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To: logician2u
We're now in the 47th year of fighting it with no end in sight.

How much progress has been made in the war on poverty?

4 posted on 06/23/2017 10:23:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: a fool in paradise
How much progress has been made in the war on poverty?

That is EXACTLY the right comparison. You are no "fool".

Both are designed to provide government employees and contractors with lifetime employment in the service of a "war" which will never end.

And both are completely unconstitutional as federal government functions.

13 posted on 06/24/2017 3:42:39 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: a fool in paradise

I despise the use of the term “War” to describe efforts against poverty, drugs, etc.... This is not war; war is by it’s nature a very destructive enterprise. You attack an enemy nation, kill it’s young men and increasingly it’s civilian populations, and you destroy all their stuff. “Fighting” poverty or drugs is NOT war.

By calling it a war, we have cheapened the concept of a real war and deluded ourselves that social problems are “winnable.”


19 posted on 06/24/2017 7:27:40 AM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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