Spending and Spending On Creating More and More Poverty

Over the last five years, the federal government has spent a total $3.7 trillion on approximately 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs. And yet the government tells us that poverty is increasing, Usually if you spend a lot of money on projects to reduce something and that something keeps increasing, it's called a FAILURE. In Washington that's grounds for spending even more money.  Because in Washington, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the norm. Everywhere outside the Beltway it's called insanity.