show tonight. and now, john stossel. america is a rich country. it seems wrong when there s so much wealth around some americans are still so poor. can t government do something about that? yes we can said lyndon johnson. it called for taking more money from rich people and putting it into welfare and job training. i believed. i was in college then as these students are today. my professors told me that the experts in washington had found the solution to poverty. i believed but then i became a reporter and i watched the war on poverty work or not work. i watched as it created a poverty industry lots of victims and bureaucrats who specialized in sucking money out of washington, d.c. over the years most poor people stayed poor. they are still poor. how can that be when we spent so much on poverty programs. this year we will spend $1 trillion and over the next decade welfare spending will top $10 trillion. that video was made by the republican study committee a group of
welfare state, that s our show tonight. and now, john stossel. america is a rich country. it seems wrong when there s so much wealth around some americans are still so poor. can t government do something about that? yes we can said lyndon johnson. it called for taking more money from rich people and putting it into welfare and job training. i believed. i was in college then as these students are today. my professors told me that the experts in washington had found the solution to poverty. i believed but then i became a reporter and i watched the war on poverty work or not work. i watched as it created a poverty industry lots of victims and bureaucrats who specialized in sucking money out of washington, d.c. over the years most poor people stayed poor. they are still poor. how can that be when we spent so much on poverty programs. this year we will spend $1 trillion and over the next decade welfare spending will top $10 trillion. that video was made by the republican
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