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leftstreet

(36,106 posts)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:02 PM Dec 2017

Paul RYAN: "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche!"

Speaker Ryan wants you womens to start having more of Teh Babies!



House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) thinks America has a people problem.

“I’m riffing here,” the speaker admitted, before listing three bullet points of “things we’re trying to do right now to get this economy humming to reach its potential”: Fixing the “regulatory problem,” passing Republicans’ bill to slash taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and people.

“People,” Ryan said bluntly. “This is going to be the new economic challenge for America. People. Baby boomers are retiring. I did my part, but, you know, we need to have higher birth rates in this country, meaning, baby boomers are retiring and we have fewer people following them in the work force.”

“We have something like a 90 percent increase in the retirement population in America, but only a 19 percent increase in the working population in America,” he continued. “So what do we have to do? Be smarter, more efficient, more technology? Still going to need more people. And when we have tens of millions of people right here in this country falling short of their potential, not working, not looking for a job, or not in school getting a skill to get a job, that’s a problem.”

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Kinder, Küche, Kirche (German pronunciation: [ˈkɪndɐ ˈkʏçə ˈkɪʁçə]), or the 3 Ks, is a German slogan translated as “children, kitchen, church”

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Paul RYAN: "Kinder, Kuche, Kirche!" (Original Post) leftstreet Dec 2017 OP
Fucking idiot. louis-t Dec 2017 #1
Only white babies. Demtexan Dec 2017 #2
well of course! n/t leftstreet Dec 2017 #4
Having a baby is expensive. Demtexan Dec 2017 #5
Urr...with the uptick in prenatal diabetes and hypertension in expectant mothers... haele Dec 2017 #15
My parents were born at home in the 1920's. Demtexan Dec 2017 #16
Yep Yep and even those white babies won't get to get a break on the Volaris Dec 2017 #18
What about immigrants? Sanity Claws Dec 2017 #3
Without immigrant labor the economy tanks.. we haven't been at replacement rate for Corvo Bianco Dec 2017 #7
Agree Sanity Claws Dec 2017 #9
Baby boomers have paid in all our lives SHRED Dec 2017 #6
rethugs Took It Leith Dec 2017 #13
More customers! More Republicans! More disciples! moondust Dec 2017 #8
He shoulld gibraltar72 Dec 2017 #10
Part of that is true awesomerwb1 Dec 2017 #11
I need some of whatever he's smoking onethatcares Dec 2017 #12
WTF - younger people are buried with student loans, .... magicarpet Dec 2017 #14
+1 leftstreet Dec 2017 #20
+1 moondust Dec 2017 #21
Um, fuckface...er..I mean Paul, why don't you work on climate change first? LuckyCharms Dec 2017 #17
Neanderthal. Glimmer of Hope Dec 2017 #19

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
2. Only white babies.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:06 PM
Dec 2017

Except without health insurance the birth rate will drop.

Some backwoods thinking there.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
5. Having a baby is expensive.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:09 PM
Dec 2017

Maybe go back to homebirths like my father and mother.

People do not need fancy hospitals.

haele

(12,647 posts)
15. Urr...with the uptick in prenatal diabetes and hypertension in expectant mothers...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 07:04 PM
Dec 2017

Hospitals are needed more often than not.

Maternal mortality is on the rise, and in some areas is close to depression era levels, when doctors were scarce and most people had babies at home.

On second look, I'm reading your post as "Talking like the GOP".

Haele

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)
16. My parents were born at home in the 1920's.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:55 PM
Dec 2017

A lot of mothers and babies didn't make it.

My Grandmother almost died giving birth to my Uncle.


Volaris

(10,270 posts)
18. Yep Yep and even those white babies won't get to get a break on the
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:15 PM
Dec 2017

Student loans he says they will need.
Jeezus CHRIST what a fuckin toon SMFH.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
7. Without immigrant labor the economy tanks.. we haven't been at replacement rate for
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:12 PM
Dec 2017

a while now. All folks grounded in reality accept this. Hell, even my Mormon Fox-viewing former boss would lament about how the economy goes to shit without immigrant labor. That's a guy who calls the cops when he sees a black person walking down the street. THAT GUY!

Sanity Claws

(21,846 posts)
9. Agree
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:22 PM
Dec 2017

I live in NYC and it is quite clear that immigrants played a huge role in NYC's growth in the last 25 years or so.

moondust

(19,972 posts)
8. More customers! More Republicans! More disciples!
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:13 PM
Dec 2017

Cynical Me has long suspected that may be a big driver of anti-abortion activism in the Catholic church and beyond.

awesomerwb1

(4,267 posts)
11. Part of that is true
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:41 PM
Dec 2017

Not the best choice of words from this idiot but we do have an aging population and the younger generations are not having a lot of kids nowadays - average of less than two I believe.

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)
12. I need some of whatever he's smoking
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 06:17 PM
Dec 2017

ingesting or plain old eating up.

That new economic challenge for Americans amounts to having 13 people under one roof and only 4 of them having any type of employment and no government programs to help.

Oh,hell yes. He should be made to actually work instead of kneeling before the koch god of his dreams.

magicarpet

(14,144 posts)
14. WTF - younger people are buried with student loans, ....
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 06:53 PM
Dec 2017

.... extremely bleak viable job prospects after they get out of school, minimum wages so far behind the cost of living, regular wages stagnant for the last three decades, productivity up, corporate profits up, - but not shared with workers - housing costs (rentals) often above 50% of total income, young people have to start families later and later in life.

How does Speaker Ryan not see we are stuck in no man's land with Republican governmental policies. America is going backwards not forwards but they keep shoveling all the money to the top 1% in the hopes it will trickle down and stimulate the entire economic system - as if.

It has not happened with Republican policies, it will not happen. The only result that has materialized is the rich are getting filthy filthy rich, the middle class is rapidly disappearing while being stressed by stagnant wages and higher costs, the lower classes are growing as the middle class is slipping down the rungs of the ladder.

America is rapidly becoming a third world country. If we could accelerate global warming by increasing the temperature more rapidly..... maybe we could become a genuine Banana Republic where political coups and military juntas happen a couple of times each month.

Team Trump divert attention heaven.
Disaster Capitalism were the 1% is free to privatize, rape, plunder, and pilfer, the national treasure to enrich the select and chosen few. While everyone else struggles and habitually fails to make financial ends meet - losing more and more ground as time goes on.

If there is insufficient income coming in the door to cover costs the only recourse of action is to lower the standards of living and lower your prospects to survive.

This is not rocket science. Young people are being forced to postpone there adult lives. Stuck in a limbo of no man's land - they can't afford transportation, they can't afford to start a family, they can't afford the cost of housing and the start up cost for a new home. Republican economic policies are strangling and suffocating not just the economy but the ability of our population to make ends meet, cover day to day costs, and establish stable and loving families.

The rich are being allowed to and encouraged to suck the very life blood out of our society to feed their endless, rampant, insatiable, and entirely selfish gluttony.

Will they stop before they cause the total collapse of the social well-being of this government and it's people ?

The rich and the Republicans are leading us off this cliff and by design this is where we are headed. The destination being charted out does not look very pleasant - but much needless strife and turmoil lies just ahead of us - we are so capable of much better than this if we just put hate and greed to rest.

leftstreet

(36,106 posts)
20. +1
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 10:44 PM
Dec 2017
This is not rocket science. Young people are being forced to postpone there adult lives. Stuck in a limbo of no man's land - they can't afford transportation, they can't afford to start a family, they can't afford the cost of housing and the start up cost for a new home.


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