Nobody in Washington talks much about the poor in America these days, even though they are more and more with us in the economic aftermath of the Great Recession.
Perhaps that is why the Washington Post welcomed Paul Ryan’s recent declaration that he wants to fight poverty “with kinder, gentler policies to encourage work and upward mobility.”The Wisconsin Republican confided to a Post reporter that he has been “quietly visiting inner-city neighborhoods” — too quietly to gain any favorable publicity, until now — and consulting with all the usual suspects in the capital’s right-wing think tanks. He wants everyone to understand that he is seeking to figure out the problems faced by poor folks and how he can help.
he must have been wearing feather shoes because no one in the inner city saw him, hey maybe he did a Bush Katrina fly over without even a wave. this guy from day one of his run for VP lied more than Romney and that's no easy feat.
his consulting with the think tanks were to assure them anything he says of a humane nature not to worry he's still severely republican with all the dastardly instincts that brings with it.
As a 2016 presidential hopeful, Ryan evidently intends to rebrand himself as a “compassionate conservative” — the same propaganda meme deployed by former President George W. Bush and Karl Rove during the prelude to the 2000 campaign for president — at a moment when the Republican Party badly needs appealing new images and ideas.The Bush gang dropped that gimmick well before they entered the White House, and it was never glimpsed again. But whenever a Republican spouts kinder, gentler, compassionate-conservative babble, the vaunted cynicism of the capital press corps gets washed away in a warm bath of credulity.But just to be clear, there is nothing new in Ryan’s perspective on poverty, which is impoverished indeed when set next to the outlook of his late mentor Jack Kemp, who became a conservative icon in Congress before he joined the cabinet as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.Although Kemp belatedly recognized the role of government in alleviating poverty, Ryan and the current crop of Republicans in Washington talk about volunteerism, charity and spirituality as the only legitimate ways to address social problems — while all government support for the poor must be slashed or eliminated, as prescribed by their budget.
bottom line there is none it's business as usual for the republicans the man is an habitual liar just a year ago breaking records in that category now he changed but the party didn't if so why is he still a republican?
sorry i forgot they did change something they now have "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as " VALUES", except they are one in the same proving changing a word with a synonym for that word means nothing same game with another name. they are power addicts and their addiction has clouded all sense and sensibility, party of stupidity.
