Poverty skyrockets across USA to highest levels since 1960s

In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson, that era's left-winger, was not content to merely fight a needless, pointless, misguided war in Vietnam. Ever the progressive, Johnson also wanted to fight a similar kind of aimless and unwinnable war in the United States, so he concocted a so-called "War on Poverty" that, over the next four decades, would see the country spend a staggering $14 trillion with zero return on the investment.

In fact, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the number of Americans currently living at the poverty level is exactly what it was when Johnson began his "war" against it.

From The Associated Press:

As President Barack Obama began his second term in January, nearly 50 million Americans - one in six - were living below the income line that defines poverty, according to the bureau. A family of four that earns less than $23,021 a year is listed as living in poverty. The bureau said 20 percent of the country's children are poor.

Today's poverty is caused by - the sequester?In the years since the 1965 passage of legislation creating the modern-day welfare state and after implementing hundreds of "training" and "jobs" programs, hiring thousands of government employees and bureaucrats, spending hundreds of billions a year and trillions of taxpayer dollars over a generation, the country has nothing to show for it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.


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