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To: Texas Eagle

When LBJ launched the War on Poverty, poor folks made up 14.7 percent of American society. Today, that figure is 14.5 percent.


7 posted on 06/15/2015 7:51:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
He also said he'd "have those (n-words) voting DemocRAT for the next 200 years".
10 posted on 06/15/2015 7:54:08 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
When LBJ launched the War on Poverty, poor folks made up 14.7 percent of American society. Today, that figure is 14.5 percent.

So it did work. Slightly.

14 posted on 06/15/2015 7:59:05 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
When LBJ launched the War on Poverty, poor folks made up 14.7 percent of American society. Today, that figure is 14.5 percent.

In the early 1830's, Alexis de Toqueville toured America and subsequently wrote of his travels in Democracy in America (1835).

Among his observations, he noted that, amidst a world o opportunity, there was a significant segment of the population which was satisfied with a cabin, a bare subsistence agriculture plus what they could beg, borrow or steal. He identified this segment without ambition and satisfied with subsistence as one in seven. That is, about 14%.

29 posted on 06/15/2015 9:27:01 AM PDT by okie01
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