Matthew Feeney Discusses Paul Ryan's Comments on Anti-Poverty Spending at 10:30pm ET
Later this evening I will be discussing a House Budget Committee report promoted by Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on The David Webb Show. Rep. Ryan said the following in a statement on the report:
For too long, we have measured compassion by how much we spend instead of how many people get out of poverty. We need to take a hard look at what the federal government is doing and ask, "Is this working?"
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Paul Ryan??? Why here???
You’ll be in your bunk?
He cut spending by 8%
Ryan should call up Romney and go play battleship again.
I miss curling since the Olympics are over.
So.. WTF happened in the independents thread? Trollmageddon?
Mary was off her meds again.
Ah. That’s never pretty.
We need to take a hard look at what the federal government is doing and ask, “Is this working?”
No.
Next “hard” question?
We need to take a hard look at what the federal government is doing and ask, “Is this working?”
The correct answer, in virtually all situations, is either “no” or “kind of, but at a grossly inflated price”.
He needs to take a hard look at his batshit political ideology and ask if it’s working. Was his inability to save money in a budget even while putting people into poverty just an off day?
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