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Ryan's 'Secret' Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney's

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 12:13 — Dave Culver
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Richard (RJ) Eskow, Blog for Our Future / AlterNet

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AlterNet Editor's Note: AlterNet's Adele Stan reported last week about the Ryan remarks Eskow discusses here, highlighting Ryan's call for ending social security, which he described as a "collectivist system," and Ryan's assertion that Democratic "collectivists" seek to create a 'victimization class' largely populated by minorities.

(September 25, 2012 | When they booed Paul Ryan at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) last week, most people didn't even know he  called Medicare and Social Security "third party or socialist-based systems." Or that he  said he wants to privatize them in order to "break the back" of a "collectivist philosophy."

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