Pic Of The Moment: At CPAC, Paul Ryan Justifies Safety Net Cuts

[EarlG]

Let Them Eat Dignity by Paul Krugman

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[liberal N proud]

1. There is a corporation somewhere that needs their tax break

[wordpix]

35. Dignity = more billionaires and less food for the poor kids

and their parents who can't find jobs. Paul Ryan's definition

[dsteve01]

41. And that's why Paul Ryan won't be

nominee. He just doesn't "get it". Whereas the previous nominee at least TRIED not to spotlight his parties shenanigans -- Paul Ryan actually tries to embrace it with some doublethink.

[CJCRANE]

2. Paul Ryan is offering people an empty stomach. nt

[Thinkingabout]

3. With Ryan being big on anti-abortion, how in the hell does he propose to feed the babies

They are forcing to be birthed? The babies needs food, shelter and an education, this group should fight for this as much as they do forced births.

[unblock]

7. those lazy babies need to get out and work!

[Ken Burch]

47. It's the rich white man's God's will that those lazy babies should starve!!!!

How DARE the non-wealthy reproduce their own kind!

Are there no workhouses??

Bah Humbug!!!!

[Sobriquet]

55. "With Ryan being big on anti-abortion, how in the hell does he propose to feed the babies?"

Gerber Soylent Green?

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Bravo EarlG!

I hate to laugh, but your picture posts are very funny to me.

Cheers!

[Lochloosa]

8. Now, why would you hate to laugh?

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Because while it's hilarious from a wry, sarcasm standpoint

the reality is, there's a lot of hungry kids out there.

The image is totally valid, totally on-message and effective, but I feel awkward finding it funny.
Like laughing at gallows humor in mixed company...

It's beautifully done though, really sticks it to Ryan as the heartless son of a bitch he is.

[Arkana]

5. Apparently Paul Ryan thinks you can eat dignity

and use dignity to shelter your children.

It has nothing to do with dignity. It NEVER HAS. I'd think a guy who sucked off the government teat his whole life would know that.

[unblock]

6. ryan gets handouts from corps. who get handouts from gov't and they deny handouts to starving kids.

but it's all about dignity for the kids.

[LuckyLib]

19. ^^This!^^

[love_katz]

46. Seconded.

+ a gazillion.

[Cleita]

9. That's the most disgusting and elitist speech in the septic tank of

disgusting and elitist speeches by this man and Mitt Romney, his former running mate.

[hibbing]

10. "Life of Comfort"

Yeah, because we all know anyone who gets any kind of assistance is just living so wonderfully comfortable...barf. The middle class is being destroyed and the lower class has been attacked constantly, while every single policy in Congress it seems is aimed at that wonderful, job producing 1%. Something has got to give.

Peace

[toby jo]

11. He gets 1/2 a point from me: Kochs and Alderman and Cheney et al are some

pretty undignified sons of bitches.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. These bastards are starting to damage my calm.

[NancyDL]

14. Ryan, and people like him, are the ones who demand that dignity must be sacrificed...1.

... for a morsel or two of food.

Ryan's problem, along that of many of his cohorts, is that he stumbled on an the (sophomoric) works of an author called Ayn Rand, mistook her message of "let the poor die" for sound economic philosophy and, since then, has been attempting to foist it on mainstream America. And gullible people have bought it, not realizing that the people he would eliminate from society are THEM.

I urge anyone who wants to understand Ryan's message to sit themselves down with friends and play a few games of Monopoly. At the end of the game, the money will be in the hands of one or two players and the rest will be out. This is a parallel for what is happening in America and in other countries that are "going conservative". Wealth and power are in the hands of a relative few while the rest of the people are suffering. The power people at the top will attempt to justify this in all sorts of ways, but the truth is that they are playing a game for fun, and they don't give a hoot who suffers. It's time for the rest of us to wake up.

[SoapBox]

15. And remember, Just Die Quickly.

Bastards.

[GeorgeGist]

16. Integrity is for paupers.

[olegramps]

17. The damn Repukians and absolutely revolting.

[tclambert]

18. In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, dignity is 4th level. Food is first level.

You have to meet the physiological needs--food, water, air to breathe--before you can worry about the higher levels. Let's see, 2nd level is security, 3rd is friendship and belonging, 4th is self-esteem, 5th is full self-actualization. Dignity would definitely fit into the 4th level.

The point is a starving person ceases to worry about dignity or practically anything else except how to get some food. How many homeless people go dumpster diving behind restaurants hoping to find something edible?

[DhhD]

54. At Level 2, Ryan/Gingrich Plan is to remove children from their parents and take over their care

in a work for food situation in a school or orphanage. Then the child will pay the state back by going into military service. The poor (and women) are livestock to the Cheney, Ryan, Gingrich and the rest of the GOP. (That's why the GOP laughs at Sarah Quitter ever time she brings her circus act to town.) Ryan reminds me of an opponent of Batman; one of the ruthless destroyers of civilization to get even with society for his childhood. Ryan has absolutely no appreciation for the working hands that fed him. And certainly no loyalty to the American democracy as he believes he did everything himself. Even his own daughter knew he was faking it at the Soup Kitchen stunt. VP Biden, had to laugh during the 2012 debates because humor can hold the place of sadness.

[liberalmuse]

20. Having a meal to eat IS dignity.

Not starving is dignity. Not living in squallor is dignity. Conservatives need to experience going hungry for a few days (I'm not talking about binging and purging, Republican women), but I suspect they would still be incapable of empathy.

[wordpix]

36. having a job so you can buy the food for your family is dignity, too

[Cha]

21. So food is only comfort.. something to aspire.. like being rich? What a fucking

idiot. Turns out he gets demerits for Lyin' again, too..



thanks EarlG

[DhhD]

22. Paul Ryan wants to take food from hungry children and labor from the

working class and receive laud for doing despicable and diabolic destruction.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/27/1136799/-Paul-Ryan-s-Despicable-Ad-for-House-Won-t-talk-to-constituents-in-person-but-pretends-to-in-ad

(Scroll down to the second video about Labor Day.)

In my opinion, Ryan, a coporationist person, wants to be a serial killer. He likes to hide in plain sight and get away with murdering America as a whole.

[Wounded Bear]

23. Given his personal wealth and public musings...

I'd say he has plenty of food and zero dignity.

And he's doing just fine.

[Initech]

24. Here's a nice plate of dignity kid, there's billions in unclaimed profit to be made!

Thank fucking god that asshole is not vice president!

[stage left]

25. Oh, my god!

Are these guys ever going to just disappear? They're like the metallic android woman in Terminator---they just keep coming and coming, getting uglier and uglier. They have the bare nerve to even talk about souls. What would they know about souls, being soulless automatons themselves, puppets whose strings are pulled by the one percent. I don't know who I despise more--Ryan, Santorum, or Perry. Or McConnell. Or Boehner. Or Issa. Or Lindsay Graham. God, the list is endless.

[Incitatus]

26. Is Paul Ryan going to give up his government paid healthcare so he can have the dignity

of paying full price for his own?

[blkmusclmachine]

27. Teabagger to child: "Suck it up, you worthless moocher!"

Teabagging means "Love the fetus. Hate the person."

[airplaneman]

28. Nothing says no one gives a shit about you better than......

Going to bed after having nothing to eat.
-Airplane

[nyquil_man]

29. If anybody knows dignity, it's Paul "Screech" Ryan.

[sulphurdunn]

30. There isn't a hell of a lot of dignity

on an empty stomach. Anyone can't grasp that is unfit to be in any position of authority anywhere at any time.

[Boomerproud]

31. What "empty soul" of the left does Ryan mean?

Oh, I get it-we don't have the same priorities and values that Ryan does, so that makes us evil, empty, nihilist. Yeah, whatever.

[AlbertCat]

32. I would like to, uh, point out....

...we know the stomach exists.


The soul.... not so much.


And if a soul does exist (I doubt it) it certainly isn't government's business.

[47of74]

33. Rule of Acquisition 109

Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.


Also. Fuck you, Paul Ryan.

[Quasimodem]

34. Paul Ryan wouldn't recognize dignity is it bit him on the ass.

The aforementioned method of announcing oneself is the only way Ryan can ever manage to feel compassion.

Ryan is a detestable substitute for a human being.

[PD Turk]

37. Fuck You Paul Ryan!!

Here's your fucking "dignity"







This is their fondest wet dream, to have everybody not of their class living like this. I'd say what I'd like to see done about it but with forum rules and the NSA being what they are, I'll refrain.

[DallasNE]

38. A Life Of Comfort?

What planet does Paul Ryan live on. Let him live just one month the "life of comfort" someone in poverty copes with. He would not be able to do it. Take away his car, his gym membership and put him in housing that a housing subsidy would permit. Let him sense and feel that life of comfort. Who knows, maybe he would like it so well that he couldn't give it up -- just like he claims others hang on to it.

[czarjak]

39. Paul Ryan

More for me fuck you. Please tell us more. Ayn Rand? Christian charity is for suckers. Right Pauley?

[Enthusiast]

40. When the various politicians warned us that NAFTA would start a race to the bottom they were right.

Now even feeding the less fortunate is too much for the uncaring Republicans even though we outspend the entire world on an unnecessary bloated military.

People, this is wrong. This is a race to the bottom. I suggest we put a stop to this goddamned TPP.

[father founding]

42. Expert testimony

If there is an expert on Empty Souls, Paul Ryan is it.

[dballance]

43. More "dignity" for the poor: Ryan-style. What an ass wipe (thx Laura PourMeADrink)

Christmas dinner during the Great Depression: turnips and cabbage


Mother in shame after posting a sign to sell her children: circa 1948



I blatantly stole these from Laura PourMeADrink's OP:http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024627449

[Wolf Frankula]

44. It's Undignified for Congresscritters to be paid.

It makes them servants instead of gentlemen. Let's give Paul Ryan dignity instead of a paycheck.

Wolf

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Since Paul Ryan's so compassionate

I'd like to offer him a big steaming plate of something.

[Ken Burch]

48. Of course, when St. Paul of Ryan says the poor want "a life of dignity"...

...he MEANS "we want them to have a life of servility" or perhaps(though he can't quite say this publicly until the vote has been stripped from nonwhites, as it may be in a few years) "a life back in the alternate compensation employment economy that that liberal Democrat Abraham Lincoln unfairly saved them from".

(And I say that last part because I doubt that St. Paul can accept the fact that most poor people are, in fact, white).

[Ken Burch]

49. You'd think somebody with a last name like Ryan would remember

that the first group that anybody argued against offering help to on the grounds that helping them would create "a culture of dependency" were the Irish...and the people making that argument were the British government...DURING THE BLACK 47!!!!!!!

Pissing on his ancestor's graves, that one is...

[zebonaut]

50. Dignity? They want BREAKFAST

A party on the verge of extinction

[lonestarnot]

51. And when you're done, "git out there and pick that cotton."

[LeftishBrit]

52. Because malnutrition is so dignified.

I bet Ryan has never gone hungry in his life.

[colsohlibgal]

53. Priorities Are So Screwed Up

It mystifies me how politicians can be so cold hearted, choosing to starve poor kids so as not to take a dime more tax from multi millionaires. The cold dark corporate state at work. The Republicans are evil, we know that, but the democratic party going back to Bubba have gotten in cahoots with Wall Street money at the expense of poor citizens. Hillary is also awash in Wall Street cash.

The classic joke that our last liberal president was Nixon has a lot of truth to it, sadly.

Somehow the national conversation has to change.

[Sam1]

56. An empty Stomach Withers the Soul.

[uppityperson]

57. A friend just posted this on facebook, came through moveon.org from the DU fb page.