It’s been 50 years since the War on Poverty was launched and after
all that time and trillions of dollars spent about one of every seven
people in the country is still living below the poverty line. Everyone
on the right and the left seems to agree: in the war on poverty, poverty
is clearly winning.
So what should be done?
You may have noticed that Paul Ryan and the Republican presidential candidates were guests of the Jack Kemp Center in North Carolina the other day, trotting out their ideas on how to combat poverty.
But what about the Democrats? Unfortunately, there is no Democratic Jack Kemp. There is no national Democrat who is at all visible who appears to give a hoot about anyone who is poor. The last exception was John Edwards and he is long gone. As for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and various also-rans, the word “poverty” doesn’t seem to be in their vocabulary. All they seem to care about is pandering to the middle class and demonizing the rich. Not only do they appear to have no ideas on what to do about poverty, they are not talking about the problem, they are not thinking about the problem and they appear not to even care about the problem.
That’s too bad. Because the public policies that are most harmful to those at the bottom of the income ladder are policies that Democrats everywhere seem to favor. Here are seven of them.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2016/01/16/seven-bad-habits-of-highly-progressive-people-n2105185?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
So what should be done?
You may have noticed that Paul Ryan and the Republican presidential candidates were guests of the Jack Kemp Center in North Carolina the other day, trotting out their ideas on how to combat poverty.
But what about the Democrats? Unfortunately, there is no Democratic Jack Kemp. There is no national Democrat who is at all visible who appears to give a hoot about anyone who is poor. The last exception was John Edwards and he is long gone. As for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and various also-rans, the word “poverty” doesn’t seem to be in their vocabulary. All they seem to care about is pandering to the middle class and demonizing the rich. Not only do they appear to have no ideas on what to do about poverty, they are not talking about the problem, they are not thinking about the problem and they appear not to even care about the problem.
That’s too bad. Because the public policies that are most harmful to those at the bottom of the income ladder are policies that Democrats everywhere seem to favor. Here are seven of them.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2016/01/16/seven-bad-habits-of-highly-progressive-people-n2105185?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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