Elizabeth Warren just wiped the floor with Paul Ryan's new 'poverty agenda'

Paul Ryan unveiled his—and by extension, what’s left of the Republicans’—“Poverty Agenda.” It consists of the same old bullshit ideas Paul Ryan and his cohorts always have: Poor people stink and they’re lazy and the best way to deal with them is to try to starve them to death so that they disappear. It’s more diplomatically worded, of course. Elizabeth Warren took to her Facebook account to deliver a relatively succinct spanking to the “future” of the Republican Party.

Speaker Paul Ryan just announced the Republicans’ “poverty agenda” – and it looks more like an agenda for creating poverty than reducing it. In fact, if you look closely, Paul Ryan’s new plan is just a shiny repackaging of Paul Ryan’s old plan: Keep huge tax breaks and special loopholes open for billionaires and giant corporations, gut the rules on Wall Street, then say there’s no money for Social Security, for Medicare, for education, or anything else that will help struggling working families.

Speaker Ryan has fancy new buzzwords, but the American people won’t be duped. It’s good to see that progressives are ready with a serious agenda to tackle poverty: one that lays out policies to boost wages, improve access to good jobs, ensure fair scheduling at work, and provide real ways to help families get ahead. We need to fight for policies that level the playing field for working families, rather than set them back.

I couldn’t have said it more diplomatically myself—I really couldn’t.