War on Poverty

Fifty years back, Lyndon Johnson declared "war on poverty". In the decades that have elapsed since then, in spite of twenty "T" trillion dollars spent to defeat domestic economic hardship, poverty has held its own. In fact, if this is considered our longest "war", no one would credibly claim that Johnson's goals, no matter how noble, no matter how expensive to taxpayers, have been met. America met poverty on the battlefield, and poverty won. Dave Boyer confirm's poverty's victory in an article titled: "That's rich: Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record" from The Washington Times published on January 7, 2014.