“Too many people don’t know what the American idea is anymore,” the Wisconsin Republican said, calling for a more streamlined federal government and a family-and-community-oriented approach to fighting poverty.
That's Paul Ryan, the latest republican Vice-Presidential candidate to get his clock cleaned by the Democrats, trying to convince his party's base of what they already believe (all evidence to the contrary): that the War on Poverty has failed.
Contrary to Rep.Ryan's musings (if you can call them that), I think most Americans are far too familiar with what he thinks the American idea is: letting the least among us suffer while the government funnels more dollars to those at the top; working for wages that leave us in poverty so corporate leaders can feed at the caviar trough; engorging the military-industrial complex while American children go hungry; looking out for Wall Street instead of Main Street.
You get the idea. So to speak.
And thanks, but no fucking thanks to that idea. Streamline the government and make believe that there's enough community organizations that can combat poverty and next thing you know, we're Somalia.
That might be republican's idea of the ideal America, but it's not mine.
Peace,
emaycee
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