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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday suggested that men in inner cities who refused to work were one of the main causes of poverty in the United States.
In an interview with conservative radio host Bill Bennett that was first noticed by Igor Volsky at Think Progress, Ryan reflected on his controversial poverty discussion at last weeks Conservative Political Action Conference.
We call it a poverty trap, he explained. There are incentives not to work, and to stay where you are.
Ryan also pointed to the work of Charles Murray, a white nationalist, who has used racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thats this tailspin or spiral that were 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, theres a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.
The Wisconsin Republican added that he had been criticized for opposing the War on Poverty.
We got to have the courage to face that down, just like we did with welfare reform in the late 1990s, he said. And if we succeed, we can help recitate this culture. And get people back to work, and get people back to meeting their potential.
Listen to the audio below from Bill Bennetts Morning in America, broadcast March 12, 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/12/paul-ryan-cites-white-nationalist-to-blame-poverty-on-lazy-men-in-inner-cities/
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Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Racism is a key factor in the GOP ideology. Ryan is willing to admit that he is relying on the work of a white nationalist/racist to justify his racist views
This is not by accident.
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)He wants the 'best of both worlds' so to speak, minorities are bad because of their genes AND their environment.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)don't know a damn thing about the inner cities . Ryan and the rest sit in some little town where they never had to interact with anyone but the same people they grew up with and their interpetation of people in inner cities is related to some old seventies movies,they don't know shit!