"The "Compassion" of Paul Ryan and The Right:" (OpEdNews)

[OneGrassRoot]

The "Compassion" of Paul Ryan and The Right: "The Poor You Will Always Have With You - We'll See To It"

By Rev. Dan Vojir

On Tax Day, April 15th, Rep. Paul Ryan had this to say about "his" budget: "Our budget offers a compassionate and optimistic contrast to a future of health-care rationing and unbearably high taxes. We lift the crushing burden of debt, repair the safety net, make America's tax system fair and competitive, and ensure that our health and retirement programs have a strong and lasting future."

There are people who would beg to differ with Ryan's statement, notably the people fighting his expansive social welfare cuts on Capitol Hill and in the White House. The fight has extended to the matter of the national debt and the next several weeks will be grueling ... and revealing. If you look at the fight in a simplified perspective, it becomes a battle for the existence of compassion: should it be sustained now (in a diminished form), or in the future? Republicans are already naming their form of "compassion" by calling it INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE.

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Just as true compassion does not need judgment, it does not need a reason except for helping someone to survive in the best way possible. Compassion need not come in the form of the Christian thing to do, nor even the right thing to do, but simply as the human thing to do. People in need do not have the luxury of determining from whence compassion comes.

The above statement of Paul Ryan is, to say the least, dripping with the disingenuous patronizing of the poor that many conservatives today deal out: the belief that capitalism in all its glory will ultimately benefit everyone. The conservative mindset also believes that individual investment, individual charity, and individual compassion will also prove supreme.


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1. Interesting opinion piece here

"Where is the fault, then? It lies with Paul Ryan. It lies with Republican Governors who zero out their public education, public health and unemployment benefits. It lies with the Republicans in Congress who want to defund Planned Parenthood’s women’s health services. It lies with insane talking heads spewing treason and insurrection against our President. These people are destroying America, systematically and deliberately, just as surely as though they were dropping bombs on Tucson and Phoenix.

"You understand, I have seen this happen. I haven’t seen it go as far as it will go in the continental United States, but we have never had a government that is openly against its own people before."

http://www.examiner.com/liberal-christian-in-tucson/life-as-you-will-live-it-if-you-embrace-the-republican-vision-of-america

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2. Wow, thanks for sharing, hermetic...

Very interesting.

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