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Eddie Turner and the Trinity is for this..Republican Rule.
be Smart and VOTE OBAMA
John Nichols:
* Paul Ryan is a deep, deep scholar of and reader of Ayn Rand. She is a‹she
was a Russian immigrant‹family, supposedly dispossessed by the Russian
revolution, came to the United States‹and throughout her writing career was
a militant opponent of what she called collectivism, but really what she
meant was government, and beyond that, a critic even of helping your
neighbor. She said that selfishness must be the central organizing precept
of your life and that the most important thing was to take care of yourself,
don¹t worry about others. Paul Ryan started reading Ayn Rand as a very young
man, has read all of her books. He has appeared at Ayn Rand celebrations and
events. He cut a video in which he said that in these times‹this was a video
cut about two years ago‹one of the most important things people can do is to
read Ayn Rand. It¹s‹he said it was one of the best ways to respond to
Obama¹s election. So he¹s been deeply into this writer.,, despite Paul
Ryan¹s wild attempts in recent months to very much distance himself from Ayn
Rand, there was a quote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday from his
brother Tobin, who said, "Oh, Paul can quote every verse of Ayn Rand." And
so, I think it¹s very important to understand that Paul Ryan‹I don¹t think
he¹s an atheist. I think Paul Ryan melds extreme right-wing Catholicism,
particularly on social issues, with Ayn Rand¹s philosophy as regards
government and a very kind of selfish image of how we should relate to
others.
*[While Ryan] talks about really not liking government, really being
opposed to government, the truth of the matter is, he voted for two unfunded
wars‹and put on a credit credit card, not paid for. He voted for the bank
bailouts, for TARP, for the auto industry bailouts, for Medicare Part D,
which was a very badly constructed initiative, very, very costly. So for all
his talk about wanting to balance budgets, the fact of the matter is, what
he seems to really want to do is empower Wall Street. He gets huge amounts
of money from many of the same interests that we might talk about with the
Fed and the banks and other folks.
* People look at Ryan¹s budget plan, and they say, "Well, it attacks
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security." At least to some extent it does. It
begins a deconstruction of them. But what it really does, fascinatingly
enough, is return full-scale supply-side economics. Ryan¹s plan doesn¹t
balance the budget for 28 years. Ryan¹s plan really is all about massive tax
cuts for very, very wealthy people, for multinational corporations, and the
beginning of a redistribution of federal spending from funding programs like
Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security into Wall Street and the insurance
companies. His notion of using vouchers to, you know, help people,
quote-unquote, "buy their Medicare" or "buy their Medicaid," what that¹s
going to do is make insurance companies a whole lot richer. So, the fact of
the matter is, here¹s a guy who gets immense amounts of money from Wall
Street, the banks, the Koch brothers, who is proposing a budget under the
guise‹
*[Ryan says:] "I want to balance your budget. I want to take care of your
grandkids, make sure they don¹t have debt." In fact, what he really seems to
want to do is make sure that the federal government keeps collecting taxes
but shifts [them] over to very wealthy people and to Wall Street.
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