Lifting someone out of poverty is something quite different than perpetually enslaving them by letting them become slothful and lazy by subsidizing their bad behavior in return for a Democrat vote.
"Lifting" implies that they eventually should get training, a job, and end up paying taxes instead of consuming them.
One of Nixon’s many “gifts” to this country. One of the many reasons I have hope for our country is that we survived the ten disastrous years of the Johnson and Nixon presidencies - at least so far.