An Assessment Of The War On Poverty.

       According to the Huffington Post today, LBJ's War On Poverty started fifty years ago this month. So how are we doing? Well inequality is through the roof and starting this week 1.3 million unemployed will be cut from their unemployment income and food stamps will be cut back as well. 57,000 children have been dropped from the Head Start Program and the minimum wage has been kept at 1980s rates insuring that even if one of those unemployed can get a job flipping burgers, he or she won't be able to feed their families. Whereas the wealthiest 1% have doubled their share of the take.
       I think I agree with the Huffington Post in saying America has become much more stingy toward the poor. It seems to me to be the perfect plan to eliminate poverty in America within ten years. The reason I believe this is possible is because by then the last poor person will have self deported to China to look for a job. And to be sure nobody else tries to become poor, we've made it almost impossibly expensive to attend college, although I'm not sure how that will ensure no more poverty. It will however eliminate most of the competition for the really good jobs, reserving those jobs for the sons and daughters of the 1%.
       One thing's for certain in this life; either you make it to comfortable wealth or you're gonna starve because there ain't gonna be any middle ground. Now lest you think I'm blowing this all out of proportion, let me introduce you to Joe Nopack. I say Nopack because he can no longer afford the six needed to make a six pack. The reason he can't is because the only jobs he's ever been trained for have all been shipped to China, so he's been out of work for 36 weeks. He can't afford to go back to school to learn a new trade because of the costs, and fast food wages won't feed his family. For that he depended on food stamps, but now those too have been cut back so that he'll only be able to feed his two kids every other day.
       His youngest was attending preschool at the local Head Start, but he was one of the ones cut, so now he sits around all day watching cartoons and dreaming of the day when he too can earn too little to survive and continue to vote for the folks who have counted him out.