Democrats Demagogue Poverty. Again. By Alan Caruba

The Democrats are at it again. Both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama have made «poverty» a central theme of their campaigns, promising to lift up the poor and put a chicken in every pot, a large screen TV on every wall, and a new car in every driveway.

Predictably, the government, i.e., taxpayers, will be expected to underwrite a raft a new programs to alleviate the problems of the poor. Those of us old enough to remember President Lyndon B. Johnson's «War on Poverty» also recall that there were poor then and there are poor now.

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