Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Several orders of magnitude less than the wealth spent of LBJ's Great Society. A series of well-intentioned programs intended to ease poverty in America, which failed in it's intended purpose, but instead subsidized the breakdown of the family structure in low-income households.
Great Society is one of the most idiotic idea ever.
First we define a poverty, not with some objective metric, like 1 kg of bread/person/day, but instead we use statistics. Say 20% of lowest income people are below the "poverty level".
Then we steal from the producers and pump the money to the "poor". The "poor" have multiple cars, DVDs and a satelite TV, buy hey, they are still under 20 percentile so they are still poor.
It's like f* dog chasing his own tail.
The only way this insane scheme would be satisfied if we oppress the producers into giving up and then everybody will be poor.
A success at last.
The real reason for all those socialist schemes is ever increasing power for the professsional politicians. They don't give a hoot about the poor. They need them to stay poor and dependent, forever.
But then again, half the public cheers on (even on this board). They don't care that their lunch is not free, as long as they don't have to pay for it.