Paul Ryan Blames Poverty On Lazy ‘Inner City’ Men
Source: THINK PROGRESS
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities” and dealing with the “real culture problem” in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,” he said.
Ryan also cited Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist who believes African-Americans are, as a population, less intelligent than whites due to genetic differences and that poverty remains a national problem because “a lot of poor people are born lazy.”
Ryan’s comments come a week after he released a 204-page report analyzing the effectiveness of the nation’s anti-poverty programs 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a national War on Poverty. The former GOP vice presidential candidate, who argues that federal anti-poverty programs have contributed to the nation’s high poverty rate and “created what’s known as the poverty trap,” is expected to offer reforms to the programs in his upcoming FY 2015 budget.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/12/3394871/ryan-poverty-inner-city/
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while ignoring this (where there are far more than the population of anyone in the "inner city", which is the "new" old code word) -
And he calls himself a Christian but believes in her malignant festering gibberish masquerading as a philosophy...the more I read about her survival of the fittest the more you realise she was full of crap!!!
Makes me so mad sometimes. 
You know, the guy who had a Father die while he was growing up and his Mother and siblings received government Social Security Survivor benefits. Just like my family did in the late 70's after my Father died of heart failure in '75.
Those government programs saved my family from poverty, homelessness and starvation; even though my Mother worked in a factory. With a union representation that kept her employed with decent pay and retirement benefits she enjoys now at 82 despite being widowed at age 42.
This Ryan Hypocrite's family was also saved like mine from poverty, homelessness and starvation and yet, this government beneficiary and TAKER (still !!) claims it's the poor's fault they are poor. He just makes me want to puke.
It seems that we are all going to have to re-fight the same wars: civil rights, women's rights, voting rights, etc.
What the hell is going on?????
At this rate, I'm sure they'll be in good shape by the next presidential election...
until the Republicans talk seriously about jobs programs, they have no reason to talk
also... this Charles Murray? "Murray...proposing something to replace welfare...Give $10,000 (to begin with) per year, tax free, to every adult over 21, with the stipulation that $3,000 of it be spent on health insurance and the strong recommendation that $2,000 be invested toward retirement income..."
I am disgusted by the whole lot of them
