Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer

Despite what you hear from the media and the Democrat party, the poor are getting richer. In fact, America's poor are so rich, we should be celebrating it. Bill Whittle has the facts to back it up [merci à Carine].

And for more information, check out the excellent research from the Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/07/What-is-Poverty

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty​ with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500
Since 1964 we have spent $8--10 trillion on antipoverty programs.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16860

Update — Thomas Sowell: "The poor" are the human shields behind whom advocates of ever bigger spending for ever bigger government advance toward their goal