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Wars on poverty often become wars on poor people. I was there when Clinton reduced max coverage to 2 years. It was a sentence of lifetime poverty for people who had no option, and that was strongly enhanced by the "human glue".

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War on Poverty was a Johnson program. You can't cite Clinton's backing away from War of Poverty as an argument against War on Poverty.

I think the idea here is that cutting benefits could be construed as part of the War on Poverty by the argument that the benefits locked people into poverty.

This. I am leery of anything calling it a war on poverty. If you are waging war on poverty, who is your enemy?

Obvious answer: poor people.

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