eflatminor
Classical Liberal
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Except you have that backward.US Poverty rate in 2011 15.1 percent and entitlements have increased big time since 1991
Correct. It would appear the more we spend on entitlements, the worse the rate of poverty gets. Unfortunately, for some, it's not about actual results but about what feels right.
Answer us this: If more entitlement spending means a lower rate of poverty, how is that the rate of poverty is higher today than when we began spending on entitlements around 1970?
You keep ducking the obvious:
1) The poverty rate was headed down before the entitlement spending
2) Once we started entitlement spending, the downward trend ceased and leveled off
3) Since spending TRILLIONS over the last 43 years, the rate of poverty is up, over 2%.
How do you square that with your claim that I "have it backward"?