The Boston Globe, through this orphan editorial (without an author named how can you call this editorial anything but an orphan?) has a plan. And it is more than just evacuate the poor.
In the eighth paragraph, the third from the bottom is their solution:
“Although the country never decisively won President Johnson's war on poverty, it's time to renew the battle.”
That’s right, after all of the trillions of dollars (a trillion dollars is $1,000,000,000.00 for those who need to see the amount) spent in the world’s longest running wealth redistribution program (the Russian Revolution of 1918 was probably the most expensive) all the Boston Globe can come up with is more of the same.
As you can see I call things the way they actually are. A “war on poverty” was never a war; it is a politician trying to rally his or her base. What it was, and remains, is a penalty levied upon the successful by the privileged class so they, the privileged class, can sleep at night knowing that they have done something good with someone else’s money.
I have said the same thing about the “war on drugs” too. For in both cases there has never been a desire to “win the war”. I think both “wars” have become stalemates and buzz words. And, in doing so, have cheapened our language and made the word “war” into something much less than what our parents and grandparents knew it to be.
Drug and poverty wars have long been converted to profit for many and power grabs for more than a few. And in both cases, Americans have been the losers, not only in specie, but our freedoms.