$22 Trillion spent in 50-year "war on poverty" since Johnson.

Drive through the slums of any major city in America, and it isn't very likely that you'll be looking at communities where the electorate is predominantly conservative, nor will these likely be found in districts that elect conservatives to office. 

You'll be looking at minority districts that have been failed NOT by conservative principles, but by years and decades of failed liberal policies and incompetent liberal political bosses.

Then, look at the school districts in poorer communities and just see where the money goes - and I mean BIG, BIG money.  $Millions in educational funds are siphoned off, misspent, wasted EVERY SINGLE YEAR, which is money that will never see the inside of a classroom, never improve these schools, and meanwhile chaos reigns on the schoolgrounds in these districts.

I can attest personally to the tremendous imbalance of police and other criminal justice resources that must be devoted to a portion of the population which is much smaller in number than in other communities, just to try to maintain some semblance of order.  And we have people coming on here saying "the police are cowards."  Shame on you, whoever you are.   The police who work in these communities are ANYTHING but cowards, and I'd love to see you pin on the badge and walk those streets at 1 a.m.

I'm sick of the pathetic excuses.  I'm sick of the parasites who make their living and feed off of lies that they tell their constituencies, and who excuse the criminal behavior, rotten parenting and overall lack of responsibility that we see in these communities.   

Sick to death of it, and the worst part of it is, the graft, the corruption, the excuses, the exploitation - AT THE HANDS OF MINORITY COMMUNITY "LEADERS" - is not doing the people in these communities one speck of good either.

The question is, when will we learn?  If 50 years of experience and $trillions of dollars spent teach us nothing about the impotence of the liberal approach to poverty, just what WILL it take for us to finally GET IT?

Here's the plain and simple truth, and it isn't rocket science.  People run around in the streets screaming about a "lack of opportunity", while they burn down the resources in their own community.  They gripe about a "lack of investment" while they tear down the existing investment. 

It isn't a lack of opportunity.  It isn't a lack of investment.  There's been a river of both of these flowing through these communities.  

Not lack of opportunity, and not a lack of investment.  Not a lack of programs.  Not a lack of interest.  THE FAILURE HAS BEEN CORRUPT LIBERAL POLITICIANS, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, AND A LACK OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

It's really quite that simple.  And we can spend $22 trillion more, or $50 trillion, or $100 trillion, and it WILL NOT SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS.