Paul Ryan: Obama engaged in "class warfare"

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News

In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago Monday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) suggested President Obama and Ryan's Democratic critics are "sowing social unrest and class envy" by pushing a tax increase on the wealthiest individuals in order to help address the deficit and debt.

"The president says that only the richest people in America would be affected by his plan," Ryan said, arguing that "class warfare may be clever politics, but it is terrible economics."

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"Sowing social unrest and class envy makes America weaker, not stronger," the Wisconsin Republican argued, suggesting the "true sources of inequity" in America are corporate welfare and empty promises.

He said the "real class warfare" that threatens Americans is "a class of governing elites picking winners and losers, and determining our destinies for us."





Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20063379-503544.html

[phantom power]

1. Perhaps somebody should introduce Ryan to the concept of "projection"

:eyes:

[CrispyQ]

2. ...

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[Faygo Kid]

3. Ryan has no shame.

He does, however, have the backing of wealthy elites, and is set for life.

He knows his constituency, and it sure as hell ain't folks out of a job, without health insurance, dependent on Medicare or Medicaid, and on and on.

Ryan's constituency:

[The Magistrate]

4. As They Say, Ma'am: 'It's Only Class warfare When We Fight Back!'

Ryan's plan to starve and sicken the poor is certainly class warfare, on behalf of the rich, just as his insistence the rich be excused from taxes is.

The fact is, taxing the rich is excellent economics.

[socialist_n_TN]

36. And there you go.......

I'm not sure. Does it mean that we're having an effect if they start mentioning "class war"? Maybe I should be happy that they noticed. :)

Of course, I don't see OBAMA doing anything even NEAR to actual class war rhetoric, but that's another story.

[The Wizard]

37. starve and sicken the poor

It's the Republican war on poverty.

[buddysmellgood]

5. What a dick.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. More "wisdom" from the two-door scrotum look-alike

Screw him.

[Iliyah]

8. Is he in the

Twilight Zone? The Outer Limits?

Is he that far from middle America?

This just confirms that he is a sociopath alongwith the rest of them.

[onehandle]

7. Onehandle: Paul Ryan engaged in "werewolfism"

[From The Ashes]

9. Oh Brother...

Mr Ryan, you're a dick.

[SoapBox]

10. Hey Ryan...Hows about this...YOU SUCK...

and it involves 2 guys, named The KKKoch Brothers.

[UrbScotty]

11. Look who's talking (nt)

[mwb970]

12. What a hypocrite!

This Ryan guy is a real loser. Is he their big hope for the future? What a joke.

[pacalo]

13. Was he not referring to ALEC & the Koch brothers when he said this...

He said the "real class warfare" that threatens Americans is "a class of governing elites* picking winners and losers, and determining our destinies for us."

* translation: ALEC, the Kochs

[raging_moderate]

14. I wish......

It would be nice if the rabble (us) would get appropriately roused to make such a thing happen. Might as well start now while we still have something left in the country to fight for.

[izquierdista]

15. As Warren Buffett pointed out....

....his class is winning....and big.

[texshelters]

16. I'll let Krugman talk for me here:

"‘Class Warfare’
Aha. Paul Ryan is whining about people playing the class warfare card. That, folks, is the sound of desperation.

Actually, for the most part critics of his plan haven’t focused on the distributional issues so much as on the nonsense he’s talking; they’ve been playing the arithmetic card, not the class warfare card. But yes, the Ryan plan does impose huge sacrifice on the poor and the middle class, while cutting taxes on the rich and corporations.

And this is, of course, the game conservatives have played over and over again since Reagan. Without exception, their policy proposals call for sacrifice on the part of most people, but lavish tax cuts on high incomes — and when you point this out, they yell “class warfare”.

Again, the big problem with the Ryan plan isn’t the unfairness — although there’s plenty of that. It’s the fact that the plan is a fraud."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/class-warfare-2/

Pointing out the war the rich and Republicans have waged against the non-rich in this nation is somehow class warfare. How phony is that?

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[freshwest]

28. Thank you, that saved me typing out a string of profanities.

[texshelters]

40. No problem

I am glad I can help cause Ryan is a...

oh nevermind.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[nolabear]

17. Class envy? So, he's saying there are classes? Has he talked to the forefathers about this?

As I recall this country was founded on the concept that, oh, lessee, "all men are created equal." I suppose after that, it's okay to divide us into classes the way Great Britain did and designate who should have and who should have not.

[saras]

18. He's only 'set for life' if we all allow it

[Cal Carpenter]

19. Ha! I wish

The working class has been bled dry by administrations of both parties.

We have nothing left, assholes. Your crumbs are so small we are losing our jobs, benefits, pensions, homes, schools...

Meanwhile the taxpayers foot a huge chunk of the bill for BP/Transocean's disaster in the gulf, through taxes and ruined livelihoods, and that's just one example that is glaringly obvious at the moment but there are new ones weekly, and we always act surprised...

And so it goes.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Taxing the richest more is excellent, but basic, economics

because they're the only people left who can be afford to be taxed more. Their wealth and income has spiralled upwards, while most people's has stagnated.

[Populist_Prole]

21. Class envy? I wouldn't trade places with that yuppie prick if it made me 20 years younger

Same for any other jackass that tries to play the jealousy/envy card. It's really simple: I don't want to be rich, or be like the upper 5 percent. I'd like to stay the way I am, and just want them to go away. Leave. To go to hell.

[FarLeftFist]

22. Projection, Deflection, Hypocrisy

Ah, Paul Ryan using the oldest tricks in the republican playbook. Kind of ironic, since they are the party that just keeps dusting off that old failed playbook over and over and over again.

[Kurmudgeon]

23. Paul Ryan: Obama engaged in "class warfare"

Source: CBSnews.com

"In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago Monday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) suggested President Obama and Ryan's Democratic critics are "sowing social unrest and class envy" by pushing a tax increase on the wealthiest individuals in order to help address the deficit and debt. "

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20063379-503544.html

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Every time Ryan opens his mouth, his bias becomes even clearer. And to think certain people were presenting him as a centrist not so long ago.
Just another "hurray for the richest 2%!" Republican.

[Kurmudgeon]

24. Oops, checked, and Rambo must have been posting while I was getting ready to! Delete please! n/m

[BREMPRO]

26. this is the standard puke answer to anyone trying to raise taxes on the uber wealthy

poke em in the eye with phony class warfare argument. total psyops bull

[Deep13]

25. What a fucking liar.

Really Paul? Warfare? I don't remember hearing any shooting. Have their been many casualties? No? Well you're fucking wrong. There have been casualties. People have gotten sick, died, led lives of miserable hopelessness, went to prison or killed themselves because of the violence of the poverty fascist pigs like you have forced on them.

[madrchsod]

27. i wonder if he mentioned his state lost close to a total of a billion dollars

by canceling the rail funds? the his district lost big when republican ray lahood pulled wisconsin`s funds for the milwaukee to chicago improvements.

hell of a job pauli boy.....

[cstanleytech]

29. We should believe Pot.........err I mean Paul.

Afterall he should know all about class warfare considering the sheer amount he has been waging.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

30. Paul Ryan should watch Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

"The needs of the many must outweigh the needs of the few."

[krispos42]

31. Yeah, why tax the rich?

Obviously we can see there is no redistribution of wealth or class warfare going on. And thus, no social unrest or grounds for class envy.


And just as obviously, those with money would never spend it picking winners and losers, or determining our destinies for us. That is just unthinkable.




























:sarcasm:

[DCBob]

32. more like "class survival"..

his class is killing us.

[unkachuck]

33. "sowing social unrest and class envy"

"class warfare may be clever politics, but it is terrible economics."

....pay attention people, this is the thanks we get for helping the capitalists defeat Socialism/Communism....

....more Republican folderol; next time we'll know better....

[iamthebandfanman]

34. yeah, the war republicans have been waging for years. n/t

[The Wizard]

35. Standard Republican response

when the issue is lost.
Democrats should embrace class warfare. The Republicans represent the top 2%. That leaves 98%.

[ljm2002]

38. Whenever they accuse you of something...

...it means they're doing it.

If you train yourself to interpret their statements in this way, you'll be right about 90% of the time.

[Evasporque]

39. can you hear him choke on the spoon?....nt

[Luciferous]

41. I can't believe that idiot can keep a straight face while spouting

his nonsense.

[alp227]

42. Really Ryan? Really?

Check out this "I Hate Poor People" video by EvelJustin mocking Paul Ryan.

And obviously the angry town hall didn't move Paul Ryan a damn bit.

[JDPriestly]

43. I wish - - Obama were more engaged in defending the poor and middle

classes against the class warfare raged by Ryan's Rich.

[peace4ever]

44. were's he been? it's been going on for decades, and we the people are getting crushed

while his side is winning.

he needs to buy a clue.

[neverforget]

45. How's your "I got mine" plan working out for you, Ryan?

Not too well huh? You created it. You own it, fucker.

[rocktivity]

46. Candidate for this year's "You Call This NEWS?" Award

Republicans are SO good at accusing others of what they're guilty of...

:eyes:
rocktivity

[applegrove]

47. What should we call the experts Ryan is talking about here. Cause that is what he means:

the people who study society/economy and set policy. "Policymakers" I guess. Cause we need one word to describe them.

"a class of governing elites picking winners and losers, and determining our destinies for us"

[plumbob]

48. NO, Ryan, this is what class warfare looks like:

But keep it up. You may get your wish....

[NutmegYankee]

49. Ryan on the other hand is engaged in Class Genocide

Oh yes, how dare we fight back against our oppressors. Fuck you Ryan!