Slog
News & ArtsTuesday, October 2, 2012
2012 Paul Ryan: "30 percent [of Americans] want their welfare state"
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM
Paul Ryan is way more optimistic than Mitt Romney. Whereas his boss says 47% of Americans are leeches on the makers, Ryan says only 30% of Americans are filthy welfare queens:
Wotta guy. He sure does love numbers, that guy.
1
He's paid by the government, and his wife is a lobbyist.
Over just three years, Ryan’s 20 corporate clients paid more than $2.7 million in lobbying fees to her two employers, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Williams & Jensen, according to records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Her client roster reads like a who’s who of some of America’s most politically polarizing corporate interests. Drug industry clients included the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Alliance (PhRMA), Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Novartis. Oil industry clients included Conoco and Marathon Oil. Big health insurance companies Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna were also on the list.
Over just three years, Ryan’s 20 corporate clients paid more than $2.7 million in lobbying fees to her two employers, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Williams & Jensen, according to records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Her client roster reads like a who’s who of some of America’s most politically polarizing corporate interests. Drug industry clients included the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Alliance (PhRMA), Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Novartis. Oil industry clients included Conoco and Marathon Oil. Big health insurance companies Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna were also on the list.
2
How many of those people are on Social Security, and how many work for the federal government? I am betting those numbers are really misleading.
3
Does this include corporate subsidies? I'm guessing no. But that's a lot mooching of billions to ignore.
4
@1 Who? Jenna Ryan? I didn't hear this at the Republican Convention.
Here we go again! What's implied, I gather, is that it's those lazy blacks and Hispanics mooching off The Government as they waddle in poverty. They love poverty!
When did helping out your brother become some sort of moral failure, by the way?
However, I'm guessing those moochers he's referring to don't include massive corporations with generous tax breaks, or millionaires exploiting loopholes to pay 10% on their income, or large Mormon families relying on welfare to help fund their broods. Or poor and middle-income white Republican voters who are still having trouble getting by. Welfare, our great moral failure, only involves minorities in the ghettoes.
Here we go again! What's implied, I gather, is that it's those lazy blacks and Hispanics mooching off The Government as they waddle in poverty. They love poverty!
When did helping out your brother become some sort of moral failure, by the way?
However, I'm guessing those moochers he's referring to don't include massive corporations with generous tax breaks, or millionaires exploiting loopholes to pay 10% on their income, or large Mormon families relying on welfare to help fund their broods. Or poor and middle-income white Republican voters who are still having trouble getting by. Welfare, our great moral failure, only involves minorities in the ghettoes.
6
@4, Jenna was. She's now a sweet mommy, but she used to be a tax attorney (from a long line of attorneys) and high-paid lobbyist representing those who'd benefit the most from repealing the Affordable Care Act.
7
Well, of course they do.
Mind you, those are Red voters like him, so I don't see why Comrade Ryan is so upset.
Remember, both R and R took welfare and medicare.
Mind you, those are Red voters like him, so I don't see why Comrade Ryan is so upset.
Remember, both R and R took welfare and medicare.
8
(@5, the vid date is almost a year ago.)
Yes, a huge percentage of teabaggers are poor or lower-middle-class but assume they're on the road to becoming multi-millionaires when the Marketplace of Ideas finally recognizes their brilliance (SRotU being a case in point) and consistently vote against their reality-based economic self-interest.
So what's yer point, Munster?
Yes, a huge percentage of teabaggers are poor or lower-middle-class but assume they're on the road to becoming multi-millionaires when the Marketplace of Ideas finally recognizes their brilliance (SRotU being a case in point) and consistently vote against their reality-based economic self-interest.
So what's yer point, Munster?
9
Since he uses the Tax Foundation as the basis of his argument, it's fun to see who the board of directors are on the Tax Foundation. Things that make you go hmmm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundat…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundat…
12
"Those of you who know me know I'm kind of a numbers guy."
Well, most of America is at least acquainted with you now, but the majority of us have only heard rumors that you're a numbers guy. You've been awfully light on specifics since you got the second name on the ticket, Ryan.
14
If by 'American ideal' you mean Republican party platform and by 'numbers guy' you mean asshole, then I'm with you all the way.
15
the American Dream is a fucking delusion, a carrot at the end of a stick dangled in front of gullible mules. no one wants to be in public housing, getting food stamps and ADC. it's humiliating, but not nearly as humiliating as taking charity from a religion.
16
@2 About 13% of the US population is over 65 and therefore eligible for social security and medicare. Probably, more than half of the 20% of Americans who are dependent on the federal government are elderly. Ironically, this is also the age demographic where opposition to Obama is strongest.
17
Ryan and Romney are such lovable fellows, huh? They really think that a large percentage of their fellow citizens are lazy moochers. Interesting.
18
Republicans tweaking their numbers; their only admitted error, their targeted hate was too large a percentage this time.
19
Funny how the numbers guy hasn't looked at the *number* of votes his budget would get in the Senate. Here's a tip: close to zero. Most anti-government Republican Senators come from states that are permanently attached to the federal teat.
Advertisement
Most Commented on Slog
-
All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet by Dominic Holden
-
Portland Voters Are Stoopid by Goldy
-
SL Letter of the Day: Did You Think I Was Going To Tell You Not To Come Out? (PLUS: Help Free Kate!) by Dan Savage
-
Rightwing Anti-Gay French Activist Commits Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral by Dan Savage
-
Spoiled Rotten: Star Trek Into Darkness by Paul Constant
-
There Are No Atheists In Foxholes by Dan Savage
-
Tornado Truthers by Dan Savage
-
Why They Break Windows by Unpaid Intern
-
America's Epidemic of Toddler-on-Toddler Gun Violence Continues by Goldy
-
Saint Genet Re-Creates "Shoot" by Brendan Kiley
Stranger Personals
The Stranger
RSSSeattle Art & Performance Quarterly
A complete guide to Seattle's current art, film, dance, and theater season.
Facebook
Twitter
Comments (19) RSS