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Paul Ryan today at CPAC
Paul Ryan: Democrats Offer Americans a Full Stomach and an Empty Soul
Mitt Romneys old running mate rips liberals over income inequality, saying they want to hook people on welfare.
Ryan insinuated that the Democratic Party is selling the American people a welfare state. "What the left is offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul...People don't just want a life of comfort. They want a life of dignity."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/06/paul-ryan-democrats-offer-americans-a-full-stomach-and-an-empty-soul.html
Captain Picard, Star Trek, "Chain of Command (Part II)":
Meanwhile on Celtris III, Gul Madred is speaking with his daughter about whether Humans have parents. Picard is sitting in a spotlight in a red robe-like gown. Picard tries to get under Madred's skin by questioning his motives for bringing his daughter to such an installation, let alone allow her to see her father interrogating a prisoner. They banter back and forth about military power and its role in their civilizations. Madred tells his prisoner that because of the Cardassian military, his daughter will never go hungry. Picard turns this on him by saying, "Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty."
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Chain_of_Command,_Part_II_(episode)
aquart
(69,014 posts)Where is there dignity in a life without comfort?
Ayn Rand super crap.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)original thought. The party of Lyin' Ryan and Plagiarizing Paul. Just sad......
BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
To-wit: If your stomach is empty - if you lack the basic requirements for survival - you won't be able to satisfy any "higher" goals. Your spirit can't be fulfilled if all you can think about is how poor, hungry and desperate you are. If you're living under a bridge and eating garbage from dumpsters it's pretty tough to hang on to your dignity.
But then, if you've spent your entire adult life being subsidized either by your well-to-do family or your cushy job in Congress, you wouldn't have a clue about how barely managing to survive crushes your spirit.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)LOL
TlalocW
(15,379 posts)Primarily because of the space ferret.
TlalocW
Cha
(297,123 posts)anyone else's.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Cha
(297,123 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)can get up in front of people and tell them how bad WELFARE RECIPIENTS are...and then pretend he is NOT THE BIGGEST ONE...is a miracle of modern politics.
Self-satisfied, smug moochers should just stfu!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)right wing. They are too lazy to even get an original thought.
glowing
(12,233 posts)other than parrot their partisan lines and conduct kabuki theater.
stg81
(351 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)sheshe2
(83,728 posts)you lost your soul a long time ago, as did the rest of your party!
TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)n/t
stg81
(351 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)these right wingers and baggers do not have one original thought among the lot of them. A bunch of plagiarizers and liars and charlatans.
kentuck
(111,076 posts)So their soul will be full of righteousness.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Oh who are we kidding. Repugs would never watch an episode of ST that casts torture in a negative light.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)I was just telling somebody the other day what an awesome episode that was.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)He needs to be a bit older, but man, that show was full of so many provocative ideas. And honestly, most of those ideas were fairly progressive.
I'd watch them all, all over again. Even the campy and dumb episodes. Why not.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)So far he's definitely more of an original series person, but he's starting to warm to TNG. I love DS9 but that's a bit dark for him yet, he's a sensitive guy.
CANDO
(2,068 posts)My hard core conservative brother just loves "It's A Wonderful Life". It's just that he can't equate the message of the movie to daily life.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)investment accounts worth millions and empty souls.
Gothmog
(145,086 posts)Paul Ryan may have been hanging around Rand Paul and caught Paul's habit of stealing other people's ideas
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)just went to work for Ryan. Or, maybe it's Rand Paul Ryan? Have they ever been seen together?
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Ryan is a turd.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)Even though a David Warner role is too good for him.