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More R&R math: 47% = 30%

Posted: Oct 2, 2012

Finally, a viewpoint the R bros totally share....one they don't have to run away from when answering hard questions from campain trail press corps. Ryan concurs with Romney that a large segment of America's population are shiftless, lazy folks who are dependent on the government and have no motivation to improve their lives. Unlike real citizens, they do not share our so-called American dream. Ryan is a bit more generous in his estimation. His figure is 30% as opposed to Romney's 47%.

"Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state. Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers."

Does this mean Ryan called himself "inelegant" the other day? What's up with that?

Here's the link. Jump all over the source, if you must, but the comments are on tape.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/paul-ryan-30-percent-welfare-state_n_1933730.html

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Apparently the new talking points have not been issued yet. - nm

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doesn't Ryan understand that part of that - AZMT

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American dream is to be able to retire and have Social Security and Medicare which they paid into for more than 50 years of their lives?

No problem there.... - SK1

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Ryan is a self-admitted numbers guy. And unless he's lying about the statistics (which I haven't seen and can't speak to), he's only saying that 30% of American support a government-reliant society.

I don't see any deep, dark double-speak here.

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