RandallFlagg
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"The War on Poverty created a number of important federal and state initiatives that remain in place todayfrom Head Start to nutrition assistance to Medicare and Medicaid. These initiatives, coupled with the civil rights advances of the era and the overall strong economy in the 1960s, led to a reduction in the number of people living in poverty from around 19 percent to a historic low of 11.1 percent by the early 1970s."
50 Years After LBJ?s War on Poverty | Center for American Progress
The right wing arguments against the War on Poverty always boil down to: See, these programs that we have underfunded or cut back or otherwise hobbled don't work now that we have broken them. So give more money to rich people!
Is that a fact?
So, since the bill was signed in the early 60s we have spent TRILLIONS for Headstart - Wow, now THERE is a return on an investment! TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
ANECDOTAL? lol
Trillions? SOURCE?
Actually, I'm bored with people like you. No matter what I post you will argue with it. So, to hell with you. Look for yourself, prove it to yourself, then you can argue with yourself about the conclusions. That's what folks like you seem to be all about, anyway.
I will, however, leave you with this:
*60 percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes.
*800,000 black men are in jail or prison.
*70 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers.
*Over 300,000 black babies are aborted annually.
*50 percent of new AIDS cases are in the black community.
*Almost half of young black men in America's cities are
neither working nor in school. What we have here is a ticking time bomb
waiting to explode!
Now sonny - prove to ME, how the "Great Society" has accomplished a damned thing.
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