Comments on: Paul Ryan’s Own District Disproves Everything He Says About Poverty https://talkpoverty.org/2016/06/10/paul-ryans-district-community-struggling/ Real People. Real Stories. Real Solutions. Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: SwingRight ✓ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ ˢᵘᵖᵖᵒʳᵗᵉʳ https://talkpoverty.org/2016/06/10/paul-ryans-district-community-struggling/#comment-440 Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:27:00 +0000 https://talkpoverty.org/?p=16527#comment-440 In reply to BC SHelby.

Support Paul Nehlen anyways because removing Paul Ryan from the legislature is the right thing to do for America and whether Nehlen wins or loses remove Ryan as speaker ASAP.

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By: BC SHelby https://talkpoverty.org/2016/06/10/paul-ryans-district-community-struggling/#comment-434 Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:15:00 +0000 https://talkpoverty.org/?p=16527#comment-434 …Ryan is a shining example of the irresponsible and heartless stance the GOP has adopted.

It makes me wonder if it is all a plan to benefit the for profit prison industry. Take away what little people who have been kicked to the curb have left to depend on, don’t give them any other alternatives, any hope, to where it eventually reaches a braking point. With harsh sentences for even the pettiest of crimes being pushed by the prison lobby, many having no money for bail, for an attorney, and even being charged for their stay in some jails, it is the beginning of an ugly downward and unjust spiral. We already have more people in this nation incarcerated than China does. Meanwhile the for profit prison industry is pressuring states and counties to hand out more, and longer sentences, even threatening to sue if they don’t, so they can fill their cells with slave labourers they can contract out to businesses and local/state government.

Of course Ryan has no worry, he makes (i believe) something like 240,000$ a year for his position as House Speaker, has a “Rolls Royce benefit package which includes healthcare, travel allowances (usually first class), and even daily a meal allowance that per day is about 40$ less than a single person can receive on SNAP benefits for a month. On top of that is a generous pension and healtchare for the rest of his life, all on the taxpayers’ dime. Is it any wonder he is out of touch with the people in his district and where he lives who are struggling every day to not end up on the street or worse? He has no worry. Just like that Schlemiel in the Governor’s Mansion in Madison who believes everyone can make it on 7.25$ an hour and making taxpayers foot the lion’s share of the bill to keep a sorry excuse of sports fanchise in Milwaukee is more important than the university system.

It’s nice to say vote Ryan out this election, but his district has been so badly gerrymandered that it is almost impossible.

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