Our Trillion-Dollar War...... (A complete failure, a bleak picture of accomplishments)

Intellectual Conservative ^ | September 10, 2008 | Edgar K. Browning

[Cacique]

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[logician2u]

Thanks for the compliments, but you should know it didn't require any original thinking on my part. Libertarians and some conservatives have made the same points for years, sometimes with an eloquence that I don't have.

Not that anyone with any influence in politics ever noticed. <sigh>

[GladesGuru]

“What do we get for it?” It=War On Poverty (WOP) money.

Less beggars - really? Based on which data?
Less homeless - given that WOP money was used to remove ‘slum’ housing, where do the ‘homeless’ live now?
Less abandoned children - data please.
Less crime - Please! Too much laughter isn’t good for me. Lower unemployment figures - Other than loose correlation, what support for this whopper do you have.
People live longer, healthier, - Really, and why do you think WOP money played a part in this situation?
educated - EDUCATED ! ! ! Ever been to a publik skool?. Higher drug dependency (legal, and illegal.

[Realism]

Based on which data?

You need data? Try a little commonsense.

Keep on laughing..... :)

[GladesGuru]

“Try a little common sense”.

Firstly, sense is not at all common.

Secondly, if the world was understandable with mere logical thinking, the Greeks would have had atomic energy.

I asked for data because what seems logical (give the poor money and services) did not work. Remember that only about 28% of each tax dollar spent on welfare gets to the welfare client.

The rest goes to bureaucrats - which means that 72% is not going to the needy.

Thirdly, welfare was known to result in learned helplessness. Not good, unless you are getting some of that 72% of the tax dollars wasted om bureaucrats, edu-crats, ad nauseam.

[Mr. K]

"-—in short, it is a clumsy, wasteful bureaucracy that swallows the money, not actual poor people."

Oh, Absolutely!!!

The government itself ADMITS that the welfare programs are only 30% EFFICIENT!! When you consider that the average welfare recipient gets $30,000 per year in benefits that meant that there is $70,000 eaten up by the bureaucracy, which is a decent full-time salary

so.. there is the equivalent of one full-time government employee for every person receiving welfare.