Paul Ryan Criticizes Liberal Government Programs at CPAC
Paul Ryan argued that liberal government programs give people comfort but not dignity. In a speech he made at Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC, the country's largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists, Thursday, he shared a story he heard from Eloise Anderson, who serves in the Cabinet for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, as a way of criticizing the Affordable Care Act. Update The story has been updated to add a fuller quote and context to Ryan's remarks at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. A spokeswoman for Anderson later told the Washington Post that she had misspoken while testifying before Congress, and that the quote about a brown-paper bag came from a TV interview she saw.