tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post5900549042976891004..comments2023-11-03T03:52:37.873-05:00Comments on Cognitive Dissidence: All We Need Is Love Somebody DO Something!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08717747685928127724noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-72014067014562349422014-05-14T21:24:37.614-05:002014-05-14T21:24:37.614-05:00Hey Pau-LIE, it's just faith and hard work and...Hey Pau-LIE, it's just faith and hard work and everything ends up great, right?<br /><br /> Oh wait, they don't have the millions you inherited and the millions more you married into. Guess it's a little different for them, isn't it? <br /><br /> What a punchable scumbagJake formerly of the LPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660401299391001751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-19333754703505256702014-05-14T21:07:00.545-05:002014-05-14T21:07:00.545-05:00The best government program out there is a good pu...The best government program out there is a good public education, which makes people employable. Try using love, friendship and marriage as qualifications on a job application. I am not buying Paul's perverse exit strategy from poverty. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-60270264719347745822014-05-14T17:10:34.254-05:002014-05-14T17:10:34.254-05:00When you rely on Charles Murray's "The Be...When you rely on Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve" to justify your budget and it's war on the social safety net, it's hard to believe all his talk about "friendship, accountability, and love."<br />It would take a very strange understanding of Ayn Rand to preach about anything besides arrogant selfishness and greed.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-64040831261189844142014-05-14T14:32:35.277-05:002014-05-14T14:32:35.277-05:00The best thing about "friendship, accountabil...The best thing about "friendship, accountability and love" as the cure to poverty, from the rich Republican donor point of view, is that it doesn't require rich Republican donors to do anything that they aren't already not doing now. No point in investing money in new businesses or services or better housing or education; just keep on shipping those jobs overseas, 'cause "the poor" have an attitude problem that no amount of fair, respectful and humane economic treatment can fix. So you can go back to squeezing whatever you can out of them while the well-meaning nice people put out their Sunday blather. <br /><br />Heck, let's cut back on the well-meaning nice people's salaries by, say, 10%, since they've got so much friendship, accountability and love already, and that's all the loser classes (i.e., the 99%) need to be well off, according to Rep. Paul Ryan, anyway.<br /><br />And the great thing about doing nothing is that most people who are poor at a particular point in time don't stay poor forever, contrary to the picture of pervasive long term, multi-generational poverty the Rep. Ryan so loves to paint. So expect some great news in a year or so about how doing nothing (but friendship, accountability and love, of course, but that can't be measured) has miraculously caused so many tens of thousands to lift themselves by their own bootstraps out of the morass that the Republicans have consigned them to. Hallelujah! As long as you don't look too closely or ask too many questions about where those folks would have been even without all that wonderful wonderful friendship, accountability and love the Rep. Ryan says is all that's needed to fight poverty, or choose to overlook the economic support, housing and education programs that served as a bridge or a ladder.<br />MadCityVoternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-7551825268543842672014-05-14T12:26:32.064-05:002014-05-14T12:26:32.064-05:00Well, Catholics agree. Paul Ryan is certainly no ...Well, Catholics agree. Paul Ryan is certainly no Catholic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-90737808894962217662014-05-14T09:24:38.943-05:002014-05-14T09:24:38.943-05:00Essentially Ryan is saying that inner city residen...Essentially Ryan is saying that inner city residents are subhuman. Ryan is a monster.Garethnoreply@blogger.com