This is funny, sad, disingenuous, and cruel all at the same time, and it proves why conservatism ultimately fails unfortunates: “compassion for the less fortunate expressed through progressive social policies that help people to become self-reliant, and ensure equality of opportunity.” 

This is code. It translates to this: 

"If you're poor, it's your own damned fault; you will receive little to no assistance to force you to magically rise up out of the poverty cycle; this is 'progressive' as in 'different' as in 'different from the durn socialism everywhere these days'; and by equality of opportunity, we mean we'll tank affirmative action and make sure to help many corporations so you can have low level jobs there while our shareholder friends get rich. And if you fail because you have an abusive past, addiction problems, a lack of education, or mental illness? Tough. Break laws, you'll rot in jails we'll build and populate with tough sentencing laws."

Epic...fail.