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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:35 AM Jan 2013

Paul Ryan Releases Three-point Plan to Save Medicare

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Paul Ryan Releases Three-point Plan to Save Medicare (Original Post) Scuba Jan 2013 OP

Atta boy, Paul.. Permanut Jan 2013 #1

Yeah, 'cause nothing says "public service" like Cha Jan 2013 #2

lol 2pooped2pop Jan 2013 #3

Permanut

(5,642 posts)

1. Atta boy, Paul..

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 02:46 AM

Jan 2013

Ayn Rand would be so proud of ya!!1! Oh, wait, Ms. Rand accepted Social Security and Medicare, didn't she?

“[T]he reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand,” Paul Ryan, 2005.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0814/Paul-Ryan-does-an-about-face-on-Ayn-Rand

“I reject her philosophy,” Ryan said. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.” - Paul Ryan, April 2012

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/ron-johnson-ayn-rand-atlas-alive-today-86811.html#ixzz2JLQ0sr3h

Cha

(297,692 posts)

2. Yeah, 'cause nothing says "public service" like

Reply to Permanut (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 04:01 AM

Jan 2013

ayn rand.

Weasel ryan.

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)

3. lol

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 08:52 AM

Jan 2013

I was prepared to come to this post and write something about P. Ryan's first point needing to be to stay the hell out of medicare.

Then I see this. Love it.

thanks

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