Paul Ryan's Social Safety Hammock

[Kennah]

Bunch of insidious bastards out there in America just lounging about in the Social Safety Hammock. Probably combing the beach, drinking margaritas, sleeping in until Noon, periodically wearing clothes, and sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex.

:sarcasm:

[CBHagman]

1. Yeah, I thought that was a weird phrase.

It read like something from Newt Gingrich or -- God help us all -- Star Parker, circa 1995. Come on! We've long been a country that has, at best, a highly uncertain social safety net. A single accident or illness can ruin a family, and highly qualified workers can face months or years of unemployment or underemployment.

On edit: For those of you who didn't catch the remarks from Paul Ryan (R-WI) last night following the State of the Union address, here's the quote:

Our nation is approaching a tipping point. We're at a moment where, if government's growth is left unchecked and unchallenged, America's best century will be considered our past century. This is a future in which we will transform our social safety net into a hammock, which lulls able-bodied people into lives of complacency and dependency.

[jwirr]

2. Until the repugs and boooosh destroyed our economy the

able-bodied people had jobs to rely on and the only people who relied on the safety net were the people who needed it because they were disabled or elderly. That is the way we want it to be again but it will not get that way with idiots like him.

Isn't he from Janesville WI? That is where the safety net failed for a disabled girl who died because she was 15 years old and only weighed 15 pounds. That child is like my child - developmentally disabled with digestive problems. The social services and doctors did not deal with the problem because they did not think the mother could handle the situation with a feeding tube. The mother was also developmentally disabled. My daughter had a tube inserted when she got down to 50 pounds and is very healthy - between me and home health we have managed to keep her this way. They could have done that in Ryan's district but they did not care.

[saras]

3. Whatever's in his Kool-Aid isn't working fast enough

Our government's growth is mostly in war and 'security' related areas. Somehow I don't think he's talking about all those TSA workers who sit around watching porn, or making it, all day.

[Bandit]

4. I always did think Social Security and Sex Sex Sex were one and the same..

:shrug: Can't wait until I get my hammock with all that sex sex sex sex.