AS A GREAT MAN SAID IN 1987, “IN THE SIXTIES WE WAGED A WAR ON POVERTY, AND POVERTY WON:”

Sixty-two years and $22 trillion later, the U.S. poverty rate sits at roughly 11 percent, almost identical to where Lyndon Johnson found it in 1964. The government ran the most expensive social experiment in human history and produced nothing measurable. Bureaucracies perpetuate… pic.twitter.com/vEheTZHGJL

— Handre (@Handre) September 6, 2026