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The one war america fought but never bothered winning. The war on Poverty.
by ngold 7y ago
The one war america fought but never bothered winning. The war on Poverty.
- harryh 7y agoLBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America. https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504 https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504 "The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has dropped from 19.5 % in 1963 to just 2.3% in 2017!!" If that's not winning, I don't know what is.
- sokoloff 7y agoThat's the beauty (to some) and problem (to others) with the definition of poverty: we keep moving the goalposts/standards.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI so hate the phrase "war on poverty." It tends to de facto turn poor people into The Enemy in the mind's of far too many people.
- craftinator 7y agoThat would be another way of lowering the percentage of people living in poverty.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYes, please, just take us all out and shoot us for our war crimes of failing to be as wildly successful as we would like to be. (Please don't tell me this needs a sarcasm tag. If you can't tell in this case, then I think it's utterly hopeless.)
- AdrianB1 7y agoBecause that is not a war and there is no win, poverty is a moving target and it will always be, unless forced equality is imposed to everybody.