The purpose of the fight against poverty is to give the middle class warriors in the fight something to do. Its a jobs program not a welfare program. The welf

The purpose of the fight against poverty is to give the middle class warriors in the fight something to do. Its a jobs program not a welfare program. The welfare of the poorest segment of the population is almost accidentally improved, but that's never the intention. This is tied in with the first priority of a bureaucracy being the perpetuation and expansion of that bureaucracy. There is a side dish of distraction. You don't want bored masses of poor people wondering why the system picked them to be the bored masses of poor people. Better, cheaper (in the long run) to have them wait in line for 8 hours per day to get some .gov cheese. Why are all our people so poor? Who set us up to fail, and set them up to win? Who cares man, get in line for the cheese with the rest of us, only another two hours in line, I can taste that cheddar already.