John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still poor. People on the left say the money was still worth it. Look at this chart. He chose that the poverty rate fell sharply after the war on poverty began. Thats great, but wait, he extends the chart back a few years to when data was kept on the poverty rate. You notice it was already falling. Just as fast. But then it stopp
John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still poor. People on the left say the money was still worth it. Look at this chart. He chose that the poverty rate fell sharply after the war on poverty began. Thats great, but wait, he extends the chart back a few years to when data was kept on the poverty rate. You notice it was already falling. Just as fast. But then it stopp
John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still poor. People on the left say the money was still worth it. Look at this chart. He chose that the poverty rate fell sharply after the war on poverty began. Thats great, but wait, he extends the chart back a few years to when data was kept on the poverty rate. You notice it was already falling. Just as fast. But then it stopp
John there are three ways to help people who need help, government can try to do it. Give people money, start programs. Charities do that too, and id say theyre better at teaching people how to help themselves. Theres the saying goes teach a man to fish. Then theres a third way, i think its the best way. Ill get to that later in the show. But first lets debate the first two. When i was in college, president Lyndon Johnson declared allout war on human poverty. He said for the first time in our history, its possible to conquer poverty. I believe him then but i watched his poverty programs create more poverty. Governments spent trillions of dollars and people are still people are still poor. People on the left say money was still worth it. Look at this chart. The poverty rate fell charply after the war began. Thats great, but the extended chart back two years when they were still kept at the poverty rate, they noticed it was already falling. Just as fast. Then it stopped falling about sev