Posted on 01/28/2014 9:25:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Failure.
Success; gov’t has grown and the # of peeps dependent on Big Gov’t have grown.
How’s the rate of bastardy doing? How about the number of poor children in two parent households?
Or do we simply measur it by the size of their TV or Smart phone screen?
Factual
Fifty million on good stamps, college grads averaging 20g in debt, with no one to be honest about publicizing their real unemployment numbers, they cant start families- 42% of them want children, and no one caring because they are predominantly white?
What are we.doing to these kids?
We are giving them Obama and this corrupt band of congressmen’s $20 trillion debt! They haven’t stopped spending. They just took money from the war vets and their widows
War on poverty!!
I see the appeal for legalizing dope. It’s to be able to read these headlines and from conservative papers!
I want a Peace Dividend from The War On Poverty.
You get more of what you focus on. The government has focused on “poverty”, misfortune and harship to the point od obsession as evidenced by the trillions thrown at poverty and such. The government used to limit itself to safety and infrastructure and did a decent job. Now it is all about poverty and does and excellent job of producing more of that.
Poverty won.
Contrast him with Barry Goldwater who is maligned as a racist who opposed the civil rights act.
Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona chapter of the NAACP who practiced affirmative action in his own offices and actually voted for an earlier version of the civil rights act that wouldn’t be imposed on the private sector.
In my opinion the civil rights act had a devastating effect on business in this country.
Well, let’s judge by current democrat standards. After 15 minutes in Iraq, His Lordship Harry Reid the Corrupt pronounced the war there lost. So, using the same metrics for a 50-year struggle...
Guess what, Poverty won the war.
Poor results just mean "we didn't try hard enough/it needs more money and bureaucrats".
OTOH, conservative ideas are always "immediate failures/wrong idea/won't work/heartless/racist/stupid....", even before being tried.
I hate liberalism.
Well, it’s an impossible question to answer, because the definition of poverty has changed in 50 years, here anyway. Today even the poor have electricity, running water, phones, some sort of medical care. In 1964 there were some(not a lot )who didnt, and not by choice. When men were going into the Army at the beginning of World War II, it was reported some boys from places like Appalachia had signs of extreme poverty. We were coming out of a depression. Nowadays if somebody is off the grid, doesn’t wear shoes is is badly nourished its due to other factors or even by choice. Using homeless counts to measure poverty is a bad idea because a lot of people are homeless for reasons other than poverty, mental illness, for example. That’s a crisis of a different kind. Believe it or not, some people in the streets actually get disability checks, and just choose not to use them for rent.
If poverty is always relative, then the war is never over. Of course people will feel poor even if they are clothed, fed, housed, have transportation, Obama phones and medical care because they’re comparing themselves to other Americans who have bigger houses, newer cars, etc instead if to people in third world countries or their own great grandparents in this country.
This is one of the reasons this “income inequality” catch phrase of Obamas is so dangerous.
It was a failure out of the gate, and it has not gotten any closer to ANY measure of success.
Zero and 0bamunits have created millions more dependent folks than the number at the time of his first inaugural.
In fairness, however, every president since Johnson has failed miserably on this one, and on the so called war on drugs, as well.
Truth be told, these should more aptly be named the “War for Poverty” and the “War for Drugs”.
Absolutely correct and once Obama has the majority dependent of his largesse, he will have solidified his socialist base and power - until the collapse into anarchy.
We are told that poverty is caused by a lack of education so education spending has also increased to massive numbers but yet after a generation of free education, only 5% of blacks can pass the ACT test.
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