Friday, May 16, 2014

Paul Ryan stakes position in war on poverty


This ought to be good... a leading Libertarian-Randite teaming up with the hedge fund people:
Rep. Paul Ryan, known largely as debt and deficit reformer, is expanding his focus to poverty fighter, telling a crowd Friday that government has done an inadequate job helping poor people. 
The Wisconsin Republican and 2012 vice presidential nominee encouraged a crowd of hedge fund executives to join forces with the public sector to eradicate a problem he said has gotten markedly worse over the past few years. 
"One of the inadvertent casualties in the war on poverty is that we've reinforced the idea that government is going to fix this," Ryan said at SkyBridge Capital's SALT 2014 conference in Las Vegas. 
"That's just not going to cut it anymore. Each and every one of us in America has a very important role to play."
Looks like they are going to cook up some sort of conscience soothing, "voluntary" reverse Robin Hood charity scheme.




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