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  • From: venaurafarm <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] OT: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 04:28:37 -0400


This is such and alarming and accurate article I thought I would Xpost it here. There appears to be some ayn rand connection with ryan.
Anyone who thinks any rand is cool and therefore ryan must be cool too, read the following article. Romney-Ryan will be bad news for the world of permaculture, especially for those permaculturists trying to hang on financially and stick with their committment to that lifestyle and livlihood. Otherwise it will be the 60's revisited, tune in and drop out, survive with help of others (those "others" do not include the right wing). Don't bother turning on, a waste of time unless it is through meditation (ever wonder why the Tibetan Buddhist Monks are so important to world sanity?).

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The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
http://act.alternet.org/go/23151?t=1&akid=9240.269594.lz8wgn

The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace the Cruelty of Paul Ryan and Other Right-Wingers
Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent people wind up supporting horrific policies.
August 19, 2012 |

Earlier this year, Democratic operatives looking for the best way to define Mitt Romney discovered something interesting about Paul Ryan's budget. The New York Times reported that when the details of his proposals were run past focus groups, they found that the plan is so cruel that voters “ simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.”

In addition to phasing out the Earned Income Tax Credit that keeps millions of American families above the poverty line and cutting funding for children's healthcare in half, Jonathan Cohn described the “America that Paul Ryan envisions” like this:

Many millions of working-age Americans would lose health insurance. Senior citizens would anguish over whether to pay their rent or their medical bills, in a way they haven’t since the 1960s. Government would be so starved of resources that, by 2050, it wouldn’t have enough money for core functions like food inspections and highway maintenance.

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