![flapjackstate:
[image: Cornel West holding a sign that says “if only the war on poverty was a real war then we would actually be putting money into it”].
socialistictendencies:
Cornel West being right about everything again
Actually, in the last 40 years we have spent $9 trillion (2003 constant dollar) on the “war on poverty” and it has only gone up. So maybe what someone puts on a piece of cardboard isn’t necessarily true even if it is on the internet. Throwing money at problems doesn’t work.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyls59CgwX1r9p9sto1_500.jpg)
[image: Cornel West holding a sign that says “if only the war on poverty was a real war then we would actually be putting money into it”].
Cornel West being right about everything again
Actually, in the last 40 years we have spent $9 trillion (2003 constant dollar) on the “war on poverty” and it has only gone up. So maybe what someone puts on a piece of cardboard isn’t necessarily true even if it is on the internet. Throwing money at problems doesn’t work.
(Source: streetphilosophers, via meaghan1991)
