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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Ryan's 'Secret' Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney's" by Richard (RJ) Eskow at AlterNet [View all]
Ryan's 'Secret' Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney'sby Richard (RJ) Eskow at AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ryans-secret-tape-even-more-extreme-romneys
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When they booed Paul Ryan at the American Association of Retired Persons last week, most people didn't even know he called Medicare and Social Security "third party or socialist-based systems." Or that he said he wants to privatize them in order to "break the back" of a "collectivist philosophy."
On recently transcribed remarks from an audio recording, Ryan said his ideas and values were shaped by an extremist author who thought humanity must "reject the morality of altruism," and that his opinions on monetary policy are guided by a fictional speech which says "the words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality."
That author says the "collectivist philosophy" Ryan ascribes to Social Security and Medicare is a "looters' credo." By that reckoning, anyone who receives assistance from the government -- including disabled combat veterans or impoverished children -- is a "looter."
"Seniors are looters." Wonder how that would have gone over at the AARP? "Disabled veterans are looters." How would that play at the local VFW?
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applegrove
Sep 2012
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Ryan is also a looter having his father die at Ryan's young age there was Social Security for Ryan.
Thinkingabout
Sep 2012
#2
She deserved what she got in the end, deserted by her so called following. Where
crunch60
Sep 2012
#23
The article is worth reading. Ryan spoke at a celebration of Ayn Rand in 2005. Hard to say
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#13
Bingo. It is so separate that part of the motive for privatization from the Right is to,..
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2012
#14