“True poverty is being driven by personal behavior, not an unfair economic system,” O’Reilly said, noting that only 6 percent of American babies were born out of wedlock in 1963, compared to 41 percent of American babies now. About 72 percent of African-American babies are born out of wedlock.
Today marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would wage a “War on Poverty.”
In tonight’s Talking Points Memo, Bill O’Reilly called it a “noble idea.” But according to the Heritage Foundation, the War on Poverty has actually harmed the nation, and nearly $21 trillion in taxpayer dollars have been spent on it in the past 50 years.
O’Reilly said that the state of poverty in America hasn’t improved much over the last 50 years. “All the social engineering has failed,” he said.
So what’s to blame for poverty in America, and how can we fix it?
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