Yet again Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan shows the utter contempt he holds for anyone receiving a government benefit.
Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, share a similarly dim view of a very large portion of Americans, according to previously unreported remarks by Ryan. Both believe that many of their fellow citizens are dependent on government and have no motivation to improve their lives — but they disagree over the precise number.
Romney’s estimate, famously, is 47 percent. For Ryan, it’s 30 percent.
“Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state,” Ryan said. “Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers.”
Considering Paul Ryan was once one of the 30% of Americans he calls “takers, not makers,” I find his comments to be especially hypocritical and callous.
Watch Ryan’s comments for yourself.
The Preamble of the U.S. Constitution makes our government responsible for providing for the general welfare. Paul Ryan begs to differ. Ryan can complain his way into oblivion about the government providing needed help–a “hand-out,” as he would tell it, like enabling someone with a “dependency” problem–to someone in need.
There are many truly vulnerable people among us in our society.
Yet contrast Ryan’s view about people receiving some form of welfare with his view about the government helping the rich, the already-established. He’s all for corporate welfare. They supposedly “built it,” and government never had any involvement with it. Their success is supposedly all their doing. This probably has a lot to do with the perverted idea that corporations are somehow “people,” can spend all sorts of money on political candidates spouting the right ideas, and benefit from their relationship with government.
In my view, government should help people in need, not corporations and the wealthy few who need that help the least.
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Bain Capital investors = TAKERS