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2008-02-21 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 LBJ was a school teacher and self made man who came from a poor family in the Hill Country. He was of the mind that if he made it out of poverty, anyone else could too if they had the grit. He could have given a damn about poor, inner-city people. LBJ's War on Poverty was a democratic vote getting scheme aimed at minorities, not unlike what you hear from candidates yet today.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-21 01:24|| 2008-02-21 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Poverty you hear about is 'statistical' poverty which would place most of the people so classified into middle class just about anyplace else on the planet. We do have traditional or classical poverty, but at numbers so low that most Americans wouldn't pay attention so the socialist hucksters keep playing a three card monty game of showing you the image of the few and use the number of the many. The fundamental problem of classical poverty in America is human free will. For there are those in every category of color, race and creed who make decision that either get them out or keep them in the condition. The four major contributors to classical poverty in America are substance abuse, creating families before establishing skills to provide for them, blowing off one's education and keeping to the old ways. Each and everyone of those occur in an exercise of human free will. No socialist agenda has yet successfully addressed solving that particular problem short of making the parties thralls to someone in authority. That is why in a free country, there will always be some form of poverty. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac - you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. It was true three hundred years ago, it's true today. Human behavior doesn't' change.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-21 07:11|| 2008-02-21 07:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The 100 Years War was shorter than any War on Poverty (or Drugs) will ever be.

Here's how it works, more or less. Define poverty as the bottom 10% (in income, assets, whatever). Give them enough stuff to get over the threshhold that defined their status. No more poverty, right? Wrong. There's still a bottom 10%, just with a new threshhold. Repeat ad infinitum. (The saddest thing - it will be the same 10% over and over again, no matter how much you give them.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-02-21 07:36|| 2008-02-21 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Global Poverty Act: (red)istribution. Globally.

Posted by eLarson 2008-02-21 08:13|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2008-02-21 08:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Middle class in China: $700USD/month. I'm not kidding.

Posted by gromky 2008-02-21 08:17|| 2008-02-21 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 QUAGMIRE!!!!

Ironically, all the dhimocrat power is built on this house of sand.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-21 09:29|| 2008-02-21 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 The bulk of the poor as defined by the government are young adults. College students and recent grads just starting out. People that move out of poverty as they age. Unless we account for this any arguement about the poor is dishonest.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-21 14:13|| 2008-02-21 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 The War on Poverty is a quagmire, re-deploy to West Palm Beach.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-21 18:07|| 2008-02-21 18:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep, one of my pet rocks as well......seeing people who are fat as hell telling me they're poor, need affordable health insurance, while smoking a cigarette, watching their 42" t.v. and bitching about their old junk car....in countries I've been to, truly poor people don't have the luxury to bitch about any of these things...

I love my country but sometimes realy dislike many of its inhabitants.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-02-21 20:07|| 2008-02-21 20:07|| Front Page Top

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