This morning on CNN, GOP National Chairman Reince Preibus tried to sugarcoat Paul Ryan's claim that the reason there was poverty in inner cities was due to laziness.
On Sunday, CNN’s Candy Crowley asked Priebus if he thought the remarks were “artfully phrased.”
“I’m not sure,” Priebus shrugged. “Here’s what I would say, why was Paul even talking about this? The reason he was talking about it is he devoted a large part of his life — starting back when he worked for Jack Kemp — on finding ways to tackle poverty, to free up capital, to create opportunities in urban areas around this country.”
On Wednesday, Paul Ryan cited White Nationalist Charles Murray to blame poverty on inner city men who refused to work.
“We call it a poverty trap,” he explained. “There are incentives not to work, and to stay where you are.”
“That’s this tailspin or spiral that we’re looking at in our communities,” he told Bennett. “Your buddy Charles Murray or Bob Putnam over at Harvard, those guys have written books on this.”
“Which is, we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men not working, and just generations of men not even thinking about working and learning the value and culture of work,” Ryan opined. “So, there’s a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.”
And the week before, Paul Ryan said that free school lunches meant that parents didn't care about kids.
He then told a story of a “young boy from a very poor family” who received free lunches at school “from a government program.”
“He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.”
“He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”
Paul Ryan had plagiarized Laura Schroff and distorted the meaning in order to make his point, something that can get you flunked out of college.
Charles Murray:
Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor. According to Murray, disadvantaged groups are disadvantaged because, on average, they cannot compete with white men, who are intellectually, psychologically and morally superior. Murray advocates the total elimination of the welfare state, affirmative action and the Department of Education, arguing that public policy cannot overcome the innate deficiencies that cause unequal social and educational outcomes.
So if Paul Ryan's remarks were not about race,
as he insists, then why did he cite known racist Charles Murray? And if it is true in Reince's term that Ryan simply wants to help, does that mean that Paul Ryan subscribes to the "White Man's Burden?"