Posted on 11/05/2014 10:49:46 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
The War on Poverty is 50 years old. Over that time, federal and state governments have spent more than $19 trillion fighting poverty. But what have we really accomplished?
Although far from conclusive, the evidence suggests that we have successfully reduced many of the deprivations of material poverty, especially in the early years of the War on Poverty. However, these efforts were more successful among socioeconomically stable groups such as the elderly than low-income groups facing other social problems. Moreover, other factors like the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the expansion of economic opportunities to African Americans and women, increased private charity, and general economic growth may all have played a role in whatever poverty reduction occurred.
However, even if the War on Poverty achieved some initial success, the programs it spawned have long since reached a point of diminishing returns. In recent years we have spent more and more money on more and more programs, while realizing few, if any, additional gains. More important, the War on Poverty has failed to make those living in poverty independent or increase economic mobility among the poor and children. We may have made the lives of the poor less uncomfortable, but we have failed to truly lift people out of poverty.
The failures of the War on Poverty should serve as an object lesson for policymakers today. Good intentions are not enough. We should not continue to throw money at failed programs in the name of compassion..................."
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http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa761_2.pdfMichael Tanner is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute and author of The Poverty of Welfare: Helping People in Civil Society. Charles Hughes is a research associate with the Cato Institute
“Poverty" TOWNHALL October 8, 2014 | John Stossel“The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop’ The Daily Signal ^ | 09/16/14 | Robert Rector
I believe in society providing a bonafide though temporary 'safety net' for those in dire needs. And also those finding themselves in unfortunate circumstances. But with Democrats 'buying' votes in the form of greatly expanding the welfare state...our society now experiences those in an entitlement permanent hammock. SWL
no, because we diverted resources to fight the war on women.
Democrat War on Poverty: Genocide on Black People.
Maybe we’re not doing it right.
Democrat War on Poverty: Genocide on Black People.
Destroyer of two generations of Black families
My daughter’s history class in high school was given the following quote by Herbert Hoover (1930):
“I do not believe that the power and the duty of the [Federal] Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering.... The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people.” President Hoover, rejecting calls for the Federal Government to provide direct relief to the unemployed.
They were then asked to “vote” on if they thought this was a good/true statement or not.
She and two others voted yes. Hey - at least the teacher now knows who to focus his attempts at conversion are. Or - who to avoid.
My daughter’s history class in high school was given the following quote by Herbert Hoover (1930):
“I do not believe that the power and the duty of the [Federal] Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering.... The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people.” President Hoover, rejecting calls for the Federal Government to provide direct relief to the unemployed.
They were then asked to “vote” on if they thought this was a good/true statement or not.
She and two others voted yes. Hey - at least the teacher now knows who to focus his attempts at conversion are. Or - who to avoid.
Christ, the holy Son of God, God incarnate, in Whom, by Whom, and through Whom all things are created says: “The poor you will always have with you.”
Government, the devil incarnate when it comes to certain liberal Democrats who are intent on ripping babies from their mothers wombs, destroying families, and gleefully promoting sperm in the anus, says: “We must make war against being poor.”
This isn’t about “50 years.” It is about principalities and powers subject to a Creator Who laughs as the evil one is hoisted by his own vagina, yet weeps bitterly when those created in His image declare themselves to be His enemies even as He emptied Himself into their very lives and deaths.
As my Late Mother always said, you help People who CAN’T help themselves, not People who WON’T help themselves.
We lost this war 50 years ago.
To celebrate they're kickin in everybody's door this year!
Free extra percussion grenades if you have an infant in a crib!
With teen pregnancy? That's three generations, not two.
No.
Because our own government keeps bringing in new troops for the other side.
It’s been like trying to stop the incoming tide.
How can a ‘war on poverty’ succeed if saving the ‘poor’ pauperizes an entire nation of working taxpayers?
It took $19T to demonstrate that money alone cannot cure poverty.
Too bad that money couldn’t be retrieved and pay off the national debt.
Proof that government handouts will only guarantee continued poverty by bringing in more recipients.
The only way out of poverty is hard work, and not being under the care of the government.
It is the racism of the Democrats that keeps Blacks enslaved to the government give away programs. They destroy personal motivation and the family structure necessary to be self-sufficient.
No, we have not won, and those of us who are productive are the POWs.
Ah, I have a new tagline....
cut and run!
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