The real highlight of Paul Ryan’s speech at CPAC, was his inspired anualysis of free and reduced school lunch programs, which lefties have literally pushed down children’s throats over the years. Our misguided efforts have only offered people ” a full stomach and an empty soul.” He reckons some parents opt for free lunches because they don’t care for their children, they’re bad, bad parents! However, we have deprived the caring parents of the opportunity to show brown bag love to their children. We are beasts!
Ryan – who can find other good uses for money previously allocated to free school lunches, illustrated how wrong we’ve been with a moving ‘recollection’ he had of a “young boy from a very poor family” who received free lunches at school “from a government program.” This is a real, authentic, true, actual story – he says. Speaking of the (genuine, really truly) “young boy from a very poor family” Ryan said; “He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan continued. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.” “He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.” Guilty as charged. Why – oh why didn’t we see it before? Our meddling has caused so much pain.
Here’s another idea. No wonder Paul Ryan is the brains of “The party of ideas.” Obamacare alone ” will discourage millions of people from working,” adding ” The left thinks this is a good thing!” I am saddened to learn that he he didn’t reveal how having access to health care will demotivate the lazy hordes from working – or what they will be doing to feed themselves or put roofs over their heads. There is more to Ryan’s CPAC speech if you wish to satisfy yourself that I didn’t pluck the ripest fruit for your perusal.
Apparently there is a shortage of ‘poor children.’ ” A Talking Points Memo commenter noticed, the story appears to be cribbed from a 2011 book called An Invisible Thread. Author Laura Schroff says it’s the story of her friendship with Maurice. Her website says, “We met on 56th street in Manhattan in 1986, when I was a 35-year-old single, successful ad sales executive, and he was an 11-year-old homeless panhandler.”