“A full stomach and an empty soul”
by digby
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| That certainly describes him |
In case you still have the idea that Paul Ryan is the antidote to Trump, think again. This speech from a couple of years ago in which Ryan unctuously attempted to sell his draconian cuts to necessary programs as some kind of twisted “compassion” he said that free lunches for poor kids give them “a full stomach — and an empty soul.” He explained further:
She once met a young boy from a poor family. And every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program. But he told Eloise he didn’t want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch — one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids’. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him.
The “left” he explained cared too much about “comfort” and not enough about “dignity.”
We’re talking about kids here. Hungry kids who don’t have money for lunch.
This is the moderate center now.
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