John Florez: Bureaucracies deal with symptoms, not causes of poverty

Democrats care about the poor because they create more of them every day! But it’s a great political strategy for them because dependent people (47 % and growing) will always vote for those whom they are dependent upon.

Thanks Mr. Florez for highlighting and reporting on this issue. I will be looking forward to your next column.

I recently watched a very interesting program on PBS's Frontline series, "Dropout Nation.". It is available for More..

Some good comments here. In 1928 the British Navy had 60,000 employees. In 1920 2 years after WW 1 ended they had 100,000 employees and about 1/4 the ships. Bureaucrats' job is to get more bureaucrats, more secretaries, secretaries of More..