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In reply to the discussion: When Do Low-Income Americans Get Their White House Meeting? [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Medicare, Head Start, the whole war on poverty group of programs. Many of them were ended by later Congresses and Presidents, but some remain to this day, so it's factually incorrect to say it never bore fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty
I think you and I are coming from the same place as to the issue of poverty. Originally, I took issue only with saying that poverty is a taboo, which is far more serious thing than politicians simply selling out.
A real taboo, like taboos against incest and pedophilia, exist for very good reasons. A political choice does not equal a taboo.
You and I agree that poverty is, by the choice of politicians of both duopoly Parties, being treated almost as an untouchable issue, though.
Do voters share responsibility in that? I think we do. Or, at least we did. I am not sure we still can reverse much. It may be to late.
Clinton's WH bragged about having "ended welfare as we know it," and Clinton signed NAFTA and Gramm, Leach Bliley (in 1999, when he was not even worried about his re-election)--and Democrats still treat him like a rock star to this day.