority of people on assistance are “abusing the system”. Please point to one study that shows this is true. You Republicans think that we voted for “Daddy Obama” because we wanted “free stuff” and that since he won a second election it was because the “takers” now outnumber the “makers”. The fact of the matter is Welfare programs have been designed for the past 15 years in such a way that one cant simply live off them for the rest of their life. Regardless, we didn’t vote for Obama because he gave us anything we voted for Obama because Austerity has not ever worked and allowing the republicans to gut key programs wont change that. How about you stop accusing those getting assistance of abusing the system and start asking what we can do to get these people back to work. I’m trying my best to be civil but your complete arrogance and lack of empathy are simply pathetic.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
See she probably believes its those evil Juanita’s and Monique’s that taking her and people who look like her hard earned money but the truth is the fastest rise in food stamp recipients are in republican counties.
Food Stamp Use is Highest in Red States: The Truth Republicans Do Not Want You to Know
www.policymic.com/article...
LINDA LA CHANCE
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 4:51 pm
right on
Diana Reichardt
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:25 pm
I would like to think that this “gentleman” has no idea what he is doing. So many in this country would go hungry without these programs. The disabled,the young children and others. We continue to feed and assist foreign countries and their populations but we are going to ignore our own. I THINK NOT!!Let’s try cutting some of the perks of the political folks and that might help. At any rate I have decided I will NEVER vote for another Republican as long as I am here and able to vote. These jerks need to wake up and do what the are supposed to do. Listen and support the American citizens!
Just Fair
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:34 pm
Paul Ryan is a smug SOCIOPATH who thinks he’s really clever. Bottom line is: Ryan will hurt (and perhaps hasten the death of elderly, sick, disabled, and poor children and adults who are easy “prey” for his hubris. The very fact that such an abhorrent option is proudly given as a “solution” should be a clue that this guy should be checked out by a mental health professional. Remember: Sociopaths DON’T feel your pain, are cruel, and proud of the damage they inflict!
Cheryl
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Theres Sarah Palins “death panel”, the Rep. party. They fail to see that if we don’t help the children then how are we going to have any futrue generations to take our places, God forbid we help anyone who doesn’t make a hundred thousand a year. We need to get these idiots out off office as soon as possible.
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Paul Ryan Calls Eliminating Food and Healthcare for 600,000 Kids ‘Smarter Cuts’
When I first read the headline, the first thing I thought of was Ronnie Raygun’s school lunch initiative, wherein things like catsup and french fries were considered “vegetables.”
I think they call this “compassionate conservatism.”
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DowneastDiva
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
I want this garbage out of my government. He is a fascist like the rest of his party. They need to be gone 2014 at the latest. We are lucky that we didn’t end up with a repug prez, imagine where we would be?
panthermom
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
i am disabled with numerous health problems and i do receive assistance. it is an insult to imply all who receive food stamps have their carts filled with expensive food. i shop sales with coupons and just recently started to survive on 50.00 a month for food (and survive is not being used loosely), and my 700.00 a month barely pays all my bills. i live in a house with no heat so i could have hot water during the winter and lucky if i get 3 meals a week. so someone please tell me why would anyone want to live like this if they were healthy enough to work? i dare anyone who says receiving assistance is for lazy bums who want to be supported by the government to lay around, do nothing, & eat like the wealthy – for one month live in my shoes.
Ronnie B
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
It is not taking anything away from kids…. It is no longer giving it to them on the backs of other tax payers. Personally, I dont care. The government enables people to be poor. They live in better luxury than I do and I work 7 days a week.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Looks like its time to get the nuns on wheels out
marilyn polk
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Paul Ryan is a poor excuse for a man..This is one of the most idiotic things I have ever heard. The biggest problem with the government is no empathy. They continue to give themselves raises (which they do not deserve)have all kinds of perks, and retire with ungodly pensions…they should be paying Soc.Sec. and living on it like the rest of us. They chose separate insurance for themselves and opted for Obamacare for the rest of us….and the constitution says they will not impose anything on the people they will not impose on themselves…..go figure that one out…
Brett
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Lets try this on for size: We can’t afford spending on anything especially the waste, fraud and abuse the Govt allows on all these programs. As you bleeding heart liberals try and bash Republicans how about paying your taxes for starters. Additionally, pull your head out and realize the Govt isn’t supposed to be supporting anyone especially career politicians and career lazy people. You people make me sick
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:17 pm
You have a point.Lets start with defense that consumes 29% of the budget.
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 5:21 pm
“Additionally, pull your head out and realize the Govt isn’t supposed to be supporting anyone”
Good — let’s start by ending the subsidies to Big Oil and the tax cuts to the richest 1% . . .
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majii
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 10:53 pm
I’m glad that I, who have paid taxes for 39 years and counting, make you sick, Brett, if I don’t want to see our elderly and our kids go hungry. It’s real Christian of you to dismiss the fact that these are our most vulnerable citizens and no one should begrudge them a meal, or healthcare. You’re a typical republican who talks out of his piehole. Citizens in blue states pay more in taxes than those in red states, and there are more citizens receiving government benefits in red states than there are in blue state, but in your feeble mind, liberal = someone who pays no taxes. Sounds just like something you’d hear from a talking head on Fox or from an uneducated nut like Limbaugh or Beck. Three cheers for the weak-minded who allow dummies to tell them what to think/do!!! You went to the voting booth in November and most likely voted for one of American’s biggest tax dodgers, Mitt Romney, and you thought nothing of it. You disparage the poor, kids, and the elderly for wanting healthcare and a decent meal. Something is seriously wrong with you, Brett, because in your mind, it’s okay for someone like Romney to avoid paying taxes, and it’s okay for him to say ugly things about our most vulnerable citizens, but when a democrat/liberal says we need to help them move up the socioeconomic ladder, you go nuts. Well, I have been, and will always be, a strong advocate for these groups, because I realize that God has blessed me and it’s my Christian duty to do something for those who can’t do things for themselves. May your cold heart provide much comfort to you as you live eternity as the featured guest of Mephistopheles.
RX7
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 10:28 am
Who do you think you are, Ebenezer Scrooge? Then again, even Scrooge realized his mistakes.
Brett
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Meals on wheels and other faith based programs are run off donations. The Govt needs to get the heck out and do what its supposed to do and defend the country
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. — Milan Kundera
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 5:19 pm
“The Govt needs to get the heck out and do what its supposed to do and defend the country”
Defending the country costs money — lots of it (I know because I did so for 20 years.)
How do you propose that be paid for? With donations?
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Vouchers.The rethug cure for what ails you
mjh
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
And, what vouchers won’t cure, privatization will, according to repubs . . .
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Helen Beasley
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 4:34 pm
Somebody gag him! He goes around everything to blame the Dem.Party. He’s a dick head who looks like a Harry Potter House Elf.
M. Baker
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Ryan is only repeating the same old tired Republican talking points in trying to appeal to the far right conservatives. He is also fabricating(lying) about who is responsible for the Sequester, and never mentions the fact he voted for it. I’m glad the interviewer took him to task and read back to what he stated earlier after voting for the Sequester. He is full of Bull s#!+ and looks like a stereotypical politician by avoiding the question ask, or by diverting the conversation. It seems to me you can’t trust anything you hear from Boehner, McConnell, Canter, and Paul. They only say what’s convenient for them at the time, and seem to never worry about the truth.
Debi
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
I wouldn’t give him the shit off my shoes!
Robert
Feb. 18th, 2013 at 11:46 pm
This article reminds me of an SNL skit where a character playing James Carville says… “Republicans wanna give your kindergartners cigarettes and machine guns”…. hilarious as that was… so is this.
RailroadMike
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 1:38 am
This must be one of thoses “Domestic enemy’s” they were talking about when I raised my hand in 1967 to defend the Constitution. Benedic Arnold would be proud.
Gary
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 2:32 am
@Michelle. I know you repubs hate math, but here is the math you obviously can’t do. Ryan is proposing a 9% cut in those programs, Fraud and abuse accounts for less than 1%. Now the other over 8% are innocent of anything but a bad Bush policy failure for 8 years. I hope you sleep well backing scum like this, as long as we have you all outnumbered till the gerrymandering goes away is all I care about.
sueerd
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 10:46 am
I love all these articles about “What Paul Ryan doesn’t want you to know”. Why aren’t we more concerned over what Obama doesn’t want us to know. Ryan is one of 435 people in the Congress. Obama is 1 of 1 Presidents. He can do far more damage to this country than Paul Ryan can!!!!
UncaJoe
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 10:51 am
The flip side of that coin is what most Americans believe. See Nov. 6th 2012 for example.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:31 am
So any damage Paul Ryan can do is ok? Got it. In other words you dont give a rip about what knd of budget comes out of the house, you just want to blame Obama for it.
mjh
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
“Ryan is one of 435 people in the Congress. Obama is 1 of 1 Presidents. He can do far more damage to this country than Paul Ryan can!!!!”
Sueerd, those 435 people in Congress — of whom Ryan is one of — are the ones who vote on and approve all gov’t spending.
Man; I knew wingnuts weren’t adept at basic math — it appears they aren’t any more adept at knowing basic Constitutional functions . . .
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Brian Sharp
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:03 am
I want to thank you all for your comments. As a politically conservative thinking person, I love to understand why and how others are wired. Over many years of observation and life, I finally quit arguing with the “opposition” and simply learned to listen. My goal is now to understand why progressives and liberals are wired so differently than I. Moreover, the above comments are filled with emotion and not logic in some cases. In others, the logic is just simply different than mine as a conservative. But, in the end, if the US does not make the difficult cuts or grow our economy, none of your programs that you feel are so important will last. We are headed for bankruptcy/devalued dollar. Why don’t we tackle that first, and then all of the social programs that we can all reasonably argue over will matter again?
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Every president in history in this position has spent to get out of the deficits. You do not get our of a deficit by cutting, be8case that doesnt pay down tyhe deficitAround the world other countrys are proving that austerity does not work.
Every year since Reagan the necessary capitol to run this country has decreased. Have you asked yourself why we didnt have a deficit problem before Jan 19th 2009?
We have already seen what cuts will do and its not pleasant. We can stop wars.
Lee
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:09 am
Yes reducing entitlement is the same as murdering children by starvation, right? Entitlement programs need to be reduced and cut back. We don’t show compassion by how many people we can provide food stamps to, we show compassion by how many people we can help get OFF of food stamps. These cuts are designed to cut away people on the outer edges of qualifying for the program in the first place, it’s not some random hack and slash. There are people who are taking advantage of entitlement programs, who are using it when they could get by without it just fine. These are the people who are targets of these kinds of cuts. There are many people who haven’t worked in years and just collect benefits off the government or who only work part time because if they worked full time they’d actually lose money due to loss of benefits instead of paying for their own benefits. Sorry, I don’t feel like paying for those people. But you know what I do feel like doing? Giving to specific charities that do provide to people in need of my own volition instead of having it leeched out of me by taxes and having huge chunks of it go to free loaders. I have 5 different charitable organizations I give to, hundreds of dollars a year. I am intimately familiar with each of these organizations and know exactly where my money is going and how it’s used. That’s how you help people in neeed. Help people that need it? Yes. Remove 600,000 people that don’t really need it and are scamming the taxpayers? Yeah, that too! Go Ryan!
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:19 am
To depend on charities is laughable.Most of the people paying taxes today would not give a cent if taxes were removed.
Have you ever lived on entitlement programs? I thought not. Sorry, seen this one before.
Anne
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:17 am
I am doing quite well with my health, a decent job, a roof over my head, and a loving, supportive family. For these reasons, and because we are all interconnected to such a degree that our fates are linked, I am quite happy to know that my tax money also goes toward helping those less fortunate. The idea that the very government which provides the framework for how all of us live is the problem is a bizarre, out-of-touch concept that seems to be unique among some Americans. It is truly mind-boggling to hear some among us squawk about raising the minimum wage to a measly $9/hour while making excuses for the unbridled greed of some CEO’s which leads them to live lavishly while paying their employees poorly. Paul Ryan is the poster child for that kind of mentality, with his vacant, vacuous eyes that reflect the uncaring emptiness of his soul. Although I’m glad he is not the VP, he is still in a position to hurt countless Americans with his short-sighted, selfish stupidity that is shared by so many in his party.
Gordon Hilgers
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Keep on, Ryan, and the dissatisfaction and disaffection social welfare programming damped down, thus throwing the Commies under the bus in the Thirties, will be back, and so will Marxism.
Conservatism is merely a prep-job for the Marxist resurgence to come.
mike duffy
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
If you can’t feed or provide for your own kids then don’t have them. If you need help that is what family is for. The government isn’t supposed to provide everything for everyone. Also stop bashing the rich they are the ones paying for it all!!! You liberals have no problem spending everyone elses money but there isn’t an endless supply.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
So I take it you are pro-choice?
JOsh
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 6:22 pm
What does ending the life of a fetus have to do with this?
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Well he said if you cant afford them dont have them.I know it may be taboo but some women make the choice to terminate the pregnancy if they cant afford to feed the embryo.
Thomas
Feb. 19th, 2013 at 11:05 pm
If they really wanted to get people back to work . They wouldn’t make it difficult to get a job. Cut the B.S.
fedded-up
Feb. 20th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Basic massive disconnect – same old, same old. Wake the f..K up Repugs. You’re being called ‘Repugs’ for a reason, y’know. You’re being LIED to on an unbelievable scale. Do some basic research before you decide you know everything – the number of people on welfare is ridiculously small compared to what you obviously believe. LOOK IT UP. I’ll be damned if I’m gonna do the work for you. Not again. The number of people on food stamps rises IN DIRECT PROPORTION to the number of people on unemployment, welfare, or underemployed working either part-time or overtime on minimum wage. The VAST majority of people on food stamps ARE WORKING – they simply don’t make enough money for FOOD. Because, like most people, they PAY THEIR DEBTS before they even consider spending “extra” on groceries.
Somehow, you’ve gotten this inane notion that our govt is somehow subsidizing poverty or abjectly poor people are cravenly choosing NOT to work because they would prefer to be abjectly poor. WTF?!?! Can you possibly BE that STUPID????? Well, obviously, you can – this is why your ideas are so REPUGNANT to all with a functioning brain cell or two.
There have been all kinds of TV programs highlighting just how STUPID your notions of ‘freeloading’ are. Didn’t Corey Booker JUST try to do a week living off of nothing but what he would get on food stamps? LOOK IT UP, and stop spouting useless BS that does nothing but highlight your own abysmal lack of empathy or any semblance of humanity.
Rebecca
Feb. 25th, 2013 at 8:51 am
My husband is nearly blind, disabled, and can’t cook, read medication labels, dial a cell phone, or dress his open belly wound from kidney transplant surgery, nor read his glucose meter, or fill a syringe 5 times a day. I have lost three jobs in a row, because I have to drive him to his many lab and doctor visits. We live off his disability payments. Not a lavish life at all, when one of his meds costs 3,000.00 a month. We get a grant, but with the donut hole, it is still 1,000.00. I garden, raise chickens for eggs, make my own laundry detergent, bake bread and make cheese. I buy meat from the bargain bin, dented cans, day old bakery items, and used clothing. We get movies from the library, cut our own wood, and I read to him, for entertainment. We keep the heat low, and wear lots of sweaters. We do not get any assistance. I often wish we could get food stamps, so we wouldn’t have to skimp on what meds he needs, or half dose them near the end of the month. He has twenty four more months of anti rejection drugs, and then he is screwed. I would not call this “Livin’ Large”.