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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Paul Ryan: Only Business Owners Work Hard," the person who picks up Mitt's garbage disagrees
By Igor Volsky
On Labor Day, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) characterized the holiday a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country as a celebration not of the worker, but of management and CEOs.
During a rally in Iowa on Tuesday afternoon, Paul Ryan expressed a similar sentiment, arguing that business owners are the only Americans working hard and taking risks to make this country grow. The comments echoed Mitt Romneys now infamous 47 percent remark and suggested that Ryan too believes that many Americans are too lazy or simply refuse to work long hours:
RYAN: And when he says, if you have a small business you didnt build that. Look, all we mean is that nobody else gets up at 5:00 AM and opens the doors. Nobody else works 7 days a week. Nobody else takes the risks. Nobody else meets the payroll. Nobody else goes to the bank. These are businesses that are built by the sweat, toil, and hard work of workers in this country of businesses in this country and thats what makes this country grow.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/10/02/943731/ryan-only-business-owners-work-hard-make-this-country-grow/
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rurallib
(62,577 posts)BTW - if this was in Muscatine there was only a few idiots there to see him.
Most Iowans have more contact with - uh - fertilizer than they like already.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)AnnieBW
(10,566 posts)I work for the Federal Government. I know plenty of my fellow Feds (I guess we're the 47%, since we're dependent on the Government) that get in at 5 AM or earlier. They're that dedicated.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Every paycheck he's ever gotten since college came from the US treasury.
Fucking lying pig.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)So he doesn't have to pay an excess bag fee.
Seriously, the guy is not right in the head about money.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)even when he was driving the fucking hot dog truck...
Mopar151
(10,036 posts)I used to help out my friends with a small rubbish route. You get a whole different perspective on who the good people are. And which church ladies go thru 3 handles of vodka a week.....
rustydog
(9,186 posts)He prices all the items in the store, takes care of restocking...the help just sits there waiting for government help.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)No wonder unemployment's so high. They don't need workers. Also
However it does bring up this point. If only business owners work, then why doesn't the government give all those tax breaks to support worker owned co-ops?. Everybody would be an owner then.
Blue Idaho
(5,104 posts)No matter how hard he tries to disavow her he is a Randian to his core.
Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)"nobody else gets up at 5:00 AM and opens the doors."
I've had many jobs, my friends and family have had many jobs, NO BOSS has EVER "opened the doors" in the morning. NONE. EVER. Fuck Ryan and his Randian horseshit.
kentuck
(111,187 posts)Ryan is full of shit.