JoeB131
Diamond Member
My question was perfectly well worded - neither pro nor anti the 'Great Society'. I notice you have to go and read up and quote others to answer it. I don't. I already knew.
And you still haven't answered my questions. You can't.... I understand that. I know the numbers and I know the percentage of people that were 'helped' out of poverty. Eventually, even the liberals will realize that it hasn't worked. It is not doing what it was supposed to do. We're just dogpiling money into one very, very deep hole.
It's not "doing what it was supposed to"? Five million people were kept out of poverty at the height of the last recession by SNAP, a Great Society program. Eight million were able to retain access to health care over the last few years--even as they lost jobs, income and employer coverage--by enrolling in Medicaid, a Great Society program. Nearly fifty million people (60% of which are children) in total have access to care through that program. Almost forty million seniors retained access to care through the depths of the last recession thanks to Medicare, a Great Society program.
Meanwhile, foodbanks operated by community action agencies (a War on Poverty holdover) have fed the hungry during this downturn, disadvantaged young folks continued to develop important skills through Job Corps, and others entered into the service of their communities through AmeriCorps. Eligible college kids retained an easy pathway to jobs through the work-study program, another War on Poverty remnant.
The conversation is taking an absurd direction.
They usually do when Cali-Ghoul tries to defend Romney's lack of humanity towards non-millionaires.
You see, I think we should have a safety net, but it shouldn't be a hammock, which is what some Democrats would like to see happen. Unfortunately, Republicans like Cali seem to think that people getting knocked into the net so that folks like Romney can get richer is perfectly okay, as well.
The self-destructiveness of the GOP has been that it has spent much of the last few years dismantling the middle class, which is the firewall against the very socialism they decry.
40% of people on food stamps have jobs. They have jobs, but jobs that don't pay well enough because someone is making a huge profit by underpaying them. So they need to turn to govenrment to get by.
Until the point, where if Government is doing more for you by simply the act of voting for a Democrat, than your employer does for you by busting your hump 40 hours a week,where are your loyalties going to lie?
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