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Originally Posted by Minte
President Lyndon Johnson stood in the Capitol on Jan. 8, 1964, and, in his first State of the Union address, committed the nation to a war on poverty.
"We shall not rest until that war is won," Johnson said. "The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it."
It was an effort that had been explored under President Kennedy, but it firmly ? and quickly ? took shape under Johnson.
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Claiming to have a war on something, doesn't mean they actually do anything about it.
Look at the war on drugs and how little it accomplishes yet how much money gets spent to keep it going. We aren't trying to win the war on drugs, it's just an excuse to shove money at ways to control the less desirable of the population and let defense contractors get extra cash.