Truth Detector
01-20-2016, 01:05 PM
I believe that this is a very important issue and one that has contributed to the massive $19 trillion pile of debt and deficits we are currently experiencing and ignoring as a nation.
I would think that after spending some $22 trillion on a "war on poverty" and having NOTHING to show for it other than MORE poverty, people would say that it has been a failure and determine a new tactic to deal with the problem of poverty.
Yet those on the left insist that we need more of the same; seriously?
How the Expensive War on Poverty Failed
“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union address, January 8, 1964
This past Friday marked the 52nd anniversary of Johnson’s declaration and his pledge that “our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Yet after half a century and trillions of dollars, poverty has fought us to a standstill.
First, the War on Poverty has failed to achieve Johnson’s goal: to “strike[] at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.” Since he declared “unconditional war,” poverty has thumbed its nose at its would-be conquerors.
The rest of the story:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/11/how-the-expensive-war-on-poverty-failed/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvqTOZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQuUaC1 lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMdlMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM 1t0sEQWBHm
I would think that after spending some $22 trillion on a "war on poverty" and having NOTHING to show for it other than MORE poverty, people would say that it has been a failure and determine a new tactic to deal with the problem of poverty.
Yet those on the left insist that we need more of the same; seriously?
How the Expensive War on Poverty Failed
“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union address, January 8, 1964
This past Friday marked the 52nd anniversary of Johnson’s declaration and his pledge that “our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” Yet after half a century and trillions of dollars, poverty has fought us to a standstill.
First, the War on Poverty has failed to achieve Johnson’s goal: to “strike[] at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.” Since he declared “unconditional war,” poverty has thumbed its nose at its would-be conquerors.
The rest of the story:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/11/how-the-expensive-war-on-poverty-failed/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvqTOZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQuUaC1 lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMdlMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM 1t0sEQWBHm