I just love his overall theme about this, that free school lunch programs give kids “full bellies, but empty souls”.
…and it looks like Paul Ryan stole the story from a book called An Invisible Thread. Curiously, the book is about the experience someone had when they stopped to talk to a child who was panhandling and how they subsequently became friends and got the child the help he needed to become a happy, healthy adult; it’s a terrific story. Paul Ryan’s apparent plagiarism is, um, something less than terrific, much like the man himself.
According to that link, Ryan says he got the story from a woman in Scott Walker’s administration.
Please, sir, may I have my soul in a brown paper bag?
Somehow I don’t see how that story would be a moral lesson in individual self-reliance or the corrupting evils of handouts.
In your case, I’d better double-bag it! [rimshot]
Nah, my soul is so light you’d think the bag was empty. Oh wait…
Certainly, ma’am. Would you prefer Wild Irish Rose or Night Train?
I drink AND drive Thunderbird!
John Boehner says Issa was just doing his job.
I don’t know if this is a Republican stupidity or a Conservative stupidity, but:
http://aattp.org/right-wing-journalist-angry-that-12-years-a-slave-doesnt-depict-happy-slaves/
12 Years a Slave is missing all of the happy slaves.
I always figured that the GOP is against feeding kids primarily because kids that grow up undernourished tend to have lower IQs, and hence are more likely to become Republicans.
As a child who grew up on the free lunch program, I was personally happy that I didn’t have to starve all day as opposed to questioning whether my parents cared about me (which I assumed they DID, since they took the time to make sure I’d get to eat lunch and all).
I’m beginning to think that to Paul Ryan, poor people are just some mythical entities like elves and fairies and gnomes.
I don’t think we can call it plagiarism. Just a mistaken and bumbling mis-attribution?
Paul Ryan can go fuck himself.
At least we can prove that bellies exist.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Thursday that liberals don’t understand disadvantaged students would rather have parents who care for them than a free lunch at school.
What a pointy-haired-right-in-the-middle-of-his-forehead genius this man is!
Wisconsin, ya hey 'dere!
Some hilarious comments from the original site:
So, to paraphrase, “Let them eat slogans.”.
Oops. Got my comedians mixed up.
Re: That story about Paul Ryan telling the story of a school kid who would rather have a brown paper bag lunch than a soulless school lunch: Washington Post Fact-Checker gives it Four Pinocchios.
It seems he was just relating a story he had heard from Eloise Anderson, Secretary of Wisconsin Dept. of Children and Families, which she had told in testimony to Congress last year. Anderson had told the story as a first-person incident, when in fact she had heard it or read it in a book that was actually promoting food stamps and school lunches as anti-poverty programs.
So, WaPo gives Anderson Four Pinocchios for, first, reporting the story as her own and, second, for taking it entirely out of context. Ryan, in turn, gets Four Pinocchios for repeating such a story, so important to the point he was trying to make, without fact-checking it first. WaPo calls it the “story too good to fact-check”.
ETA: Oops! Almost forgot the link. Here 'tis:
Repubs are quick to turn on losers.
CYA all the way when you are going to lose, right fellas?
BTW, in a two-fer - According to Michael Medved, no states prohibit SSM.