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I love this Salon article on Paul Ryan. http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/paul_ryans_worthless_attempt_to_save_face_why_hes_still_an_overrated_fraud/ I have never been impressed with Paul Ryan and overrated fraud is one of the nicest things that you can say about him. Here are some good parts from the article
Ryan denied that Wednesday night. This has nothing to do whatsoever with race. It never even occurred to me. This has nothing to do with race whatsoever. On Thursday morning, he issued a statement saying he regretted being inarticulate in trying to make his point.
A tip for Ryan: If the racial subtext of your remarks never even occurred to me, as you cite a writer who has been repeatedly charged with racism, who is categorized as a white nationalist by the Southern Poverty Law Center (Im not sure Id go that far), well, that in itself is a problem. As Murray himself told the New York Times about his landmark book Losing Ground: A huge number of well-meaning whites fear that they are closet racists, and this book tells them they are not. Its going to make them feel better about things they already think but do not know how to say. Apparently Ryan is one of them, if we give him the benefit of the doubt and call him well-meaning.....
But theres one final reason that Paul Ryans hailing a culture of work and stigmatizing government assistance is particularly offensive. This is the same Paul Ryan whose familys construction firm fattened itself on government contracts; who received Social Security survivor benefits after his father died and used that public money to put himself through college; who then went on the government payroll and has never done anything other than attack poor people while on the governments dime; who makes $174,000 a year in taxpayer dollars while keeping himself camera-ready with his PDX90 routine (Paul Ryan shirtless is still one of the top prompts on Google); who enjoys $350 bottles of wine thanks to lobbyists; and then dumps on the lazy, immoral inner-city poor with gambling addict and fellow government assistance recipient Bill Bennett.
This is the guy to whom the GOP is outsourcing its anti-poverty policy. Maybe he can hook the inner city poor up to the gravy train hes ridden his entire life.
Ryan is both overrated and an idiot. His budgets are true jokes. If you took one of Ryan's budgets to an investment banker, he would laugh at you
FSogol
(45,599 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)and this one is even better... "An open letter to Paul Ryan about poverty and empathy
We need to change the conversation about poverty and inequality. It starts with compassion and kindness"
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/10/hi_im_right_here_an_open_letter_to_paul_ryan_about_poverty_and_empathy/
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)tendency to send ever increasing numbers of black men to prison. When they get out, it is of course hard for them to secure employment. Perhaps the resulting unemployment somehow contributes to poverty in the "city".
pansypoo53219
(21,016 posts)emptry soul. full of ayn rand.
maindawg
(1,151 posts)You can be sure the more reviled we are the more they love it over there,in opposite land.
It is truly frightening to think that overt racism is viable political strategy in 2014.
Paul Ryan is , pure evil.
mountain grammy
(26,677 posts)Don't know how or why he was ever taken seriously.
Cha
(298,139 posts)the fawning corporatemediawhore$ and braindead teapubCons. rofl
ryan is an idiot.. you can tell when he opens his mouth and inserts boot.