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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 05:27 AM Mar 2014

Ryan 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 Ryan’s is calling for an “adult conversation” about poverty.

“It’s 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 OP
Kick.... daleanime Mar 2014 #1
I agree, but it's sad that a guy who benefitted...... Trust Buster Mar 2014 #2
I don't think the man sorefeet Mar 2014 #3
Irony. L0oniX Mar 2014 #4
 

Trust Buster

(7,299 posts)
2. I agree, but it's sad that a guy who benefitted......
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 06:41 AM
Mar 2014

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
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 07:45 AM
Mar 2014

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.

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