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Related: About this forumRyan Unsuited to Lead ‘Adult Conversation’ About Poverty
http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/29/ryan-unsuited-to-lead-%E2%80%98adult-conversation%E2%80%99-about-poverty/Ryan Unsuited to Lead Adult Conversation About Poverty
March 29, 2014
by Greg Kaufmann
These days, a favorite talking point of Republican Congressman Paul Ryans is calling for an adult conversation about poverty.
Its time for an adult conversation, he told The Washington Post.
If we actually have an adult conversation, he said in remarks at the Brookings Institution, I think we can make a difference.
The problem is that a prerequisite for any adult conversation is telling the truth and it is there the congressman falls monumentally short.
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Ryan Unsuited to Lead ‘Adult Conversation’ About Poverty (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2014
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. Kick....
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)2. I agree, but it's sad that a guy who benefitted......
From welfare and Social Security as a child can come out the other end unsuited to address this issue like an adult with personal experience.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)3. I don't think the man
has ever held any other job than sucking on the government tit has he?? He has lived a very plush and privileged life because of hard working tax payers, mostly the poor and middle class tax payer. Because the rich seem to have a way around that kind of stuff.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)4. Irony.