[Smokin' Joe]

We've had a "War on Poverty" for half a century now. It is time to strike those colors and withdraw from the field.

Never before has any nation had so many poor people, and we have the fattest, most pandered poor people on the planet.

We lost the war.

Similarly, we have thrown money by the truckload at the "education" problem, and solved just as much.

Poverty's miseries were an incentive to better one's self. Remove the stigma and pain from poverty, and there is no incentive to change.

A culture can only absorb so many engaged in omphaloskepsis while working the drive-up window before the normal flow of commerce grinds to a halt. Unfortunately, the blame will not fall where it belongs, and the conservators, generators, and purveyors of useless "knowledge" will ever claim it is because they are underfunded.

[BCW]

“we have the fattest, most pandered poor people on the planet.”

exactly what I was thinking...even kids on reduced or free lunches are fatter than their average classmates that pay or bring their lunches...says alot about Parent Induced Disability (PID)....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Similarly, we have thrown money by the truckload at the "education" problem, and solved just as much. ...

The numbers are staggering. I believe that beyond the Federal dollars (returned to states with the Federal label to control education and assist unions) that 50% of every state budget goes toward education.