Today is the 50th anniversary on the failed policy of a war on poverty……I am old enough that I can remember the day this was announced….in my opinion it was an excellent idea…..the problem is that every prez that came after Johnson has slowly and methodically dismembered the program….that includes some of our dynamite Dem prezs……and Bubba was the worse on of them all and he did it with the approval of the Democratic Party…..

Today marks 50 years since Lyndon Johnson declared his “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet the percentage of Americans living in poverty has remained roughly unchanged in the decades since, despite some $916 billion in federal spending on means-tested welfare programs in 2012 alone, Robert Rector from the conservative Heritage Foundation writes at the Wall Street Journal. “If converted to cash, current means-tested spending is five times greater than the amount needed to eliminate all official poverty in the US,” he writes. All that spending has indeed improved the poor’s living standards, but Johnson promised to lift people out of poverty, and “by that standard, the war on poverty has been a catastrophe.” Rector suggests two solutions: First, require welfare recipients “to work or prepare to work,” and second, “reduce the antimarriage incentives rife within welfare programs.” Right now, if a single mother marries a working father, her benefits will plummet—but kids raised by a single parent are 50% more likely to be poor as adults. Click for his full column.

There is nothing in anyone’s repertoire that can successfully end deep poverty…. poverty is something that America has come to stand for in the eyes of the world…and you wonder why so many third world countries do not want to travel down this path……