creating more and more poor people for 50 years is something to celebrate
Dims celebrate defeat in any war we are involved in that wasn’t their idea.
The poor won. Its a quagmire.
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...
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.
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.
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.
I’m the eternal pessimist, but investing in people is a poor ROI....especially in “certain” groups that leach off America
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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The war on poverty should only be fought by an all volunteer army.
Stunning!
Good commies.
The so-called war on poverty by Democrats wins votes for Democrats from low-information voters who don’t understand that federal lawmakers don’t have the constitutional authority to address such issues. So the Democratic “war on poverty” has been successful from that perspective imo.
And nobody is better off except the guys that stole it and redistributed it to themselves.