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" Good catch by the folks at Crooks And Liars of a woman whose alleged story of her hard life at Harvard nearly moved Paul Ryan to tears. Leave aside for a moment the almost Dickensian tale of woe suffered by that poor woman in the dark Satanic mills along the Charles. It is the response of the zombie-eyed granny-starver that we should note most carefully.... The philosophy that you&amp;#039;re identifying is a troubling one in my opinion because it speaks to people as if they&amp;#039;re stuck in their station in life,&amp;quot; the vice presidential candidate told the woman. &amp;quot;You know, victim of circumstances beyond their control and that the government is there to help them cope with it.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Your success should not be based on who you know, it should not be based on political contributions or connections, it should be based on merit. And that&amp;#039;s the system that&amp;#039;s draining right now, the free enterprise system, economic growth, opportunity, job creation. It&amp;#039;s stalling. We&amp;#039;ve got to fix that so we&amp;#039;re not looking at other people, like you say, in this country.&amp;quot; Exactly so. What we need is a system in which, after your father dies, you&amp;#039;re not stuck in your &amp;quot;station in life&amp;quot; because there are Social Security survivor&amp;#039;s benefits to get you through high school and college, and a system that&amp;#039;s not based on &amp;quot;who you know,&amp;quot; so that it can be the purest accident that one of your late influential father&amp;#039;s influential friends can hook you up with a job on the staff of a United States senator, where you can get your health-care paid for while you&amp;#039;re just starting out. Then, you can rise &amp;quot;on merit&amp;quot; through staff jobs both in the government and in the universe of quasi-government think tanks in Washington until you&amp;#039;re ready to get elected to Congress, where you never have to worry about health-care ever again because you enjoy the benefits of a government-run, taxpayer-supported, single-payer system. Does this man have a mirror anywhere in his house? As always, you&amp;#039;re fking welcome, Ace. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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