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Paul Ryan on Obama: He‘s ’Sowing Social Unrest’

In a speech given at the Heritage Foundation Wednesday morning, Paul Ryan said Obama’s method of rallying public support for his $447 billion jobs package was “sowing social unrest and class resentment” and could be “just as damaging as his misguided policies,” reports Politico.

As Business Insider points out, Paul Ryan used to be the politician that Obama liked to use “as an example of the type of policy-minded Republican he could work with.” However, the feelings were not reciprocated Wednesday morning when Ryan made it very that he believes the president is stoking an atmosphere of division that is making working together all but impossible.

“Instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past,” Ryan said before a crowd at The Heritage foundation. “He is going from town to town, impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats, and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments, as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators.”

The “budget wonk” went on to accuse President Obama of using “class-based rhetoric” in his re-election campaign, Politico reports. Obama’s tactics, Ryan said, make “America weaker, not stronger.”

“Instead of appealing to the hope and optimism that were the hallmarks of his first campaign, he has launched his second campaign by preying on the emotions of fear, envy, and resentment,” Ryan added.

“This has the potential to be just as damaging as his misguided policies. Sowing social unrest and class resentment makes America weaker, not stronger. Pitting one group against another only distracts us from the true sources of inequity in this country – corporate welfare that enriches the powerful, and empty promises that betray the powerless,” Ryan added.

Contrary to claims from the White House and many members of Occupy Wherever, Ryan said that the real class warfare that threatens the U.S. is “[a] class of bureaucrats and connected crony capitalists trying to rise above the rest of us, call the shots, rig the rules, and preserve their place atop society. And their gains do come at the expense of working Americans, against entrepreneurs, and that small businesswoman who has the gall to take on the corporate chieftain.”

“It’s disappointing that this President’s actions have exacerbated this form of class warfare in so many ways,” Politico quotes Ryan saying.

Before Ryan officially made these comments, Hotair‘s Ed Morrisey took the opportunity to reexamine one of the claims made by the White House that some have labeled as “class warfare.”

“Obama promised that his initial plan in 2009 would help up to 9 million homeowners stave off foreclosure, but it’s actually only helped less than a million,” Morrisey writes.

Watch the Wolf Blitzer interview where he takes Jay Carney to task on the president’s claim (h/t Hotair):

This led Morrisey to scrutinize the president’s latest proposal:

Just to be clear, Obama’s new [economic] plan does not help people who are facing foreclosure, since one of its prerequisites is that homeowners cannot have missed more than one payment in the last twelve months and must be caught up on their payments.

It will help people whose mortgages exceed their equity by simply stretching out the mortgages for a longer period, allowing them to pay less each month on the mortgage — and supposedly that will get them to spend an extra hundred dollars or so a month and boost the economy.

It’s the Cash for Clunkers approach again, only with some ersatz class-warfare rhetoric tossed in, even though this isn’t helping anyone keep their house at all [emphasis added].

It would appear that Ryan and Morrisey are in agreement in regards to the president’s “fuzzy math” proposals–including the one where he has called on the wealthy to pay their “fair share”in income in taxes.

“According to the President’s logic, we should give up on trying to reform our tax code to grow the economy and get more revenues that way,” Ryan said. “Instead, these goals are taking a backseat to the President’s misguided understanding of fairness.”

“The president’s political math is a muddled mix of false accusations and false choices,” he added. “The actual math is apolitical: By the time my kids are my age, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projects, the size of government will be double what it is today.”

Watch the entire presentation by Paul Ryan:

(H/T Hotair, Business Insider, Politico)

Comments (59)

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  • chasbronson
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 10:02am

    Ryan is correct.

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    • just the facts
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:05am

      Yes, Ryan is correct and as far as I’m comcerned did not go or say enough.

      What’s happening in and to the United States now, these protests, the market, barry’d actions, the athiests, class warfare is and was the progressive plan from the beginning. In order to advance the progressive agenda, they had to manufacture this atmosphere. The more chaos, the more disfunction, the better it is for their agenda. If people were paying attention, one would have seen this being organized and implemented the first 3 months of barry’s unleadership. It doesn’t surprise me what is happening – and unfortunately, it’s going to get much, much worse.

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    • stoptheliesbho
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Oh my Lort – I forgot about the abismal failure that Cash for Clunkers was. We should’ve impeached BHO then…

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  • davidwjohnson
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:42am

    Everything the President, Democrats, and followers have done this past year is to sow seeds of discontent between the classes.

    The President is relying on the ignorance of the average person to spread his discourse.

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:47pm

      If anyone is sowing social unrest, it’s Obama and all his commie, anti-American friends

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  • klbrooks123
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:37am

    Unfortunately, this clown in the White House is an expert and trainer for dividing a populas agqainst itself.

    He is the perfect Model for being a COMMUNITY ORGANISER. Now you know what he is. Is it too late?

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on October 28, 2011 at 3:56am

      Obama has done pretty well for an average community organizer.

      The Muslim world in an uproar.
      Trillions of dollars in wealth destroyed.
      Advancing toward a global economic collapse.
      High unemployment.
      Routinely defies the US constitution.
      Widespread social and economic dissent.
      Communist China is in ascendancy.
      Rising Health Care costs.
      Bailouts for crony capitalists: Goldman Sacks, GM
      Inflation especially on food.
      Plummeting dollar.
      Corruption in the Department of Justice.
      Skyrocketing Federal debt.
      Support for corrupt organizations: Acorn, SEIU, Planned Parenthood
      Mortgage/housing collapse.
      Evolution of Homeland Security into military/police state.
      Advancement of Global Government and New World Order.

      He has been able to do all this in less than three years.
      He still has 14 months to do as much damage as he can.

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  • olderthandirt10
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:23am

    Paul Ryan has done exactly what the republicans must continue to do throughout the next 13 months. He took it to Obama and refuted the latter’s statements re. how his plans are good for America. In effect he called him out. Other republican leaders must follow his lead and take it to Obama. Effective speakers would include but not be limited to the following: Rubio, West, DeMint, Christie and all of the republican contenders for the presidency. National organizations must get on board as well. When they have their national conventions, the above republican speakers should be on their short list to address their membership. It is time to take our country back from those with misguided political philosophies. Communism and socialism has been ineffective throughout human history. Rich individuals who seek to ruin us through their support of one world government must also be called out. The free enterprise system,warts and all, is the way to go.

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  • ColoradoMaverick
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:15am

    Everything Obama does is focused on his re-election. He spends every waking moment on this. Taxpayers are paying this dictator to campaign at our expense. He is simply refusing to do his job as the President. His so called Job‘s act is a campaign gimmick that his own Democratic Senate can’t pass. He was hoping to use his “jobs act” to show that the Republican controlled Congress is refusing to allow for job growth but that is going to be a hard sell when his own Senate won’t pass it along to the Congress.
    Obama being the first “African-American” President will set race relations back decades because of his divisive approach to governing. He is pitting Blacks against Whites, Mexicans against Whites, Jews against Christians, Poor against Rich. Democrat against Republican.
    Roland Reagan was such a great president because he managed to bring the country together. Obama is the most divisive President in history and he is not done yet. Things will get much, much worse.

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    • just the facts
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:28am

      Agreed with every word.

      However, I am not 100% sure there will be an election. In my way of thinking, the harm barry has already put on this country and the people of this country, the discontent he is and has organized, when things really become uncontrolable and revolutionary in a civil unrest mode, there are ways to post-phone elections, thus keeping the holder of the office there. There needs to be a crisis and from what I see, everything will be festering a 2, 3, 4 months prior to the elections. A perfect time for him to call for a state of emergency or whatever.

      The reason I state this: Look at his demeanor. He dosen’t care about too much of anything. He’s identifying and siding himself as a proponet of class warfare. And if you look at the occupiers, the anti-christian movements, the anti-capitalist movement, the union movement, and all the rest of the anti-american movements, these people don’t care. And people that don’t care – are uncontrollable and dangerous. The good thing, 99% of them are cowards when it comes to the fight.

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  • PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:06am

    “Thoughout human history the american idea has done more to help the poor than any other econonmic system ever designed.” This is the truth.
    TRUTH
    TEA
    53%er
    Cain 2012

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  • the light
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:03am

    To listen to someone speak using facts and sane ideas, not the crazy, emotional rhetoric repeated ad nauseam without accuracy or thought, is so calming and refreshing. Truth always brings clarity, peace, understanding and a starting point to rebuild. Propaganda (lies) produces fear, dread, confusion, and kills all hope for change. Our president either needs to start speaking with honesty and transparancy or we need to look closely at him and ascertain if the truth is even in him.

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  • gwssacredcause
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:37am

    Socialists have learned their lesson well. From “The World at War:” Germany 1933 Nazis came to power. Tortured by unemployment, embittered by loss of territory, and demoralized by political weakness.” loss of territory (property rights and loss of the southwest to invading illegal aliens). The Nazi party strength was built on revolutionary violence.

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  • piper60
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 8:29am

    I think the prez protests too much, to mis-quote Mr. Shakespeare. He spends a lot of time saying that the Republicans need to put country above party, when it is HE HIMSELF and his fellow Marxists(Dems) who are putting party above country. Have been for years.

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  • TxMadMac
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:52am

    Smoke and mirrors and the republicans are the bad guys. So typical and borish of the president. One would think he truly wants a race war in this country. If the blacks truly knew their history with the republican party they would know that they have been lied to for over 100 years by the democrats. If you would seek the truth and do the research, you would never vote democrat again. Evil doesn’t begin to describe them. Republicans aren’t perfect, but they are the lesser.

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  • Moozmom
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:42am

    Mr. Ryan – Your President is a marxist communist. Why aren’t you and other members planning to impeach him?

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  • Vechorik
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:40am

    Beside Glenn Beck and Ron Paul, this is the FIRST POLITICIAN I’ve heard speak against one world government!

    Ryan said that the real class warfare that threatens the U.S. is “[a] class of bureaucrats and connected crony capitalists trying to rise above the rest of us, call the shots, rig the rules, and preserve their place atop society.

    So do you see one world government in any of the presidential candidates?
    If you don’t know how to recognize it — learn!
    We have to stand united!

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  • TEARS FOR AMERICA
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 7:16am

    We have to ask ourselves what is this president really about? This article is about his ban on anything relating to Muslim terrorists:

    http://www.worldviewweekend.com/worldview-times/article.php?articleid=7672

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  • USaidWhat
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 6:38am

    YES WE CAIN … HERMAN CAIN!

    Take away Obama‘s teleprompters and you’ve taken away his little boy ******…

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  • Bro Geo Too
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 5:52am

    Obama IS dividing this country. He came to power under the ruse of bringing people together, but his actions and appointments since inauguration have proved him to be the opposite.

    This so-called class warfare is in Obama’s best interest politically. Without antagonism between sides, he stands no chance of reelection. His cowardly lead-from-behind posture appeals to occupiers as he attempts to curry favor with them while alienating the majority of good God-fearing Americans.

    N O M O B O B S

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  • Truthmonster
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 2:15am

    He is and it’s despicable, His is now promising all houses won’t be foreclosed on, he is now courting the youth by saying I’ll forgive your student loans. I mean is there nothing this man won’t say or promise(we all know the record on his promise) to retain power. Can people be gullible to buy this crock of corruption. Do people not care about reality any more? Obama try unicorns, rainbows, pennies from Heaven, money trees, blue skys and a welfare check for everyone. Reality: 9.2 unemployment, America being assaulted by division, 14 billion dollar debt. Will Ameria be dupped again and if so can we survive it?

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  • dnewton
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:47am

    I don’t understand the part where the homeowner now has an extra hundred dollars a month to spend which allegedly stimulates the economy. The government has to take the hundred dollars from someone first or print it, so where did the government get the hundred dollars from? Was $40 borrowed from the Chinese? Car owners are upside down on their car payments as soon as they leave the lot. The present worth of all future car payments no longer equals the present worth of the car. Why doesn’t the government organize a program to compensate car owners for the lost value of their car? Classic Keynesian Economics says that the government should spend to prop up demand, but this housing plan does not change the level of demand in any way that I can see. If the government was not involved and the owner was still able to make the payments then the mortgage company would get the $100 dollars and spend it rather than the home owner. I can see the local government winning here since the mortgage company is likely to invest the money and avoid paying the sales taxes that the owner might pay at the Walmart. This is another bail out for making a bad investment. The government is either investing in a bad investment or trying to say,” I’m sorry Barney Frank messed you up. “

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  • Jondolar
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:37am

    From this speech and Marco Rubio’s, I believe we can see the makings of future candidates who understand what is necessary to return our nation to its greatness. But we have to get someone in the W.H. next year who can start the ball rolling, first. Who that is, is difficult to determine at this early stage of the campaign, but I believe it’s gradually narrowing as the weeks & months roll along. I just hope the conservative “establishment” doesn’t shove the candidate down our collective throats; like Karl Rove appears to be attempting recently.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:35am

    So, I see Mr Bug Eyes has been given a pass from the “Uh Oh I Really Stepped In It With My Idiotic Entitlement Destruction Plan Asylum.” Free once again to roam the halls of Tea Bagdom with his pitch fork and his pocketful of mini condoms.

    Good for him.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:04am

      At least HE speaks truthfully, rather than with the vitriol of the LAZY, IGNORAMUS in the white house pretending to be a president. I heard rumors Obama esconces himself in an upstairs study, watching TV all day with his trademark cigarette in his pie hole as his legs dangle rudely over the arm of the overstuffed chair.
      I’ve dislike some previous presidents, but Obama takes the award for the most divisive, unintelligent, sluggardly, sanctimonious, condescending, racialy motivated LIER since GOD created dirt. He’s no president, he’s a EMPORER with no class.
      But then again, your no master yourself.

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  • Fantastic Four
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:52pm

    Matthew 13:25

    But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
    …………………..Nuff Said

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  • jb.kibs
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:23pm

    great speech

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  • uptickusa
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:15pm

    This is why a minority should not become President-His followers are those who look like him and want to suck hiss political teat for handouts.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:30am

      That‘s a mighty high standard of intellect your’e setting there, bubba.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 1:10am

      @YS (legend in your own mind )
      Well your illuminated example did place the bar at precisely the center of the earth. With nowhere to go but UP in intellect how could UPTICK fail but to supersede your obvious intransigent ineptitude?
      @uptick
      Pay no attention the the FLEABAGGER YOUR S., he’s incapable of conversant discourse, like most liberal socialists . They seem to thing the time honored tradition of “ Bully ” will go unhindered, boy are they in for a rude awakening, sucs to be them.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 9:17am

      Better Days . . Oh so insurgent of you. You with your fancified vocabulance of the perjorative didactic. “Oooh, look at me. I know refutation!” So? Well. I come form the hard school of knocks and not some elite bastion school. (Not like I’d want to!!!!) So pull your bootstraps and get up from the ground.

      (Don’t worry, next time I’ll put all my words in order.)

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  • Ford
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:00pm

    Couple this with Biden’s rape and murder remarks and Ryan is completely spot-on. Besides, when you really have nothing to offer the American people, why not rely on scare tactics.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:15pm

      I saw him on Greta’s program tonight. He was great, I support him 100% He was to the point but calm and well mannered. He is a good example of young conservative politicians that we need in office. I like tis guy.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on October 27, 2011 at 12:33am

      Ford:
      Watch out! Don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud!
      Watch out! Hussein has nuclear weapons!
      Watch out! They’re pulling the plug on grandma!
      Watch out! Terror threat orange!

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  • dcart888
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:00pm

    Once a Community Organizer always a Community Organizer

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  • nohussein
    Posted on October 26, 2011 at 10:29pm

    The hussein is peeved socialism and the MB are not flying.

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