Posted on 08/21/2017 5:47:08 PM PDT by Innovative
Traitorous ryan enjoys thumbing his nose at President Trump at every public event the swamp offers.
It’s past time to abolish both major political parties.
“I hope he gets some interesting questions.”
CNN will dutifully screen for him. I think they see an ally in Ryan.
Good point. “the Dem party appeals to nobody.” True. Ryan, CNN, NYT, LAT, and Google are repulsive to everyone.
The GOPe boi likes beatings ...
Speaking of emails, we used to get an email almost every sday from the White House with updates about what’s going on. Haven’t received one for a couple of weeks now.
“Does he really expect to be treated fairly?”
Of course he does - and he will. He’s one of “them”. If Ryan were a conservative, I’d say, “Great. Go on CNN. Go where the sinners are and get the message out.” But he will go anti-Trump, GOPe, and that’s the end of that.
Speaker Ryan Invites a Social Doctrine Conversation
George Weigel
9 . 13 . 17
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/09/speaker-ryan-invites-a-social-doctrine-conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, offered viewers of a CNN national town hall meeting on the evening of August 21. Challenged with a semi-“Gotcha!” question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not-so-subtly suggested that Ryan’s approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church’s social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is “always on the side of the poor and dispossessed”; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not-poor and not-dispossessed?
Congressman Ryan then laid out an approach to alleviating poverty and empowering the poor that seemed to me entirely congruent with the core Catholic social ethical principles of subsidiarity and solidarity. Solidarity with the poor is a moral imperative, Ryan agreed, but solidarity should not be measured by inputs—How many federal dollars go into anti-poverty programs?—but by outcomes: Are poor people who can live independent and fruitful lives being helped by our welfare dollars to develop the skills and habits that will enable them to be self-reliant, constructive citizens? The moral obligation of solidarity is not met by programs that perpetuate welfare dependency.
Speaker Ryan is a longstanding advocate of decentralizing and (as he puts it) “customizing” social welfare programs. That means abandoning one-size-fits-all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained. Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor—crafted so that each “fits” the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America—strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine’s principle of subsidiarity. That principle, first articulated by Pope Pius XI in 1931, teaches us to leave decision-making at the lowest possible level in society, closest to those most directly affected by the policy in question. Paul Ryan thinks Washington doesn’t have to decide everything; Pius XI would have agreed.
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