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Democrats Celebrate 50 Years of Defeat in the War on Poverty
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | January 8, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 01/08/2014 1:42:30 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/08/2014 1:42:30 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53cJQC0gVak


2 posted on 01/08/2014 1:44:07 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Kaslin

creating more and more poor people for 50 years is something to celebrate


3 posted on 01/08/2014 1:45:04 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Kaslin

Dims celebrate defeat in any war we are involved in that wasn’t their idea.


4 posted on 01/08/2014 1:45:06 PM PST by pfflier
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To: GeronL

Yes I believe 2012’s re-election of Baraq with 8% unemployment, $4 gas, surging food prices and trillion dollar deficits illustrates the triumph of the entitlement strategy.


5 posted on 01/08/2014 1:47:45 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation

This country has been so dumbed down, that sheeple will accept almost anything


6 posted on 01/08/2014 1:48:38 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Kaslin

The poor won. Its a quagmire.


7 posted on 01/08/2014 1:50:13 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: GeronL

creating more and more poor people for 50 years is something to celebrate

It is certainly a cause for celebration if they all vote for you....


8 posted on 01/08/2014 1:53:02 PM PST by GraceG
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To: pfflier

bttt


9 posted on 01/08/2014 1:58:17 PM PST by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: Kaslin

Hmmm. I don’t have time to read this article because of the squirrels. You see, I gave some cracked walnuts to a squirrel in October on my porch. And dang if he wasn’t back later that day. He was so cute and so grateful. By that weekend I had bought a few more pounds of nuts. He seemed so happy to wait there on the porch for my gifts. He started bringing another squirrel with him. How cute they were. And she got really big and by Halloween she had the cutest babies coming along. November I had to extend the limit on my credit card but I just had to keep feeding this family of adorable squirrels. Although I was starting to worry that it wasn’t only the same family, because how could that many squirrels all come from one mama and one papa.

Anyway, now I have had to borrow from my parents to afford each feed, and most of my time is spent cleaning squirrel poop off my porch, and roof, and car, and sometimes the sidewalk. It’s gotten out of hand and I feel kind of desperate. Sometimes I forget how cute it was at the start and how good I once felt. Anyway, it seems like a great article but I just don’t have the time...


10 posted on 01/08/2014 2:00:52 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Kaslin

It’s impossible to win the War On Poverty because the Feral Government keeps reenforcing the other side.

They bring in new poverty people from Africa, the Mideast and Central America faster than we few remaining taxpayers can house, feed, clothe and educate them.


11 posted on 01/08/2014 2:13:33 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: Kaslin

20 plus frickin’ trillion and what did we get for it?

Pmslsdnbc hosts, fill me in, Please!!

a new Progre$$ive way?

Or just business as usual.

Stickin’ it to ol’ US taxpayer..

And preaching an agenda over sanity.


12 posted on 01/08/2014 2:14:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Kaslin

No defeat for the enemies of the US.

They have crippled the mightiest economy the world has ever known under the pretext of caring for the poor.


13 posted on 01/08/2014 2:40:40 PM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Kaslin

I’m the eternal pessimist, but investing in people is a poor ROI....especially in “certain” groups that leach off America


14 posted on 01/08/2014 2:41:09 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/on_50th_anniversary_of_war_on.html#incart_river

On 50th anniversary of War on Poverty, GOP says review needed to weed out failed programs

Times-Picayune By Bruce Alpert
January 08, 2014 at 4:19 PM

WASHINGTON — Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America,” Republicans in Congress are questioning whether the $15 trillion in government programs that followed came close to achieving Johnson’s goals.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, speaking at a news conference of his conservative Republican Study Committee, said despite all that spending, 10 million more Americans are in poverty than in 1964. And yet, he said, President Barack Obama and Democrats continue to seek to expand government programs, rather than supporting GOP efforts to evaluate all 77 federal anti poverty programs to weed out those that aren’t working.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, said that despite the advances made since the War on Poverty — such as Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, Pell Grants, and nutritional assistance — the government and private sector together need to do more, not less.

“The war on poverty is not over by a long shot,” Richmond said. “It is critical that we do not relent in our focus on improving the economy for all Louisianans, not just those at the top of the income scale. One in five Louisianans lives below the poverty level, which represents five percent above the U.S. poverty rate of 15 percent (down from 26 percent in 1967) Further, Louisiana is in the top 10 of American states with the most income inequality.”

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15 posted on 01/08/2014 2:44:40 PM PST by abb
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To: Kaslin

The war on poverty should only be fought by an all volunteer army.


16 posted on 01/08/2014 2:52:52 PM PST by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Iron Munro
I had always thought of the 'War on poverty' like the war that served as a backdrop to George Orwell's 1984, that is a struggle that was never meant to be won, but kept on to justify measures that would never be allowed in peace time.The perpetual state of 'war' becomes normal.
17 posted on 01/08/2014 3:05:48 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: GreyFriar
Still unbelievable: $20.7 trillion effectively spent on the War on Poverty, but it's where that money came from. Just round it off, $20 trillion. That's more than the national debt, folks. The national debt's $17 trillion. Twenty trillion to wipe out poverty. And of course it hasn't wiped out poverty. That money has been transferred, redistributed via taxes from producers to non-producers and it still hasn't made any difference.

Stunning!

18 posted on 01/08/2014 3:11:52 PM PST by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
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To: Kaslin

Good commies.


19 posted on 01/08/2014 3:15:38 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: NYer

Basically, we have a segment of the population who are so dependent on gov. handouts they are virtually infants. These people have low IQs, no job skills, no desire to learn job skills, and crank out more future wealth-sucking/crime causing/IQ challenged dependents at a high rate. These leeches will never produce wealth. They will always be a gigantic drain on the resources of the country. Unless something is done. If people have enough guts to do it. It’s called sterilization.


20 posted on 01/08/2014 3:38:34 PM PST by driftless2
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