The Obama 1964 LBJ War on Poverty Program

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion,. but not their own facts.” ~ Senator (D-NY) Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The recent Trayvon Martin incident begged the question about where does racial profiling come from? The "facts" below answer that question. 

After fifty years, the 1964 "War on Poverty" is a $15 trillion national disgrace.   

It was to restore equality in education, jobs, housing and fiscal opportunities to the poor, especially to blacks. The new numbers from the 2012 Census Bureau report still shows no change since 1964 of the 15% of Americans living in poverty – and a clear sign that we are still doing something wrong.

Obama with tear stained cheek.Why is Obama still crying about income redistribution and whining that "poor blacks" are still left behind? He is complaining like nothing has been done on the Federal level to "right the wrongs" to those former slaves (Freed by the 13th Constitutional Amendment in 1865) as if in 2013, 150 years later, all the whites were still slave owners standing on their shoulders to keep them down. People should look at this phony "race hustle" to call out this "race card" charlatan - it's been getting really tiresome hearing this "black president" squawk about no chances to get ahead while elected by the voters into in the highest office in the United States and the world in 2013.

Heard any of Obama's 2013 strategies about: How to be dealing with the 73% out-of-wedlock black children birth rates leading to fatherless families like Treyvon Martin? Or what was Treyvon's mother thinking of to have more children with still another man out-of-wedlock too? Or why had Trayvon been suspended multiple times out of school, taken drugs, ran with gangs, sold dope and had gold teeth and tattoos? Or why Trayvon's mother gave up on Trayvon's drugs, friends and lifestyle to push him out the door for his father to then handle? Or how come Treyvon's own father shacked up with his girlfriend and why he had no job either?  

Source: US Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, CATO Institute.

Welfare is the organized public or private social services for the assistance of disadvantaged groups. Aid could include general Welfare payments, health care through Medicaid, food stamps, special payments for pregnant women and young mothers, and federal and state housing benefits. The Welfare system in the United States began in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. Opponents of Welfare argue that it affects work incentives.

Date Verified: 10.15.2012

Welfare Statistics
Total number of Americans on welfare	4,300,000
Total number of Americans on food stamps	46,700,000
Total number of Americans on unemployment insurance	5,600,000
Percent of the US population on welfare	4.1 %
Total government spending on welfare annually (not including food stamps or unemployment)	$131.9 billion
Welfare Demographics
Percent of recipients who are white	38.8 %
Percent of recipients who are black	39.8 %
Percent of recipients who are Hispanic	15.7 %
Percent of recipients who are Asian	2.4 %
Percent of recipients who are Other	3.3 %

Factoid:  The federal government currently operates 122 different anti-poverty programs, ranging from Medicaid to the tiny Even Start Program for Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations. All together, the federal government spent more than $591 billion in 2009 on means-tested or anti-poverty programs, and will undoubtedly spend even more this year. That amounts to $14,849 for every poor man, woman and child in America. Given that the poverty line is just $10,830, we could have mailed every poor person in America a check big enough to lift them out of poverty – and still saved money. 

In 2012 the total U.S. population was 313,314,000. Per capita, the largest percent in a group of welfare recipients is black, over 51%, compared to fewer than 8% of whites. There are 50 million people on welfare and food stamps. Approximately 40% black, 40% white and the 20% remainder "others". This translates to 20 million blacks and 20 million whites on welfare. Those who identified as African American made up 12.8% of the U.S., 39 million people. Twenty million are on welfare and one million are in prison. There are 245 million whites who made up 77.9% of the US, 20 million are on welfare and one million in prison. Conversely then, there are 2.5% of all "blacks" verses .004% of all "whites" in prison with all "others" for a total of 2.3 million incarcerated prisoners population.

In 2013 the NAACP states that prison has not been proven as a rehabilitation for behavior, as two-thirds of prisoners will reoffend. That in itself offers more support for seeking significantly longer sentencing guidelines for incarceration on second and third offenses. It further rejects any remote suggestions that prison is rehabilitation, not to be confused with judicial punishment that removes from society individuals who will repeatedly commit crimes. 

From 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled-from roughly 500,000 to 2.3 million people. As of 2008,  prisons and jails consume a growing portion of the nearly $200 billion we spend annually on public safety with $70 billion dollars spent on corrections yearly. The 2013 Gross Domestic Product is $16 trillion, so $200 billion is only 1.25% of GDP. This amount, compared to our national debt is insignificant compared to the overall societal confidence in public safety over releasing these recalcitrants back into the general populations.

Doing crime just leads to more shit!American society today does not support children's religious beliefs, morals, displays or practices in any public schools. Relying on social media, cable and internet interactions many children development is distorted wanting for parental relationships.  The family and home life teach children these set of values, but many do not have that anchor and with no moral standards will break laws. Out of 314 million people, 2.3 million convicts is only .0073% of the total population. 2/3 are repeat-offenders, so 1.5 million convicts are reimprisoned "throw-aways" which leaves 800 thousand prisoners freed. 

"Perhaps its time to focus less on making poverty comfortable, and more on creating the prosperity that will get people out of poverty. That means that if we wish to fight poverty, we must end those government policies — high taxes and regulatory excess — that inhibit growth and job creation." The spotlight can then turn inward to the individuals' own resources, not to the politically corrupt politicians doling out government largess to pander for voters. We need to start another "War on Poverty" by starting a war on self-entitlement programs and school illiteracy; otherwise, we surrender now to racial profiling and save those trillions of dollars to build more prisons.