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07 October 2012

VIDEO: Paul Ryan's Version of "47 Percent"—the "Takers" vs. the "Makers" 5OKT12

lyin' paul ryan's views of average Americans, those of of who don't have the money to buy our vice presidential candidate his place on the campaign ticket (like david koch did when he paid $100 million to the super pacs supporting romney to make lyin' paul ryan the v.p. pick for the repiglican / tea-bagger ticket Uygur: Did David Koch buy Paul Ryan the VP slot? 25AUG12 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/uygur-did-david-koch-buy-paul-ryan-vp.html   ). We are all takers, leeches sucking away the wealth of the rich, sucking the federal welfare tit dry. He makes these accusations, as did mitt robme romney, to divide the opposition. Vilifying the recipients of different entitlement and social safety net programs, he uses fear of loosing these programs to turn people against each other in a vain attempt to protect what they have. His strategy is divide and conquer, luring different groups of people with lies, deception and manipulation into believing everyone else but the wealthy are the real threat to their economic livelihood and electing the romney-ryan ticket is the only way to protect what they have left after the great recession. Nothing could be farther from the truth as exposed in the article and video below from Mother Jones and in the suggested reading list that follows it. The romney-ryan campaign is waging class warfare against the vast majority of the American people, and there is a real danger they just might win...

Mitt Romney's "47 percent," meet Paul Ryan's "takers."
Romney is finally backing off his controversial comments, but the theme that the nation is divided into makers and government-dependent takers is one of long standing for both Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan. The GOP vice presidential candidate has repeatedly made statements that suggest he sees America in Ayn Randian terms—that many citizens are just takers, parasites who leech off productive citizens, the makers. As this collection of rarely seen videos shows, this has been a recurrent talking point for Ryan in small gatherings for years.
What Ryan also said about America: "Let's make this country a tax shelter."
"Right now about 60 percent of the American people get more benefits in dollar value from the federal government than they pay back in taxes," he said on the June 2010 edition of Washington Watch. "So we're going to a majority of takers versus makers." By November 2011, in an address he gave at an American Spectator event, Ryan put the number of takers at 30 percent. (That remark was first reported by Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post.)
Ryan has also warned about President Barack Obama creating "more of a permanent class of government dependents"—language that echoes Romney's take on the "47 percent who are with [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."
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As you can see in this series of charts, "government dependents" aren't who you necessarily think they are. Many people who don't pay federal income taxes are superrich or well off. Another 60 percent of Americans who don't pay income tax are working; they just don't make enough money to owe taxes. Most of the rest are retired folks, students, and members of the military serving in combat zones.
Full original videos posted by YouTube users (in order of clip appearance):

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