that the republican party ran into this big problem in 2012 where that message alienated people. let me show you what he said in 2005 about social security. now he s talking about how people paid in and it s earned. but he said let me quote it. it says this is a quote. social security right now is a collectivist system. it s a welfare transfer system. this is paul ryan. so if ryan called it a welfare transfer system, now all of a sudden no we weren t calling them takers. and the president, krystal, stepped right in and attacked that. now, in my opinion that wasn t partisan. it was his vision of america. as lyndon johnson had a vision of the great society. it wasn t anti-republican. it was his vision. john kennedy, the new frontier. i think the president from the way i was taking it was saying i think b this is the vision
i think that s why they re fighting uphill, and i don t think they ll ever win on the medicare issue. what happened today is an indication of that. while we re on ryan, there s also a lot of talk about a 2005 audio of ryan slamming social security. listen to this, e.j. social security right now is a collectivist system. it s a welfare transfer system. if every worker in this country becomes an owner of real life, of seeing the fruits of their labor come and materialize for their benefit, then that many more people in america who aren t going to listen to the likes of dick gephardt and nancy pelosi, ted kennedy, the class warfare breeding demagogues. i mean, is he in another planet, an alternative universe? in that case, he really was. the article which came out from a professor in the midwest, he was talking to ayn rand foeklks