Linerals thought the war on poverty was noble and without a draft (well,except for drafting the tax payers)... now they are like disarmed chihuahuas trying to fight wolves.
Lyndon ‘Bird’ Johnson certainly deserves credit for the rapid decent to poverty for the entire nation in order to shovel goodies into the maws of the couch potato generation. He called it the War On Poverty.
Poverty won. Americans lost.