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That Failure Known as the 'War on Poverty'
by Political Editors
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Friday Top Headlines
by Media Editors: Michael Cohen admits Moscow Trump Tower talks occurred well into 2016 presidential campaign (Washington Examiner)
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U.S., Mexico, and Canada ink new trade agreement, but final ratification remains big hurdle (USA Today)
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~The Patriot Post
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If Trump Doesn’t Run for Re-Election, ‘He Should
Fire dirty cop-Mueller,’ ‘Pardon Everybody Involved’
by Emily Ward.
After 4.5 Years of a Stalemated War, Ukraine
Braces for a Full-On Russian Invasion
by Nolan Peterson.
Democrats’ Socialist Energy Policies Would
Bring Destruction and They Must Be Stopped
by H. Sterling Burnett
{westernjournal.com} ~ Many Democrats are becoming more open about their socialist inclinations, although they still lie about socialism’s ability... to make the world a better place. Socialism kills. From the former Soviet Union to Cuba, from North Korea to Venezuela, everywhere socialism was implemented, it robbed people of their freedom and property, produced economic stagnation and misallocation of resources and resulted in millions of deaths, caused either directly or indirectly. Despite this fact, in an interview in New York Magazine, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pined for government control over everyone’s property –their homes, their businesses, everything, saying, “I think there’s a socialistic impulse … if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed.” Because that’s brought such happiness, prosperity, and better living conditions to the people of Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Then we come to the energy socialism being pushed by self-described socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected Democratic Representative from New York, among others. Despite an annual salary topping $174,000, commie-Ocasio-Cortez complained with a straight face after being elected that it will be hard for her to find a place she can afford to rent in Washington, D.C. — a city, by the way, that almost perfectly satisfies de Blasio’s desire for all of the property in the city being owned by, its uses directed by, or sharply delimited by various levels of government. I’ve got a news flash for commie-Ocasio-Cortez: most people, even those in D.C., live on much less. Despite her struggle to find affordable housing on her taxpayer-funded lavish salary, commie-Ocasio-Cortez has the hubris to believe Congress and federal bureaucracies in D.C. have the wisdom to control and direct peoples energy choices across the nation... People in NY continue to vote for these socialist commies. https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-socialist-energy-policies-bring-economic-ruin/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal.
Trump Didn’t Create Europe’s Resentment
by Bruce Thornton.
VA Undersecretary Fires Back
At ‘Misleading’ NBC News Story
by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ A top official in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Thursday refuted a report claiming the VA won’t reimburse some veterans... who received less money than they were owed as part of their GI Bill benefits. NBC News on Wednesday reported the VA “told congressional staffers that it would not reimburse those veterans who were paid less than they were owed,” citing two anonymous congressional aides. VA Under Secretary for Benefits Paul Lawrence called the NBC story “misleading” and claimed it “gives the false impression that some Veterans on the GI Bill will not be made whole with respect to their housing payments based on an announcement VA made yesterday,” according to a prepared copy of his remarks obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Lawrence said. “Each and every Veteran on the post-9/11 GI Bill will be made 100 percent whole — retroactively if need be — for their housing benefits for this academic year based on the current uncapped DoD rates, and, beginning in spring 2020, we be in a position to provide Veterans the new rates where applicable to meet the law known as the Forever GI Bill.”....
That Failure Known as the 'War on Poverty'by Political Editors: As that old adage states, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” That wisdom was sorely needed back in 1966 when Lyndon Baines Johnson declared his War on Poverty. Unfortunately, a majority of lawmakers ignored it and as a result even more Americans are suffering in needless poverty today. But LBJ and the Democrats got what they wanted — an ever-growing class of voters dependent upon the government to provide them with everything from food to housing to health care.
The publicly stated goal of LBJ’s War on Poverty, making America’s poor more self-sufficient so as to bring them into the mainstream economy, has been an abject failure. More Americans than ever find themselves dependent on some form of government welfare. In fact, prior to the passage of War on Poverty, the percentage of Americans living in poverty had been steadily declining over a 20 year period, from 32.1% down to 14.7%.
Meanwhile, government spending on welfare, a.k.a. wealth redistribution, has gone from an average of $3,070 per person in 1965 to $34,093 per person in 2016. As John Early and Phil Gramm note in The Wall Street Journal, “Transfers now constitute 84.2% of the disposable income of the poorest quintile of American households and 57.8% of the disposable income of lower-middle-income households. These payments also make up 27.5% of America’s total disposable income.” Thus more Americans than ever find themselves as de facto wards of the state.
LBJ’s War on Poverty in reality was a war on America’s poor, robbing them of their most valuable commodity: a work ethic. As Early and Gramm further argue, “Government programs replaced deprivation with idleness, stifling human flourishing.” And the segment of American society that has been most directly impacted by the loss of a work ethic are men. Edward Glaeser writes in the City Journal, “In 1967, 95 percent of ‘prime-age’ men between the ages of 25 and 54 worked. During the Great Recession, though, the share of jobless prime-age males rose above 20 percent. Even today, long after the recession officially ended, more than 15 percent of such men aren’t working. … The rise of joblessness — especially among men — is the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century. It is a crisis of spirit more than of resources.”
Now that the Democrat Party has been almost entirely taken over by hard-left socialists, their only answers to societal problems are to double down on even more of LBJ’s failed “Great Society.” Meanwhile, the souls of many Americans become increasingly bereft of that spirit of freedom and individual responsibility that makes our nation the envy of the world. ~The Patriot Post
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