Secret Ryan Transcript: Social Security and Medicare are the Target

[jaxx]

Secret Ryan Transcript: Social Security and Medicare are the Target
Posted at: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 09:47:50 AM
Author: Vincent Miller

This isn’t from a secret video, it's from the untranscribed portion of Ryan’s 2005 speech at the Atlas Society’s “Celebration of Ayn Rand.” It fits well with the Romney video because it makes clear that middle class entitlements, “so called defined benefit programs” such as Social Security and Medicare ARE an explicit strategic target because they are collectivistic, socialistic and foster dependency.

<..> Ryan describes Social Security and Medicare as “collectivist” and “socialistic.”

Ryan’s strategic plan: privatize Social Security and Medicare in order to convert people from “collectivism” to believers in a “capitalistic individualistic” philosophy. So that there will be “more people on our team” who “won’t listen to” Democrats.

Ryan’s acceptance of Pinochet’s Secretary of Social Security José Piñera’s similar program of Social Security privatization as a “moral revolution” that made Marxists into capitalists who started to read the Chilean equivalent of the Wall Street Journal. Ryan is overheard, “Yeah” “That’s right.”

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entr...ry_id=5368

Caught red handed. Much more at link and link to speech.

[SeattleGirl]

I hope this gets wide play, like RMoney's "private" speech to his donors.

[jaxx]

(09-20-2012 09:21 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:  I hope this gets wide play, like RMoney's "private" speech to his donors.

I hope so too. I saw tomorrow Ryan is supposed to address Medicare at an AARP thing, and they are constantly tweeting about Medicare. People need to know they intend to get rid of it.

[SeattleGirl]

(09-20-2012 10:01 PM)jaxx Wrote:  

(09-20-2012 09:21 PM)SeattleGirl Wrote:  I hope this gets wide play, like RMoney's "private" speech to his donors.

I hope so too. I saw tomorrow Ryan is supposed to address Medicare at an AARP thing, and they are constantly tweeting about Medicare. People need to know they intend to get rid of it.

I "liked" it on FB and I tweeted it too.

[Willinois]

Reagan called Medicare socialism. Some of them never gave up that belief. And, really, it is.

[pappy]

(09-20-2012 11:17 PM)Willinois Wrote:  Reagan called Medicare socialism. Some of them never gave up that belief. And, really, it is.

How world is filled with socialist ideas. Fire protection, police, roads and public education to name just a few. Some things will never get done if left to the private sector and the profit motive. Where, for instance, is the profit motive for the rich to educate poor kids in the ghetto?