50 years ago today
Lyndon Baines (Lyin' Bastard) Johnson signed the bill that started the supposed War on Poverty. $20,000,000,000,000 later, there are only a few percent fewer 'poor' and the poor under Obama have suffered.
From
The Washington Times:
That�s rich: Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record
Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.
Aides said Mr. Obama doesn�t plan to commemorate the anniversary Wednesday of Johnson�s speech in 1964, which gave rise to Medicaid, Head Start and a broad range of other federal anti-poverty programs. The president�s only public event Tuesday was a plea for Congress to approve extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, another reminder of the persistent economic troubles during Mr. Obama�s five years in office.
A lot more at the site including this little gem:
Mr. Rector said too many government anti-poverty programs still discourage marriage, factoring into statistics that show more than four in 10 children are born to unmarried parents.
�When the war on poverty started, about 6 percent of children were born outside of marriage,� he said. �Today that�s 42 percent � catastrophe.�
Just think of what we could have done with the money and resources instead of instituting a top-down government solution. Wasteful!
Posted by DaveH at January 8, 2014 5:04 PM