[Enlightened1]

The numbers don't lie.

[MrB]

Again, when judging the “success” or “failure” of any leftist policy,

you have to find out what the REAL, not just stated, goals were.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No it hasn’t. LBJ said that it would have the N-words voting Democrat for the next two hundred years. So far he hasn’t been proven wrong.

[jimfree]

You mean bailing water out of the sea at St. Augustine Beach and pouring it into Tampa Bay won’t raise the level of the Gulf of Mexico?

[jimfree]

You mean bailing water out of the sea at St. Augustine Beach and pouring it into Tampa Bay won’t raise the level of the Gulf of Mexico?

[GeronL]

We have very little true poverty since the welfare state was created. The hammock long ago became a 4-poster bed.

[Jack Hammer]

Taxing the hard-working public to pay bills for those who - for whatever reason - are not making big dough is simply a cash purchase of votes.

Moreover, if you turn the constitution inside out looking for the place where it says that it’s perfectly okay to rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll never find it.

[Moonman62]

The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop

...

That depends on your point of view. If you love Big Government, it’s been a tremendous success.

[BraveMan]

[Red Badger]

War on Poverty - Poverty won.
War on Drugs - Drugs won.
War on Terrorism - ............................

[upchuck]

Final paragraph of the article:

Rather than doubling down on the mistakes of the past, we should restructure the welfare state around Johnson’s original goal: increasing Americans capacity for self-support. Welfare should no longer be a one way hand out; able-bodied recipients of cash, food and housing should be required to work or prepare for work as condition of receiving aid. Welfare’s penalties against marriage should be reduced. By returning to the original vision of aiding the poor to aid themselves, we can begin, in Johnson’s words, to “replace their despair with opportunity.”

Amen!

[econjack]

I used to teach Intro to Economics to college Freshmen. Early in the class, I would tell them I could end poverty overnight. At the time, $9600 was the poverty line for a family of four. When they asked how I could do it, I told them: Gather together every family head making $9600, line them up, and shoot them! The students eyes would go as big as pie plates. After they calmed down, I would ask them: How long will it be before the guy making $9601 starts bitching that he’s the poorest person around. We then launched into a discussion about how a perfectly-even distribution of income kills incentive and why such systems, despite many efforts to implement it, have always failed. The War on Poverty is just another example of a failed attempt to redistribute income on a basis other than productivity.

[Navy Patriot]

The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop

I disagree, it has been a colossal success.

[driftless2]

This is also a nail in the coffee to the Starvists...the people/fraudsters promoting the idea that millions of Americans are hungry or starving. I can barely listen to the radio for ten minutes before I hear an ad whining about about the hungry and starving people in the country. Well, if even 98% of the poorest Americans admit they’re well fed, where are all the starving people?

[blueunicorn6]

The War On Poverty = The War To Elect Democrats

The purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.

[blueunicorn6]

Bill Clinton spent The Peace Dividend to buy votes for Democrats. Where is The War On Poverty peace dividend?

[dfwgator]

Poverty won.

[A CA Guy]

Liberals will tell you the weather science on global warming is settled despite it all being falsified information.
Here you have SCIENTIFIC real evidence regarding the War on Poverty as we do in regarding the damage of a raised Minimum wage. Liberals don't consider any amount of evidence enough to call it settled science regarding poverty and the minimum wage, yet their global warming falsified science is settled?

IMO throw them all over the border with the illegals to peddle that stuff elsewhere.

[loveliberty2]

Dr. Walter Williams' analysis here is, as usual, right on the mark also.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s a quagmire. Time to pull out. We need an exit plan.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

LBJs War on Poverty——Poverty Won.