Elizabeth Warren Rips Into Paul Ryan's Anti-Poverty Plan
Source: Mother Jones
Warren is hardly alone in that assessment. Ryan's anti-poverty plan rests on some of his favorite pet causes: furthering the '90s-era welfare reform emphasis on pushing people toward work and block-granting funding for programs while giving states more leeway on how they run the programs. The left-leaning Center for Budget and Policy Priorities noted that it's nice to hear Republicans focused on poverty but blasted Ryan's proposal. "In several areas," CBPP's Robert Greenstein wrote, "the plan repeats standard congressional Republican positions in bashing a series of federal laws and regulations designed to protect low- and middle-income families." Slate's Jordan Weissmann highlighted the absurdity of the fact that Ryan's plan to help poor people includes repealing the Obama administration's fiduciary rule, a regulation that forces financial advisers to offer retirement advice in the best interests of their clients. "The basic consumer protections offered by the fiduciary rule aren't going to deprive anybody of essential financial advice," Weissmann wrote, "and fighting it is an obvious sop to a powerful industry. Trying to cloak it in the language of an anti-poverty effort is as sad as it is hilarious."
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Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)And, he is the best these assholes can be ...
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Just thinking out loud. Time to taint them all with Trump. Maybe the Trump-McConnell budget plan etc. There is no rules on what we can name them.
larkrake
(1,674 posts)Warpy
(111,255 posts)if they had bothered to index the minimum wage to inflation and forbidden Greenspan to make the CPI market basket an example of declining expectations.
Given the prospect of a job at wages that would actually support them, people would be delighted to leave the welfare rolls as soon as they were able. You live horribly on welfare. With wages where they are, you live worse if you work.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)Every single Republican policy creates more extreme poverty.
Of course the press will never "report" this simple fact......
geretogo
(1,281 posts)on Sunday to pray about how to best deceive the poor into drinking the holy Koolaid .
These people make me very ill .