Is it time to 'Cut and Run' from the war on poverty?

I don't think most of them are getting the "war on poverty" reference...

It's been what, 40 years now? With no significant progress, just a HUUUGE expenditure of money. (And they say the war in Iraq is expensive!)

In answer to your questions, though, YES! It's way past time to "cut and run," and yes, the free market is better able to reward and punish more effectively and fairly...

Trouble is after 40 years of indoctrinating and subjugating the poor, they won't know what do to with themselves if suddenly required to actually stand on their own two feet...

So we may need to set a timetable for withdrawal. LOL You know, get them ready to come "home" to self-reliance. ;)

of course not. poverty can cripple a country or a free market economy. it's simplistic, but you have to have, happy productive educated people to make a free market system work. NOW, thats not to say that all social programs aimed at poverty are good and efficient at addressing the issues. they arent and there is plenty of room for tons of improvements. but no matter how you look at it, (i.e. economic or social responsibility), it's suicide to give up the fight. i mean, jeez, to give up on fighting poverty is to ask for straight up class warfare; and nobody wins that one!

and i want to clarify something. yeah, i know what the question means by the war on poverty and get the anology to iraq. ever since roosevelt, however, the genie is out of the bottle. kennedy/johnson escelated what roosevelt started. now i am going to suggest to you smug know-it-alls looking down from your ivory towers, that without that legislation things may be a hell of a lot worse than they are today. sure the public school systems are broken, but 50% educated is better than 0% educated. sure there is graft in welfare, but to paint everyone as a fraud and a cheat is WRONG!

im so dang conservetive i vote libertarian, but, to try and ignore poverty is WRONG economicly and socially! how many idiots do you want in prison because they are hopelessly disenfranchised? i bet everyone of you fools who somehow think social spending on "poverty" programs on any level should be eliminated, (cut and run theory), is in favor of get tough laws, bigger better prisons and more cops, because that is your alternetive!

shoot, i get as mad at the silly right wingers as i do the left some times! "if those nasty pooor people would prey in skoool and quit havin those dang babies without gawds blessin' that'd fix it!"

How about the War on Drugs while we are at it?

Or better yet, get rid of Corporate welfare.

I'd love to see America try to be a Superpower and a world leader with no safety net for its poorest citizens. It wouldn't happen.

There is no real war on poverty..... If there was why is the education system in the U.S. so poor? Why do we tolerate such a disparity between the publicly funded education of rich vs. poor? The politicos realize in order to maintain their status quo they need an under educated, under informed populace that will not be able to put a halt to their abuses of power.

Jesus said the poor will always be with you, their will never be people that are not poor. now we are importing Mexico's poor, what better way to destroy a country, and make the rich richer and to get rid of the middle class.

No, its time to take the war on poverty to Mexico.

yep!