http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/marco-rubios-laughable-speech-gop-ideas-end-poverty
Senator Marco Rubio's office hyped his speech Wednesday as an "Address on the 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'", a rather grand billing given its familiar proposals. Rubio has slipped in and out of a few different presidential wrappers since he appeared in the US Capitol. He used to be "The Republicans' Obama". His proposals suggest that now he is the Latino Rick Santorum.
In 2012, Santorum outlined the exact same three-point anti-poverty plan: promote marriage, eliminate federal poverty programs in favor of block grants to states, and "something something America hope-dream-optimism something".
this is somewhat comical they send the new face out to present the already presented but not dusted off speech made by another right wing fanatic last year, what is the shelf life on their do overs, didn't anyone pull his coat, "yo been there done that?
Rubio calls marriage "the greatest tool" we have to lift families out of poverty. In doing so, he reiterates the thinking of a generation of politicians who've turned what they think is a lever into a hammer.The welfare reform of the 1990s, wistfully recalled by Rubio more than once in his address yesterday, sought to use welfare to incentivize marriage; just this week a study by The Ohio State University reported that single mothers who marry young and later divorce are worse off, economically, than single mothers who never marry.Researchers speculated that's because the "pool of potential partners" available to young women in poverty "does not include many men with good prospects", and suggested that programs encouraging women to delay childbirth and prevent unwanted pregnancies would be a better use of government resources.Rubio spent a fair amount of time lauding the ability of local governments to figure out the most effective solutions to poverty, but one place he and his Republican colleagues are dead-set against allowing state and local lawmakers free rein is when it comes to spending government money to delay childbirth and prevent unwanted pregnancies.
is he trying to instigate some sort of population control over those they think not a contributing factor, and what about all the "send it back to the states" rhetoric they have been harping on but only those laws introduced by this Pres. and his admin. if they don't want state intervention and definitely no fed involvement who deals with the poverty issue? sounds like he's saying those people are on their own, or they'll privatize it.
