Since 2014 has been the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty," we should note that this was another war that the Johnson administration lost. Both President Johnson and President John F. Kennedy before him said that the purpose of the "war on poverty" was to help people become self-supporting, to end dependency on government programs. But 50 years and trillions of dollars later, there is more dependency than ever.
-Thomas Sowell
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/12/thomas-sowell/a-year-of-anniversaries/