Paul Ryan’s New Poverty Proposal Would Have Government Micromanage Poor People’s Lives

[MostReal]

So essentially this is just creating more bureaucracy.

Think conservatives actually care about small government brehs.

more Gov'ment @DEAD7

 

[superunknown23]

I'm sure you're fighting the good fight on Free Republic

... and Hotair, DailyCaller, Breitbart, st0rmfr0nt, National Review, Redstate, etc.
Google any articles about Michelle Obama on those sites and look at the blatantly racist comments

 

[Colilluminati]

So he's empowering community organizers?

 

[superunknown23]

So he's empowering community organizers?

He doesn't know what he's doing at this point.
He was so shook by the backlash to his racist dogwhistle of "culture of poverty in urban areas" (clearly, he wasn't referring to welfare beneficiaries in rural Appalachia and the Deep South)... Now, he seems to be throwing things around and see what sticks.

 

[Type Username Here]

This guy went straight from college to Washington (congressional aide). He's never earned a paycheck that wasn't funded by taxpayers.
Yet he's out there lecturing people about government dependence

Don't forget his mom received income and support from the government too.

 

[superunknown23]

Don't forget his mom received income and support from the government too.

He also got student aid from the government.
He's been on the dole his whole life

 

[Type Username Here]

He also got student aid from the government.
He's been on the dole his whole life

Welfare Baby if I ever seen one.

Good for him. The system worked. Now he should stop trying to destroy the things that gave him a chance. But he knows he can't afford to give up on the Southern Strategy just yet.

 

[superunknown23]

Welfare Baby if I ever seen one.

Good for him. The system worked. Now he should stop trying to destroy the things that gave him a chance. But he knows he can't afford to give up on the Southern Strategy just yet.

That's why it was so infuriating to hear him pontificate about a "culture of poverty in urban areas"...
When white people talk about "welfare beneficiaries", they don't imagine other white people even though the poorest and most-welfare dependent areas are full of them (Appalachia and rural South)

 

[Type Username Here]

That's why it was so infuriating to hear him pontificate about a "culture of poverty in urban areas"...
When white people talk about "welfare beneficiaries", they don't imagine other white people even though the poorest and most-welfare dependent areas are full of them (Appalachia and rural South)

For sure but the most egregious thing is that they refuse to acknowledge of how many people use it to better themselves or to stay afloat until they can.

 

[superunknown23]

 

[MostReal]

 

[DEAD7]

 

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[superunknown23]

The poorest county in the country is Owsley County, KY, which is about 99% white. The food stamp participation is 52%. Yet they overwhelmingly voted in a Republican representative who voted to cut food stamps.
These folks are so dumb, the GOP gets their vote simply by talking about abortion and the three Gs (God, guns and gays).

Who will feel real pain with these food stamps cuts? As it turns out, most of them live in Red State, Real People America. Among the 254 counties where food stamp use doubled during the economic collapse, Mitt Romney won 213 of them, Bloomberg News reported.

52% of Owsley County, Ky., is receiving federal food aid.
You can’t get any more Team Red than Owsley County; it is 99 percent white, 81 percent Republican, per the 2012 presidential election. And that hardscrabble region has the distinction of being the poorest in the nation, with the lowest household income of any county in the United States, the Census Bureau found in 2010.

Since nearly half of Owsley’s residents also live below the poverty line, it would seem logical that the congressman who represents the area, Hal Rogers, a Republican, would be interested in, say, boosting income for poor working folks. But Rogers joined every single Republican in the House earlier this year in voting down a plan to raise the minimum wage over the next two years to $10.10 an hour.

Keep the guvmint hands off my welfare!