Community | August 20, 2011 | 63 comments

Paul Ryan's staff calls cops on Unemployed Protestors

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXHBcVNhY10

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Paul Ryan’s staff called the police to disperse unemployed protesters staging a sit-in at his Kenosha office Thursday to protest the congressman’s decision not to hold any free public town halls during the August recess. Ryan and other conservative congressman who have been facing angry crowds recently have decided to they will only speak to residents who are willing to pay $15 for access.

One of the protesters, Scott Page, says he’s been let go from two jobs in the past two years. One position was outsourced to Mexico, and for the second, he was required to train an individual in China to be his replacement. Page said he hoped Ryan would “have a heart” and “take time to listen to the unemployed in his backyard instead of only the business owners.” “I don’t have $15 to ask Rep. Ryan questions,” he added, “so I guess this is the only means I have to talk to him.”
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63 comments // Paul Ryan's staff calls cops on Unemployed Protestors // Video

  • nardo1224
  • sageohio
  • jsayler
    • +3
      jsayler  

    • With all the innuendo and rumor being, unbelievable that republicans would vote for this guy for President. I guess I should qualify that as teabags and hags but it seems that it is hard to find what would be a republican of the past: supposedly the party of "fiscal responsibility."

      Even though we all know that the most prosperity in this Country happens under democratic policies, the republicans continue to consider themselves the watchers of the coffers while the Democrats are the spendthrifts. When Democratic policies actually save the Country money while providing for economic security for those less fortunate, it is so hard to believe that the democrats don't pounce on these facts. Why are they so weak in their message and adhering to the party platform? Seems that the damn dirty Blue Dogs are most responsible and should be ousted as Democrats and made to run as what they are--republicans!

    • 9 months ago
  • SFirman
  • Leen61
    • +3
      Leen61  

    • Paul Ryan doesn't want to talk to real people....especially unemployed ones. Touting more tax breaks for the rich doesn't go over well with people trying to survive.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
  • Leen61
  • SIBob
    • +5
      SIBob  
    • Image

    • They don’t want to hold town hall meetings because they don’t care about us. Our local thug congressman, “Mikey Suits” Grimm, has been working with and hanging around convicted felons lately. He is out of the country for his hiatus, (in Israel), courting the Jewish vote by touting a stronger support of that country, (which he says Obama has been neglecting). A local Jewish Tea Party group is also sprouting its wings, (probably in anticipation of a joint support venture of their own, with Grimm). Grimm, sensing a lot of backlash from liberals and Democrats, is shoring up his defenses with new alliances. Protests lately at his home office in the New Dorp section of Staten Island must have him nervous, (that sort of thing does not usually happen here). I am glad that people are finally waking up. http://sibob.org/wordpress/

    • 9 months ago
  • oldbanjo
    • +5
      oldbanjo  

    • I'm glad he's charging, maybe now the people that voted him in will figure out that they made a mistake. All he needs is a ss badge. For the life of me I can't understand anyone voting for someone that idolizes Ayn Rand, that's as bad as idolizing Hitler.

    • 9 months ago
  • tverdell
    • -2
      tverdell  
    • oldbanjo:

      That statement is an insult -- to compare Rand to HItler. You are only minimizing what HItler did.

      I am sure that Paul Ryan only read the cliff notes to Ayn Rand like yourself and know very little about her philosophy.

      Her philosophy is not aligned with the tea party -- at all.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
  • oldbanjo
    • +3
      oldbanjo  
    • tverdell:

      She is anti religion and believes that you should help no one except yourself. She is against religion because it teaches you to help others. Ryan said that he got into politics after listening to her and reading about her. Hitler cared nothing for the old, poor and sick in Germany. Today Ryan cares nothing for the old, poor and sick in America. Anyone that would destroy Medicare and SS for the old in America can not believe in the Bible. The Tea Party supports him.

    • 9 months ago
  • SerialGramma
    • +4
      SerialGramma  
    • tverdell:

      Calling Rand a philosopher is the insult. Philosophy is the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct - she was not rational at all when all she promoted was self.

    • 9 months ago
  • Paratus
  • SerialGramma
    • +2
      SerialGramma  
    • Paratus:

      Sorry, it was not Ryan's budget (he only presented it)... it was the Heritage Foundation's budget... maybe they should run for President? Yes, that is what we need a group or foundation to become our executive branch... NOT

    • 9 months ago
  • Mayeffie
  • SerialGramma
    • 0
      SerialGramma  
    • Mayeffie:

      Yes... that group was founded by Paul Weyrich after Nixon got caught in Watergate (before he resigned)... along with Cheney & Rumsfeld they were spoiled rich frat boys that were mad cause the executive office of the U.S. was diminished with Nixon... they all planned to get back into the WH, strengthen the Presidency so they could make their own laws (as they proved with Dubya in all his signing statements and secrecy in gov't) and make more money than the other 98% of Americans.

    • 9 months ago
  • nanac
    • +7
      nanac  

    • I don't understand how this coward can face himself in the mirror. These protesters pay his salary, and he has the nerve to charge them a fee to see him.
      It should be illegal for him to charge his constituents to listen to their grievances.
      He is a pathetic, unscrupulous bastard, to disregard their need to be heard, and attempting to get them arrested.

    • 9 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • attilatheblond
  • Frosty46
  • letsliveinpeace
  • warman1138
  • attilatheblond
  • chew_chew
  • attilatheblond
    • +7
      attilatheblond  

    • When they call DEMs/libs 'elitists' it is just more of that Grand Old Projection. THEY are the elitists. They do not want to listen to the 'rabble' that actually pays taxes and makes the economy run.

      This and Doug '...like touching a tar-baby' Lamborn of CO have really come out of the closet re what they think of democracy and We The People. They want us outlawed. They certainly are denying free speech, and as part of the government, it is really a violation, unlike so many whining RWingers do when another citizen just disagrees with them or organizes a product boycott.

    • 9 months ago
  • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012
  • attilatheblond
    • +9
      attilatheblond  
    • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012:

      Grand Old Projection. Exhibit A
      Subsection: 'Neener neener I'm rubber you're glue, his parents let him do it' division

      Sorry, pointing to the golf course, a very recent hang out for some black pols and businessmen, is a laughable attempt to turn tables.

      Two US congressmen, THIS MONTH (and it's not over yet) have had staff call police on peacefully assembled groups who dissent from the GOP attacks on responsible governance and wanted THEIR elected representative know that they, not the uber rich from other districts have something to say.

      Nice try with the golf crap though.

    • 9 months ago
  • wynnmeg61
    • +5
      wynnmeg61  
    • attilatheblond:

      My goodness where did we leave the troll spray? I just can't remember and it looks like we need it as we have a new infestation. Not a troll I have noticed before, how about you atillatheblond?

    • 9 months ago
  • wynnmeg61
  • attilatheblond
  • Joeydee44
  • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012
  • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012
    • -7
      ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012  
    • Joeydee44:

      Maybe it was after his 68th game of golf people recognized he was a "golf freak" as you said.We're past the 75th game of golf right now and it hasn't even been 3 years. Who else but Barrack Obama can take a week or two off from their job when things start to fall apart instead of dealing with the problem.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +8
      attilatheblond  
    • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012:

      52 weeks in the year. Two years 8 months on the job. They guy isn;t getting one game in every other week and that's some sort of sin? Vacations happen. Not as often with this POTUS as with the last one.

      GOP lead House: Two weeks at work on the HIll, One week off. What a swell rotation that is. If Obama really wanted a lot of time off, he would run for Congress.

      Go clear some brush. Oh, george did that for 8 years so it's not a problem

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +8
      attilatheblond  
    • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012:

      So, you agree, no defense of Ryan's attitude or the actions of his staff? If it was defensible, you would have sound arguments for such a defense of the congressman?

      All this finger pointing and trying to divert attention from the topic of discussion. What a classic admission that Ryan's actions and that of his staff are totally out of line and indefensible.

      Thank you.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +9
      attilatheblond  
    • ThrowtheMarxistsOut2012:

      Everybody knows that Congress takes the MONTH of August off. So it is customary for POTUS to take a couple weeks off then too.

      Now, if he did it while Congress was in session and actually getting something done, I might concede you have a point. But evidently, you think THIS POTUS should be in the office 24/7/365? Tell me, is it because he is a DEM or is it some other reason? Let's not even go down this road lest we have to trot out pics of bush, McCain and some birthday cake as he was on his way to San Diego while Katrina was sinking NOLA.

      Look up some facts re time taken off by different presidents and get some perspective.

    • 9 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • SFirman
  • TheAmbivalante
  • SFirman
  • budsnews
    • +8
      budsnews  

    • Typical weak bully,start trouble...wait for someone else to step in.Paul Ryan should be exposed from this,the voters from his district should see him for what he is.Weak!

    • 9 months ago
  • Lairderg
  • wynnmeg61
    • +6
      wynnmeg61  

    • Those Wisconsonites are some tough customers, Paul Ryan is a weak bully. I would so like to see that punk Ryan lose his seat in Congress next election, I know it might be a pipe dream, but the GOP is really moving the middle-class into the poor. When those Middle-class folks all fall to the poverty level, they are going to be less friendly Ye Ole Pomposity Himself Ryan.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +7
      attilatheblond  
    • wynnmeg61:

      What does it take for the REAL small businesses, not the mega corporations pretending they are small businesses, to raise up. It is their world the GOP is killing too. The working class and middle class is what keeps them in business. THEY need to pay the damned fees so real people can get into the 'town hall meetings', challenge the pompous but cowardly congressman and make sure there is video to prove 'the people' are not with the traitor. They need to challenge this pay to speak to your rep crap.

      Tell Paul Ryan the people ALREADY pay for the right to address him. They pay his salary and expenses. He can't lock them out.

    • 9 months ago
  • wynnmeg61
    • +7
      wynnmeg61  
    • attilatheblond:

      That is one of the things I really don't get, the Chamber of Commerce Republicans. The GOP is killing them just as fast as they are taking the Middle and Working classes down into poverty, but they continue to vote Republican. The Plumber, the Electrician, the Family Physician, all continue to vote Republican. It is beyond me

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +6
      attilatheblond  
    • wynnmeg61:

      My husband used to work for a wise old rancher in MT. The gent was from Norway and had seen a lot of the world and ways of the world. While many ranchers were falling for Reagan's anti-union crap, the old guy defended and advocated for unions. He would laugh at the others and proudly say " I like unions. Unions get decent wages for their workers, Union members can afford steak now and then. I sell beef."

      He got it.

    • 9 months ago
  • wynnmeg61
    • +6
      wynnmeg61  
    • attilatheblond:

      He was indeed a wise old rancher. You know Mr. Sam Walton, never envisioned the monster we now call Walmart. Mr. Sam believed in taking care of his associates for the good of his company, he also took care of the communities his store were in, buying as much as possible from the area each store was located in. These faceless corporations are parasites that eventually kill their hosts, that is where we are now.

      Pssst, do they know you are a Liberal up there? I know MT has more Libs that WY, but I thought it was still frowned upon for the most part.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +4
      attilatheblond  
    • wynnmeg61:

      LOL, when I registered to vote after I moved to my present location (very small town, eastern part of state) they said "Republican party, right?" I said no, Democratic Party. Hmmm, we have three other of those here, in the county.

      Then one died. People I 'meet' online thought I was kidding when I said DEMs in my county can caucus in a VW bug. I think we are up to a dozen or so now, and Obama did get over a dozen votes. Admittedly, a very small population, but you understand the situation.

      Liked it much better when I lived in the western part of the state years ago. Far west of state has some pretty klan-ish people who have moved in from points in the north woods of MI and MN, along with some from the Midwest and South. Wingers are everywhere and too many are trying to hide from reality up here.

    • 9 months ago
  • wynnmeg61
    • +6
      wynnmeg61  
    • attilatheblond:

      That's funny. Dems are very much a endangered species here, but then again so are the educated. We had a survey of parents concerning education, it turns out that 81% of the parents of school age children don't care how their children fair academically as long as the children are good at sports. YeeHaw ride em cowboy, powder river let er buck.

    • 9 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +3
      attilatheblond  
    • wynnmeg61:

      ROFL

      Oh and howdy! Sports. Make 'em play, even if they have no interest. Remind me to tell you about the kid who kept losing parts of his uniform and the mother who called ME to ask where his uniform was? The kid just didn't wanna play but it was too shameful for him to admit that to a parent.

    • 9 months ago
  • SFirman
    • +2
      SFirman  
    • wynnmeg61:

      Might not be a pipe dream. WI republicans are not happy with his Medicare vouchers. His last town halls did not have happy people. Now they have to pay to ask him a question. We can only hope.

    • 9 months ago
  • ejasun
  • kennymotown
  • KB723
  • figgdimension
  • attilatheblond
  • KB723
  • KB723
  • figgdimension
  • KB723
  • oldbanjo
  • figgdimension
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