There is a man living under a bridge, in that pile of stuff. What you see, is his home.

[burnsei sensei]

16. I never said that the War of Poverty policy of LBJ was a failure.

The subject of my post was the consistency of the social commitment to a national compact over time.
I argued that the social commitment and expression of conscience on a social level over time did not remain consistent.
That is not the same as saying that the War on Poverty failed.
If anything, the conservatives, the Suburban Warriors, were frightened when it succeeded, and they remain frightened that it and allied policies that used to be called internal improvements will succeed further under a president whose social conscience has been developed. Such a president I see in Barack Obama.
The War of Poverty was undermined in the 1980s and has yet to recover its former momentum and originality.