LBJ's "War on Poverty" has been a dismal failure

[HelenaHandbag]

Government Action Is Literally The Only Reason We Have Less Poverty Now Than In 1967

Everything you need to know about the war on poverty

But we don't have less poverty.

Try to 'grasp' this reality. We don't live in a vacuum, or a static nation.

What is that patronizing vacuous comment even supposed to mean?

Without those programs the poverty rate would be much higher.

A statement which is entirely unprovable.

 

[Bfgrn]

But we don't have less poverty.

Try to 'grasp' this reality. We don't live in a vacuum, or a static nation.

What is that patronizing vacuous comment even supposed to mean?

Without those programs the poverty rate would be much higher.

A statement which is entirely unprovable.

Only to vacuous people.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

 

[Bfgrn]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

No, you took an innocuous "We don't live in a vacuum" and took it as personal.

 

[Bfgrn]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

Social Security and Medicare alone moved elderly Americans from the most likely to live in poverty to the least.

American life expectancy at birth ranks 30th in the world. We remain 30th for the rest of our lives -- until we reach 65. Then, our rank rises until we reach 14th at 80. We can thank the remarkable access to health care provided by Medicare.

Samuel Metz, M.D.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

No, you took an innocuous "We don't live in a vacuum" and took it as personal.

No, I merely pointed out the vacuous nature of an irrelevant truism. A fairly haughty one at that.

It was a waste of keystrokes. Unless, of course, your outcome was to come across as carrying some air of intellectual superiority, which you failed at.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

Social Security and Medicare alone moved elderly Americans from the most likely to live in poverty to the least.

American life expectancy at birth ranks 30th in the world. We remain 30th for the rest of our lives -- until we reach 65. Then, our rank rises until we reach 14th at 80. We can thank the remarkable access to health care provided by Medicare.

Samuel Metz, M.D.

And your inescapable concrete proof that one has anything to do with the other is?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why is Medicaid a failure? More importantly, what conservative plan would work better than Medicaid?

 

[HelenaHandbag]

Why is Medicaid a failure?

If costing far in excess of 10X what it was projected to cost in 1965 and its impending bankruptcy wouldn't be evidence of failure, what would be?

More importantly, what conservative plan would work better than Medicaid?

At this point, Medicare could be replaced with nothing and the system would work better.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why is Medicaid a failure?

If costing far in excess of 10X what it was projected to cost in 1965 and its impending bankruptcy wouldn't be evidence of failure, what would be?

More importantly, what conservative plan would work better than Medicaid?

At this point, Medicare could be replaced with nothing and the system would work better.

I said Medicaid.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

1/2 of Medicaid is already funded by the states, most of which also have their own programs for the indigent.

So it too could be replaced with nothing and nobody, except the politicians and bureaucrats who feed off the system first before anyone gets so much as their temperature taken, would notice.

 

[Contumacious]

Yea I think Urban Renewal projects did help destroy the black middle class. Whether or not it was intentional is the question.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiqFf1kJ7g"]History of urban Renewal by Economist Murray Newton Rothbard[/ame]


URBAN RENEWAL: LESSON IN FAILURE

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[Contumacious]

It's not about me. It's about the rest -- and no, they cannot ALL become CEOs. Not even if every single one of them would graduate from an ivy league business school.

So the only way of earning a living is being a CEO?!?!?!?!

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You such a moron! -- it's not about simply earning a living. It's about having a job with a pay that keeps up with productivity growth. And modern economy creates very few such jobs. And it would not create any more of them even if everyone earns a PhD.

The market economy creates an ever more unequal income distribution, and education won't change that trend. The only way to fix the outcome would be more income redistribution by the government.

Why , are you wearing cement shoes? Are you a plant?

Quit the bullshit and relocate where the jobs are.

And tell DC to STOP confiscatory taxation and overwhelming regulations, then and only then, will the jobs return,

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[Bfgrn]

Wow. Took you only two posts to make it personal. That's some serious intellectual high voltage on display.

Now, where is the part that you unwind time and unequivocally prove that without tens of trillions of central planning, confiscation and redistribution, poverty would be worse today than it was 50 years ago?

No, you took an innocuous "We don't live in a vacuum" and took it as personal.

No, I merely pointed out the vacuous nature of an irrelevant truism. A fairly haughty one at that.

It was a waste of keystrokes. Unless, of course, your outcome was to come across as carrying some air of intellectual superiority, which you failed at.

Looks like haughty is your middle name. So much for your faux outrage

 

[Contumacious]

The Right has been saying the War on Poverty is a failure for about fifty years, when they set about to destroy it.

The Parasites have been saying the War on Poverty is a success for about fifty years. Any system which lets them be couch potatoes, smoke dope and go Forth and multiply is awsome.

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[Contumacious]

The Right has been saying the War on Poverty is a failure for about fifty years, when they set about to destroy it.

If I bothered to try and understand what that means, it's certain that blood would probably shoot out of every orifice in my head.

Why don't you shoot out every orifice in his head?

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." -

George S. Patton

 

[Contumacious]

There has been a estimated 20 trillion dollars spent on the war on poverty the change in poverty in the United States during that 50 year time frame has been minimal what should it be called?

The official language of the federal government is Orwellian. So you do the math.

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[Contumacious]

There has been a estimated 20 trillion dollars spent on the war on poverty the change in poverty in the United States during that 50 year time frame has been minimal what should it be called?

The far left getting their way...

I think Albert Einstein described it better with this quote.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Not true.

The democrats have cornered the Parasitic vote . They are close to 50% of the electorate and vote early and often.

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[usmcstinger]

It is a typical Democratic Program that attempts to fix the symptoms instead of the problems.

This administration has encouraged people to let government take care of them. There are no incentives to break out of poverty.

 

[Contumacious]

The OP's theory that the War On Poverty was meant to enrich special interest groups is wrong. It was designed to help people, and for a time it did until the country kept lurching towards the right ever since the mid-60's.

Bullshit.

If they poor had been given 20 Trillions dollars they would be far better off. Instead they were given a tiny fraction of that amount. The federal bureaucracy received the bulk of the grand total.