[Chgogal]

Where is the GOPe on this?

The GOPe is pi$$ing away this election.

Pinging Karl Rove!

[Slyfox]

It would be interesting to know what percentage went to the poverty pimps.

[reefdiver]

Your never going to get the takers to turn that off, there are no magic words out three.that’s a lot of freebies.

[Twotone]

‘Reparations’ should be considered Paid In Full.

[samtheman]

The GOP is the downfall of America. They miss more opportunities than the ever-dedicated Palestinians.

As the saying goes, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

That goes double, triple, quadruple for the brainless leadership of the establishment GOP.

[DJ Taylor]

We spent $22 trillion and what do we have to show for it?

A whole bunch of Democrats!!

[skeeter]

Imagine what we average Americans could've done with that 22 trillion of our's that the government appropriated.

How many kids educated; how many inventions, jobs and charities could that money have funded.

[ClearCase_guy]

It is the job of Republicans to make sure that Liberals stay in power and never face a real challenge.

[Ramius]

Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all military wars in U.S. history since the American Revolution.

Game. Set. Match.

[pallis]

After 22 trillion dollars the problem is worse than ever. That is how the left fixes every problem.

[Busko]

The biggest tax drain on this nation and the people that pay for it. It has been a total waste. We have generations living off of this.

[Iron Munro]

The largest effect of the $22 Trillion has been to destroy most of our cities and create a permanent and growing moocher class.

[Skooz]

Basic economics: If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

The taxpayers have been subsidizing out of wedlock births and a permanent, non-working, violent underclass for 50 years.

Now, these pools of poverty are spreading across most major cities in the US, swallowing first working-class, then middle-class, neighborhoods; transforming them into cesspools of violence and discontent.

Only a fool isn’t surprised by the results.

[Drango]

Why work?

[Gay State Conservative]

I've seen the Third World.I've seen it up close and personal.The people of the United States...NONE of them...have the first clue what *true* poverty is all about.Ninety percent of the people of Africa and at least half of the people of Asia would sell their souls to live like the typical welfare recipient lives here.”Poor” people in this country are disgustingly fat,have flat screen TVs.A/C and ObamaPhones.Poor people in Africa live in huts and have big bellies and little stick legs (I once got within 5 feet of *just* such a child).

[Captain Peter Blood]

Then there is no solution or at least one involving the Government and the redistribution of wealth.

[SharpRightTurn]

Way past time to surrender on this war, even at the risk of being called a “surrender monkey” or “cut and run.”

[EveningStar]

Popular bumper stickers of the time:

I’M FIGHTING THE WAR ON POVERTY - I’M WORKING

THE GREAT SOCIETY - POVERTY FOR ALL

[Excellence]

Rush mentioned this today.

[Objective Scrutator]

We need to find a way to have the recipients of the “War on Poverty” money pay it back. Perhaps indentured servitude and debtors prisons should make a return. If the GOP pushes these two ideas, millions of disaffected conservatives will turn out and vote Republican; of course, today’s GOPe cares more about looking “hip” and “cool” on late night talk shows than they do about winning elections.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Chgogal. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

The states have never amended the Constitution to expressly grant the feds the specific power to fight poverty. In fact, constitutional experts, including the pre-FDR era Supreme Court, had clarified that the Founding States trusted only the states, not the feds, with the care of the people.

• “Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.

• ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• ”7. Sovereignty, for the protection of the rights of life and personal liberty within the respective States, rests alone with the States [emphases added].” —United States v. Cruikshank, 1875.