 | | | | | | | | | | The War on Poverty Has Been A Failure
The U.S. Census Bureau has released its latest report on poverty. The bottom line is that our 50 year War on Poverty has failed. We've spent $22 trillion on combating poverty since the 1960s, and yet poverty rates have actually gotten worse over the last 40 years.
According to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, $22 trillion is "three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution." "Over 100 million people, about one third of the U.S. population, received aid from at least one welfare program at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient in 2013. If converted into cash, current means-tested spending is five times the amount needed to eliminate all poverty in the U.S."
In other words, redistributing wealth has been a colossal flop that hasn't lifted people out of poverty. But Conservatives have known this for some time. "Government is not the solution to the problem," as Mr. Reagan so eloquently reminded us, "It is the problem."
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| | |   | | | Is the IRS at it again?
The latest questionable action includes the recent audit of conservative news agency Breitbart News Network, which it claims was politically motivated. Senator Ted Cruz reacted to the news, saying that the IRS behaving like a partisan political organization "would represent a gross abuse of power."
All of this comes as the IRS remains under scrutiny for its targeting of tea party groups. FOIA requests have revealed that the IRS referred to the solicitation of conservative group donor lists as a "secret research project." Additionally, the agency claims to have lost five more workers emails related to the investigation.
And the Department of Justice has been caught trying to collude with House Democrats to spin the IRS targeting of conservatives.
Not a smidgen of corruption? Give me a break. |
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