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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaul Ryan hates babies
Paul Ryan hates white babies. He hates babies in all other colors too, but since the majority of babies, infants and toddlers who get fed via the Women, Infants and Children program (WIC) are statistically listed as white by our government, my assertion is justifiablewhen talking about babies who didn't get born from elite wombs.
If I was discussing ethnicity it probably should be Paul Ryan hates Latino babies, since a majority of Latinos in the data self-report or are listed as "white."
No matter.
Ryan and his conservative contingent of cads want babies to go hungry, while he promotes more tax pork for the wealthy. His "Path to Prosperity" plan should more aptly be named "The Ryan Path to Poverty."
They want millions of babies, infants and pregnant moms to go hungry.
During Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, the number of women, infants, and children receiving WIC benefits each month reached approximately 9.17 million. For the first 8 months of FY 2011, States reported average monthly participation just below 9 million participants per month. In 1974, the first year WIC was permanently authorized, 88,000 people participated. By 1980, participation was at 1.9 million; by 1985, 3.1 million; by 1990, 4.5 million; and by 2000, 7.2 million. Average monthly participation for FY 2008 was approximately 8.7 million.
Children have always been the largest category of WIC participants. Of the 9.17 million people who received WIC benefits each month in FY 2010, approximately 4.86 million were children, 2.17 million were infants, and 2.14 million were women.
Ryan has three childrenElizabeth Anne, Charles Wilson and Samuel Lowery.
Romney has fiveTaggart, Matthew, Joshua, Benjamin and Craig.
They had the privilege of never knowing hunger as infants. Those born without that privilege are scapegoated and targeted. You would think that being a parent would give them some empathy for other parents, and children, but it is clear that "empathy" is not a word, or ideal in the Republican lexicon. Unless it applies to eggs and fetuses.
Right now the media is awash in stories about rape and Republican insanity forcing women to give birthall under their banner of touting life. This of course is rank hypocrisy writ large. You cannot be "pro-life" if you don't give a damn about the lives of the living.
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Denise Oliver Velez
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/26/1123648/-Paul-Ryan-hates-babies
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Paul Ryan hates babies (Original Post)
cal04
Aug 2012
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BumRushDaShow
(129,307 posts)1. K&R
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)2. But he loves him some fetus!
Initech
(100,097 posts)3. And yet they run on an unbelievably hypocritical "pro family" platform. Whatever that is.