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Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand: splitting Americans into the “makers” and the “takers”
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only...
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Sunday sermon: Mitt Romney criticized by Franciscan Friars for comments on...
“Our Christian tradition teaches that we are to treat the poor with dignity and to prioritize the poor in our policies as a society. At a time when millions are struggling financially, it is degrading...
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Ryan isn’t concerned with spending or the deficit. He wants to radically...
Rep. Paul Ryan’s major votes and their impact on the deficit: msnbc: From Up w/Chris Hayes Ezra Klein says “But the real north star of Ryan’s policy record isn’t deficits or spending, though he often...
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The American Right and Paul Ryan
“But the American Right seems to have a particular need to inflate their leaders into beacons of courage, self-sufficiency and virtue, even when their lives are completely devoid of those traits. Paul...
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Imagine if Barack Obama had been a devoted follower of a Russian atheist…
…of course, we would have never heard of this black, atheist-loving, Soviet Union worshiping, radical anarchist “Barack Obama” fellow ever again. commie-pinko-liberal: Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes...
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The remedy for American conservative evangelicalism: find the New Testament,...
“This isn’t really a problem with Paul Ryan; it’s a problem with a distinctively American brand of conservative evangelicalism. The aspiring VP can live with a glaring contradiction because his...
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The power of Ayn Rand compels him
Click image for larger version: via: reagan-was-a-horrible-president | source: dailykos ### The Republicans have had a love affair with Rand for a long time: image: thepoliticalfreakshow ### Christians...
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Paul Ryan’s speech: the Romney campaign has officially embraced the extreme
David Corn reacts to Paul Ryan’s speech, which demonstrated that the Romney campaign is not moving to the middle but has embraced a fundamental extremism: His message literally was: You should be on...
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Paul Ryan wants to cut taxes on the wealthy and cut spending on the poor
Kevin Drum outlines Paul Ryan’s Grim Vision for America: But it gets worse: He wants to cut all other spending—aside from Social Security and Medicare—by 70 percent. And even that understates things....
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Romney’s Randian perspective: the Makers and the 47 percent Takers
David Brooks in the NYTimes: “Romney’s comment is a country-club fantasy. It’s what self-satisfied millionaires say to each other. It reinforces every negative view people have about Romney.” “The...
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“Romney has lost any sense of the social compact”
“Romney’s comments also reveal that he has lost any sense of the social compact. In 1987, during Ronald Reagan’s second term, 62 percent of Republicans believed that the government has a responsibility...
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SS and Medicare are “collectivist, socialistic and foster dependency”– Paul...
From America Magazine: The National Catholic Weekly — Secret Ryan Transcript: Social Security and Medicare are the Target: “This isn’t from a secret video, it’s from the untranscribed portion of Ryan’s...
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Video: Paul Ryan discussing America’s Makers and Takers
“Right now, about 60 percent of the American people get more benefits, in dollar value, from the federal government than they pay back in taxes. So we’re going to a majority of takers vs. makers in...
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