Black People Politics : Paul Ryan Wants to Throw 1.8 Million People Off Of Food Stamps for Having a Car

It is with this mindset that Ryan justified cutting food stamps by $134 billion in his proposed budget. The House Budget Chairman downplayed the significance of his budget’s cuts in an interview with ThinkProgress, dismissing his proposed 10 percentage point drop in funding as a necessary “fix.”
RYAN: We want to have people go from welfare back to work. That’s why we conjoined in our budget the job training programs, consolidate the 47 different job training programs spread across 9 different agencies to scholarships to go to people so they can get new training.
KEYES: But with something like food stamps isn’t that kind of a necessary thing, to eat in order to work?
RYAN: Right, so under the bill we’re moving right now through Congress, food stamps will have increased something like 260 percent over the last decade instead of 270 percent. You will still have seen a massive increase in food stamps, but we think you have to get savings in some of these areas where you’ve had a huge increase in spending. We have prisoners getting food stamps in Wisconsin. We have people that are becoming eligible for food stamps because of other factors that aren’t eligible food stamps in and of themselves. So we think we need to fix the fact that some of these programs have grown at such unsustainable rates.
KEYES: I think fraud was actually at a record low though in 2010.
RYAN: [Silence] Anybody else? All right, thanks everybody.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/08/478673/paul-ryan-food-stamps/?mobile=nc
 
It is with this mindset that Ryan justified cutting food stamps by $134 billion in his proposed budget. The House Budget Chairman downplayed the significance of his budget’s cuts in an interview with ThinkProgress, dismissing his proposed 10 percentage point drop in funding as a necessary “fix.”
RYAN: We want to have people go from welfare back to work. That’s why we conjoined in our budget the job training programs, consolidate the 47 different job training programs spread across 9 different agencies to scholarships to go to people so they can get new training.
KEYES: But with something like food stamps isn’t that kind of a necessary thing, to eat in order to work?
RYAN: Right, so under the bill we’re moving right now through Congress, food stamps will have increased something like 260 percent over the last decade instead of 270 percent. You will still have seen a massive increase in food stamps, but we think you have to get savings in some of these areas where you’ve had a huge increase in spending. We have prisoners getting food stamps in Wisconsin. We have people that are becoming eligible for food stamps because of other factors that aren’t eligible food stamps in and of themselves. So we think we need to fix the fact that some of these programs have grown at such unsustainable rates.
KEYES: I think fraud was actually at a record low though in 2010.
RYAN: [Silence] Anybody else? All right, thanks everybody.


I can now see where the hypocrisy comes into play...

Ryan expecting that this would lead people into finding work...but taking away their cars would actually make it harder for those seeking jobs and once they get a job they would then have to find a means of other transportation to get to work...this can be difficult for those who are single parents.
 

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