Mikeoxenormous
Diamond Member
After 22 Trillion dollars have been spent on the poor, why do we still have poor? Because Marxists/Democrats love their slavesthe keynesian model us the best picture of an economy that we have. repubs will have to show me that their faith based model comes even close before i do more than laugh atyour reply.
since 1981 the economy has been used as a weapon against the poor and democrats . here is how:
First, when Republicans control the federal government, and particularly the White House, spend money like a drunken sailor and run up the US debt as far and as fast as possible. This produces three results – it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy, it raises the debt dramatically, and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Claus.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus.
that is from a 2013 salon article that you probably won;t read, but the wikiperia article on "jude wanniski" explains the two santa claus theory as well as anything.

The War on Poverty After 50 Years
This week, the U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release its annual poverty report. The report will be notable because this year marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In his January 1964 State of the Union address, Johnson proclaimed, “This...
