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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3989866" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Again, you are either intentionally ignoring, or possibly just ignorant of the fact that how poverty is measured today versus 50 years ago is different. Even completely destitute people today can at least get food, and 50 years ago had to hope for charity. Today, owning a refrigerator doesn't remove you from being counted as being in poverty and housing laws have made it a requirement that landlords provide a higher minimum standard of housing. By any consistent standard of measure, the poor of today are much better off than the poor of 50 years ago. </p><p></p><p>And the programs aren't over, yet, so you can't say they didn't work to eliminate poverty. And crime is LOWER now nationally than it was 50 years ago. You are just more aware of it now because communications are better now. 50 years ago, you didn't hear about every crime across the country- now a shooting in Idaho gets on the national news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3989866, member: 60252"] Again, you are either intentionally ignoring, or possibly just ignorant of the fact that how poverty is measured today versus 50 years ago is different. Even completely destitute people today can at least get food, and 50 years ago had to hope for charity. Today, owning a refrigerator doesn't remove you from being counted as being in poverty and housing laws have made it a requirement that landlords provide a higher minimum standard of housing. By any consistent standard of measure, the poor of today are much better off than the poor of 50 years ago. And the programs aren't over, yet, so you can't say they didn't work to eliminate poverty. And crime is LOWER now nationally than it was 50 years ago. You are just more aware of it now because communications are better now. 50 years ago, you didn't hear about every crime across the country- now a shooting in Idaho gets on the national news. [/QUOTE]
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