"Paul Ryan Recycles Weak Talking Point On Welfare Reform"

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Paul Ryan Recycles Weak Talking Point On Welfare Reform

by Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/paul-ryan-welfare_n_5694745.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday praised welfare reform for reducing child poverty, even though child poverty is higher today than it was before welfare reform.

Speaking to former GOP congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, Ryan said, "You voted for a bipartisan bill in 1996, welfare reform, that did more to reduce child poverty than any reform in the modern era."

The child poverty rate in 1996 was 20.5 percent, according to the government's numbers. The rate declined each year after Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act until 2000, when it fell to 16.2 percent. But then something sad happened: The rate started going back up. It reached 21.8 percent in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available.

"You cannot base your assessment on the first four years and stop," LaDonna Pavetti, a welfare expert at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said in an interview.




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1. He has been trying to soft peddle his book to make him look like a "likable" guy. Behind the facade

is the reality that ryan wants to hurt a lot of people with insane policies

In fact the choice of ryan as romney's vp should have told the people everything that romney represents. The 47% video should not have been even necessary

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2. Proving once again not ONE word out of a rightwingers mouth is EVER true

[Thinkingabout]

3. Yep, it is about reading his book. Perhaps if Bill Clinton remained as president instead of

W kids might be better today. With a runaway spending Congress and Never Met A Dollar He Didn't
Want To Spend Bush it turned things around the wrong way. So far I hear a lot coming from Ryan but nothing on which to build a house.