Paul Ryan: 30 Percent 'Want Their Welfare State,' 70 Percent 'Want The American Dream'

[Tx4obama]

Source: Huffington Post

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 their welfare state," Ryan said. "Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers."

Ryan's comments were delivered as part of his keynote address at The American Spectator's 2011 Robert L. Bartley Gala Dinner, which the magazine posted online. A reader tipped HuffPost to Ryan's speech, given in November -- six months before Romney's videotaped remarks.

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

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This news is just now breaking.

The headline currently at HuffPo on the front page is: RYAN CAUGHT ON TAPE: 30% OF AMERICANS WANT WELFARE
Check out the photo HuffPo is using on their front page of Ryan's tongue sticking out: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Al Sharpton is fixin' to play the TAPE and discuss this when he returns from commercial.

[begin_within]

1. Where do they get all these numbers from?

Did they go around and ask 10 people, "Do you want a welfare state?" and three of them said, "Hell yes!"?

[SoapBox]

20. I thought it was something like, "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

...OPPS, wrong hat!

Or was that, "...pull 30% out of my ass!"

Just keep talk'n clowns...Mittens and Coupon Care Man = McCain and Palin of 2012...Shoot first, try to think about it later.

[Sandy one]

33. oops!

Ryan:The 30% on his so called "welfare" all want the American Dream. Corporations,Wall Street and the Republican Party, Teas included" have put up so many barriers that make it impossible for this group to achieve the dream. Heck, The GOP is even trying it's best to take away their right to vote.

[Lifelong Protester]

51. Dag nabbit! You stole my idea!!!

[jmowreader]

62. More like Palin and Palin of 2012

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and either Romney or Ryan? Lipstick!

[closeupready]

23. Let's not get into all those complicated baseline questions.

[David Zephyr]

27. Yeah. Where?

Out of their asses? Unbelievable jerks!

begin_within, your question was the one I had, too. Thanks for posting it.

[SunSeeker]

32. He bases it on some statistic he found that 30% of people get 100% of their income from the gov't.

And then makes the ridiculous conclusion that because they receive 100% of their income from the government, they "do not believe in the American dream" and want a "welfare state," just like Romney concluded that the 47% who do not pay federal income taxes are "victims" who don't "take responsibility for their lives." Of course, the people Ryan is talking about are folks like our seniors on social security (that they paid into all their lives), veterans fighting in Afghanistan (who are paid a pittance to lay their lives down for their country)...oh, and PAUL RYAN.

[kardonb]

38. latest..

here do they get their numbers ? They make them up out of thin air and their warped minds, that's where .

[daleo]

43. I am guessing it is a racial breakdown

They will never come out and say so.

[wordpix]

46. my question, too - first it was 47%, now it's 30%, anyone want to guess what number comes up at the

debate?

[emulatorloo]

2. Is that the same 30% that still approves of Bush?

As far as the America Dream goes, Obama epitomizes it. That's why they keep making shit up about him being "foreign" - they can't deal with how inspiring Obama's story is.

[freshwest]

16. +1,000,000! So true! Thanks for expressing it so well.

[99th_Monkey]

3. Dear Mr. Ryan: The 99% knows you are a big fat LIAR ~nt

[teenagebambam]

4. And 100% of Republicans on the Presidential ticket

are douchebags.

I apologize to any douchebags I've offended.

[LibDemAlways]

14. That's a statistic no one here will argue with. Well said. n/t

[begin_within]

47. Oh, don't worry

Douchebags never feel offended... because they don't realize they're being offended.

[Botany]

5. Hey can I play political power dude?

Tell you what give me a 30% voting block to start w/ and I can win a lot of
elections.

I think these guys really want to lose and lose big too.

[global1]

6. And Hasn't Rmoney Been Running Around And Talking 100% Since He Was Caught On Tape At 47%?,,,,,nt

[wordpix]

48. yes, he's been saying 100% all over the place but Ryan didn't get the memo, apparently

[hobbit709]

7. He's one of that 30%

After all, he's been getting government money for most of his life.

[SunSeeker]

30. Exactly! Repukes have no self awareness. nt

[wordpix]

49. Rmoney is definitely on the welfare roll$ with his Cayman & Swiss & Bermuda accts

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. These two have a very low opinion of the American people

They must not win this election.

[obxhead]

9. I have never met even one American

who does not want to live "the American dream."

Not one.

[LaPera]

10. Corporations who pay little or no taxes yet still receive corporate welfare.....

Is Ryan talking about the thousands of large profitable corporations who pay little or no taxes yet still receive corporate welfare (subsidies) from OUR tax dollars?

Does Ryan also including the rich and their corporations who receive welfare checks from our tax dollars via government contracts while over-charging, profiting off of selling unwanted & obsolete products, as well as for unfinished projects & non completed contracts?

Or is he as usual just trashing the less fortunate because the rich hate paying taxes even for things they use, roads, bridges, our courts, police & fire, etc. etc...and prefer to stash their money off-shore while taking advantage of government handouts?

[musiclawyer]

11. Yeah for modern technology

How many crappy administrations could the american people hav avoided if micro tape and video had existed over the last 100 years.

[Iliyah]

12. Thats the red states since many of the people

are on some kind of government assistance, but ssshhh, they don't know that they are getting government assistance and thats why they are voting for Mittens and Mini Mitt. "Keep government out of my Medicare"!

[Andy823]

13. Here is the problem

Besides the fact they are both full of crap, they fail to inform the country that the reason so many people need help is because of the failed policies of the "REPUBLICAN PARTY" when they had control of things. Bush pretty much destroyed this country and during his years in the WH jobs were outsourced overseas so "corporations" could make huge profits. Wall street and banks were unregulated and gambling with peoples savings, 401K's and other retirement funds. Trillions of dollars vanished from investors accounts. Our country was fighting two wars which has cost more than a trillion dollars while Bush and the republicans gave huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

We still give "subsidies" and tax breaks to big oil companies, corporate farms and to those who outsource jobs overseas and the republican congress had made sure that anything that might have helped get this country back on track was prevented from happening in congress.

[wordpix]

50. you forgot to add the subsidies for fat cats like Mittens who pay 14% on their million$ while we

peons pay much more, percentage wise.

[Liberalagogo]

15. 84% of Americans

Thinks Paul Ryan is a pedophile.

See, Paulie, I can pull numbers out of my ass, too!

[hifiguy]

17. Keep digging, motherfker

You're digging your own grave.

[PossumSqueezins]

18. 70% of Americans think Paul Ryan is an idiot

and an a$$hole.

[truthisfreedom]

19. Link is broken... Anyone?

[SoapBox]

22. Link is working for me...

Maybe it was fixed in the edit.

[allan01]

21. re:Paul Ryan: 30 Percent 'Want Their Welfare State,' 70 Percent 'Want The American Dream'

i didnt want ssi . i wanted to work. pay taxes. etc i am on ssi. took me and my team five @#$%^&* years to get there . i was originaly making x as part of the cost of living authorization by congress. now social security administration says " oh we over paid you , we will deduct $100 dollars for 10 months untill the balance is paied back". i appealed . am going to see if i can bring our mental health unit back on board as a team player . ( mental health was a team player years ago.) bottom line. mr . ryan. lets see u live off of $750.00 usd after expenses . you alpha hotel. i tried the ssi attorneys that advertised in the phone book and on tv 5 years ago. no joy. tried them again, no joy again.
going to contact my democratic rep for this district and see if he can help .

[bluesbassman]

24. Thank God FDR didn't think like that in 1932, and that President Obama doesn't today.

Romney and Ryan contiuously show their disdain for the American people. Disgusting.

[fingrinn]

25. Morality is:

Doing what is right, regardless of what you are told.

Obedience is:
Doing what you are told, regardless what is right.

( New Zealanders for Obama)

[HockeyMom]

26. I've seen the corporate rich

and walked away 30 years ago. Is this what they think the American Dream is? No, thank you. I didn't want to be around them, let alone BE one of them.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. George Carlin on the American dream...

http://m.

[CindyinIndy]

34. Love and miss George so much!

Thanks for posting! So true!

[awoke_in_2003]

41. You're welcome...

and welcome to DU

[wordpix]

53. "it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it"

Wow, that's a line to remember

[wordpix]

52. thank you, not so funny but so true!

[awoke_in_2003]

55. Carlin was supposedly a comedian...

I saw him as a realist, and the reality is very sad.

[secondvariety]

29. This comes

from a guy who's never had a job that didn't come with a taxpayer paid pay check.

[julian09]

37. He has a Govt paid staff doing his work for him.

They are working while Ryan is on vacation or campaigning. I would like to know what the payroll is for each REP OR SENATE staff amounts to, then the benefits.

[Warpy]

31. And 99% can't afford even to dream because the 1% have stolen the

benefits of their labor since the 70s.

They find these numbers exactly where they find their "facts," their enormous assholes where their heads are most of the time.

[Ash_F]

35. It would "take too long" for Ryan to explain where he got that statistic.

[B Stieg]

36. As the French would say...

Que se ressemble s'assemble. (Birds of a feather flock together)

Romney and Ryan are brothers in neoliberalism, so no real surprise here.

[Shitty Mitty]

39. Poor RW zombies are envious of people on welfare

They think people on welfare actually "get free money" and that the money is enough to live on. It's all about envy. And fuck Paul Ryan's "American Dream." The American Dream is dead and buried.

[Initech]

40. The real welfare queens in this country are corporate criminals and CEOs.

The rest of us have to fight the "I've got mine so fuck you crowd" for what's left of the scraps while they laugh all the way to the bank.

[wordpix]

54. like Rmoney

[Festivito]

42. More like 1% want wealthcare, and 99% want it back. /nt

[drmjg]

44. To me it is very telling what the truth is.

Ryan keeps trying to distance himself from Ayn Rand as it is proving to be a political liability. But, at the same time, he insists on using her term of makers and takers.

[JDPriestly]

45. The fact that they can't agree on the number suggests the whole claim is bogus.

[Hissyspit]

56. Oh, fer the luv of Jesus Harold Harefoot...

"I have here a list of 47 percent of, no, I mean 30 percent... 21, that's it! 21 percent of Americans..."

What a fucking joke this guy is.

[NICO9000]

57. So does this mean he likes Ayn Rand again?

[DissidentVoice]

58. If his idea of the "American Dream"...

...is an Objectivist version of one of Dante's circles of Hell, then call me a proud social democrat!

[yellowcanine]

59. But Mitt said the freeloader number was 47%. Did 17% just knuckle down and start working?

I am so confused.

[47of74]

60. Fuck you Paul Ryan

[bucolic_frolic]

61. Romney - Ryan have remarkable ability

to vivisect the American public along lines that no one else sees

and to do it with such arrogance and condescension.

Power has its delusions and these two are giddy

on their own ether

[AverageJoe90]

63. *Sigh*......There they go again. FU Paul Lyin'. nt

[Rain Mcloud]

64. Ryan should try to get a job these days.

Nobody wants to hire old people.
I'm only 48 and the only offers I get are for heavy labor,regularly lifting 70+ pounds and pushing up to 250 pounds and they want to pay $18,000 per year with no health insurance. Like i had no skills at all.
You would think to hear them tell it,nine dollars an hour is Good money.
Oh and I have to supply my own tools,Hah!

I busted my hump for 30 years as an industrial re-finisher,now i have stenosis and scoliosis to go along with degenerative disc disorder.
At least I have a retirement someday to fall back on.
I feel the pain of the Seniors who have to cope every day on a fixed income,they have it tough but,the kids working these days are going to have it exponentially harder.

People who say that "People don't want to work anymore" are in the same league as Ryan who never did a real days work.
The Chamber of Commerce supporter's think the sole role of Government is to dole out the good buddy government contracts with 90% profit to cost ratio,
Yet paying into Social Security and the collecting of it is tantamount to being a socialist or on welfare.
Tell me Mr. Ryan who is it that is on welfare again?
Do i need to tell you to crack a book on political science to discover the meaning of Socialism? Or why these social programs were initiated?
Perhaps they don't teach that in Poli-Sci at BrownShirt U.
Here is a start: http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/social_security.html

I try to be thankful for the part time job where 18 hours a week is considered the American Dream.
Still i keep looking for a better job on my generous time off.

Sorry for the rant but,this is one of the topics that gets me hot under the collar.