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RUSH: Today it\u2019s the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty. Did you know that? So today we\u2019re celebrating 50 years of defeat in the War on Poverty. But it\u2019s a valiant effort that we continue to make, 50 years of defeat in the War on Poverty. Robert Rector has rerun the numbers<\/a>. The amount of money that we have spent in income redistribution is stunning. I have that number. I have to make my own number here. Take a break. We\u2019ll be back and continue in mere moments. Don\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation, the expert on the War on Poverty. Whatever it is you want to know about poverty and our efforts to eradicate it in this country, Robert Rector at Heritage is the scholar; he\u2019s the expert. Here\u2019s the number. We have spent $20.7 trillion on means-tested aid since 1964. In other words, we have redistributed $20.7 trillion trying to wipe out poverty, and as Rector points out, the poverty rate expressed as a percentage of the population is pretty much exactly where it was in the mid-sixties, 14%.<\/p>\n

Now, in the early nineties the number was five trillion. From 1964 to, say, 1992-93, the number of dollars transferred was five trillion. We\u2019ve added $15 trillion of transfer payments since the early to mid-nineties, approximately 20 years. So now we got almost $21 trillion in redistributed wealth, taken from the haves and given to the have-nots. And we haven\u2019t changed anything. As a percentage, there are as many people in poverty today as when this whole War on Poverty started. It\u2019s an abject failure. It\u2019s been an absolute disaster.<\/line><\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not supposed to look at that. We\u2019re supposed look at the intentions of those who started the War on Poverty. That would be LBJ and the New Deal Democrats of sixties, and it\u2019s their intentions that we are to judge, that we are to be moved by. “At least they tried. At least they tried. You didn\u2019t even want to do anything for \u2019em,” is how the refrain goes. But it\u2019s not working. Hello, Obamacare and Medicare, Social Security, you name it, same story. In every Big Government attempt to cure a social or economic problem that is structurally societal, a dismal failure.<\/p>\n

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Here is Jane in Scottsdale, Arizona, one of the nicest places in this country. Jane, how are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am very well in our 70 degrees. How\u2019s that global warming working out for everybody?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He-he-he-he-he-he. Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: As part of the Democratic circle of life — I like to call it that — I\u2019m appalled at the $6 billion we just borrowed again, \u2019cause God knows we don\u2019t have it, to extend unemployment<\/a> for people, especially able-bodied people who have been unemployed for over two years and say they want to work, yet we give them this unemployment, these taxpayer dollars and don\u2019t ask anything in return. We don\u2019t ask them to do community service. We don\u2019t ask them to go out and clean up the highways and do jobs and earn it. I don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m just so appalled, I can\u2019t even breathe.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) You\u2019re doing a good job of it.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my word. The unions wouldn\u2019t allow it. That\u2019s what the problem is. The unions would not allow these people to go out and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know the explanation for this as well as I do. These people fit perfectly the definition of victim. So here\u2019s Obama, whose economic policies are responsible for a shrinking private sector<\/a>, which means shrinking job market, shrinking income opportunity, shrinking opportunity to increase your standard of living. Everything about the private sector is shrinking. So, his policies have brought this about. But Obama still is engaging in the Limbaugh Theorem, which holds that he\u2019s not responsible for any of this, nor is he accountable. He\u2019s still trying to fix it. And so in that vein, these people are victims of an unfair, immoral, unjust country that is controlled by the rich, who will not share any that they are stealing from everybody else. And so requiring these people to do something for their unemployment benefits like look for work or walk the highways and picking up junk, they\u2019ve already been victimized enough, Jane, don\u2019t you get it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Poor babies. They give me a rash. You know, we could have 20,000 jobs just with the Keystone pipeline alone. I think our politicians are for sale. They go to Washington, DC, and they lose any modicum of integrity or honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is a problem, there is no question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just horrendous. And I can\u2019t tell you how I appreciate your taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m happy that you got through.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I am, too. And I wish you a Happy New Year, and please hold the banner high for we constitutional conservatives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Always. Always. It\u2019s worth fighting for, and it is winnable. I still firmly believe that. As bleak as it can seem on a daily basis, I still think it\u2019s winnable. And, as such, I\u2019m still in the game. No reason not to be. But it is frustrating. It helps somewhat, just a little bit, to understand it all. And the unemployed are just perfect for Obama. People in misery, suffering economically, made to order for his agenda, because he\u2019s allowed, he\u2019s permitted to say, “See? The way America\u2019s always been is unfair. Look at all of these people out of work. Look at all the rich getting richer, and look at all this income inequality. It\u2019s time to do it a different way, my way.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>And that\u2019s what we\u2019re in the middle of here. And so any opportunity Obama has to portray people in distress, and at the same time portray himself as singularly focused on helping them, is made to order. Because the more people who are victims, the greater the opportunity for Obama to blame America for it, not anybody else. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re in the midst of.<\/p>\n

So when you say, “Well, they ought to have to do something for it or at least say thanks,” no. Their lives are already miserable because of you and me, Jane. They don\u2019t owe us anything. It is we who owe them.” That\u2019s how Obama wants them to look at it — and, by the way, human nature is such that anybody would much prefer somebody else be blamed for their circumstances than to blame themselves.<\/p>\n

So if you got a president coming along absolving you of any responsibility for your own plight, you\u2019re gonna eat that up. It\u2019s somebody else\u2019s fault. It\u2019s the country\u2019s fault. It\u2019s the rich\u2019s fault. It\u2019s society\u2019s fault, culture\u2019s fault, whatever. That is what\u2019s so despicable to me about the leadership in this country today. It\u2019s just unconscionable. (interruption) It is true; he loves the unemployed so much he\u2019s making more and more of \u2019em.<\/p>\n

There are 91 million Americans not working, but they are all eating — and a lot of people are at the Consumer Electronics Show trying to pick out their next big screen. In fact, I got an e-mail, “Why don\u2019t you talk that? You\u2019re big into gadgets. Why don\u2019t you ever talk about the Consumer Electronics Show?” For one reason: 99% of the stuff that\u2019s on display will never hit the market. The second reason: The stuff that does won\u2019t be for two or three years. The third reason: Apple isn\u2019t there, so there\u2019s nothing worth having.<\/p>\n

Back after this.<\/p>\n

(OUT 1:44.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Washington Times<\/a>: “Poverty Level Under Obama Breaks 50-Year Record.” The poverty level under Obama has broken a 50-year record. Let me give you a couple of pull quotes from the story “Of the 37.6 million people who were poor at the beginning of 2009, 26.4 percent remained in poverty throughout the next 34 months, the report said. Another 12.6 million people escaped poverty during that time, but 13.5 million more fell into poverty,” which is an interesting point, once again, to make.<\/p>\n

Poverty is expressed as an income level. Most economists break down income in America to five brackets, called quintiles, and people move in and out of these. The top quintile, I think, is like a million plus, and that\u2019d be the top 1% of 1%. I forgot what the breakdown is, but the poverty level, it\u2019s roughly, what, $14,000 for a family of four? It\u2019s around there. People move in and out of these all the time.<\/p>\n

However you\u2019re born doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re going to die in the same quintile. Now, the Democrat Party wants everybody to believe that the poor are permanently poor. They\u2019re born that way, and the only way out of it is with government assistance — and it\u2019s BS. Once again, someone I knew lost $200 million fortune twice, both times in commodities. Twice he was broke. People move in and out of these levels at all times.<\/p>\n

The point about poverty is that since the War on Poverty began in 1964, we have spent, we\u2019ve transferred $20.7 trillion. There has been income redistribution, taking from the haves, giving to the have-nots, of over $20 trillion, and the percentage of people in poverty hasn\u2019t changed. It\u2019s 14%, roughly. The numbers change \u2019cause the population changes, the hard numbers. But the percentage doesn\u2019t. This experiment\u2019s been done, by the way. You can take a millionaire, and then take somebody who earns 30 grand.<\/p>\n

Put \u2019em side by side and take everything away from both of them and come back in a year. The millionaire will have most of it back. The guy earning 30 will be at 30. The point of that illustration is you can take all you want, but entrepreneurs, producers, hard workers are gonna go do what it takes to get it back. Everybody\u2019s different. There are different ambitions, levels of ambition, desire, education, overall intelligence, ability.<\/p>\n

Yet the Democrats want to make everybody the same, particularly when it comes to outcomes. It\u2019s not possible. So everything\u2019s done under the rubric of fixing the inequality that exists — and that\u2019s what sucks in a bunch of young people, by the way. That, to them, is the essence of compassion: Everybody being equal. Nobody should be denied. There should be “equality,” is a magic word, when they\u2019re young, idealistic and so forth. Let\u2019s go back and listen to LBJ. This is 1964, January 8th, on Capitol Hill, his State of the Union speech announcing the War on Poverty.<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional War on Poverty in America. It will not be a short or easy struggle. No single weapon or strategy will suffice. But we shall not rest until that war is won president the richest nation on earth can afford to win it we cannot afford to lose it. One thousand dollars invested in salvaging an unemployable youth today can return $40,000 or more in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So we see where this inanity, this insanity of unemployment benefits creates jobs. Unemployment benefits creates economic growth. It\u2019s $20 trillion we\u2019ve spent, folks, since 1964, and poverty continues to win. We have lost the War on Poverty. We\u2019ve not even come close to winning the War on Poverty — and throughout the vast majority of these years, this War on Poverty has been fought with weapons designed by the Democrat Party, and they\u2019re ineffectual (they don\u2019t work, for those of you in Rio Linda) and in fact, arguably, they make it worse.<\/line><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from LBJ. Same rhetoric, by the way. You\u2019ll see the rhetoric doesn\u2019t change. This is same speech, January 8th, 1964, State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: Lack of jobs and money are not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. The cause may lie deeper in our failure to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities, in a lack of education and training, in a lack of medical care and housing, in a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children. Our joint federal-local effort must pursue poverty, pursue it wherever it exists — in city slums and small towns, in sharecropper shacks or in migrant worker camps, on Indian reservations among whites as well as Negroes — among the young as well as the aged, in the boomtowns and in the depressed areas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the thing to take away is, this is 1964. It\u2019s a Democrat president, and the Democrat Party\u2019s view of this country has not changed. They still look out over the horizon and see misery and decrepit-ness, unhappiness — and look at Johnson\u2019s solutions. Education, job training, medical care, housing. That hasn\u2019t changed. The same weapons, the same language, the same way they tug at heartstrings. It\u2019s 1964, and they keep using the same lingo, obviously because it works. But look at how our education system\u2019s been since 1964 with them in charge.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Still unbelievable: $20.7 trillion effectively spent on the War on Poverty, but it\u2019s where that money came from. Just round it off, $20 trillion. That\u2019s more than the national debt, folks. The national debt\u2019s $17 trillion. Twenty trillion to wipe out poverty. And of course it hasn\u2019t wiped out poverty. That money has been transferred, redistributed via taxes from producers to non-producers and it still hasn\u2019t made any difference.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party claims to want to help people. What they actually do is grow government. What they\u2019re really interested in is expanding government, not helping people. Conservatives literally, factually want to help people. Have you ever noticed, I\u2019m sure you have. It may not have registered, but when I point it out to you, you\u2019ll go, “Oh, yeah.” The American left, the Democrat Party, is this close to claiming the war on drugs is a failure. And there are many elements of this in the Democrat Party, “Come on, we\u2019re making it worse with what we\u2019re doing. The war on drugs is just making it worse. We\u2019re creating this mystique. We\u2019re making criminals out of people. It\u2019s an absolute disaster. We gotta stop this war on drugs. It\u2019s an absolute failure.”<\/p>\n

Where is that thinking in the War on Poverty? Interesting, isn\u2019t it? I think it is. By the way, one thing on this, before I get to the Ronaldus Magnus sound bites, also from 1964. You just heard LBJ, and you heard his view the country, which is identical to the Democrat Party\u2019s view of America today. They look out and they see a decrepit education system that they have been running for all of these years. It\u2019s amazing. You listen to LBJ, and it\u2019s the same language. “We need to increase our education spending. We need affordable housing. We need job training. We need health care improvement.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same stuff they\u2019re saying today. And it\u2019s they who\u2019ve been in charge for most of these years trying to fix all this stuff. What are we up to now, 20 grand a student in New Jersey. For 20 grand a student, you know what you could do? You could hire the best professors wherever you find \u2019em, whatever university you wanted, you could hire the best professors for every class, you could hire limousines to take every kid to and from school every day, and you could take the kid across the bridge to 21 for lunch in Manhattan for what we are spending per student on education in New Jersey or New York.<\/p>\n

You look at New York, the dropout rate, New York City, 50%, folks. Washington, DC, ditto. Look at the amount of money we\u2019re spending. And, of course, you mention this to the left. “Well, you can\u2019t look at it that way. That\u2019s not a correct picture, the amount of money per student. That doesn\u2019t tell you anything.” What the hell it doesn\u2019t tell us anything. It sure as hell does. Where\u2019s that money going? What\u2019s it buying? It certainly isn\u2019t buying improved education, test scores, what have you. It\u2019s propping up a bunch of union people in jobs, is what it\u2019s doing. It\u2019s not being spent on education. It\u2019s being used to pay off unions for their loyal support of the Democrat Party, in large measure.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: let\u2019s listen to Reagan, just as a contrast to LBJ. This is October 27, 1964. It\u2019s the speech that Reagan gave for Goldwater, right before the election in \u201964.<\/p>\n

REAGAN: We have so many people that can\u2019t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they\u2019re gonna solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer — and they\u2019ve had almost 30 years of it — shouldn\u2019t we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn\u2019t they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help, the reduction in the need for public housing? But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater; the program grows greater.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. They can\u2019t tell us how the program is working \u2019cause it isn\u2019t working. You know, Jack Kemp is the first I heard say this, and I\u2019ve assumed it was original to him, but it\u2019s exactly right. We conservatives define compassion not by how many people are receiving assistance. We define compassion by counting the number of people who no longer need it. That\u2019s real compassion. And that\u2019s what the great Ronaldus Magnus was saying here.<\/line><\/p>\n

Well, okay, we\u2019ve been doing this for 30 years. How\u2019s it working? What\u2019s the score? Can you give us the stats on how many people are no longer in poverty? Can you give us the numbers on how many people now no longer need government housing? And not only are those numbers never made public, the numbers never reduce. In fact, the numbers grow. More people in poverty, more people in public housing. Then the Democrats blame that on Republicans. And then they say, “See? We need even be more help. We need to be even bigger. We need even bigger government.” Here\u2019s more Reagan.<\/p>\n

REAGAN: We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: But now we\u2019re told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty stricken on the basis of earning less than $3,000 a year. Welfare spending is ten times greater than it was in the dark depths of the Depression. We\u2019re spending $45 billion on welfare. Now, do a little arithmetic and you\u2019ll find that if we divided the $45 billion up equally among those nine million poor families, we\u2019d be able to give each family $4,600 a year, and this added to their present income should eliminate poverty.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: Direct aid to the poor, however, is only running about $600 per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

RUSH: That led to the discovery of a startling statistic. You know what the administrative cost…? This is 20-year-old data. It\u2019s got to be higher now. Twenty years ago, the administrative cost of $1 of welfare was 72\u00c2\u00a2. Meaning, ladies and gentlemen, 20 years ago, every $1 allocated for welfare spending, 28\u00c2\u00a2 ended up with a welfare recipient. So 72% ended up somewhere in the administration, in the bureaucracies that were distributing the aid, and that\u2019s what Reagan meant by overhead. A charity today would be hauled into jail for that. Yes, 72\u00c2\u00a2of every $1 did not get to an intended recipient 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

This is Reagan\u2019s famous line about liberals in context.<\/line>REAGAN: So now we declare “war” on poverty. Do they honestly expect us to believe that if we add $1 billion to the $45 billion we\u2019re spending, one more program to the 30-odd we have — and, remember, this new program doesn\u2019t replace any; it just duplicates existing programs. Do they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear by magic? Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we\u2019re denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we\u2019re always against things, we\u2019re never for anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they\u2019re ignorant. It\u2019s just that they know so much that isn\u2019t so.<\/line>AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/line>RUSH: He was being charitable with that. They know what they don\u2019t know. They know what they\u2019re doing. They know they\u2019re running a scam, and they\u2019re getting away with it gloriously. The scam is, they have the compassion. The scam is, they are the humanitarians. The scam is, they\u2019re the ones who care.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ve got a story here, the actual amount of money we are spending per family on welfare is $60,000 per family. Now, Reagan\u2019s example in that sound bite we played, $4,600. In 1964 we were spending $4,600 a family. He said give that to every family and you\u2019d wipe out poverty. Well, give every family the $60,000 in cash that we are spending per family and you\u2019d wipe out poverty. The problem is we don\u2019t have the money for that, either.<\/p>\n

Now, arguably you could do that one time, then you\u2019re back where you started, but I better be quiet. The Democrats might actually, “You mean, just minimum wage, 60 grand, family of four, just pay everybody 60 grand?” Yeah, let\u2019s do it. Wipe out poverty. Win the War on Poverty. Shhh. Some people might think that could be a solution rather than an illustration of just how bastardized all of this has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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