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quaker bill

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7. "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2016, 06:15 AM

Mar 2016

That's it?

On most occasions the GOP would accept that as a badge of honor. They have actually run on the notion of "changing the basic social compact in America." This is the essence of the "makers versus takers" meme of the Rmoney campaign. This was simply the President naming what Ryan fully intended to do, and he used pretty polite language to do it.

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