re: #190 Pie-onist Overlord

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Instead of distributing money to the poor via food stamps, welfare checks, and housing subsidies, Ryan would leave it up to states and local groups to apply for block grants aimed at encouraging people to take entry-level jobs instead of staying home and receiving welfare benefits.

In other words, continue the subsidizing of people’s shitty wages through government help, but cut out the middle man by cutting checks instead of providing food stamps.

Bob Woodson, who helped develop the plan as founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, said Ryan’s grant program would be more flexible and better tailored to poor communities’ needs. Community and faith-based organizations would apply for funds and have to demonstrate they can produce positive results, he said.

Read: Conservative groups and churches would get federal money to push their ideologies on the people least able to tell them to shove it.