Poverty soars to post-60s high | Human Events

Poverty soars to post-60s high | Human Events

The War on Poverty instituted by LBJ in the 1960's is an objective failure.  We have spent trillions of dollars to end poverty, only to expand it.  By any measure it has failed.

What he have done is encouraged the very lifestyle that is the opposite of that which leads to prosperity.  By approving of illegitimate children, abortion, divorce, and unwed parenting, we have devalued the family. 

By graduating from school, getting a job, marrying, and then having children, in that order, people are infinitely more likely to avoid poverty.  Is that what our current set of policies and cultural acceptance have gained us? 

"The only rational response to such failure is to try something completely different.  Evidently we are not allowed to talk about policies that would restore the American family, the great bulwark against poverty."