The Chance for a President Who Pursues The War On Poverty Died When John Edwards campaign collapsed after sex scandal. let's revive the war on poverty

[basquebromance]

Chapter 6: How We Buy Opportunity, Poverty, by America
We are much richer than citizens of other countries, including other wealthy ones, and we’re much richer than our forebearers. And yet, the dominant mood among the American middle and upper classes is one of fret and worry. In past eras, the rich used to flaunt their wealth, including by showing their indifference to work. The American aristocracy of today seem to prefer complaining to one another and working nonstop. Has there ever been another time, in the full sweep of human history, when so many people had so much and yet felt so deprived and anxious?

Those feelings have proven incredibly effective at preventing us from seeing ourselves as authors of inequality. We like healthy returns. We like smart products. We like low prices and raise a fuss when they creep up. Fast and cheap—that’s how we prefer to consume in America. But somebody has to pay for it, and that somebody is the rag-and-bone American worker. Poverty wages allow rock-bottom prices. Relentless supervision and control facilitate fast service. The working class and working poor—and, now, even the working homeless—bear the costs of our appetites and amusements

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/27/politics/john-edwards-sotu/index.html

 

[Calypso Jones]

oh bull.

 

[White 6]

Chapter 6: How We Buy Opportunity, Poverty, by America
We are much richer than citizens of other countries, including other wealthy ones, and we’re much richer than our forebearers. And yet, the dominant mood among the American middle and upper classes is one of fret and worry. In past eras, the rich used to flaunt their wealth, including by showing their indifference to work. The American aristocracy of today seem to prefer complaining to one another and working nonstop. Has there ever been another time, in the full sweep of human history, when so many people had so much and yet felt so deprived and anxious?

Those feelings have proven incredibly effective at preventing us from seeing ourselves as authors of inequality. We like healthy returns. We like smart products. We like low prices and raise a fuss when they creep up. Fast and cheap—that’s how we prefer to consume in America. But somebody has to pay for it, and that somebody is the rag-and-bone American worker. Poverty wages allow rock-bottom prices. Relentless supervision and control facilitate fast service. The working class and working poor—and, now, even the working homeless—bear the costs of our appetites and amusements

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/27/politics/john-edwards-sotu/index.html

Lets not revive the war on poverty. Anytime the government declares war on a domestic issue, it is a sign they have already lost, be it the war on poverty, the war on drugs or the war on teen pregnancy.

 

[Billiejeens]

John Edwards
I laugh.

 

[MaryL]

You mean like 1965 LBJ's "war on on poverty" that did just the reverse, it created this vicious cycle? I lived though that shit. Democrats are under that SAME delusion, if you repeat the same thing over and over again, it just might work? Einstein said: "That was the very definition of repeating the same thing over and over again that doesn't work and expecting a different result"...WHAT? A Democrat