Failure.
Success; gov’t has grown and the # of peeps dependent on Big Gov’t have grown.
How’s the rate of bastardy doing? How about the number of poor children in two parent households?
Or do we simply measur it by the size of their TV or Smart phone screen?
Fifty million on good stamps, college grads averaging 20g in debt, with no one to be honest about publicizing their real unemployment numbers, they cant start families- 42% of them want children, and no one caring because they are predominantly white?
What are we.doing to these kids?
We are giving them Obama and this corrupt band of congressmen’s $20 trillion debt! They haven’t stopped spending. They just took money from the war vets and their widows
War on poverty!!
I see the appeal for legalizing dope. It’s to be able to read these headlines and from conservative papers!
I want a Peace Dividend from The War On Poverty.
You get more of what you focus on. The government has focused on “poverty”, misfortune and harship to the point od obsession as evidenced by the trillions thrown at poverty and such. The government used to limit itself to safety and infrastructure and did a decent job. Now it is all about poverty and does and excellent job of producing more of that.
Poverty won.
Well, let’s judge by current democrat standards. After 15 minutes in Iraq, His Lordship Harry Reid the Corrupt pronounced the war there lost. So, using the same metrics for a 50-year struggle...
Guess what, Poverty won the war.
Poor results just mean "we didn't try hard enough/it needs more money and bureaucrats".
OTOH, conservative ideas are always "immediate failures/wrong idea/won't work/heartless/racist/stupid....", even before being tried.
I hate liberalism.
It was a failure out of the gate, and it has not gotten any closer to ANY measure of success.
Zero and 0bamunits have created millions more dependent folks than the number at the time of his first inaugural.
In fairness, however, every president since Johnson has failed miserably on this one, and on the so called war on drugs, as well.
Truth be told, these should more aptly be named the “War for Poverty” and the “War for Drugs”.
Read that a fifty year war on decent hard working U. S. Citizens.
And sadly, it’s been a massive success.
23% of our workforce idle. Another 25% or so of it receiving half the wages it used to just a few short years ago.
The NSA telling us to turn our head and cough.
Cameras on every corner.
Well, at least the rectal probes haven’t been implemented yet.
Course we don’t know what Obama’s case is. Perhaps they have...
Of course, most of the failures are the Dem's core constituency. To placate these people, the Dems must rob the producers. Few will cry for the superrich. Most Dems consider themselves owed by the rich. They deserve the wealth they did not create.
Mr. Kennedy actually said that? I'm surprised he hasn't been posthumously kicked out of the democrat party.
Like anything from LBJ, an abject failure.
“War on poverty?” Many kinds of work are outlawed for the purpose of keeping new, small production shops from starting and eventually eliminating owner-builders. There’s no war on poverty. It’s a regulating, foreign manufacturing and currency class war against the impoverished in western culture. Many freedoms and families are being violated and destroyed by globetrotting lefties.
Or to put it in Lay-man's terms, if you had been trying to get laid for 50 years with no positive, hard results, would it be considered a success?