Exactly. How is a cool tril a year not enough to eliminate “poverty” as we know it in this country? Nevermind that virtually all poor people in this country seem to have a roof over their heads with central air and heat, a tv, etc... Plus poor kids have a chance to go to a public school, which even if it isn’t that great, offers them a chance to work their way out of poverty and into the middle class, provided they are willing to work hard.
That's the problem. Once begun, the war continues indefinitely, or until the nation becomes bankrupt as a result.
Clearly the way to get ahead is to get yourself on the other side of one of these “Transfers of Wealth”, either as a contractor or impoverished soul.
I guessed the subject of the article from the title.
There was a disturbance in the Force.
You will never get rid of poverty....no matter how much you spend. Poverty has been around since the beginning of time and will remain. Throw all the money you want at it and it will always be there as long as people get a hand out. We throw money at abortion but there are some in the inner city that use abortion as birth control and the tax payer pays for it. We throw money at lunch programs for kids when it’s the parents that should be feeding the kids. Even at that, the schools throw tons of food away because the kids won’t eat it. We need to rethink all of our tax programs and get rid of the give aways.
if you figure the lowest 10% of the population is 'poor' then that is equal to about $24,000 for every PERSON
or...almost $100,000 for a family of 4
we have the wealthiest POOR people in the world.
You subsidize dairy and you get warehouses full of milk, butter and cheese.
You subsidize grains (corn, soybeans, wheat, etc.) and you get rotting mountains of it.
The list could go on.
Less beggars, Less homeless, Less abandoned children, Less crime, Lower unemployment figures, People live longer, healthier, and educated. Higher drug dependency (legal, and illegal.
27K per year per poor person? It’s a shame NO ONE in this country knows this.
I have family members that work very hard for less than this per year.
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Americans would be shocked cold if they realized how bad much of the world has it. Could we do better? Sure. But this constant harping over 'the poor and the middle class' in America is appalling. It's raw envy, and the instigation of envy, and no matter how good things get, people will always want more.
Some charts on welfare and the difference after ‘welfare reform:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/summary.htm
He's using the cost of these programs to increase the his numbers for the cost of the war on poverty. But social security and public schools are available to anyone, not just the poor. Using this logic, you could include part of the cost of paying for the military into the cost of the war on poverty, since the military also protects the poor from foreign invasion.
America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake The Failure of American Housing Policy
For more than seven decades, American government has acted to provide housing for the poor. In America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, Howard Husock explains how, as with so many anti-poverty efforts, low-income housing programs have harmed those they were meant to help while causing grave collateral damage to cities and their citizens. Public housing projects, Mr. Husock writes, are only the best-known housing policy mistakes.
Wow.
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It’s about time this was brought to the surface and thrust onto the national stage.
IMO, the “war on Poverty” has been a colossal failure.
We now have 4-5 generations of people who actually think that they sould have been paid by FEMA last week to leave New Orleans.
I am tired of trashing the people in this country who are accomplished and praising those who cannot do anything for themselves.
“What do we get for it?” Socialist Democrats get a vote to keep them in power. They need people to be dependent upon government.
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In the fifties, although blacks were still struggling for equal opportunities and were on the low end of the economic ladder, the black family was for the most part strong and stable. Two parent families were the rule, not the exception. They attended church together, had strong moral values, and did not comprise a majority of the prison population.
Compare that to the present state of the black community after 40 years of Liberal Socialism.
Our prisons are disproportionably black, unwed mothers and single parent families are the rule, black youths without a strong male role model other than rap stars and basketball players, roam the streets and are drawn into a culture of drugs and crime.
The following statistics are provided by Star Parker's Coalition of Urban Renewal, (CURE).
*60 percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes.
*800,000 black men are in jail or prison.
*70 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers.
*Over 300,000 black babies are aborted annually.
*50 percent of new AIDS cases are in the black community.
*Almost half of young black men in America's cities are neither working nor in school. What we have here is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
What was the message of the social programs that came out of LBJ's Great Society? One of the most devastating to the family was that if an unwed woman became pregnant, moved out of the home of her parents, did not name or know who the father was, then Big Daddy in Washington would provide for all her essential needs. Ergo she no longer needed a husband or the support of her family.
In fact, the more children she had out of wedlock, the more money she would receive from the government. This program was the death knell for many families, especially in the black community.
Unfortunately many black men saw this as the best of all possible worlds. They could father as many children as they wanted, from multiple women, without ever having to accept the responsibility of fatherhood.
Many women rejected marriage in favor of a boyfriend who could slip in the back door and not jeopardize her government check.
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