Paul Ryan: 30 Percent Of America Are "Takers, Not Makers."

However you slice it, Republicans would like to jettison a-third-to-a-half of the citizenry.

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. 
John Kenneth Galbraith 
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WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, share a similarly dim view of a very large portion of Americans, according to previously unreported remarks by Ryan. Both believe that many of their fellow citizens are dependent on government and have no motivation to improve their lives -- but they disagree over the precise number.

Romney's estimate, famously, is 47 percent. For Ryan, it's 30 percent.

"Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state," Ryan said. "Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/paul-ryan-30-percent-welfare-state_n_1933730.html

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Although only 11% of the "working population" is unemployed (even when we include "the long-term unemployed") Ryan still believes 3 times that number want to be on welfare.

Except from the vantage of knee-jerk Republican miserliness (drenched in a psycho-spiritual tide of sub-clinical paranoia) this beyond-bizarre assumption makes no sense.

No sense at all.

Contemporary "conservatives" live life oppressed by the outraged certainty that "somewhere, someone is ripping them off" and that they can never be happy until stem-to-stern harshness prevents every single ner-do-well from getting a "free lunch."

Such a sorry-ass lot...

May God pity them.

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