No, I had no idea.
Point of information, please – I really don’t know the answer, and it will affect my ability to disparage Ryan or perhaps grudgingly accede the point to him.
Do we know that Wisconsin had found jobs for people on welfare and thus reduced its welfare rolls? Or did Wisconsin just reduce its welfare rolls through other means, like perhaps changing eligibility requirements or something? The cite says only “Wisconsin had the third-biggest caseload drop between 1995 and 2001 — 76%.” Same for the other states in similar circumstance. I can think of a host of causes for a caseload drop that have little or nothing to do with finding jobs. I’d like to know what the actual situation was.
Ann Coulter is correct. Under Obamacare, 100% of single women will not have husbands that pay for child support.
Can’t they just change their Facebook status to “Its complicated”?
Which is a lie. And the point. He has to lie about President Obama’s plan in order to make it appear as if he’s eliminating the work obligation when in fact he’s increasing it, just as Wisconsin had done when Ryan inserted his waivers into the welfare reauthorization bill.
So, people go on welfare because they don’t have jobs. Then, they are required to get jobs to keep getting welfare? Or the state will assign them work, but won’t pay them for this work, because they are on welfare?
So, the plan then is to fire public sector workers and rid ourselves of their greedy unions, and then have the work done by fired public sector workers on welfare?
It means that when you try to pay for gas, you will have to wait behind the person who is asking for a receipt for the job application he just handed in, who in turn had to wait behind the person who was playing lottery tickets.
Indentured servitude is such an ugly phrase…but the economic benefits* are undeniable!
*: to those who are worthy, of course
Austerity! That’s what we need here, some good old fashioned Calvinist austerity! Some noose-tightening would be good for the pampered poor! * Belt* tightening, I mean. Slip of the knot. Tongue, slip of the tongue. Anyway, austerity!..
Anyone consulted Laura Ingraham for her opinion?
Also, there was a similar scheme in the UK from the Conservative party, which didn’t fare too well.
I had to reread this twice to figure out that she’s claiming ObamaCare would be the end of America.
This is a brilliant tactic. I’m going to use this from now on.[sup]*[/sup] I’m going to take boring least-we-could-have-done moderate bills and characterize them as. “THE END OF AMERICA!”
Yeah, sure, you get to pay a lower tax on arrows, and that sounds great, but it’s the end of America!
Hey, it’s what Ronnie Reagan would do.[sup]**[/sup]
[sup]*[/sup] I’m really not.
[sup]**[/sup] It is, and he did.
John Boehner accused Obama of blaming everyone but himself for the drought.
He has subsequently revised his website to remove the charge.
What was he supposed to do, a rain dance?
Duh.
Messiah.
No, no no. That’s the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Silly Republicans.
I know what would end this drought, elimination of the capital gains tax.
Wait, I thought praying for rain was Rick Perry’s job?
Perhaps the drought is God’s repayment for being ignorant hypocritical assholes? Or does He only get credit for the good stuff?
Less a stupid idea than a WTF idea;
[QUOTE=Rick Perry]
When it gets back to this issue of taking guns away from law abiding citizens and somehow know this will make our country safer, I don’t agree with that. I think most people in Texas don’t agree with that, and that is a state by state issue frankly that should be decided in the states and not again a rush to Washington, D.C. to centralize the decision making, and them to decide what is in the best interest for the citizens and the people of Florida and Texas. That’s for the people of these states to decide.
[/QUOTE]
I can’t begin to imagine the epic shitstorm that would emerge if a Democrat said states should have the power to “take guns away from law-abiding citizens”.
Gotta compete with those Chinese sweatshops, man.
Romney picks running mate who would lower his taxes:
That’s right: less than one percent.
Listen to me, Mittens. You know what you are? You’re a greedy little shit with too much money. That’s all you are.
You know what you aren’t? You aren’t Albert Einstein expanding our understanding of the universe. You aren’t Dr. Paul Offit curing rotavirus in third world countries. You aren’t Isaac Newton or that Nobel prize winner in Burma bravely confronting the world’s worst government. You’re not a parent coping with a child with cystic fibrosis or the guy who wrote this year’s Pulitzer prize winning expose. You’re not the firefighter pulling the guy out of the burning building or the first grade teacher in the disadvantaged schools trying to teach little kids to read.
You’re just a greedy little shit. So drop the fucking pretense. I am sick and tired of hearing people like yourself demanding to be worshipped by ordinary people and accorded a special place in the tax code. There are millions of others who serve this country and this world far more than you ever will. Stop throwing a temper tantrum, grow the fucking hell up and pay your fair share of taxes like the rest of us.