Paul Ryan Accuses Obama of ‘Sowing Class Envy’

[undeterred]

By Shira Toeplitz
Roll Call Staff

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan accused President Barack Obama of capitalizing on voter “fear, envy and anger” in his rhetoric.

“I think he’s preying on the emotions of fear, envy and anger,” the Wisconsin Republican said today on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “And that is not constructive to unifying America. I think he’s broken his promise as a uniter, and now he’s dividing people. And to me, that’s very unproductive. That’s not who we are in America.”

Republicans have criticized the president’s push to raise taxes for upper income earners, labeling it “class warfare.” Ryan echoed that message today.

“I think this divisive rhetoric is fairly — is divisive,” he said. “I think it’s troubling. Sowing class envy and social unrest is not what we do in America.”

http://www.rollcall.com/news/paul_ryan_accuses_obama_sowing_class_envy-209328-1.html



Because privatizing everything is so unifying :sarcasm:

[charmay]

1. The protesters are a wrinkle

in his greedy plunder of the poor and the middle class.

[Yon_Yonson]

2. Just another NEOCON RAT TURD who will be taken out at the polls.

Who the fuck gives a crap what you think Ryan!
:wtf:

[undeterred]

3. Paul Ryan: Obama ‘preying on emotions of fear, resentment and anger’

By Jonathan Easley - 10/20/11 04:36 PM ET

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) ramped up his criticism of President Obama on Thursday, saying he is “going all in” on class warfare while “preying on emotions of fear, resentment and anger.”

In a wide-ranging interview that aired on Milwaukee-based radio station 620 WTMJ, the chairman of the House Budget Committee declined to criticize the Occupy Wall Street protesters, so long as “no property gets damaged.” But Ryan lambasted Democrats for backing a movement of people that he says is looking for someone “to pay off their loans and debts.”

“Yeah, it sounds like we’re just taxing Brett Favre and Brad Pitt, you know the millionaires and billionaires, a movie star and a baseball player,” Ryan said. “But what we’re actually doing is great damage to the entrepreneurial engine of this economy and the small businesses of this economy, where a vast majority of the jobs come from, and because most of our businesses file their taxes that way, it’s a huge economic mistake.”

Moving on to deficit reduction, Ryan accused the president of making the supercommittee’s job “virtually impossible,” and said the administration has shown no interest “in getting spending under control.” “ moved the goal posts on what they’re supposed to accomplish,” Ryan said. “They’re supposed to do all of this stimulus spending and tax increases on top of the $1.2 to $1.5 trillion they’re supposed to cut. And then he threw all of the class warfare stuff at it, which makes it harder for Democrats to compromise with us when their leader is sort of poisoning the well.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/188895