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The more Paul Ryan speaks, the more ignorant he looks and sounds. His stupid comments on the poor were absolutely GOP-think, and quite backwards and pathetic. Glad he's being slammed for his clueless, narrow-minded Conservative remarks.
No, and that is very offensive. Rural people are on welfare a lot too. The biggest welfare states are all Republican. Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana are all republican.
Here are the top 12 states in welfare spending per capita in 2008:
1. New York
2. Alaska
3. Rhode Island
4. Vermont
5. Massachusetts
6. Maine
7. New Mexico
8. Minnesota
9. Delaware
10. California
11. Connecticut
12 Pennsylvania
Alaska is the only Republican state on that list. California alone has 34% of the total people on welfare in the US and only 12% of the population.
You guys have the highest poverty rate, and lowest economic mobility.
Checkmate.
Nope, that would be California after you adjust the poverty threshold for cost of living.
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Nearly nine million Californians - almost a quarter of the state's residents - live in poverty under a newly devised federal standard, making the state's rate by far the highest in the nation.
The stunning number will fuel California's perpetual political debate over the state's "safety net" of health and welfare services, which have been reduced sharply due to budget deficits. With voter approval of new taxes, advocates for the poor are demanding that some of the benefit cuts be rescinded.
California's 23.5 percent poverty rate under the "supplemental poverty measure" (SPM) developed by the Census Bureau is approached only by the 23.2 percent rate in the District of Columbia. The highest SPM rate in any other state is Florida's 19.5 percent.
No, Ryan said there was a culture of being lazy among those in the inner city. Thats not the same as saying "im only talking about specifically the lazy people ".
So speaking to a culture of being lazy is different than talking to lazy people? How is that different?
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California alone has 34% of the total people on welfare in the US and only 12% of the population.
