Is it true? As we say in Minnesota, "You betcha!"
When Paul Ryan's dad died suddenly of a heart attack when the VP pick was 16, he used the Social Security death benefits to pay for college. Once again, I find it enormously frustrating that someone on the right shits all over the nice place in which he lives simply because he read Ayn Rand and is on an adolescent power trip.
Oh, and I also don't want to hear any more bitching about the "liberal media" after this piece in the New York Times.
His self-reliance followed him to summer camp, where as a counselor he canoed and hiked, and into young adulthood, where he took up deer hunting, a fact noted in his engagement notice in 2000 in The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “Ryan is an avid hunter and fisherman,” the paper reported, “who does his own skinning and butchering and makes his own Polish sausage and bratwurst.”
Self reliance aided by...someone else...and something else...Social Security. In fact, isn't Paul Ryan a living example of what President Obama meant by not doing everything on your own?
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Perhaps learned math in college.
Self interest - how does it fucking work?
He couldn't have used very much, since Social Security benefits for surviving children end after 18 except to pay for high school, GED, or other secondary school. I didn't realize that if you ever received anything from Social Security, you are not allowed to criticize the way it is set up or attempt to reform it.
Well, there goes that talking point.
“I reject her philosophy,” Ryan says firmly. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person’s view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas,” who believed that man needs divine help in the pursuit of knowledge. “Don’t give me Ayn Rand,” he says.
Yup. If I were a Congress-critter, I would require staffers to read and show some basic understanding of the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, Meo's Little Red Book, as well as John Locke, Hobbes, More, etc., as a bare minimum to understanding our system (and maybe even Ayn Rand). It's almost too much to expect of today's college graduates without extra work, but what the hell...
Yup. If I were a Congress-critter, I would require staffers to read and show some basic understanding of the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, Meo's Little Red Book, as well as John Locke, Hobbes, More, etc., as a bare minimum to understanding our system (and maybe even Ayn Rand). It's almost too much to expect of today's college graduates without extra work, but what the hell...
Hmm, don't know how the double-post occurred. Sorry.
So he got a government benefit when he was 16 - so now he'd better shut his mouth regarding entitlement reform!
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/13/soledad-obrien-caught-reading-liberal-blog-during-heated-debate-romne
Yep, media is still liberal.
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