> > > They champion those things to get votes.  The reality is that they
need to
> > > keep some poor people poor, and create new poor folks, in order to have
> > > message.  If they could really fix poverty, they'd be out of jobs.
> 
> > That's why there are more "poor" people in the country today than there
> > were when Lyndon Johnston started his "war On Poverty."
> 
> LBJ was no dummy.

Crooked, corrupt, but no dummy.  In 1946 when he was elected to congress
he was so broke he had to borrow the train fare to get there.  When he
left office in 1968 he was a multimillionaire.