Posted on 05/23/2015 7:59:22 AM PDT by rktman
Eleven days ago, President Obama took the opportunity at Georgetown University to defend the government’s 50-year experiment in anti-poverty welfare programs. The president claimed:
It is a mistake for us to suggest that somehow every effort we make has failed and we are powerless to address poverty. That’s just not true. First of all, just in absolute terms, the poverty rate, when you take into account tax and transfer programs, has been reduced about 40 percent since 1967.
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Such misdirection propaganda.
There has been tremendously successful “progress”.
The agenda was never to actually get rid of poverty.
Ping
When jobs are sent overseas while more and more poor are being allowed into the country to take what jobs are left at a lower pay rate, poverty HAS to go up.
Then add that the least capable group of society keeps having more and more babies. I remember this being talked about in the 1960s. It’s only gotten worse.
According to soetoro, we’re winning in the middle east too.
You are the winner!!! The goal (for the Dems) has always been to get as many people voting for them as possible. The more people on the gov. teat, the more voting for the Dems who fought tooth and nail to establish those programs and keep them from being abolished.
The agenda was never to actually get rid of poverty.
It was to insure a steady reliable supply of LIV democrat voters. It has succeeded.
The bodies of LBJ and any senator or congressman who voted for the “Great Society” legislation should be dug up and disposed of in an undisclosed sewage treatment plant.
and only 150 more years to go...
In the War on Poverty-—Poverty Won.
No Progress Since the War on Poverty Began Half a Century Ago
Quite the contrary.
The Federal payroll is now huge with all those unionized Federal employees being very reliable votes for still more government along with ever better Federal employee pay and benefits.
From the perspective of the Federal Government, the "War on Poverty" has been a stupendous success.
No, no progress.
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