We all know that Galtian Step-n-Fetchit Congressman Paul Ryan is very serious about America’s precarious financial health which is why he is constantly trying to cut back on needless expenses like medical care for elderly Americans who are perfectly capable of breaking into medical waste containers outside of doctors offices and hospitals where they can forage for expired pharmaceutical samples and ‘gently used’ hypodermic needles. They are, after all, The Greatest Generation … or so Tom Brokaw keeps telling us.
But Ryan thinks it is also very important that we extend a helping hand to our future leaders who are painstakingly culled from our collegiate student herd population and housed in the petri dishes of future excellence more commonly referred to as “sororities’ and “fraternities”:
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has for months argued for closing tax loopholes as a way to pay for his proposed tax cuts. But it turns out he has a penchant for creating those same loopholes when it comes to helping out his biggest donors.
Since unveiling the House GOP budget in the spring, Ryan has been touting provisions aimed at ending tax loopholes and deductions in exchange for lowering tax rates in general. “We’re talking about keeping revenues where they are, but having a better tax system to collect those revenues with an eye on economic growth and job creation,” he said during an April interview on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
He added, “You have to remember, the people in the top tax brackets are the ones who enjoy most of the loopholes and deductions.”
But a look at Ryan’s record since he was elected to Congress in 1998 shows that he has tried to create an array of special loopholes for his top contributors, whose interests range from air fresheners to fraternity housing to beer.
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The Wisconsin Republican has also pushed legislation that would have created tax loopholes for fraternity and sorority housing. Ryan himself was a member of Delta Tau Delta and, in 2004, received the fraternity’s alumni achievement award. A year later, Fraternity & Sorority PAC began giving donations to Ryan that, by 2010, totaled $24,500, according to OpenSecrets.org.
During those same years, Ryan sponsored or cosponsored three bills that would have allowed college fraternities and sororities to accept tax-deductible charitable contributions for the construction of more housing. None of the bills became law.
Some might begrudge providing a helpful tax break or two to America’s future industrial titans, job creators, innovators and their future first wives (who will be replaced at a later date by someone younger and prettier and with a nicer set of fake boobs). But the Greek system is the forge of American exceptionalism where the children of privilege enter as douchebags/closet cases/jock sniffers/roofie aficionados/Meg Whitman’s kid or sluts/anorexics/secret alcoholics/lesbians until opposite marriage and moving to Connecticut. And when they leave , well, they’re still pretty much unchanged because the Greek system isn’t about change; it’s about contacts and knowing the right people by which we mean ‘rich white people’ who will get you a job because you once held their daughter Whitney’s hair back while she blew Taco Bell chum into the agapanthus . If that doesn’t land you an interview with a hedge fund, what will? I mean, besides your dad running one?
And, besides, we can’t have these young people wasting all of their (parents) money on stupid dumb stuff like housing when those dollars could be flowing into the economy by paying for red Solo cups, Natty Light, Taco Bell, ping pong balls, roofies, Bob Marley posters, TOM’s shoes, non-medical marijuana, black BMW’s, and abortions.
Think of it as trickle down only it smells like light beer, THC, and STD’s…



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With advent of LinkedIn, all the frats have to offer now is blackmail fodder.
$350 bottles of wine from a highfalutin lobbyist is one thing, but $350 worth of Mad Dog 20/20 will get you shitfaced for an eternity, or what seems like one.
Mad Dog “is a good place to start for the street wine rookie“.
Cisco, on the other hand, is Purrfessor Anne approved!
Old Maxell ad, guy in chair getting blown away by jams = me sitting at this computer with the snark destroying the fabric of reality….
Eddie Fuckin’ Munster. Whadda douchenozzle.
Fuck yeah: Ryan/Blutarsky ’12. The party is on!
Dean Vernon Wormer: Put
NeidermeyerRyan on it. He’s a sneaky little shit.That boy is a P-I-G pig.
Hey now! He’s a plains ape like the rest of ya – leave my kinfolks out of it.
Frats/Sororities aren’t all bad. Some are bad, some are good, depends on the school and the individuals involved. Just sayin’. At my college most houses were more economical than dorm living/meal plan. I still don’t think contributions to them should be tax-deductible like Ryan wants.
God, I was hoping Ryan would run. He is the embodiment of current conservative “thought”. About the only hope now for the crazy cons is for some even crazier progs to get their wish: primary Obama.
What next for the crazy right? Perhaps Jane’s good friend Grover has some ideas.
/ducks
Nah, Ryan’s not a Niedermeyer or a Blutarsky type. Pure Greg Marmalard, and may the day arrive soon when he ends up where Greggie did.
Did Ryan give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Is what Ryan proposes like Corporate Welfare 101: How to Fleece US Citizens for the Profit of You & Your Well-Connected Pals? Gotta start training ‘em when their young, ya know…
I remember hearing that one of the Delta Tau initiation rituals involved getting a bunch of naked pledges to huddle around a circle while jerking off onto a cracker that was placed in the middle.
The pledge who finished last was supposed to eat the cracker.
The Republicans who talk about what a “nice guy” Ryan is must know he finished last.
“Think of it as trickle down only it smells like light beer, THC, and STD’s…”
One of your all-time best lines. I couldn’t begin to make a comment that would add to this, enhance it or whatevs. Thanks for making my day.
Yeah, but how much cock did you have to suck and how many reacharounds did you have to give to get that discount on the housing?
All frat boys are at least a LITTLE bit gay. Why else would they join fraternities?
Nice post. Ryan is a real piece of work.
New song title: Smells Like STDs.
During the 1970s, college presidents rolled out the red carpet for fraternities, which were on the verge of dying on many campuses, because they preferred the Greeks to DFHs who had the temerity to protest. One of the biggest mistakes of the twentieth century.
All frat boys are at least a LITTLE bit gay. Why else would they join fraternities?
Excuse me pal, but I was in a fraternity for four years and nobody in our house was gay. And we didn’t do reacharounds or cocksucking either. I don’t know what school you went to, but in ours none of that was considered acceptable behavior.
Why would they join fraternities you say? Because today, 33 years after I graduated I still have a network of lifetime friends that will be my friends for all time. And not only will we be able to socialize based on the common bond we built but we also can help each other by doing business together as well.
Take your snide prejudice and judgment and jam it.
Excellent!
So you and the rest of the Bilderbergs are doing well?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
Apparently you suffer from the same disease as the Commissar, a raging case of prejudice and stereotyping that blinds you to the common bond of humanity we all experience.
Grow up and at least have the good sense to remain silent rather than speak up and display your foolishness for all to see.
So you couldn’t get through college without retreating to the comfort of an exclusive greek letter safety dome. You grow up and enter the real world, where your fellow humans don’t have to pledge to be accepted. Fucking frat shit.
Frat boy:
Don’t tell me to STFU.
I was in college 33 years ago too.
I lived in a neighborhood with many Frat (Greek) houses.
I agree with you that Greeks are not necessarily cocksuckers.
Motherfuckers is a better description.
Remember Oedipus?
Greek.
Just sayin’.
Now you “grow up.”
Fucking Greek.
Take your own advice you ignorant cur. So what was your major in college, judgment and prejudice? If not, get a refund because it appear your investment was squandered.
Fuck you and your willful and despicable hatred of those you can’t be bothered to understand.
Fantastic!
Obviously your education dollars were well spent.
Look in the the mirror dude.
Best wishes, thanks for making my day!
Yes they were well spent, because it helped me to recognize people like you that willfully promote ignorance and intolerance are a genuine problem in our society.
Have fun carrying around your sordid and poisonous burden of prejudice and hate toward others. And if you really want to make your day, feel free to clean up your act instead of being such a schmuck.
300,
I am neither ignorant nor intolerant.
This is what is called “projection.”
That is why I said: “look in the mirror.”
Do you get it now?
I’m beginning to think that your education was not as good as you believe it was.
And Goodnight all,
including The 300.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_%28film%29
Crap, and I thought girl fights were pissy.
Meow.
(and goodnight.)
Oh oh. First, I would like to thank Remonster for identifying Nelly McCay on last night’s thread. To 300SDL, appears that thou dost protest too much.
Just a thought.
I get it now—you’re Pee Wee Herman—well, Pee Wee, your “I know you are but what am I” line of discourse is really getting old.
And don’t flatter yourself by doling out unsolicited advice that you think is wisdom, your trash talking commentary about fraternities tells me all I need to know.
That I’m glad not to be you.
Good night Foxman.
Hmmm – makes sense on its face. Can you recommend any book or articles that discuss / document this?
So classic. You know, so many frat boys are Republican or Libertarian – you know, those philosophies that stress rugged individualism. Yet what do they *practice*? Blatant, unrepentant nepotism.
OK, OK, I get it: you’re white
and you watch a lot of masterpiece theatre
Now (metaphorically) unhand me, you knave! I bite my thumb at thee!
Sorry about your (totally non-gay-related) butthurtedness.
fxd!
Not commenting in support of a tax break for fraternity or sorority housing, but I was in a fraternity in college and we didn’t rape anyone, had no outbreaks of STDs, only offered cheap beer at parties because we were providing it free to our guests out of our own pockets, didn’t tolerate drug use, didn’t paddle or haze anyone or do anything suggested.
What we did do was hold events and fundraisers for charity, do community service, push our brothers to keep good grades and encouraged and enforced for them a certain level of moral standing.
We weren’t an honor society, we were a social fraternity, the kind you’re talking about.
Just saying, you paint with a mighty broad brush there…
Hey, folks, Animal House was a fraternity too, wasn’t it?
While I generally share the contempt shown on this thread for frat rats and everything fraternity – the stupid hazing, the suicidal boozing, the snide elitism and casual thuggery associated with same – I am willing to acknowledge the possibility that Nedermeyer and Marmalard aren’t necessarily representative examples of every fraternity. There could be a frat out there somewhere with sane and humane members that we just never heard of. Right?
There are, after all, businesses that care about the environment and their employees, halfway sane and decent Republicans and priests who don’t rape little kids. As one of several millions of Liberal Texans, I have grown extremely weary of all the blanket condemnations being tossed around by my leftist brothers and sisters these days.
Of course, in the case of fraternities, I could be wrong.
There ya go, Dan. A case in point.
I have no evidence or links, but anecdotally I can confirm that this is definitely what happened at my alma mater in the early 1970s. This practice was *admitted* by several professors (who didn’t agree or like it) and some in Administration. They sacked a prior Admissions director and hired someone new with a different charge.
Really changed the tone of my campus, which was pretty small. Also witnessed it – via friends – happening on other campuses. Anyone who whines about the so-called “liberal” universities in the USA is full of it.
On my small campus the Animal House was an ok place. They had the space to throw good parites and everyone was invited. Although a predominantly jock house, there were also a lot of hippies there and the DFHs on campus were welcomed to their parties. Anyone who attended made a small contribution to defray the expenses of the kegs, tequila & band. Duly noted: that particular Frat no longer exists at my Alma Mater. Probably bc they weren’t exclusive enough @ssholes.
Uneasyone’s measured response has given me pause, and indeed cause for no small amount of introspection. In other words, he’s made me feel like a bad guy, and he might have a point, so here goes . . .
I will acknowledge that there might be fraternities out there that do not fit the stereotype. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that I’m sure there must be some that fit that description.
A lot of my reaction is informed by the fact that there are two fraternities in my immediate vicinity that are filled with the most inconsiderate, immature assholes I have ever seen. And they get coddled by the university. And the police. I’ve witnessed it for 3 years straight and, as you can imagine, it really, really pisses me off.
So yes, I’m sure there are fraternities out there whose members are intelligent, mature, thoughtful and considerate.
And the fact that they’re gay would not bother me in the least. After all, I’m not a homophobe.
So Ryan’s a Delt?
A fucking shit headed Delt?
Fucking explains it.
Dude!
Generally, I think that fraternities are a blight on the earth and frat rats are (searching for adjective) …uh… jerks. I wouldn’t mind seeing ‘em banned. At the very least, that would cut down on the date rape and binge drinking deaths.
It just freaks me out that so much “tarring with a broad brush” is going on in the progressive community. It’s hard to imagine anyone who wouldn’t innocently fall into one or another of the condemned categories.
A voting majority in supposedly Democratic New Jersey elected an even bigger asshole for Governor than Perry – but I have never seen that entire state population condemned as ignorant redneck assholes like happens daily re Texans. That kind of BS would be expected if it was coming from wingnuts regarding Massachusetts residents, but I expect more from the progressive community.
You seem pretty cool to me.
Seriously? Are you talking about the same New Jersey I am thinking about? The one that is a self-contained joke AND punchline? The one that “gave” us Snooti and The Common Noun? Who were told to leave Italy and never darken their towels again? Do you think there will ever be a reality show entitled “Texas Shore”?
And I can also anecdotally confirm the experience of tammanytiger and onitgoes about fraternities in late ’60s-early ’70s; same thing happened at my school.
And, yes, there are some fraternities that may not fit the stereotype. At my college, it was — surprise, surprise — the only fraternity that wasn’t of the Greek-letter variety. And — surprise, surprise again — they, too, no longer exist.
Uneasyone:
Homes: flick on your humor meter. For the record, no, I don’t think all frat boys are gay. I was exaggerating in order to make what’s-his-name self conscious, which is funny enough in-and-of itself! :)
In fairness to emoprogs, a primary challenge to Obama is the only chance that there will be a Democrat in the general election.