PLAYER OR REFEREE

Fifty years of war on poverty. Twenty trillion, 700 billion tax dollars spent. Poor people still some 14 percent of the population, meaning more now than in 1964.

LBJ, in declaring the war, said he wanted to replace poverty with jobs. Some tax “investment” was needed to accomplish that, he said. Lyndon Byrd Johnson was wrong. Barrack Hussein Obama is wrong in seeking to spend more and more on continuing the tax-funded “weapons” in that unending war.

Two real attacks, which might be called principles, could reduce poverty (poverty may never be eliminated because of the nature of humanity).

Teach youth Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic.

Foster an economic climate that encourages business in all its form.

First, teaching is the job of parents, who must demand that schools do their jobs, too.

Secondly, voters must demand that government at all levels recognize the reality that each tax dollar is generated by private commerce, and that each dollar belongs to the governed not to the governors.

Putting those principles into effect will be pretty hard to do with the present climate in this country. The family is in trouble. Governmental functionaries think they know all the answers.

Voters must learn more facts. They must try to spread those facts. They must agitate.

Then they must vote the rascals out. They must vote in common sense people intent upon letting the American system work – imposing only meaningful restraints, eliminating the fanciful – for the benefit of all.

Rich, poor, middle class all can gain when government stops playing and just referees.