Ted Nugent on Poverty
Excellent rant and spot-on -- from
The Washington Times:
NUGENT: War on poverty is over - we lost
Here�s a painful yet inescapable statement of the obvious to people with common sense and a lick of reality: Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions. That�s the root cause of poverty.
Now, with the Obama money-burning orgy in full swing, America herself is financially poor because, according to the Cato Institute, American taxpayers have been conned into spending $15 trillion since 1965 on President Lyndon Johnson�s brownie-point �war to eliminate poverty.�
The results have been pathetically poor. The percentage of poor people in 1965 was roughly the same percentage of poor people in America today, but a staggering $15 trillion has been wasted.
Since 1965, we have fought the war on poverty with all the wrong generals, all the wrong tactics and all the wrong weapons. And it�s costing us $1 trillion a year to continue to lose this war.
What our $15 trillion has bought us is institutional and generational poverty. Reward bad decisions and bad decisions increase. Ya think?
Like all conservatives, I want to and I do help poor Americans. I don�t wish to condemn them to a life of poverty, which is one of the driving political platforms of the Democratic Party.
If our goal is to win the war on poverty, it�s time we changed tactics. Instead of setting another trillion dollars on fire this year, I recommend we slam the financial door shut on pouring more hard-earned money after more bad money with guaranteed despicable results.
Oh the cries will resound to the rafters but this just needs to be done. The War on Poverty is not working and we are living on credit. America's yearly spending is greater than her Gross Domestic Product. We are sliding behind every minute of every day and 43% of government spending is entitlements.
Posted by DaveH at April 25, 2012 9:03 PM