LBJ and the Great Society won the war on poverty in America.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1205596833692565504

"The economists find that by the standards of LBJ's time, the U.S. poverty rate has dropped from 19.5 % in 1963 to just 2.3% in 2017!!"

If that's not winning, I don't know what is.

That's the beauty (to some) and problem (to others) with the definition of poverty: we keep moving the goalposts/standards.

Because that is not a war and there is no win, poverty is a moving target and it will always be, unless forced equality is imposed to everybody.

I so hate the phrase "war on poverty." It tends to de facto turn poor people into The Enemy in the mind's of far too many people.

That would be another way of lowering the percentage of people living in poverty.

Yes, please, just take us all out and shoot us for our war crimes of failing to be as wildly successful as we would like to be.

(Please don't tell me this needs a sarcasm tag. If you can't tell in this case, then I think it's utterly hopeless.)