This entire debate, the real facts about how this will play out for people, and the ever increasing health care costs are the best advertisement for single payer system there is. I use to be staunchly against it, most often sided with GOP over the years and now regret it. I have spent 27 years as a compliance officer in one of the country's largest insurance companies. Folks, you have to stand up and say no to the GOP and Romney-Ryan. Their idea of a future is no future for you at all.
"Paul Ryan seems like a good Catholic to me"
BALONEY Whoever wrote this is Paul Ryan...
"I am a poor person who receives an extremely generous amount of government aid myself..."
If Paul Ryan has his way there will be NO Government aid of any kind, no social security, no medicare, no veterans benefits
"NUNS ON THE BUS" WAS WONDERFUL, GOOD, INFORMATIVE, AND A TRUE WITNESS TO THE GOSPELS OF JESUS!
It's sad you expect people to abandon essential moral and religious principles in response to some perceived financial advantage! As I pointed out in another comment, this is the "What's the Matter with Kansas" meme: "progressives" expressing frustration and bafflement at voters with moral principles more important than money. According to this meme it's "rational" for voters to abandon Christian morality in response to a financial incentive such as a government handout. Like Judas betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
It is a sin to vote for a pro abortion rights or pro same sex "marriage" candidate. There is not in fact any good reason why directly killing innocent people (babies, the elderly, or etc) should be legal. We are obliged to oppose it. People have a natural right to life.
The idea that supplying me with handouts such as food stamps has anything to do with the middle class is preposterous.
A few quotes from Paul Ryan over the past few years regarding the atheist Ayn Rand and her writings:
• "I just want to speak to you a little bit about Ayn Rand and what she meant to me in my life and [in] the fight we're engaged here in Congress. I grew up on Ayn Rand, that's what I tell people."
• "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are."
• "It's inspired me so much that it's required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff. We start with Atlas Shrugged. People tell me I need to start with The Fountainhead then go to Atlas Shrugged [laughter]. There's a big debate about that. We go to Fountainhead, but then we move on, and we require Mises and Hayek as well."
• "But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand."
• "And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism -- that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism -- you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
• "It's so important that we go back to our roots to look at Ayn Rand's vision, her writings, to see what our girding, under-grounding [sic] principles are."
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