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Cooking the Books
Author: BobR    Date: 03/05/2014 12:32:31

Paul Ryan (R-WI) - the failed veep hopeful of 2012 - has made it clear what he thinks of government programs that help the poor. Give a man a fish - he eats for a day, kick his ass out the door - he'll learn to fish on his own. So it's no surprise that he considers The War On Poverty to be just more of that liberal entitlement nonsense. He dislikes it so much, he's willing to cook the data to "prove" that it doesn't work.

Using widely-available research, he released "The War on Poverty - 50 Years Later". Unfortunately for him, using that public data means that others can check his work... and his work is found wanting:
“And the trends are not encouraging,” Ryan wrote. “Federal programs are not only failing to address the problem. They are also in some significant respects making it worse. Changes are clearly necessary, and the first step is to evaluate what the federal government is doing right now.”

But some authors of that research said Ryan apparently left out or ignored statistics that showed federal anti-poverty programs worked exactly as they were intended, reported The Fiscal Times.

For example, the Republican lawmaker left off data measured in a recent study of the two most successful years in President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty to argue that federal efforts hadn’t worked.

Researchers at the Columbia Population Research Center examined the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which factors in government benefits such as food stamps and the earned-income tax credit, and found the poverty rate had dropped from 26 percent in 1967 to 15 percent in 2012.

But Ryan only cited data from 1969 onward, noted one of the Columbia study’s authors, ignoring 36 percent of the total decline.
[...]
Ryan also cites the same research paper to support his claim that a 1996 welfare reform program caused a decline in child poverty, but its lead author said the lawmaker had ignored a major expansion in the earned-income tax credit in 1993 and the economic expansion at the time.

“While our data can’t disentangle those three things, attributing the decline in poverty after 1993 to the welfare reform of 1996 seems to go beyond what the data show,” said Columbia researcher Chris Wimer.

Another researcher said Ryan misstated the findings in one of her papers on the effects of housing assistance on labor.

Just like the Republicans' attempts to prevent Democratic-leaning voters from casting their vote, they are dishonest when trying to prove their economic voodoo. It's dishonorable and an insult to the country.
 

44 comments (Latest Comment: 03/06/2014 01:17:37 by Raine)
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Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 14:17:05
Good Morning!

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 14:18:33
Ryan is such an incredibly bad liar. Seriously.

Comment by wickedpam on 03/05/2014 14:27:43
Morning

Comment by Scoopster on 03/05/2014 14:56:04
Mornin' all..

So the NYT thought it was newsworthy to call out the RT reporter who spoke out against Putin's little sandbox fight as a 9/11 truther.

Now, I have little respect for 9/11 truthers but cmon.. the NY Times should have higher standards than to attack someone on it because they said something completely unrelated to 9/11. And it makes even less sense since it's actually kinda legit for a RT reporter to call out Putin on his own turf.

All that said, Greenwald is now sticking his fat scummy nose in the discussion by defending her. If I were her I'd get as far away from anything Greenwald-related because the guy's fucking toxic.

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 15:02:40
Comment by BobR on 03/05/2014 15:06:46

I've actually read these:

Everyone Poops
How to Shit in the Woods
The Pocket Book of Boners

and I've seen "Games You Can Play with your Pussy" at the used book store

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 15:10:01
Quote by BobR:

I've actually read these:

Everyone Poops
How to Shit in the Woods
The Pocket Book of Boners

and I've seen "Games You Can Play with your Pussy" at the used book store
Why am I not surprised?


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 15:11:17



:rofl;

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 15:37:21
The report also found that the sun rises and sets. Oh, and once again, according to this article, (looking at you WaPo!!! ) Facts once again have a liberal Bias.

Raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour would reduce federal food stamp spending by $4.6 billion a year, according to a report to be released Wednesday by the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.




Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 16:01:37
Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 16:10:59
Comment by wickedpam on 03/05/2014 16:33:27



I think channel 4 had something but I kind of stopped watching local news for my own sanity's sake

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 16:38:47
I hadn't heard about this at all!


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 16:40:54
Quote by Raine:
I hadn't heard about this at all!



Personally, I think he looks more like the bastard spawn of a wookie and ALF.

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 17:02:30
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I hadn't heard about this at all!



Personally, I think he looks more like the bastard spawn of a wookie and ALF.
You say that like it's a bad thing...


Comment by Scoopster on 03/05/2014 17:16:12

I'm... so confused. Did he read this article in The Onion yesterday and misread the line about Wisconsin?

Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/05/2014 17:18:50
Hi, bloggers!! I hope that all is well. (I am hoping that I am not catching my brother's cold.)

BobR, it seems that the GOP needs to lie to win. I have heard a few people claim that Fundamentalist Christians believe that the only TRUTH is their gospel, so lies can be told on anything else. Maybe the GOP has the same rule, but their gospel seems to be a strange merger of the teachings of Ayn Rand and conservative religious doctrines.

In some good news, Boston is hiring 1,000 teachers, so I am working on tons of applications. Eager to move on.

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 17:18:51
Quote by Scoopster:

I'm... so confused. Did he read this article in The Onion yesterday and misread the line about Wisconsin?
I'm not joking when I say Ryan, Graham McCain and EVERY damn one of them really believe they have gotten to a point where people will believe the Bullshit.


Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/05/2014 17:19:48
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:

I'm... so confused. Did he read this article in The Onion yesterday and misread the line about Wisconsin?
I'm not joking when I say Ryan, Graham McCain and EVERY damn one of them really believe they have gotten to a point where people will believe the Bullshit.



Raine, see my last post. It seems like the GOP is one billion light years from reality and expects us to believe anything that comes out of their orifices.

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 17:38:18
Longer video.

Cummings has EVERY right to be pissed.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 17:38:40
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I hadn't heard about this at all!



Personally, I think he looks more like the bastard spawn of a wookie and ALF.
You say that like it's a bad thing...


Not at all! The world needs more wookie-ALF hybrids.

Comment by wickedpam on 03/05/2014 17:59:47
Quote by Raine:
Longer video.

Cummings has EVERY right to be pissed.


remind me again that I should never read the comments section *sigh*


Comment by livingonli on 03/05/2014 18:10:02
Good day, folks. It looks like the one thing the GOP and Putin have is that they both live in delusional worlds with no basis in reality.

Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 18:17:26
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Longer video.

Cummings has EVERY right to be pissed.


remind me again that I should never read the comments section *sigh*

Because it makes you feel angry and when you feel angry, Direct TV makes a commercial out of you.

And when Direct TV turns you into a commercial they make you blow off steam. When you blow of steam accidents happen. When Accidents happen you get an eyepatch. When you get an Eyepatch people think you are tough. When people think you're tough, they troll harder. And when people troll harder you wake up and feel your joy is lying nearly dead in a ditch.

Don't get an eyepatch, and don't let your joy end up in a roadside ditch. Don't subject your eyes to the comment sections.




Comment by wickedpam on 03/05/2014 18:19:50
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Longer video.

Cummings has EVERY right to be pissed.


remind me again that I should never read the comments section *sigh*

Because it makes you feel angry and when you feel angry, Direct TV makes a commercial out of you.

And when Direct TV turns you into a commercial they make you blow off steam. When you blow of steam accidents happen. When Accidents happen you get an eyepatch. When you get an Eyepatch people think you are tough. When people think you're tough, they troll harder. And when people troll harder you wake up and feel your joy is lying nearly dead in a ditch.

Don't get an eyepatch, and don't let your joy end up in a roadside ditch. Don't subject your eyes to the comment sections.




Wise words - unless you are a pirate or the Governor - don't wear eye patchs.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 18:33:36
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
Longer video.

Cummings has EVERY right to be pissed.


remind me again that I should never read the comments section *sigh*

Because it makes you feel angry and when you feel angry, Direct TV makes a commercial out of you.

And when Direct TV turns you into a commercial they make you blow off steam. When you blow of steam accidents happen. When Accidents happen you get an eyepatch. When you get an Eyepatch people think you are tough. When people think you're tough, they troll harder. And when people troll harder you wake up and feel your joy is lying nearly dead in a ditch.

Don't get an eyepatch, and don't let your joy end up in a roadside ditch. Don't subject your eyes to the comment sections.







Comment by Scoopster on 03/05/2014 19:40:38
Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 19:43:27
Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/05/2014 20:01:17


Can I suggest an uninvited dinner guest;;; by the name of Cthulhu?

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100202021245/lovecraft/images/1/1b/Kraken-cthulhu.jpg


Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/05/2014 20:05:46
Bad news and good news.

Bad news. I may be coming down with my brother's cold. I shoveled and I am much more tired than I should be. (I had a cold in my eye yesterday, which is how it started for him.)

How the good news. I just got this message from a professor who is one of my teaching references:
Just completed a reference for Boston schools. I wish you the best of luck, and now you will do well.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 20:08:03
Quote by Will in Chicago:


Can I suggest an uninvited dinner guest;;; by the name of Cthulhu?

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100202021245/lovecraft/images/1/1b/Kraken-cthulhu.jpg



Well played Will, well played.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/05/2014 20:09:54
I am going to turn of Thom Hartmann today as Dr Mike Newcomb is filling in. (I hope that this does not mean that Mike or Louise are ill.) Of Dr. Newcomb, Stephen Lemmon of the Phoenix New Times wrote that he was an acquired taste -- rather like cigarettes that soaked overnight in a urinal.

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 20:20:09
Comment by Raine on 03/05/2014 20:39:47
Quote by Scoopster:
Uhh... no.
I'd rather republican voters elect teens in the 10th grade at this point.

They have more common sense.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 20:46:44
Comment by BobR on 03/05/2014 21:05:11
Quote by Will in Chicago:
I am going to turn of Thom Hartmann today as Dr Mike Newcomb is filling in. (I hope that this does not mean that Mike or Louise are ill.) Of Dr. Newcomb, Stephen Lemmon of the Phoenix New Times wrote that he was an acquired taste -- rather like cigarettes that soaked overnight in a urinal.

To quote the old cigarette ad: "Come to where the flavor is"

Comment by BobR on 03/05/2014 21:09:51
Quote by Mondobubba:
Media Matters' Mythopedia.

Hmm... that seems an awful lot like another myth-busting website

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 21:11:20
Quote by BobR:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Media Matters' Mythopedia.

Hmm... that seems an awful lot like another myth-busting website



You know, I had the same thought.

Comment by BobR on 03/05/2014 21:11:50

AND it's Texas...

Comment by Mondobubba on 03/05/2014 21:41:09
Quote by BobR:

AND it's Texas...



That was a given.

Comment by Raine on 03/06/2014 01:17:37
Remember the other day when Greenwald was telling us how AWESOME RT was?

I would very much like to see his take on this:


Link to a story about it.

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