Thursday, Mar 23, 2017 9:00 AM UTC Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan's profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem Paul Ryan has dreamed of slashing Medicaid since his keg-party days — and that blithe hostility is widespread Paul Ryan (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Salon) Republican Paul Ryan, like most other members of the U.S. Congress, is a millionaire. Christa Patton is 68 years old. She is frail and no longer able to leave her home. She lives on a fixed income. Patton told Van Jones on a recent episode of his CNN show "The Messy Truth" that she would not be able to eat without the Meals on Wheels program. Paul Ryan is the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. By his own account, in college he used to hang out with his friends and drink beer while sharing his dreams of cutting Medicaid. When Ryan was 15 years old, his father died from a heart attack affected by alcoholism.
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