{"id":2103,"date":"2012-08-16T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T22:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:21:51","slug":"the-ryan-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"The Ryan Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"randianjesus\">In the words of Ricky Ricardo, Paul Ryan has some &#8220;&#8216;splaining to do&#8221;. It seems that Spiff Romney&#8217;s new GOP Vice Presidential candidate has some conflicting beliefs that need some clarification. On the one hand, he&#8217;s supposedly a staunch Catholic, which means he&#8217;s a follower of Jesus, who preached to share and care for your fellow human beings. On the other hand, he&#8217;s a staunch fan of Ayn Rand (an avowed atheist), who preached that one should be selfish and be concerned only for yourself and that caring for others is weak and undesirable. These two philosophies seem to be contradictory.\u00a0 It seems to us that Mr. Ryan and those other conservative christian Republicans, who tout the prosperity gospel while at the same time want to deny basic healthcare to some people in our country, may be hypocrites. Make no mistake: if Romney and Ryan get in, senior entitlements like Medicare and Social Security are gone, while corporate entitlements will be handed out like candy at Halloween. I wonder what Jesus would say, because we all know how much of a capitalist he was.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2106\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2106\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2106\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"randianjesus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randianjesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randianjesus.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/randianjesus-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitalist Jesus, who is also very Republican, has nothing but praise for GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his Randian philosophy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of Ricky Ricardo, Paul Ryan has some &#8220;&#8216;splaining to do&#8221;. It seems that Spiff Romney&#8217;s new GOP Vice Presidential candidate has some conflicting beliefs that need some clarification. On the one hand, he&#8217;s supposedly a staunch Catholic, which means he&#8217;s a follower of Jesus, who preached to share and care for your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ryan Hypocrisy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[995,61,230,8,68,3],"tags":[234,74,73,252,69,22,147,70,9,75,21,98,644,188,19,642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}