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2. "but whose prevailing view was it in the '80s and '90s that poverty..."
Fri Sep 5, 2014, 04:03 AM
Sep 2014

"...result of bad habits of the poor? The Roosevelts? The Kennedys? The Johnsons? The Carters?"

What ilk was elected President in 1980 and instituted unprecedented people-destroying policies through to the end of his VP's term in 1992 (where 30 years later, we are still trying to recover)? That is the answer - he and his idiot followers (who proceeded to buy up every media outlet available to "spread" the falsehoods).

And as a sidenote, the current Washington Times was established during the period that I mention.

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