THE WAR ON POVERTY

[gopiscrap]

50 years ago today Lyndon Johnson in an address to Congress declared a "war on poverty" today you have a bunch of Republican assholes declaring that it didn't work. They're right! Because those fuckers made sure that it failed! Starting with the spending on the Vietnam War which the military industrial complex declared....to massive tax cuts for the rich, to failing to increase the cap on taxing social security earnings, to giving corporate welfare, to financing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, to Reagan's SDI spending....all these doomed the war. As Al Sharpton said "it is the shortest war the US ever fought"
But it is even more than that, it was a shifting of attitudes by the rich, starting with Reagan and also dissing Kennedy's exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do, but ask what you can do for your country!" Our priorities have gotten fucked up and we collectively failed the poor and those with no voice...we have failed them by letting ourselves be led by selfish greedy repukes and corporatist whores and war mongering pigs!

[freshwest]

1. MLK realized it and was killed for saying so. He said that America was more interested in bombing

the Vietnamese than helping its own. Whose cause he said, was like the poor here. And that meant that America was morally bankrupt.