Paul Ryan Despises The Poor, Er, We Mean Poverty…Or Something
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Rapture) is good with numbers. Don’t ask him where his numbers came from, or how he actually intends to make his numbers balance — because he can’t actually do that. But boy golly can he crunch some numbers, at least according to his acolytes on the right side of the aisle. This week Rep. Ryan decided to add to his fiscal legacy by releasing a report on our country’s anti-poverty programs, or as they’re known to Ryan and his Republican cohorts, “the vile socialist defiling of the Constitution,” and what will certainly be a shocker to anyone either in a medically-induced coma or who has lived underground for the last half-decade or so, Ryan doesn’t like what he saw.
The word that Paulie used that’s getting the headlines is “haphazard.” As in, since 1965 America’s “war on poverty” has been done in a haphazard way. Believe it or not, Ryan wasn’t actually trying to make us all titter with glee; he actually meant what he said, and the angels cried forth with beautiful song for they knew a political humorist would thoroughly enjoy pointing out all the delicious irony of any modern day Republican demagogueing social welfare programs.
Let’s start with that word “haphazard,” which literally means that something is done without much care or forethought, and if you ask me, it’s the Republicans who have been taking the most haphazard approach to fighting poverty for at least the last thirty years, and probably going back even further than that. Take for instance their stubborn refusal to see the light of day on contraception and abortion services. We know for a fact that being able to control and curb unwanted pregnancies is one of the biggest things we can do to reduce the effects of poverty. Over population is real, and it most certainly exacerbates the terrible nature of poverty — that there simply isn’t enough to go around.
If you really give a damn about poverty, you’ll want to empower everyone with the tools necessary to truly plan their family. Reproductive health issues aren’t just about keeping the teenagers from having sex with one another — a wasted effort if ever there was one. Reproductive health and rights issues give young women the power to control the circumstances of pregnancy far better than “put it in and if you get pregnant oh well, I guess you’re having that baby, SINNER!” Ryan has been one of the congressmen most willing to cloak himself in religious fervor, co-sponsoring personhood bills that could make a rape victim the criminal for aborting a baby implanted in her uterus by her assailant.
