We have spent 22 trillion on LBJ's war on poverty

[longhornfan1234]

Is it biggest failure in history? Nixon's War on Drugs is up there too.

[KobesFinger]

Ayy bruh (http://insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353010&page=39)

[riseagainst]

i read this as: "we have spent 22 trillion on lebron james' war on poverty"

[longhornfan1234]

Ayy bruh (http://insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353010&page=39)
I totally forgot about peak draft. Thanks bro.

[BrownEye007]

The war on drugs has definitely been a bigger failure.

[sweggeh]

***** is struggling to beat baldness, the **** he gon do about poverty.

[SpecialQue]

i read this as: "we have spent 22 trillion on lebron james' war on poverty"

Same. :lol

[nathanjizzle]

let me guess, lbj is a democrat?

[tomtucker]

he has sold that many shoes !? :eek:

[Akrazotile]

i read this as: "we have spent 22 trillion on lebron james' war on poverty"


Dude must have mistook poverty for delonte west.

[ThePhantomCreep]

The Wars on Poverty never counted on the formidable foe known as white flight thwarting it at every turn.

The War on Drugs? Dismal failure with noble intentions.

Supple Side Economics? Dismal failure with BAD intentions.

[Mamba]

***** is struggling to beat baldness, the **** he gon do about poverty.
i lol'd

[Dresta]

The Wars on Poverty never counted on the formidable foe known as white flight thwarting it at every turn.

The War on Drugs? Dismal failure with noble intentions.

Supple Side Economics? Dismal failure with BAD intentions.
Ahh yes, that's right, economic growth is of course driven by demand. If only people wanted more and spent more and were given more we'd all have more woooo!!!

The war on poverty can never be won because once capitalism drastically reduced poverty, academics needed another term to describe social conditions they considered unfair, so the term 'relative' poverty was needed (which by its old definition had been more or less eradicated in the West). As soon as poverty is somewhat reduced the 'relative poverty' metric is adjusted by academics so they can extend their social concern and congenital need to socially engineer to more and more people. Hence government expansion and a failed welfare state dancing along the precipice and continuing the same failed policies (FED has promised to raise interest rates, wanna bet that they don't? In reality they can't because the economy would suffer another crash - we're already seeing increases in foreclosures despite the FED not even tightening its policy yet).

In fact all 3 of your statements are completely false as the war on drugs certainly was not based on noble intentions: it was based around racism and intolerance. Cannabis was banned because it was associated with Mexicans, Opium the Chinese, and cocaine because racists thought it made black men go mad and rape white women and become impenetrable to bullets. Nixon when enacting his 'war on drugs' confided something like 'it's about targeting the blacks without looking like you're doing so' - how noble! Noble Nixon they used to call him.

Thus you can see why it's hard to describe such irrational thought and intolerant bigotry as being 'noble' :facepalm .