http://www.thenation.com/blog/177807/86-percent-americans-think-government-should-fight-poverty#
Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson announced a “War on Poverty,” a majority of Americans believe that persistent economic hardship is the result of a broken economy, not of personal or government failures.
They broadly agree that the government has a responsibility to use its resources to fight poverty, and should pursue a target of reducing it by half over the next decade.Those are the conclusions of a public opinion survey published Tuesday by the Center for American Progress. The report assessed perceptions of poverty in general, as well as opinions of the War on Poverty in retrospect and of policy proposals on the table now.As lawmakers move to cut benefits and refuse to consider serious investments in the economy, in education and in healthcare, the survey is another reminder that those are precisely the investments people want the government to make.
i'm sure we have all noticed how the republicans have no interest in what "we the people" want, they say "Americans don't want...." or "Americans want......", but none of those things either are or what we want we want them to do.
what they were hired to do, they brainwash their base so what ever they say they want and don't they agree oblivious to it ain't so. they lie and cheat steal elections by stealing our votes how can a real American standby and let their fellow Americans be disenfranchised to an end of their stealing an election,
what do the stand for it sure isn't the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness or fair and honest election where every vote is counted not ignored.
Asked what percentage of their fellow Americans were living in poverty, the average guess was 39 percent—a sharp rise from the official estimate of 15 percent. Poverty is also a common personal experience, with more than half of respondents reporting that they knew someone who was poor.When it comes to equality of opportunity, a majority of Americans don’t believe that poor Americans face a level playing field. And when forced to choose between core arguments about the roots of American poverty—that it stems from a flawed economic system, or from personal failings—nearly two-thirds agreed with the structural argument.At the heart of opposition to safety net programs is the idea that poor Americans are undeserving of assistance, and that they are poor because they are lazy. It turns out that very few Americans polled by CAP support this core principle.Nearly 80 percent agreed that “most people living in poverty are decent people who are working hard to make ends meet in a difficult economy,” including 66 percent of white conservatives and libertarians.
most people are aware of the truth but for years the republicans have done everything they can to control what you see and hear that has gone on since the 70's and still running, those that are susceptible to the rhetoric as wrong as it sounds and as wrong as it is, still cheer and vote republican even the poor that are in the same box as those that party fights against.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and thoseare the ones youwant to concentrate on", some have come to realize that some are to ashamed to admit being duped, so the band plays on.
