Lyin' Ryan's Plan For The Poor

[Tom Joad]

To his credit, Paul Ryan did not once invoke "bootstraps." In a speech unveiling his new poverty proposal Thursday morning at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, he did not describe the safety net as a "hammock" a single time. He did not use thinly veiled code words about the "inner city." He did not misleadingly suggest — as he has often in the past — that the war on poverty has failed, when in fact much research tells us that federal programs, despite their flaws, have lifted millions of Americans out of destitution.

Ryan is learning to talk about poverty in ways that don't make his ideas instantly unpalatable to the left, to advocates for the poor, to researchers and program officers who recognize that poverty is a sign of so much more than the absence of effort.

So, in other words the slimy little snake is learning how to be sneaky when pitching his snake oil. That doesn't fool me, but I fear it may fool some of the more gullible.

[Tom Joad]

Like I said.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/201...ng-say-critics

Despite populist 're-branding,' Paul Ryan's plans slammed as same old anti-poor scheme.

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