"Paul Ryan: Only Business Owners Work Hard," the person who picks up Mitt's garbage disagrees

[ProSense]

Paul Ryan: Only Business Owners Work Hard, Make ‘This Country Grow’

By Igor Volsky

On Labor Day, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) characterized the holiday — “a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country” — as a celebration not of the worker, but of management and CEOs.

During a rally in Iowa on Tuesday afternoon, Paul Ryan expressed a similar sentiment, arguing that business owners are the only Americans working hard and taking risks to make “this country grow.” The comments echoed Mitt Romney’s now infamous 47 percent remark and suggested that Ryan too believes that many Americans are too lazy or simply refuse to work long hours:

RYAN: And when he says, if you have a small business you didn’t build that. Look, all we mean is that nobody else gets up at 5:00 AM and opens the doors. Nobody else works 7 days a week. Nobody else takes the risks. Nobody else meets the payroll. Nobody else goes to the bank. These are businesses that are built by the sweat, toil, and hard work of workers in this country of businesses in this country and that’s what makes this country grow.

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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/02/943731/ryan-only-business-owners-work-hard-make-this-country-grow/

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[rurallib]

1. you would think Iowans could recognize hogwash and horseshit

BTW - if this was in Muscatine there was only a few idiots there to see him.
Most Iowans have more contact with - uh - fertilizer than they like already.

[ProSense]

2. Good to know. n/t

[AnnieBW]

3. Lots of Public Employees Get in at 5 AM or earlier

I work for the Federal Government. I know plenty of my fellow Feds (I guess we're the 47%, since we're dependent on the Government) that get in at 5 AM or earlier. They're that dedicated.

[Doctor_J]

4. So I guess Ryan hasn't worked a day in his life

Every paycheck he's ever gotten since college came from the US treasury.

Fucking lying pig.

[Fumesucker]

5. I understand Mitt stuffs his garbage bags really, really full..

So he doesn't have to pay an excess bag fee.

Seriously, the guy is not right in the head about money.

[Spirochete]

6. But I'll bet he thought he was serving a very vital function

even when he was driving the fucking hot dog truck...

[Mopar151]

7. Only your trashman knows for sure

I used to help out my friends with a small rubbish route. You get a whole different perspective on who the good people are. And which church ladies go thru 3 handles of vodka a week.....

[rustydog]

8. The owner unloads th delivery trucks, stocks the shelves in his store

He prices all the items in the store, takes care of restocking...the help just sits there waiting for government help.

[socialist_n_TN]

10. Yeah, that was what I was thinking too......

No wonder unemployment's so high. They don't need workers. Also

However it does bring up this point. If only business owners work, then why doesn't the government give all those tax breaks to support worker owned co-ops?. Everybody would be an owner then.

[Blue Idaho]

9. This guy bleeds Ayn Rand Clap Trap

No matter how hard he tries to disavow her he is a Randian to his core.

[Shitty Mitty]

11. Out-of-touch toad

"nobody else gets up at 5:00 AM and opens the doors."

I've had many jobs, my friends and family have had many jobs, NO BOSS has EVER "opened the doors" in the morning. NONE. EVER. Fuck Ryan and his Randian horseshit.

[kentuck]

12. Some workers risk more than their money - they risk their lives.

Ryan is full of shit.

[LiberalFighter]

13. Employees take risks working for stupid employers.