http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/08/09/the-wall-street-journal-launches-a-draft-ryan-campaign Comments On: <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> Launches a Draft Ryan Campaign by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I'm no Republican. Paul Ryan can eat a dick and Mitt Romney is a gross sociopath. But, it's this willful ignoring of the violent nature of how our society is organized that does unimaginable harm to us all. We can have a real, lasting safety net without having it run by a group of people that also drop bombs on innocent people!

Penn Jillette puts it well: "It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint."
Posted by thinkchip]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:44:51 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Looking For a Better Read]]> Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:15:18 -0700 The Stranger
http://mobile.businessweek.com/magazine/…


Posted by Sean Kinney]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:35:54 -0700 The Stranger
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/social-s…

Posted by Sean Kinney]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:29:15 -0700 The Stranger
Paul, I don't understand your bemusement lately with what the Republicans understand/don't understand. They are sharp cookies; we should be so sharp, and we'd better GET sharp damned soon.
Posted by sarah70]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:07:57 -0700 The Stranger
Much in the same way you ignore Romney's call of market rules for insuring fairness based on merit, but supplemented with Romneycare (he invented it).

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:58:33 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:32:59 -0700 The Stranger the chair of the House committee that is responsible for the budget?

This makes no sense at all, even (or perhaps especially) if you are sympathetic to the brand of fiscal conservatism for which the WSJ is presumably advocating.
Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:16:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Large Hardon Colluder]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:42:47 -0700 The Stranger Excellent question. I'm gonna start posting on the WSJ blogs and demand more attention be made to the welfare queens. Change is going to happen!
Posted by dnt trust me]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:29:25 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Westlake, son!]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:42:23 -0700 The Stranger
or is it just the poorest americans that get to feel the austerity?
Posted by Max Solomon]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:22:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Mike in Olympia]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:15:23 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fistique]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:10:04 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Bugnroolet]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:57:33 -0700 The Stranger Posted by SPG]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:52:56 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:51:12 -0700 The Stranger