Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, who this blogger spent a lot of time working to undermine his Vice Presidential candidacy in 2012, and got blasted for it by right wing websites and bloggers, has again shown further evidence of what a terrible choice Mitt Romney made in his Presidential race, in selecting Ryan to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency!
Ryan, who knows nothing about budgets, except that the poor, the elderly, the disabled, veterans, and the young should see cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and other social programs; and there should be no extension of unemployment compensation for desperately unemployed people; and there should be no rise in the minimum wage, now has gone off the “deep end” with his assertion that those who live in the “inner cities” have no sense of the importance of work, and have not worked for generations!
This is a direct and racist assault on African Americans in particular, but also on Hispanics and Latinos, who are a majority of the poor in the urban areas of our nation.
But Ryan acts as if it is only minorities who are poor, and are unemployed, and in some cases, have not worked in a long time. From this statement, one would think that whites are not poor, that they all work, that they all have a heritage of understanding the point of work, and nothing could be further from the truth!
It is a fact, and always has been, that the vast majority of the poor do not live in cities, and are not minorities, although one would think so from a stereotype!
The fact is that there are millions of whites who live in the rural and suburban areas of the nation, and many are them do not work, have no hope of work, and live in depressed conditions often worse than urban slums. Many of these people are living in “Red” states, where Republicans vote to hurt their own constituents, while making it seem as if only minorities do not work, or have no work ethic. They live in Appalachia, the Great Plains, the Rockies, in comparatively sparsely populated areas, as compared to the urban areas on the East and West Coasts.
More whites receive food stamps, and the level of poverty percentage wise is higher in such places as Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska.
It is the lack of education; the tendency to have large families which are also dysfunctional; the reality of drugs and alcohol; the refusal of these state governments to give a damn about their white poor, along with minority poor; and the tendency to turn poor whites against poor minorities so that the GOP can keep power in the House and in the state legislatures, which is destroying generation after generation of deprived people of all races!
Only when there is a REAL war on poverty, instead of exploiting the issue based upon race, as Paul Ryan has now done, will we ever be able to guarantee a good future for millions of whites, as well as African Americans and Latinos!
And Paul Ryan, your potential Presidential candidacy is dead in the water, and while you might run, you have forfeited any realistic chance to be President of the United States, but that was clear, anyway, in 2012!
Thank God. Paul Ryan is a big government Republican.
Hello Professor,
“those who live in the “inner cities†have no sense of the importance of work, and have not worked for generations!”
What a perfect example of a “Friedan Slip” exposing one’s own inner thoughts and nihilistic prejudices. No employment of critical thinking, violating a major rule of “Logical Argumentation”….the “Generalization Statement.”
As I have said before, “Freedom of Speech” exposes stupid.
Professor, I propose a Republican Presidental ticket of Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin. Then, to paraphrase the former VP candidate, we can go from “Change and hopey” to “strange and dopey”
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Cruz+and+Palin+photo+together&id=3D4D2BFECA3A54B7B095946EB6CCBC99BA2CE775&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=C2AAB574C484A229920F21A67A86480936FA6C29&selectedIndex=2
Seriously though, Professor. As we get less and less dependent on manufacturing in this country, it’s frightening to see how we are going to create jobs that pay a decent wage.
The recent example was Facebook buying Whatsap for $19 billion dollars. Granted, it was not all cash. But this company employs 55 people and reaches millions of people across the world every day.
The frightening thing is that they do not manufacture anything except utilizing software to reach people. Think of it, a company that was bought for $19Billion and only employees 55 people.
The future is technology and the more we become automated, the less we seem to need people. This only leaves low paying retail and service industry jobs that seem inevitable to widen the gap between rich and poor!
We need solutions other than calling names and I wish I knew the answer!
HAHA! Thanks, Engineer, and Paul, for some good laughs, but also total fear about a ticket of Cruz and Palin, the absolute worst nightmare!
Paul, you are so right, and it is a massive problem, what kind of work which pays decent wages for future generations! I wish I had the answer, as much as you!
EOK,
Ryan’s screed was a Freudian slip. Richard Mourdock’s screed last year was more of a Friedan slip. LOL! Don’t worry. There will some future Republican Neanderthal candidate (Ted Cruz??) that will create a real Friedan slip when he announces that women should go back to making babies and cooking dinner!
Hello Paul
I heard a stupefying statistic today. A large group sampling of people in the United Stated when asked if the Earth revolves around the Sun or the Sun revolves around the Earth, 25% of those asked said the Sun revolves around the Earth. I have to wonder how many of these favor, promote, and enable home schooling lessons.
In today’s global competitive markets, how can any country view themselves as being viable if 1/4 of the population cannot demonstrate the rudimentary proficiency in 4th grade science.
The job market opportunities for these proletariats in this country are going to have fewer and fewer opportunities as time goes on. This whole segment of society will be lost, unproductive, non-wage earners, thus non-contributors to our society,
I’m thinking this demographic group is probably also fundamentally religious, and for the most part believing the earth is only 10,000 years old it best….or worse…..have no opinion at all on the subject.
Mindless “Elois” to be prayed upon by corporations’ “Morlock” propaganda and rhetoric. Content to be destiny’s fodder left behind on a newly harvested field.
Engineer, it is totally terrifying to wonder how this nation will be in the future, with the widespread ignorance and pure stupidity of such a large part of the population, and much of it in the hinterland, although not exclusively there.
EOK/Professor:
By hinterlands, do you mean I-O-U wa. At least that’s how Ted Cruz
spells it. Funny, he couldn’t find Iowa on a map. Must be using that route as a shortcut to get from Texas to his native Canada, eh?
Where’s Donald Trump when you really need him?
I did not know that Cruz could not find Iowa on a map! LOL The thing about Cruz is that he is smart, unlike Paul, and therefore more dangerous.
Please do not mention Trump, Paul, as it causes stomach upset! LOL