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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan QUIVERS As Bernie Sanders Outs the DIRTY SECRET Behind His Poverty Propaganda
Sen. Sanders said, You have folks out there now who have virtually no income coming in. They have families. They have kids. How are they going to eat? We have veterans out there trying to get into the food stamp program. To me, what youre looking at is an ugly kind of class warfare where the people on top want more and more and more, and theyre pushing down in an incredibly terrible way the most vulnerable people in our country. Rev. Al showed this graphic that illustrates who food stamp recipients really are:
Later Sen. Sanders ripped Republicans for claiming that the problem is that children get too much help from the federal government, These are the same people who want to eliminate the estate tax, which applies to only the top three tenths of one percent of all Americans, which is the richest of the rich, then they are going after kids. The politics of this, Al, is what they are trying to do is deflect attention away from income and wealth inequality. Attention away from the fact that the rich are doing extraordinarily well, and tell their supporters that the real problem in America is that children are getting too much help from the federal government, and thats the kind of mentality that we have got to fight back against.
Sen. Sanders nailed it. This is a classic case of Republicans trying to blame the victims of their policies. Republicans crashed the economy, threw millions out of work, then blamed the unemployed, and their children for needing assistance. While the GOP tries to take the food out of the mouths of those who are struggling, the rich continue to get richer. The Koch brothers wont have less money if children continue to get free school lunches. The issue is that the people at the very top continue to see their wealth grow while nearly everyone else is struggling to survive.
Thats the dirty little secret that Bernie Sanders exposed. Republicans refuse to limit themselves to encouraging the wealthy. They are on a mission to take everything away from everyone else, and give it to the rich. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been leading this new smokescreen with a war against the poor that has been disguised as budget cuts and poverty studies.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/24/paul-ryan-quivers-bernie-sanders-outs-dirty-secret-poverty-propaganda.html
msongs
(67,405 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)but if any kind of Democrat has more than a punchers chance then this can play, if it is honest, consistent, and unapologetic spoken in the native mode of dialog.
You might not get away with also having an F- rating from the NRA in one area or might have to be coal friendly in another or might have to play churchy in another but we can win on economics, we just do not want to.
In some cases it seems we'd actually prefer to lose than to do so.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 25, 2014, 07:00 PM - Edit history (1)
Desires of the actual voters.
I am tabling for a local issue, and the lack of interest in elections is astounding.
And there is also a lot of anger. (People saying, "I voted for Obama, and we all see how that turned out."
When both parties are owned lock stock and barrel by Big Industries' Puppet Masters, what else can be expected?
Cha
(297,196 posts)didn't send eddie muenster out there for nothing.
paul ryan cheesebrain
"Thats the dirty little secret that Bernie Sanders exposed. Republicans refuse to limit themselves to encouraging the wealthy. They are on a mission to take everything away from everyone else, and give it to the rich. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been leading this new smokescreen with a war against the poor that has been disguised as budget cuts and poverty studies."
Oh please do try to tell he isn't marauding this country from the 666th gate of hell.
Thank you, Sen Sanders and Segami!
Segami
(14,923 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)I just happened to google up right now. The grifter with cheese for brains. rofl
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Sanders is a hero.
polichick
(37,152 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)How did you find it?
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)niyad
(113,302 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)....be okay giving food stamps to hungry kids, if we put them in a brown paper bag?
Okay, he wins. We'll do it!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)And THAT is why they keep voting for the fucking republicans.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts).....more Democrat politicians, including the President, speaking as forcefully. He should lighten up on his giving the Right wing total blame for the financial meltdown though. Many Democrats supported Wall Street deregulation and President Clinton signed the bill. Both parties are bought and sold by special interest. We can't ignore that fact if we wish to see reform.
niyad
(113,302 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)What specifically led you to infer that Sanders places all blame on the Republic politicians only?
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)The author of the article was editorializing when he said;
"Sen. Sanders nailed it. This is a classic case of Republicans trying to blame the victims of their policies. Republicans crashed the economy,"
Don't get me wrong, I think we've been living in a trickle down economy since Reagan and it has failed miserably. Outsourcing our jobs to third world labor markets hurt as well. But the immediate reason for economic failure was the mortgage mess and bank failures. Greenspan poured on the gasoline with low interest rates but Graham-Leach-Bliley deregulation lit the match. Democrats had a hand in the latter move. But, you are correct, it was the author that extrapolated from Bernie's statement and not Bernie himself. I stand corrected.
RVN VET
(492 posts)as a "democrat politician." That truncated version of the word "Democratic" was coined by the RW so they could get the word "rat" into every conversation about politics.
It's an insult. It's intended to be an insult. Do not use it. Not here. Not anywhere.
But it's an understandable faux pas, and your post was otherwise spot on. Some have tried to exculpate President Clinton by saying he signed the bill at the butt end of his 2nd term and didn't really know what he was signing. I think Bill has been honest enough to fess up and say he knew what it was trying to do -- eliminate Glass-Steagle -- but didn't realize the damage it would do.
Welcome to D.U.
rurallib
(62,413 posts)and they justify with some twisted mental gymnastics. Amazing.
hue
(4,949 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)Ryan, being a sociopath, does NOT CARE what anyone says about him.
What the "little people" say has no consequence for him.
JustAnotherGen
(31,820 posts)And I don't believe anyone on the right that's a politician is afraid of Sanders or Warren. The only thing they fear is middle class, working class, and poverty class whites waking up and realizing that brown people aren't the enemy -
Wealthy white men are.
That's the ONLY thing Paul Ryan fears those people who need to wake the fuck up. And those people who need to wake up? Rest assured they aren't going to catch Rev. Al on MSNBC tonight and they have no clue who Senator Sanders is.
They are too busy watching American Idol.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)I want to see Ryan answer for his vicious policies.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Paul Ryan and the Republicans were the people he was describing. Whoever says there's no difference between the two parties is a fool, and they play right into the hands of these fascists.
harun
(11,348 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)So, he has never made the mistake that too many on DU are all too happy to commit.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Blue Owl
(50,360 posts)<>
FourScore
(9,704 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)We need 100s more in the senate and congress.
tea and oranges
(396 posts)stuartsdesk1
(85 posts)(sarcasm / satire)
Paul Ryanosaurus has a brilliant and consistent message -
He wants to show you a plan that will further increase income inequality, damage the most vulnerable
and helpless members of our society, AND -
convince those same people to vote against their own best interests.
For a humorous, historical recounting of Paul Ryanosaurus' double speaking
schemes see -
http://stuartsdesk.com/Oldies_But_Goodies.html
cer7711
(502 posts)Overdue.
In the meantime, treat these twits with the contempt they deserve: outright mocking laughter at their insane ideas and social-shunning when they advance their class-warfare agenda.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)I don't see any spines shivering either!
God, I fucking hate the Buzzfeedification of the news.
Paul Ryan couldn't give a fuck what that Commie Socialist from Vermont has to say, he couldn't give a fuck what that n****r preacher from here in Jew York City has to say, couldn't give a fuck if poor children starve to death in their beds.
Besides, it's no "dirty little secret" that Republicans "are on a mission to take everything away from everyone else, and give it to the rich."
Seriously, who writes this shit?
thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Response to Segami (Original post)
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)BodieTown
(147 posts)...whether you like it or not.
Quivers?
Meanwhile, I will add you to my ignore list.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Not sure when DU started allowing bloody fucking conservative plonkers to post, but your days here are numbered.
Segami
(14,923 posts)and his teabag drivel.
BodieTown
(147 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)SHORT it MAY be.... "Ixnay ethay ightray ingway/ eefray epublicray onsensenay ifway ouyay antway otay erehay aystay ongerlay anthay anotherway eekway. Ouyay areway eginningbay otay ooklay ikelay away ightray ingway olltray andway it'sway earclay asway ayday otay anyoneway owhay ashay eensay ethay OUBLINGDAY OWNDAY onway ethayupiditystay andway idioticway alkingtay ointspay...TRUST ME.... From someone who is TRYING to help your ass.
4dsc
(5,787 posts)We have more examples of how to beat republicans at their own game but our candidates refuse the ammunition handed to them.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)elections? Why? And what is WRONG with the voters who'll support them? BTW, where do we get to see Ryan "quivering?"
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Almost there!
Gothmog
(145,195 posts)Ryan is an overrated poopyhead
ladjf
(17,320 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Guess who is worse off? People like Paul Ryan exhibit a truly perverted rationale; behavior akin to a sociopath.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)We need more of those guys out there speaking the truth!