According to a 2019 report by The CATO Institute, "federal, state, and local governments will spend close to a combined $1 trillion to fund more than 100 separate anti‐poverty programs. In fact, since Lyndon Johnson declared 'war on poverty' in 1965, government efforts to fight poverty have cost more than $23 trillion." Who has benefitted? Not the poverty stricken, but the government agencies and NGOs that control the trillions of taxpayer dollars spent to generate more victims of poverty. With a TRILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS in play each year, leftists understand "poverty solving" is good business -- create the crisis, then make money solving the crisis.
Bingo!!! Currently, the "homeless industry" is raking in the tax dollars AND not helping the homeless. There were NO homeless people in the Wenatchee Valley when I was growing up in 50s & 60s. My dad supported FIVE people with his wages. We had a huge house, three bedrooms, two full baths, kitchens upstairs & downstairs (for canning), two fireplaces, family room, living room, SWIMMING POOL, on 1.5 acres. Us kids were out of the house by the time the War on Poverty made this type of household impossible.
Good to remember that “representative” (LOL) government exists to create catastrophes they can campaign on. If they fixed anything, they’d be removing their own campaign ammo. It’s like the wars we demand to fight but refuse to win: no one buys bullets for won wars; they NEED the crises to get re-elected, which is (obviously) the ONLY thing any of them care about.
Hi Diane-thank you for this article full of unfortunate truths. I was raised in a very nice town in so cal, dad working, mom stayed at home. When I went to college (my dad saved and paid for that too) it was all about women and how we were under represented in the work place. I got a degree and have been in the workplace for over 25 years. My husband and I have good jobs, struggle to provide our kids with vacations, a nice home, cars, eyc because we can’t afford anything. I remember my dad telling me at one point that I wasn’t “trying hard enough “ to stay home with the kids when they were young. It angers me but he is from a generation that was so different. I’m grateful for my parents, now they are helping us financially instead of the other way around. I pray for my kids, and what their future holds.
Edie: I am hoping to get a person from the food bank to come to December 14th meeting to advise us what they are doing now that Bidenomics has TRIPLED the need. Diane
The purpose of the Great Society was to impoverish Americans, particularly minorities, and that pesky Middle Class always yammering about liberty, to make them dependent on the ever-larger government for which they have been voting ever since.
My family - we three kids and married parents with only Dad working, lived in a fine house in a good neighborhood and took annual month-long vacations until LBJs inflation & taxes set in. Then Mom went off to work.
The entitlement mentality LBJ drove is at the root of all of the “equity” and “rights” nonsense as it laid the foundations for not having to work to keep up with the Joneses. He hammered a stake through personal responsibility from which we may recover only via extralegal means..
Bingo!!! My dad supported FIVE people with his wages. We had a huge house, three bedrooms, two full baths, kitchens upstairs & downstairs (for canning), two fireplaces, family room, living room, SWIMMING POOL, on 1.5 acres. Us kids were out of the house by the time the War on Poverty made this type of household impossible.
According to a 2019 report by The CATO Institute, "federal, state, and local governments will spend close to a combined $1 trillion to fund more than 100 separate anti‐poverty programs. In fact, since Lyndon Johnson declared 'war on poverty' in 1965, government efforts to fight poverty have cost more than $23 trillion." Who has benefitted? Not the poverty stricken, but the government agencies and NGOs that control the trillions of taxpayer dollars spent to generate more victims of poverty. With a TRILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS in play each year, leftists understand "poverty solving" is good business -- create the crisis, then make money solving the crisis.
Bingo!!! Currently, the "homeless industry" is raking in the tax dollars AND not helping the homeless. There were NO homeless people in the Wenatchee Valley when I was growing up in 50s & 60s. My dad supported FIVE people with his wages. We had a huge house, three bedrooms, two full baths, kitchens upstairs & downstairs (for canning), two fireplaces, family room, living room, SWIMMING POOL, on 1.5 acres. Us kids were out of the house by the time the War on Poverty made this type of household impossible.
Good to remember that “representative” (LOL) government exists to create catastrophes they can campaign on. If they fixed anything, they’d be removing their own campaign ammo. It’s like the wars we demand to fight but refuse to win: no one buys bullets for won wars; they NEED the crises to get re-elected, which is (obviously) the ONLY thing any of them care about.
Hi Diane-thank you for this article full of unfortunate truths. I was raised in a very nice town in so cal, dad working, mom stayed at home. When I went to college (my dad saved and paid for that too) it was all about women and how we were under represented in the work place. I got a degree and have been in the workplace for over 25 years. My husband and I have good jobs, struggle to provide our kids with vacations, a nice home, cars, eyc because we can’t afford anything. I remember my dad telling me at one point that I wasn’t “trying hard enough “ to stay home with the kids when they were young. It angers me but he is from a generation that was so different. I’m grateful for my parents, now they are helping us financially instead of the other way around. I pray for my kids, and what their future holds.
I never realized that we had this kind of issue right here on the Peninsula. I will be at the next meeting
Edie: I am hoping to get a person from the food bank to come to December 14th meeting to advise us what they are doing now that Bidenomics has TRIPLED the need. Diane
The purpose of the Great Society was to impoverish Americans, particularly minorities, and that pesky Middle Class always yammering about liberty, to make them dependent on the ever-larger government for which they have been voting ever since.
My family - we three kids and married parents with only Dad working, lived in a fine house in a good neighborhood and took annual month-long vacations until LBJs inflation & taxes set in. Then Mom went off to work.
The entitlement mentality LBJ drove is at the root of all of the “equity” and “rights” nonsense as it laid the foundations for not having to work to keep up with the Joneses. He hammered a stake through personal responsibility from which we may recover only via extralegal means..
Bingo!!! My dad supported FIVE people with his wages. We had a huge house, three bedrooms, two full baths, kitchens upstairs & downstairs (for canning), two fireplaces, family room, living room, SWIMMING POOL, on 1.5 acres. Us kids were out of the house by the time the War on Poverty made this type of household impossible.