that s sorely out of touch with them. to be clear, uncle sugar may be hilarious, but it s no way to address the gender gap laid bare in the 2012 presidential race, when president obama beat mitt romney by 11 points among women. and more recently, there s congressman paul ryan s inartful wording on the insights of policy. you know, your buddy charles murray or bob putnam over at harvard, those guys have written books on this. which is that we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men just not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work. and so there s a real culture problem here that has to be dealt. ryan quickly backed away from the language, after taking heat for his comments, saying he was inarticulate about the point he was trying to make, and not implementing the culture of one community, but a society as a whole. on sunday, reince priebus defended ryan.
are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then, so be it. huckabee said he has comments were intended to criticize the way democrats politicians treat women, but the effect of his words was to highlight a gop that s sorely out of touch with them. to be clear, uncle sugar may be hilarious, but it s no way to address the gender gap laid bare in the 2012 presidential race, when president obama beat mitt romney by 11 points among women. and more recently, there s congressman paul ryan s inartful wording on the insights of policy. you know, your buddy charles murray or bob putnam over at harvard, those guys have written books on this. which is that we have got this tailspin of culture in our inner cities in particular of men just not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning th
i pride myself that i have tutored in inner city minneapolis. okay. that was another jesus take the wheel moment. isn t his tweet an example of implicit bias that we ve been discussing? it s ignorant racism is what it s an example of. it s so frustrating to me when these politicians get on television and they like to pretend like, oh, i m not really racist, i just say ignorant things and you should excuse me. no, it s absolutely racist. don t let him off the hook for it. i tutor, so i m not racist. the amazing thing about what paul ryan said was the fact he also said that he wanted us to kind of help out these poor black people. let s congressman ryan speak for himself. i think we have that. you know, your buddy charles murray or bob putnam over at harvard, those guys have written books on this, which is we have
most were part time. 50,000. more than 1 million people applied for those 50,000 jobs. bob, that happens every time a hotel manages to open in a big city. i ve seen it. lines are around the corner. i don t know how many times i ve said on this show when you drive through washington, north capitol street which i ve done a lot, early in the morning when i worked on the hill, along florida avenue. you know in the hood these people are all up catching the bus at 6:30 in the morning, 7:00 in the morning. people working at jobs that aren t paying a lot. they re getting there, doing their jobs and coming home at 6:00, 7:00 at night. that s not it and not proportional to talk about this. governor, let s talk about that. moynihan tried to do this. other people over time have tried to deal with issues of cycles of poverty. i don t know if you do it in a budget. i don t know what you can do in social engineering which we do all the time. we all believe in social engineering. get all the kids co
and today ryan told nbc news, the today program that, quote, i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. we re back. paul ryan has been on a poverty kick lately. earlier this month he released a report which blames government programs for perpetuating poverty, said the programs created what s known as the poverty trap. last week he went after school last year roughly 2/3 of his entire $5 trillion in budget cuts. cuts came from medicaid, low-income housing. anyway, ryan would spend much of that savings by reducing taxes on wealthy americans. does that sound fair? what do you think? bob herbert, senior fellow at demos, and ed rendell, former governor of pennsylvania. bob, you re laughing. i don t want to get into this because pat moynihan tried to get into this, figure out what causes cycles of poverty in the inner city, all that in the african-american family. these kind of studies have be done and are very helpful at times. it looks like he s not using the study to be