Poor Paul Ryan, he just couldn’t catch a break when he tried to talk about his new 2015 budget plan and explain how cutting safety net services will help poor people not be poor, because then they’ll get married the way God intended.
If the brown paper bag story he plagiarized for his CPAC speech wasn’t bad enough, now he’s in trouble for making comments about minorities being stupid and lazy. Once again, they’re not his words, but they do come from a homegrown Wisconsin source. Charles Murray, the man Paul Ryan quoted in his comments about the lazy inner city man, is responsible for writing a book back in 1994 entitled The Bell Curve. The problem with blacks and latinos, according to the book, is they don’t do as well on IQ tests as their Caucasian counterparts because they’re black and latino; meaning they’re less intelligent because they’re black and latino. In fact, the book offers plenty of graphs and charts showing the median IQ score for Caucasians is 100, while for African Americans the median is 85. This book has been discredited for years as any authoritative source on human intelligence, but that Paul Ryan would still use this book as a reference explains so much about what Paul Ryan and his constituents think about the poor.
Let’s forget about Paul Ryan. He’s proven he has no original thoughts of his own and focus on Charles Murray for a moment. People write books because they get paid to write them. Murray was no different when he wrote The Bell Curve. Who paid Charles Murray to write this book? A Milwaukee based organization known as the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation’s long list of donations includes nationwide promotion of charter schools, vouchers, and school choice. In fact, they provide the largest donation to the Black Alliance For Educational Options, another Milwaukee based organization that promotes inner city charter schools and school choice. BAEO has several offices nationwide where they provide community outreach in inner cities, encouraging people to enroll their children in for-profit charter schools. When you realize that the people funding this program are the same people who funded a book about how inner city people are lazy and stupid, and politicians twenty years later are using that same belief about the inner city to push their agenda to eliminate the safety net the poor need to survive, it takes on a more ominous meaning.
Following the money always reveals the true nature behind politicians? words and their motivation to get the attention of the media to say them. It’s what they’re paid to do, after all.
Edited and Published by: WG
