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bpcmxr

(601 posts)
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 08:15 AM Aug 2012

Charles Pierce: The Ryan Family's History of Fakery

An excerpt:

"...We think government should also do those things on which my family traditionally has been able to turn a pretty buck, so I could one day buy the handsome Georgian mansion back home that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Two days ago, as he joined the ticket led by presidential candidate G.I. Luvmoney, formerly employed by the game of Life, this is what Paul Ryan, whose owes his family fortune to government construction projects said:

"I'm proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you have a small business — you did build that."

"His entire life, and the history of his entire family, makes a lie out of everything the man has said in his political career, and a sham out of every policy position he purports to hold. It seems to be there used to be a word for that. What I do know is that, in 20 years, a lot of people in the Beltway who are in my business today are going to look at what they've written and said about this faker, and drink themselves into early graves."

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Charles Pierce: The Ryan Family's History of Fakery (Original Post) bpcmxr Aug 2012 OP
Yes, the NYT's story made it sound like he could have only gotten through sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #1
Pierce wrote the book "Idiot America" dixiegrrrrl Aug 2012 #2

sinkingfeeling

(51,279 posts)
1. Yes, the NYT's story made it sound like he could have only gotten through
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 10:41 AM
Aug 2012

college with the Social Security Survivors payments. They must have forgotten that Grandpa was a millionaire.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. Pierce wrote the book "Idiot America"
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 08:24 PM
Aug 2012

How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

amazing reading...funny as hell in places, esp. his description of the Creationsit Park, where there really are dinosaurs wth saddles.

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