Paul Ryan says he's been "dreaming" of Medicaid cuts since he was "drinking out of kegs"

[Recursion]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-keg

I know DU is with me on the immorality of cutting Medicaid, so I won't belabor that.

I want to point out that I'm probably the nerdiest person I know, and even I am not so much of a dweeb that I sat around talking about Medicaid spending at a college kegger.

[gopiscrap]

1. This Eddie Munster wannaba is a fucking asshole

the problem with most of these fucking asswipe repukes is that they never had a day in their life when they needed anything.

[dalton99a]

2. And he's 3rd in line to be president

[lunasun]

8. None of the alternatives are good right now

[Dulcinea]

3. He was a douchebag in college too?

Bet he was really popular with the ladies! Oh yeah!

[WinkyDink]

4. Why would any decent person, drunk or sober, "dream" about hurting those already hurting? Ryan is a

VERY DISTURBED MAN. AS IN, REALLY, REALLY SICK IN THE HEAD, HEART, AND SOUL.

Clearly, impoverishing the poor even further has been his raison d'etre for entering politics.

HIS DREAM IS OUR NIGHTMARE.

[Hekate]

10. Probably when he fell in love with Ayn Rand. Susceptible adolescent males can be warped for life....

...by bingeing on her books.

[Doreen]

14. Hell, if he wasn't all of that he would not be staying as speaker

of the house for Beelzebub.

[WinkyDink]

22. Lord of the Flies and the Lies.

[BeyondGeography]

5. He's one to talk about an empty soul, isn't he?

The US government got him through childhood and he never forgave it. Sad.

[Lucinda]

6. ...

[lunasun]

7. Young republicans that is how they spend their party time

[dchill]

9. Bad (or sick) man!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Wow.

What a prick.

[OregonBlue]

12. Wasn't he still on Medicaid at that point?

[csziggy]

19. No, his famliy saved Social Security death benefits for his college

His father died while Ryan was still in school and they set aside the SS the family got for Ryan's college. It's not as though they really needed to - his father and grandfather were successful attorneys, his great grandfather had a construction business which is still in operation. Before Paul Ryan went to college his widowed mother got her college degree without relying on the SS payments.

[UltravioletDingo]

13. I rely on Medicaid

I have a chronic illness and had no insurance before the ACA and Medicaid expansion. Needless to say, life was harder then. Fuck you, Paul Ryan, you heartless piece of shit.

[milestogo]

15. Now that is totally perverted.

[WhiteTara]

16. He is a self loathing ex-poor

person. He hates that part of his life so much that he is destroying the lives of any people who are not rich like he is now.

[ProudLib72]

17. Ryan, just admit it.

You were never invited to any parties in college.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. What a terrible excuse for a human being.

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He said, "Social assistance programs make it less painful for people to be jobless." Slacker! You're unemployed and can't pay all of your bills or buy enough food for your kids, but those damned social programs make it possible for you to pay some bills and buy some food! You shouldn't have anything! You aren't suffering enough!

Fry in Hell, Ryan. I'm older than he is but I hope I outlive him so I can stagger to his grave leaning on my walker and lugging my O2 tank, and piss feebly on his grave before I flop over dead.

[brush]

20. Ayn Randian arrested development, sorta like Grover Norquist and his no tax pledge...

that he dreamed up as a twelve-year-old boy then foisted it on other repugs.

Ryan's been dreaming of depriving people of healthcare since he was going to kegger parties...either in high school or college.

What is with repugs? How does their emotion maturity and empathy genes get stunted?

[Greybnk48]

21. Don't forget. His nickname in Wisconsin is "Lyin' Ryan."

He is second only to Trump in lying for political expediency. He even has lied about his workouts!