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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (9958)	2/8/2017 3:42:44 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362210

And what have those programs done for the poor other than to leave us $20 Trillion in debt? The poor are still poor. Programs for the poor are not the sole reason for the debt. Or even most of it. Johnson's War on Poverty cut the poverty rate in half. Most of the spending is on healthcare, not to reduce poverty. I guess it is satisfying for you to just make stuff up, but... Note: I found the source of your figures. It is from the NCPA. Which is funded by the Koch brothers.