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1. "News that the poverty rate has risen to 15.1
percent of Americans, the highest level in nearly
a decade, has set off a predictable round of calls
for increased government spending on social
welfare programs. Yet this year the federal
government will spend more than $668 billion on at
least 126 different programs to fight poverty.
And that does not even begin to count welfare
spending by state and local governments, which
adds $284 billion to that figure. In total, the
United States spends nearly $1 trillion every
year to fight poverty. That amounts to $20,610
for every poor person in America, or $61,830 per
poor family of three.
2. In fact, since
President Obama took office, federal welfare
spending has increased by 41 percent, more
than $193 billion per year. Despite this government largess, more than 46 million Americans continue to live in poverty. Despite nearly $15
trillion in total welfare spending since Lyndon
Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964, the
poverty rate is perilously close to where we began more than 40 years ago.
3. Throwing money at the problem has neither
reduced poverty nor made the poor self-sufficient.
4. Since 1964 the federal government spent roughly $12 trillion fighting
poverty, and state and local governments
added another $3 trillion. Yet the poverty
rate never fell below 10.5 percent and is now
at the highest level in nearly a decade.
5. ...federal welfare spending alone totals more than $14,848 for every poor man,
woman, and child in this country. For a typical poor family of three, that amounts to
more than $44,500. Combined with state and
local spending, government spends $20,610
for every poor person in America, or $61,830
per poor family of three. Given that the poverty line for that family is just $18,530, we
should have theoretically wiped out poverty
in America many times over.
6. . the poverty rate has remained relatively constant since 1965, despite rising
welfare spending. In fact, the only appreciable decline occurred in the 1990s, a time of
state experimentation with tightening welfare eligibility, culminating in the passage
of national welfare reform (the Personal Responsibility and Work Responsibility Act of
1996).
7. The vast majority of current programs are focused
on making poverty more comfortablegiving poor people more food, better shelter,
health care, and so forthrather than giving
people the tools that will help them escape
poverty. And we actually have a pretty solid
idea of the keys to getting out of and staying
out of poverty: (1) finish school; (2) do not
get pregnant outside marriage; and (3) get a
job, any job, and stick with it.
a. ...we can add one more important stepping stone on
the road out of povertysavings and the accumulation of wealth.
... for the vast majority of households,
the pathway out of poverty is not through
consumption, but through saving and accumulation.
Michael Sherraden, Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1991)."
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/PA694.pdf
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Again:
"only appreciable decline occurred in the 1990s, a time of
state experimentation with tightening welfare eligibility,"
So....conservatives were right....
The choice in November is clear.
It's not an entitlement attitude, it's the SECOND Pub Great Depression. Costs money to avert the abyss and save the victims, dunces. Another Pub term of cut taxes on the bloated rich and ruin Medicare/Aid/SS should get us back to "the good old days- they were TERRIBLE" (Read that book, chumps) and the world's biggest banana republic. Pub dupes!!
It's not an entitlement attitude, it's the SECOND Pub Great Depression. Costs money to avert the abyss and save the victims, dunces. Another Pub term of cut taxes on the bloated rich and ruin Medicare/Aid/SS should get us back to "the good old days- they were TERRIBLE" (Read that book, chumps) and the world's biggest banana republic. Pub dupes!!
Speaking of Depressions, there is a great deal of scholarly work that concludes that FDR actually prolonged the depression, turning it into 'The Great Depression,' extending it by some seven years....
Even the Brookings....
In 1935, the Brookings Institution (left-leaning) delivered a 900-page report on the New Deal and the National Recovery Administration, concluding that on the whole it retarded recovery. The Real Deal - Society and Culture - AEI
FDR.....he wasn't a Republican, was he?
Pubcrappe- Public college costs doubled just under Boooosh, AND this is a Pub Great Depression- this is a failure of Pub economic policy- pandering to the rich, deregulation cronyism, fake boom bubble and bust AGAIN- and you dittoheads blame the solvers and victims and want to do it again! Memorize my sig, chumps...
Change the channel, dupes.
I know- Cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. LOL!
Pubcrappe- Public college costs doubled just under Boooosh, AND this is a Pub Great Depression- this is a failure of Pub economic policy- pandering to the rich, deregulation cronyism, fake boom bubble and bust AGAIN- and you dittoheads blame the solvers and victims and want to do it again! Memorize my sig, chumps...
Change the channel, dupes.
I know- Cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. LOL!
Pubcrappe- Public college costs doubled just under Boooosh, AND this is a Pub Great Depression- this is a failure of Pub economic policy- pandering to the rich, deregulation cronyism, fake boom bubble and bust AGAIN- and you dittoheads blame the solvers and victims and want to do it again! Memorize my sig, chumps...
Change the channel, dupes.
I know- Cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. LOL!
Obama has tripled DOWN on it...
'Boooosh!
It's not an entitlement attitude, it's the SECOND Pub Great Depression. Costs money to avert the abyss and save the victims, dunces. Another Pub term of cut taxes on the bloated rich and ruin Medicare/Aid/SS should get us back to "the good old days- they were TERRIBLE" (Read that book, chumps) and the world's biggest banana republic. Pub dupes!!
Speaking of Depressions, there is a great deal of scholarly work that concludes that FDR actually prolonged the depression, turning it into 'The Great Depression,' extending it by some seven years....
Even the Brookings....
In 1935, the Brookings Institution (left-leaning) delivered a 900-page report on the New Deal and the National Recovery Administration, concluding that on the whole it retarded recovery. The Real Deal - Society and Culture - AEI
FDR.....he wasn't a Republican, was he?
Pubcrappe- Public college costs doubled just under Boooosh, AND this is a Pub Great Depression- this is a failure of Pub economic policy- pandering to the rich, deregulation cronyism, fake boom bubble and bust AGAIN- and you dittoheads blame the solvers and victims and want to do it again! Memorize my sig, chumps...
Change the channel, dupes.
I know- Cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. LOL!
"Pub Great Depression-"
I'm sure you agree that the housing/mortgage meltdown was the result of Democrat policy...
from that Republican FDR's GSE's and then that other Republican Jimmy Carter's CRA...forcing the private sector to enforce social engineering....
...then Clinton and Cuomo in HUD, and Dodd, Frank......
Them Republicans almost ruined this nation......right?
It's not an entitlement attitude, it's the SECOND Pub Great Depression. Costs money to avert the abyss and save the victims, dunces. Another Pub term of cut taxes on the bloated rich and ruin Medicare/Aid/SS should get us back to "the good old days- they were TERRIBLE" (Read that book, chumps) and the world's biggest banana republic. Pub dupes!!
Speaking of Depressions, there is a great deal of scholarly work that concludes that FDR actually prolonged the depression, turning it into 'The Great Depression,' extending it by some seven years....
Even the Brookings....
In 1935, the Brookings Institution (left-leaning) delivered a 900-page report on the New Deal and the National Recovery Administration, concluding that on the whole it retarded recovery. The Real Deal - Society and Culture - AEI
FDR.....he wasn't a Republican, was he?
Hell no, dupe.Thank god the Dems got in fast this time while there was still an economy to stimulate.COSTS MONEY, dupes.
In the 30's we had to wait for a war to get out of it, but FDR saved people and their dignity.
Pubs are ALWAYS a corrupt disaster.
Pubcrappe- Public college costs doubled just under Boooosh, AND this is a Pub Great Depression- this is a failure of Pub economic policy- pandering to the rich, deregulation cronyism, fake boom bubble and bust AGAIN- and you dittoheads blame the solvers and victims and want to do it again! Memorize my sig, chumps...
Change the channel, dupes.
I know- Cut taxes on the bloated rich and destroy Medicare. LOL!
"Pub Great Depression-"
I'm sure you agree that the housing/mortgage meltdown was the result of Democrat policy...
from that Republican FDR's GSE's and then that other Republican Jimmy Carter's CRA...forcing the private sector to enforce social engineering....
...then Clinton and Cuomo in HUD, and Dodd, Frank......
Them Republicans almost ruined this nation......right?
Sure. Dems ended discrimination against the worthy poor in 1978. Pubs and Booosh and their greedy cronies allowed Private banks (80-85% all of a sudden) to give loans to ANYONE, no "worthy" involved. Then insure bundles of crappe and sell them around the world with bogus ratings.
You're absolutely brainwashed by greedy Pubs who want to do more BS AGAIN. Absolute idiocy. Pubs (and blue dogs along for the ride) ran the economy after 1994...
Amd you say out of power Dems forced them to do it. What a prize idiot.
"Pub Great Depression-"
I'm sure you agree that the housing/mortgage meltdown was the result of Democrat policy...
from that Republican FDR's GSE's and then that other Republican Jimmy Carter's CRA...forcing the private sector to enforce social engineering....
...then Clinton and Cuomo in HUD, and Dodd, Frank......
Them Republicans almost ruined this nation......right?
Sure. Dems ended discrimination against the worthy poor in 1978. Pubs and Booosh and their greedy cronies allowed Private banks (80-85% all of a sudden) to give loans to ANYONE, no "worthy" involved. Then insure bundles of crappe and sell them around the world with bogus ratings.
You're absolutely brainwashed by greedy Pubs who want to do more BS AGAIN. Absolute idiocy. Pubs (and blue dogs along for the ride) ran the economy after 1994...
Amd you say out of power Dems forced them to do it. What a prize idiot.
But wasn't Fanny and Freddy formed by Democrats?
And didn't the Democrat CRA demand banks give loans to folks who didn't deserve them in terms of assets.....or they would take the banks to court, and not allow them to expand?
And didn't Clinton's HUD force more insupportable loans?
Didn't Democrat Senator Dodd fully back the program to raise the risky loans of the GSE's from 42% to 50%? And concurrently received sweetheart mortgage-loans on property that he owned? And didn't Democrat Representative Barney Frank thwart Bush Administration attempts to rein in the loans?
Sure looks like the Democrats where the bad guys.....doesn't it?
No no and no.
Here's a look at the U.S. unemployment rate for selected years from 1920 to 2010.
Year Rate
1920 5.2 %
1928 4.2
1930 8.7
1932 23.6
1934 21.7
1936 16.9
Read more: United States Unemployment Rate 19202010 Infoplease.com United States Unemployment Rate 1920–2010 — Infoplease.com
Only you would think Brookins and Keynes were leftists LOL
NOTES: Estimates prior to 1940 are based on sources other than direct enumeration. Data prior to 1948 are for persons age 14 and over. Data beginning in 1948 are for persons age 16 and over.
1. Not strictly comparable with prior years.
2. Beginning in Jan. 2006, data are not strictly comparable with data for 2005 and earlier years because of the revisions in the population controls used in the household survey
Actually it is the highest level of poverty in more than 50 years and since they started publishing poverty rates. Poverty hits 50-year high, U.S says - Los Angeles Times
No no and no.
Here's a look at the U.S. unemployment rate for selected years from 1920 to 2010.
Year Rate
1920 5.2 %
1928 4.2
1930 8.7
1932 23.6
1934 21.7
1936 16.9
Read more: United States Unemployment Rate 19202010 Infoplease.com United States Unemployment Rate 1920–2010 — Infoplease.com
Only you would think Brookins and Keynes were leftists LOL
First:
NOTES: Estimates prior to 1940 are based on sources other than direct enumeration. Data prior to 1948 are for persons age 14 and over. Data beginning in 1948 are for persons age 16 and over.
1. Not strictly comparable with prior years.
2. Beginning in Jan. 2006, data are not strictly comparable with data for 2005 and earlier years because of the revisions in the population controls used in the household survey
Read more: United States Unemployment Rate 19202010 Infoplease.com United States Unemployment Rate 1920–2010 — Infoplease.com
Second:
Wow....I didn't think that 9.6 was the 2010 unemployment rate.....after two years of Obama and a Democratic Supermajority in Congress, I expeceted much lower rates....
But, then the TRILLIONS $$$ in stimulous had not kicked in.....like it has in 2012......
right?
Actually it is the highest level of poverty in more than 50 years and since they started publishing poverty rates. Poverty hits 50-year high, U.S says - Los Angeles Times
Ah yes...FDR revisited...
