What the War on Poverty Has Wrought

40-years out from the onset of the War on Poverty and we're still no closer to ending need than we were in 1968. Trillions of dollars spent on feelp-good entitlement programs and we still see entire cities left to rot.

I live near one of those cities and I can tell you that decades of Democratic rule have left it worse than it ever has been by breeding corruption and the break down of the family.

Camden, NJ sits across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, what should be a highly strategic location for any city looking to enrich itself through industry. It's home to Campbell's Soup, an international business icon and yet we still read of poverty so grinding as to make one turn away in horror.

Yes, I understand that poverty is a "complex" as defined by the ultra liberal Center for American Progress issue but throwing money at the problem has never worked and never will. Instead, we see 4-year old children shot dead in the streets.

Perhaps it's time for a new approach, one in which we don't just promise new jobs and help every four years then go back to not caring. Perhaps we should take the approach of encouraging urban men to stick with the mothers of their children so the children are raised in a caring, loving home. Perhaps we should take the approach of encouraging young women to not get pregnant at 16 and go to college. Perhaps we should take the approach of training the people in these urban wastelands in real world work skills.

President Bush was blocked from implementing many of these plans but the one he actually did implement worked in ways no liberal could imagine or could have foreseen. Instead of throwing another trillion or two at programs that have had the exact opposite effect, perhaps we can try a new method that may get real results.

Let's try a new approach, one in which 4-year old Brandon Thompson will not die in his mothers arms on a run-down street corner.