[mmichaels1970]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s proclamation of a “war on poverty"

It also marks the 50th anniversary of the last time any major Cleveland sports team won a championship....hmmm.

[txrefugee]

It’s cost the economy $16 TRILLION to buy welfare class votes for the Democrats in those 50 years. No doubt, Obama, Hillary and their fellow travelers think it was worth it.

LBJ’s sins are still taking their toll on the nation.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good article.

Liberals are never called to account for the failures of their policies. The whole war on poverty was a failure. Yet liberals never are blamed for implementing policies which failed.

And we never seem to be able to evaluate the results, because it would be racist or cruel somehow to roll back programs which have failed.

[DJ MacWoW]

James Madison

Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794-01-10)
The Annals summarize speeches in the third person, with the actual text of Madison’s quote as follows: “Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

[Responsibility2nd]

As hard as it is to believe, B. Hussein is not (yet) our worst president ever. He may take that top honor soon, but so far LBJ holds the record for our worst president.

The War on Poverty (just like the War on Drugs) was designed to be a failure from the start. We have long ago lost the War on Poverty (Drugs).

Poverty (Drugs) Won.

[eyeamok]

It was never about poverty in the first place, It was, is, and always be, a War On The Family, to replace Daddy with Big Government, and create as many “Dependent Voters” beholden to their New Daddy Democrats as possible.

[Kozak]

Like declaring war on Gravity...

[SoothingDave]

The war on poverty is war on the Roman model in which soldiers are paid through plunder.

[The_Reader_David]

I believe it was Jack Kemp who was fond of saying “If you subsidize something, you get more of it.”

Means-tested poverty programs, do not abolish, or even significantly alleviate poverty, they subsidize poverty, resulting in more of it.

[Graewoulf]

Impeachment File for “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a documented legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.

[mvpel]

Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in 1964, while the poverty rate has held steady at just under one in five.

Okay, so the number of Americans is higher than it was fifty years ago, and if "poverty" is defined as income below the 20th percentile, then by definition one fifth of the nation will be "in poverty" - it's a tautology. I thought National Review was smarter than this.

[stevem]

When the Federal Government started all this it was really a War on Prosperity. The Government is winning.