This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the War on Poverty. In January 1964, Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Since then, the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s war. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times the cost of all military wars since the American Revolution.
Last year, government spent $943 billion providing cash, food, housing and medical care to poor and low-income Americans. (That figure doesn’t include Social Security or Medicare.) More than 100 million people, or one third of Americans, received some type of welfare aid, at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient. If converted into cash, this spending was five times what was needed to eliminate all poverty in the United States.
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5 comments:
War on drugs has been an even worst failure.
Close the borders, reduce welfare to near zero, implement means testing for all welfare recipients, implement drug, alcohol, and tobacco testing for all welfare recipients, and offer all the able-bodied individuals the jobs that the illegals left behind...when they turn the jobs down - let them die!
As a society, we can't afford the sheer number of leeches that provide no added value and only add crime to the mix.
Call me a cruel heartless old bastard - I'm OK with it!
How about this ANY WAR IS A FAILURE...if you are to suceed at War YOU MUST ELIMINATE ALL ENEMIES...and the truth is....it cant be done
454, I like the way you think!
How will you ever win the "war" when your stategy is to pay the poor and ignorant to multiply?
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