Rick Perry’s been leading GOP’s false attacks on President Obama with a made-up story that Obama called Americans lazy. So why aren’t Perry & friends attacking Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who actually did say Americans are lazy?
Part of it is the culture of people just having no work ethic…. Moral relativism has done so much damage to the bottom end of this country, the bottom fifth has been damaged by the culture of moral relativism more than by anything else, I would argue. If you ask me what the biggest problem in America is, I’m not going to tell you debt, deficits, statistics, economics – I’ll tell you it’s moral relativism.
As Steve Benen details, it’s not just Rep. Ryan – Mitt Romney, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) have all expressed similar complaints that the economy would pick up if unemployed Americans weren’t so lazy. It’s no wonder Republicans are trying to shift the conversation to President Obama with false attacks. I mean, do you really think they want to talk about the GOP’s record after nearly a year of controlling the House – 319 days and still not a single jobs bill?
UPDATE by Lowell: Mitt Romney says, “We have been accustomed to being the world’s leading nation for so long, enjoying the freedom, security, and prosperity that comes with that leadership, that we have tended to avoid the hard work that overcoming challenges requires.”
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