Romney: 'I'm not concerned about the very poor'

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37. Where the hell do you get the idea that $13 trillion was spent on anti-poverty programs?

For your information the poverty rate dropped significantly when Johnson instituted his War on Poverty programs, the claim that it was a failure is a lie. You know what has been a failure? Deregulation of banks and the shredding of the social safety net, Republican policies have devestated the poor. Check out the poverty rates before and after Johnson declared War on Poverty and tell me his programs were not successful, they would have been more successful however if the focus had stayed on poverty rather than shifting to war. Despite that however it is an indisputable fact that the poverty rate declined sharply after Johnson started taking the issue seriously, if the War on Poverty had continued to be taken seriously it would have suceeded fully but the Republicans and the DLC don't care about poor people so they killed it.