Obama’s Failed ‘War On Poverty’ : Donald Devine

Obama’s Failed ‘War On Poverty’ : Donald Devine

In his bow to holding a "conversation" about the poor, supported by two other progressives at liberal Georgetown University against one lone conservative, President Barack Obama's big idea was to "invest" more to combat poverty, especially minority poverty.

"We, as a society, have the capacity to make a real difference. But it will cost us some money."                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Heritage Foundation welfare expert Robert Rector shows that the national government has spent $22 trillion (excluding Social Security and Medicare) — more than $70,000 for every person in America — since 1964 to support President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty."

It is true that 82 percent of poor adults today report that they were never hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money to buy food. But the most obvious results have been increased dependency, lower employment, dysfunctional central cities, and the decimation of the black family, all of which the president acknowledged

President Obama's solution was to invest more in earlier childhood education, starting now at three and four years old, with better paid teachers and more infrastructure. After all the trillions spent, he simply cannot conceive that the programs may be a large part of the problem for the poor.                                                                                                         http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-failed-war-on-poverty/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=opinion-articles&utm_campaign=DailyEmail06.13.15