How do you restore your reputation after being part of a disastrous presidential campaign that put a face to Americans' discomfort with growing wealth inequality?For Rep. Paul Ryan, the answer appears to be pretending you care about poverty. Ryan may be most associated with Mitt Romney in the public mind, but right now what he's going for is George W. Bush-style "compassionate conservatism." That's where you say you care about poor people, and your answer to their problems is private charity, and you ignore that private charity cannot address the size of the problem.According to Ryan, the war on poverty "has failed," and:“Too many people don’t know what the American idea is anymore,” the Wisconsin Republican said, calling for a more streamlined federal government and a family-and-community-oriented approach to fighting poverty.Ryan said that the government has done a lot to erode civil society, prioritizing redistribution over community engagement. Instead, he said, the federal government “keep[s] dumping money into programs we know won’t work.”
he's associated in my mind as a big liar they both lied their way through all of 2012 and are still misleading, you don't belong to a party that does not and will not believe the deviations he speaks now from their "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as "VALUES",
the party will not embrace his betrayal of their manifesto if he were serious but you don't change life long beliefs in a week especially when what you say in defense is the very thing that invalidates that claim, he still spews the same rhetoric.
and the base would not except his "caring" mostly about them they get more gov't benefits then the rest, but it doesn't matter they think they are voting to hurt us
The problem here is, we know that many of the programs Ryan would slash absolutely do work. Food stamps improve children's health and educational outcomes. The Earned Income Tax Credit boosts employment among single mothers. If you look at the government's Supplemental Poverty Measure, safety net programs cut poverty in half.Not only are government programs very effective, but charity cannot replace them. Food bank directors themselves said so following November's cut in food stamp benefits. That didn't kick people out of the program, it "only" cut around $36 from a family of four's monthly benefits, but it had food bank directors saying things like:"[W]e’re here to provide some food, but we were never meant to be sustaining people. We were meant to be emergency ... And now what you have here, the government pulling some of their very important partnership in helping to feed those who are struggling to put food on the table. The charitable system can’t make up such a loss of that."The fact is, Paul Ryan is a giant fan of redistribution and a government that works to achieve it. He just wants the redistribution in question to go upward.
now does that sound like someone who cares about poverty or the poor? sounds like him and the rest of the republican Scrooges they don't wait for Christmas they are year round they just walk out go home at Christmas and leave you to your own resources to pay bills, feed the family or find a job.
and caring about Americans giving them an "equal opportynity" is not redistribution it's normal. those [plans that don't work is because they don't support them and do everything they can to see them fail, kinda hard to make them work when you turn your back.
