Paul wants people to dream again” - “You don’t dream when you’ve got food stamps" (WRONG!)
NY Mag:
The substance of Ryan’s anti-poverty agenda remains yet to be announced, but the general spirit of the endeavor can already be discerned from Ryan’s previous remarks, and those of the allies helping him formulate it. Ryan believes that the main impediment facing poor people is the existence of government programs that give them money and health care – a problem his budget rectifies by cutting subsidies to the poor. Those subsidies, Ryan has said, amount to “a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency, that drains them of their will and their incentive to make the most of their lives.”
Ryan’s new line seems similar to the old one:
“Paul wants people to dream again,” Holloway said of Ryan. “You don’t dream when you’ve got food stamps.”
In fact, lots of people who survived on food stamps — like J.K. Rowling — went on to achieve great things.
The other emerging element of Ryan’s anti-poverty agenda is Jesus:
“You cure poverty eye to eye, soul to soul,” he said last week at the Heritage forum. “Spiritual redemption: That’s what saves people.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/11/paul-ryan-poor-people-need-jesus-not-food.html
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnlennon/imagine.html
(mr. pete and i were on food stamps for 2 years when we first started out - 30 years ago,
BELIEVE YOU ME, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DREAMERS!)
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once you get on that sweet, sweet food stamp gravy train, with the steaks and the ice cream and cadillacs, your dreams just shrivel up and you sit on the couch and text on your Obama-phone for the rest of your life. amirite?
