"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
--Winston Churchill
I cut and pasted the quote to Word because I thought nothing says more in such few words.
Lately, I've been wondering, when are we going to look at the results on our "war on poverty"? Bush has taken a lot of criticism for his execution of the war, but even Bush reviewed the war's results and opted for a new strategy with the surge.
But what about our "war on poverty"? After 40 years and trillions of dollars, isn't it about time we reviewed the results of that strategy?
The results aren't pretty, we have more poverty now than we did before we ever spent one dollar on poverty. And now we have the additional problem of poverty of the soul in so many communities.
Yet we continue with the same strategy.
We've lost over 4,000 soldiers in Iraq, that palls in comparison to the number of young black men in this country gunned down in any given year. Frankly, the KKK in it's prime could only dream of the genocide in our inner cities. I can safely predict that another young black male will be shot and killed by another black male within the next week here in the city of Cincinnati.
Yet we continue with the same strategy.
Our inner cities across this country look worse than some parts of Germany after WWII.
Yet we continue with the same strategy.
Inner city schools are falling down dumps, which really doesn't matter because there's a daily 30-40 percent absentee rate inside the schools.
Yet we continue with the same strategy.
"Progressives" love to beat on Bush because of his insistence for being pig headed and doing things his way; without input from others. But seriously, are all these people who claim to be people of "progress" really any different?
They came up with these ideas of "progress". "If we provide a safety net for people, we can rid this country of poverty". It was a truly beautiful strategy.
Well here we are, 40 years and trillions of dollars later. Can we please look at the results?
1 comment:
Thanks Gordon for another great post that hits the nail on the head. I've always thought that if you want more of something subsidize it. The Great Society subsidizes poverty and we get more of it. It subsidizes single mothers and we get more of them. It subsidizes failing inner city schools so we get higher illiteracy. The media is all over every tiny misstep by the armed forces, but you never see them point out the colossal failure of the Great Society.
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