Liberals created the Great Society in the 1960s that was
supposed to end poverty as we know it. It was called the War on
Poverty. The war on poverty involved welfare programs where you
take from the working class and give to the poor and not-working
class. The decline in poverty has been so minimal we can
consider this effort an abject failure. Why is it an abject
failure. The reason is that you can give people money up the
ying yang but it will not change the person. As Bill O'Reilly
notes in his February 2, 2012, Talking Points, people are poor
for one of the following four reasons: - Poor education -
Irresponsible behavior You can throw money at the poor, but it
will not change the above four things. And since 1960 the
Federal Government has proven this over and over. As O'Reilly
notes: "Right now there are close to 50 million poor people in
the U.S.A. Back in 1964 the poverty rate stood at 19 percent of
the population. And so the great society programs were launched
by President Lyndon Johnson. Since that