MuadDib
He's called The Stig
- Apr 16, 2012
- 962
- 257
- 28
Prior to LBJ's Great Society, the poverty rate was about 19%. Since we started the War on Poverty, we've thrown about $15 trillion into it which is, coincidentally, roughly equivalent to our current national debt. Things that make you go Hmmmm...
For all that money spent over the last 50 years, the poverty rate still hovers slightly above 15%. $15 trillion dollars only improved it by about 3.5%.
No program in American history has ever done more to destroy the stability of poor families, particularly poor minority families, than Welfare. That's why you have so many baby daddies and baby mommas running around out there today. They don't have to take responsibilty for their behavior or actions. They expect the government, i.e. the taxpayers, to take that responsibility for them.
I am with you on the point of taking personal responsibility.
I would like to see a link to that $15 TRILLION spent on poverty over the last 50 years.
You just can't drop a number that size without backing it up.
LINK