Posted on 10/16/2025 12:30:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
How civil society can succeed where welfare has failed.
Since the launch of the War on Poverty in the 1960s, the rate of those living in poverty, as defined by the US government, has stubbornly persisted. Yet before that, the American poverty rate was dropping fast. It was around 32% in 1950, but postwar prosperity and a booming job market lifted thousands out of destitution, bringing it to 12.8% by the time the War’s programs took effect in 1968. Yet in the intervening half-century, it has never dropped below 10%. This is not for lack of effort. Per capita government spending on the poor has gone from $2,701 at the outset to $29,214 today (adjusted for inflation).
Some point out that standards of living among the poor have risen, if you consider welfare benefits, which the official poverty measure excludes. While they are correct—material well-being has improved—there is ample reason to understand that poverty persists as a real problem, rather than a data artifact.
Case in point: About 34% of children born in poverty will remain there throughout their lives. For no substantial portion of their lives will they produce enough economic value to provide for themselves without subsidy. Furthermore, many of the maladies associated with chronic poverty are worsening:
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If we can’t get Congress to outright abolish agencies then the details matter little.
We’re just re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic.
Yes its correct and its good to be correct but then we’re standing on a plateau while nothing happens, nothing changes.
Congress must abolish something.
Per capita government spending on the poor has gone to $29,214 today.
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Funny, poverty level is now defined as 15,650 per single person.
Yet, we are spending 29,214 for that person. A lot more than the poverty level!
Obviously, most of it is guv. waste!
It’s wages and benefits for government workers to “administrate” the government programs.
They all have degrees in whatever “studies” that render them unemployable at actual productive jobs.
The Education/Government complex is far worse than the Industrial/Military complex.
Our entire government is based on welfare at this point. To individuals, to the defense industry and corporations, and to practically every nation on earth in foreign aid.
And last but not least, mass immigration legal and illegal, combined with a welfare state is complete insanity.
Yes, I wonder, how much of that $29,214 will actually reach that poor person?
Medicaid is much bigger than TANF, WIC, EBT, SEC8, etal.
But in all these programs there is waste, fraud, abuse-WFA.
Deloitte and its IES Integrated Eligibility System is the poster child for WFA. Step 1 is to cut out the welfare pimps like Deloitte. Deloitte IES is in 25 states, both Red and Blue states. Deloitte has other WFA (Pathways in GA). But IES is at the center to make WFA possible.
Cloward Priven strategy, straight from the 60’s radicals, to overwhelm the existing social structures and safety nets.
These things, welfare, illegal immigration and the Government agencies supporting these need to be demolished and the people luving off the government grift sent to prison.
It isn’t good enough to win elections…….. the structures must be destroyed.
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