Ryan to Ohio Woman Re Welfare: "Teach a man to fish & you feed him for a lifetime. Don't feed fish."

[kpete]

On Wednesday, in Ohio, Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from space, in the middle of a rote answer to a woman who was talking about being on welfare, an answer that was just inches from actually being human, said this:

"Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Don't feed fish."
Brilliant young thinker, that one.


Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-fish-quote-13101770#ixzz27cTYFmpk

[CBGLuthier]

1. won't get fooled again. REDUX

[KansDem]

8. Don't forget, "It's terrible to lose one's mind"

Throughout his time as vice president, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and by many in the general public, in both the U.S. and overseas, as an intellectual lightweight and generally incompetent.[12] Contributing greatly to the perception of Quayle's incompetence was his tendency to make public statements that were either self-contradictory and confused ("The holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.… No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history&quot , impossible and confused ("I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future&quot or confused, as when he addressed the United Negro College Fund, whose slogan is "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," and said, "You take the UNCF model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle

[Zalatix]

13. Ryan has a mind to lose?

[BumRushDaShow]

2. He's finished. n/t

[elleng]

3. He REALLY screwed that one up!

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb

[Xipe Totec]

4. You have GOT to be shitting me!

Please tell me this is The Onion.

[eShirl]

7. nope, I saw when MSNBC ran the clip earlier.

[eShirl]

5. He misspoke. He meant to say, "Don't feed the poor."

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. ROFL

That made me ACTUALLY laugh out loud!

[lonestarnot]

29. Some may find it funny, but that is exactly what he meant to say.

[landolfi]

6. Check out some of the comments below the story at the link:

Coffee Joe: "Build a man a fire and he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Yet another Ryan fish story

He's got a million of them.

[livetohike]

10. LOL and so true

[cthulu2016]

11. We won't be fish again

[asjr]

14. I don't know which is the looniest, Ryan or Romney.

[LiberalAndProud]

15. !?!

[SunsetDreams]

16. What? I got a fish for him

[central scrutinizer]

17. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

That's why are there no bike lanes under water.

[BlueStreak]

18. Gilligan channels Dan Quayle nt

[Iris]

19. Even if he'd gotten it right, he would have had to add something like, "privatize water and...."

or "repeal environmental laws so that the water is poisoned and......"

[robertpaulsen]

20. No, don't feed fish to people. That might be something Christ would do.

As Ryan himself said, "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."

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ryans-secret-tape-even-more-extreme-romneys?paging=off

I sincerely doubt Ayn Rand would approve of Jesus just giving away loaves and fishes to 5,000 free-loaders as described in John 6:1-15.

[Robyn66]

21. What Ryan said was disgusting

This woman said she made 300-something every two weeks and she wanted to know what he was going to do to help her get off Welfare. And he responded by saying basically it was up to her and then the Don't feed fish comment.

Cold disgusting cruelty.

[bluestate10]

30. The sad thing.

Is that woman was likely there because she wanted to hear one thing from that bastard that would make her feel comfortable about the vote she was sure to cast for him and Romney. Wonder whether she is reconsidering her vote now? Well, she did get a serving of Romney/Ryan dish for the 47%.

[Robyn66]

33. No kidding

He basically said "get a job you lazy scumbag" This woman had real pain in her voice. I hope it DID make her re-think her vote and maybe she wont vote against her interest.

[tanyev]

22. Wha? He really is Sarah 2.0.

[reformist2]

23. "Jesus, stop handing out those loaves and fishes!!!"

[Raine]

24. He's a combo of Quayle, Palin and Dubya between him & Rmoney they don't have a working brain. nt

[fried eggs]

25. Ryan is trying to distance himself from Rmoney to save his career...

But Ryan is doing a pretty good job destroying his career on his own.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

26. Doesn't Ryan want to cut Pell Grants?

[bluestate10]

32. Let a man get an education, you get an uppity thinker.

Prevent a man from getting an education, you have a butler for life. signed Paulie;

[Honeycombe8]

27. So people are like fish, to be consumed by the wealthy? Like Soylent Green? nt

[patrice]

28. k, so what is the man fishing for then? Is that mob speak? W - T - F ????????????

[riderinthestorm]

31. Uhm, this doesn't even make sense. Even knowing the Jesus quote. nt