Charlie Pierce on the New York Times Ryan story:
How can you possibly write that passage and dismiss idly as a “contradiction” the ironic — not to mention hilariously hypocritical — fact that, after his father passed, and while working the fry station and toting canoes at a YMCA summer camp, Ryan was also the beneficiary of Social Security survivor’s benefits? These did precisely what they were designed to do, which was to help young Paul Ryan get the education that would help him become the adult Paul Ryan who’s been on one government payroll or another since he left college, and who goes around telling half-dim audiences that people on government assistance are mired in a “culture of dependency.”
But don’t you know he grooves to Rage Against The Machine? It is not possible for the Times to disgrace itself further.
Fk Ludwig von Mises. If it weren’t for FDR and LBJ, and for the munificence of the American taxpayer, Paul Ryan would still be in Janesville, looking for a job.
Like most conservative dimwits, Ryan thinks the revolutionary attitude of Rage Against the Machine means Rage Against The Safety Net.
I think Tom Morello just threw up in his mouth a little.
Neither Ryan nor Romney is a “nitwit.” Anyone who believes that they are does so at their own peril. Both of these plutocrats believe that Franklin Roosevelt went much too far with his New Deal. They believe that all New Deal legislation must be destroyed along with Social Security, Medicare and the minimum wage. The believe that only unfettered Capitalism can save America. They also believe that anyone who disagrees with them about their beliefs is their mortal enemy. These men are both dangerous fanactics.
“nitwits—fanatics”, both are dangerous with power in their hands. We’ve all heard the truism that an idiot with an education is way too smart for his/her own good (or the good of the country).