poor and economic fairness are core elements of our church's social
teaching. It's shameful that he disregarded these principles in his
budget."
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fund your own charities ... the US government is not a charity
organization
On Mar 23, 11:25 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congressman Paul Ryan's Drag Name Is Marie Antoinette
>
> Both gay and straight over the years have come up with a number of
> different formulas to determine your 'drag name.' The most popular is
> to take the name of your first pet and the first street you lived on.
> Others have their ways of picking their 'drag name.' However, for
> Congressman Paul Ryan, the cold hearted Republican budget cutter,
> there can be no contest. Ryan would have to go to the costume ball as
> the legendary Marie Antoinette, the symbol of an uncaring monarch for
> centuries.
>
> Not wanting to give Marie Antoinette a bum rap by hooking her legend
> to that of the rather boring and bookish Ryan, it is nonetheless a
> perfect match. The queen is best known for allegedly saying "Let them
> eat cake." While that statement is now in dispute by scholars it has
> lasted with the masses. For the purpose of dealing with Ryan - the
> masses win because this Republican icon has released a budget for the
> Republicans that literally could be known as the "Let Them Eat Cake
> Budget."
>
> The budget is so horrendous, a Catholic priest in the congressman's
> Wisconsin district was quoted on ThinkProgress.com:
>
> "As a constituent of Congressman Ryan and a Catholic priest, I'm
> disappointed by his cruel budget plan and outraged that he defends it
> on moral grounds. Ryan is Catholic, and he knows that justice for the
> poor and economic fairness are core elements of our church's social
> teaching. It's shameful that he disregarded these principles in his
> budget."
>
> What has Ryan proposed? According to Dana Milbank in a column for The
> Washington Post, he will cut over $1.9 trillion (that is trillion not
> billion) from the budget by cuts in such compassionate programs as
> food stamps, welfare, federal employees pensions and support for
> farmers. He would cut another $770 billion from Medicaid denying
> healthcare to poor. Just to make sure that seniors suffer he would
> also cut $205 billion from Medicare.
>
> Fear not, this man does know how to give.....that is to the rich. His
> budget is full of tax cuts and programs to make the rich richer. How
> much does he think the aristocracy needs? Marie Antoinette Ryan gives
> his/her buddies a whopping $4.3 TRILLION in tax cuts. Milbank's column
> says it best:
>
> Ryan's justification was straight out of Dickens. He wants to improve
> the moral fiber of the poor. There is, he told the audience at the
> conservative American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday, an
> "insidious moral tipping point, and I think the president is
> accelerating this." Too many Americans, he said, are receiving more
> from the government than they pay in taxes.
>
> After recalling his family's immigration from Ireland generations ago,
> and his belief in the virtue of people who "pull themselves up by the
> bootstraps," Ryan warned that a generous safety net "lulls able-bodied
> people into lives of complacency and dependency, which drains them of
> their very will and incentive to make the most of their lives. It's
> demeaning."
>
> How very kind: To protect poor Americans from being demeaned, Ryan is
> cutting their anti-poverty programs and using the proceeds to give the
> wealthiest Americans a six-figure tax cut.
>
> More:http://www.davidmixner.com/2012/03/congressman-paul-ryans-drag-name-i...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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