Obama Has Brought Poverty Back To Pre-“War On Poverty” Levels

Poverty Level Under Obama Breaks 50-year Record

 

 

 

” Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.

  Aides said Mr. Obama doesn’t plan to commemorate the anniversary Wednesday of Johnson’s speech in 1964, which gave rise to Medicaid, Head Start and a broad range of other federal anti-poverty programs. The president’s only public event Tuesday was a plea for Congress to approve extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, another reminder of the persistent economic troubles during Mr. Obama’s five years in office.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

” Although the president often rails against income inequality in America, his policies have had little impact overall on poverty. A record 47 million Americans receive food stamps, about 13 million more than when he took office.

  The poverty rate has stood at 15 percent for three consecutive years, the first time that has happened since the mid-1960s. The poverty rate in 1965 was 17.3 percent; it was 12.5 percent in 2007, before the Great Recession.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Government Assistance … Humph

Poverty has won the War On Poverty

” Here’s the real reason, folks: Government
welfare isn’t an effective method for fighting
poverty. In fact, it looks like welfare is
keeping poverty alive.
Check out the chart, from Economist Daniel
Mitchell’s International Liberty website.
LBJ’s War On Poverty was the equivalent of
spreading top-notch fertilizer on a weed
patch. Poverty was dying until Washington
D.C. got involved in killing it. Incredible,
isn’t it? ”

By all means read the whole thing .

Churchill Lives On

Deception or ignorance ? Fine Leadership qualities , both .

  “The decent thing to do, therefore, would be to acknowledge the (inadvertent?) deception and
apologize for it. He could send the retraction to Mediaite, the nonpartisan media Web site run by
Dan Abrams, whose report on this contretemps was headlined: “British Embassy Confirms
Krauthammer Right, White House Wrong: Churchill Bust Returned in 2009.”

  Or he could send it to New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal, who at first repeated Pfeiffer’s denunciation of the Churchill bust “falsehood,” and then later honorably corrected himself, admitting that “I got some
facts wrong, because I made the mistake of relying on a White House blog post by the communications director Dan Pfeiffer.” “