That is pure unadulterated communist gobbledegook! Why not give everyone in the US $100,000 per year? Hell, make everyone a millionaire! The war on poverty is lost because (1) government largess provides little incentive to work and (2) the government continually redefines the poverty level upwards. Compare poor people in the fifties with today’s poor. Many of today’s poor have air conditioning, flat screen TVs, subsidized rent, food, and electricity, and an automobile, and certainly, a cell phone. Ridiculous! A civil war is coming, but this time between the Makers and the Takers.
There never was a war on poverty. It was and is a war on prosperity.