Stephanie
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I think we're beyond hopeless thanks to people who push more and more dependency and there is a reason for it...but what can you do now...Obama and Democrats push the Guberment is your, FRIEND
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When measured by its original standards, the War on Poverty was a monumental failure.
By Thomas Sowell
Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development of the American welfare state.
The actual signing of the War on Poverty legislation took place in August 1964, so the 50th anniversary is some months away. But there have already been statements in the media and in politics proclaiming that this vast and costly array of anti-poverty programs worked.
Of course everything works by sufficiently low standards, and everything fails by sufficiently high standards. The real question is: What did the War on Poverty set out to do and how well did it do it, if at all?
Without some idea of what a person or a program is trying to do, there is no way to know whether what actually happened was a success or a failure. When the hard facts show that a policy has failed, nothing is easier for its defenders than to make up a new set of criteria by which it can be said to have succeeded.
That has in fact been what happened with the War on Poverty.
Both President John F. Kennedy, who launched the proposal for a War on Poverty, and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, who guided the legislation through Congress and then signed it into law, were very explicit as to what the War on Poverty was intended to accomplish.
Its mission was not simply to prove that spending money on the poor led to some economic benefits to the poor. Nobody ever doubted that. How could they?
ALL of it here
The Lost War against Dependency | National Review Online
SNIP:
When measured by its original standards, the War on Poverty was a monumental failure.
By Thomas Sowell
Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development of the American welfare state.
The actual signing of the War on Poverty legislation took place in August 1964, so the 50th anniversary is some months away. But there have already been statements in the media and in politics proclaiming that this vast and costly array of anti-poverty programs worked.
Of course everything works by sufficiently low standards, and everything fails by sufficiently high standards. The real question is: What did the War on Poverty set out to do and how well did it do it, if at all?
Without some idea of what a person or a program is trying to do, there is no way to know whether what actually happened was a success or a failure. When the hard facts show that a policy has failed, nothing is easier for its defenders than to make up a new set of criteria by which it can be said to have succeeded.
That has in fact been what happened with the War on Poverty.
Both President John F. Kennedy, who launched the proposal for a War on Poverty, and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, who guided the legislation through Congress and then signed it into law, were very explicit as to what the War on Poverty was intended to accomplish.
Its mission was not simply to prove that spending money on the poor led to some economic benefits to the poor. Nobody ever doubted that. How could they?
they'd get beat down for saying today
ALL of it here
The Lost War against Dependency | National Review Online
