Reply #35: remember 'the war on poverty'? [View All]

[pretzel4gore]

back in the 50's, the Johnson Admin recognised that poverty was systemic- the result of economic mismanagement of an economy, and the richer an economy was, the harsher was the consequence of poverty, and even more then that, poverty fed on itself, and created reactionary mentality among the richer people, iow poverty was anti-american. So they declared 'war' on it, obviously using the term 'war' to emphasise a sincere serious effort etc....
And today the war on poverty has been transformed into a war on the poor, but notice how the forces of reaction have also taken an idea of progressives to ...well the war on drugs and war on.... bad breath, and the latest war on 'terror' all have thoroughly driven the very idea of the original war on 'poverty' into memory hole territory, move along, nada to see here peeple! Several factors caused this, but to say it plainly the 'greatest generation' ie the guys/gals who fought dubia dubia two, were benefitiaries of socialism in the 'new deal' just before the war, and the GI Bill afterwards- and they also noticed how unemployment fell to vitually zero when the war years saw jobs so plentiful and workers so needed due to the war that the long standing fiction that people are poor because they are too lazy to work, too stupid to try etc was universally revealed to be a blatant fiction; and that's partially why a 'war on poverty' even got off the ground during the 60's in the 1st place! Imagine the reaction such a progressive, 'socialist' idea would get today!
There isn't any 'conspiracy theory' here; it's plain fact. But the pig has been saying that people are poor cuz they're lazy (stupid) etc and the media has let them, for many many years now....call it what you will, but the 'big lie' is pushed by men who scheme (conspire) to do it, and tying the issue up in knots is just a waste of energy...