More Spending on Poverty Needed

[LogikAndReazon]

How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty—And FailBetween 1964 and now, the federal government spent roughly $12 trillion fighting poverty, and state and local governments added another $3 trillion. Yet the poverty rate has never fallen below 10.5 percent and is now at the highest level in nearly a decade. Clearly, we have been doing something wrong. In a new study, Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner argues that we should "shift our anti-poverty efforts from government programs that simply provide money or goods and services to those who are living in poverty to efforts to create the conditions and incentives that will make it easier for people to escape poverty."

"The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty—And Fail," by Michael D. Tanner

 

[CrusaderFrank]

There's no exit Strategy for the "War on Poverty"

It's designed to keep people beholden to a government run by Democrats who dole out our money

 

[occupied]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7, our obscenely boated prison system is explained by this motivation also. If you let the rabble get too hungry they get angry and difficult to control.

 

[nodoginnafight]

There's no exit Strategy for the "War on Poverty"

It's designed to keep people beholden to a government run by Democrats who dole out our money

hey yeeeah
Let's just elect a Republican and they'll take care of this problem for us immediately ....

 

[LogikAndReazon]

ah............the "1%" hold the key to the happiness of useless, adolescent malcontents lives...............really, they do

 

[occupied]

ah............the "1%" hold the key to the happiness of useless, adolescent malcontents lives...............really, they do

The captains of industry and finance do have the power to do many things for good or ill (mostly ill lately) and apparently no responsibility for their actions. Whoever said that great power carries with it great responsibility was certainly not a republican.

 

[Jackson]

There's no exit Strategy for the "War on Poverty"

It's designed to keep people beholden to a government run by Democrats who dole out our money

When we went to war, pundits asked "What is the exit strategy?" That simple question got us there for expensive years, didn't it? The same follows for ENDING poverty and making it a helping hand out of poverty instead of a way of life.

 

[Katzndogz]

When you pay someone to do something, they invariably get better at it, including being poor.

The poor in America have gone one better. They have a place of material comfort and can still complain because they are "poor".

 

[LogikAndReazon]

There must be some boogeyman to blame for OWS pathetic, miserable, worthless lives.................

They is OWED !!!!!!

 

[SniperFire]

ah............the "1%" hold the key to the happiness of useless, adolescent malcontents lives...............really, they do

Hilarious when you think about it.

LOL


I mean, who are the 1%ers they are going to wield their pitchforks against, anyways?

Lady Gaga?

Bill Gates?

LeBron?

 

[occupied]

There must be some boogeyman to blame for OWS pathetic, miserable, worthless lives.................

They is OWED !!!!!!

Every generation had a better life and more opportunity than the preceding one because we built with the future in mind. But as we are all aware by now the boomers rejected that most noble of traditional values for blindly accumulating personal wealth and attempting to take it all with them when they die. We do owe the young the exact same concern our forefathers had for us.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

ah............the "1%" hold the key to the happiness of useless, adolescent malcontents lives...............really, they do

Hilarious when you think about it.

LOL


I mean, who are the 1%ers they are going to wield their pitchforks against, anyways?

Lady Gaga?

Bill Gates?

LeBron?

Warren Buffet's secretary

 

[LogikAndReazon]

If only all Americans had "aspired" to be social workers and state civil servants just think how great and prosperous the country would be........................

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7

Shooting them works just as well too.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The captains of industry and finance do have the power to do many things for good or ill (mostly ill lately) and apparently no responsibility for their actions.

Apparently the "poor" aren't responsible for their actions either seeing how nothing ever seems to be their own fault.

 

[WillowTree]

How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty—And FailBetween 1964 and now, the federal government spent roughly $12 trillion fighting poverty, and state and local governments added another $3 trillion. Yet the poverty rate has never fallen below 10.5 percent and is now at the highest level in nearly a decade. Clearly, we have been doing something wrong. In a new study, Cato scholar Michael D. Tanner argues that we should "shift our anti-poverty efforts from government programs that simply provide money or goods and services to those who are living in poverty to efforts to create the conditions and incentives that will make it easier for people to escape poverty."

"The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty—And Fail," by Michael D. Tanner

We should legalize poverty.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why can't Obama make everyone a Czar?

If we stopped counting them as poor, like we stopped counting unemployed, we'd end poverty

 

[LogikAndReazon]

If bleeding heart liberals really cared about poverty there would not be a "progressive" with a nickel left in their pockets......................

yet those shameful hypocrites demand that others fund their cause............as always


scumbags

 

[Cowman]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7

Shooting them works just as well too.

Same goes for you guys who are saying that the government is destroying America and it's time to rise up.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You could also look at it as insurance against revolution. Keeping the disenfranchised rabble quiet so that there are not bloody riots on the doorsteps of the 1% 24/7

Shooting them works just as well too.

Same goes for you guys who are saying that the government is destroying America and it's time to rise up.

Quote me, please.