Ray From Cleveland
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Solve poverty?Which onesHave you seen the social spending on our wars on crime, drugs, poverty, and terror? The Right only complains about income transfers and social spending that may actually benefit least wealthy.We need to find out where all this money is going because it isn't going to maintain and improve our country.. Infrastructure and science spending is at its lowest in decades.
Either that or all these "programs" that supposedly benefit the least wealthy are all failures.
Just about any welfare program. What have they done when it comes to solving poverty? Very little.
War on poverty: US spent $15 trillion over 5 decades
Months after JFK's assassination, Lyndon Johnson told congress and the nation that he was declaring "an unconditional war on poverty in America." Five decades and $15 trillion later, that war is lost.
Taxpayers have been bilked trillions of dollars.
Back in 1964, America's
poverty rate
was 19 percent. Today, it's 15 percent and the number is rising thanks to failed programs. The government borrowed money and forced taxpayers to spend $15 trillion in anti-poverty programs. However, bureaucrats and politicians have not been held accountable for squandering America's wealth.
War on poverty: US spent $15 trillion over 5 decades
When is welfare supposed to do that? You help people who need helping
So by maintaining the poverty level, who are we helping?
We can't be helping the taxpayers because most of them don't want these people on welfare. We're not helping industry who may need physically able bodied people to do work, we can't be helping individuals receiving these assistance programs because there is no advancement being on welfare.