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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (246412)	3/4/2014 12:55:45 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) of 542214

you've probably been getting your info from Paul Ryan House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has conducted his own analysis of anti-poverty programs and concluded that they actually make poverty worse. To rectify this we should implement his Path to Poverty budget right away, obviously. What the poor need isn’t a handout, it’s a little motivation to pull themselves up by their boot straps and escape the “poverty trap.” This idea what there is even a such thing as a “poverty trap” is one of most bullshit conservative economic ideas today. As if receiving SNAP or WIC assistance during a time of need prevents someone from taking advantage of economic opportunities that, as you know, magically materialize for average people on a daily basis. ‘I was going to start my own business, but food stamps are just too good.’ Paul Ryan’s Audit Of Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Finds Many Are Actually Very Effective

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