We have spent 8 Trillion dollars on the Great Society programs since 1965 and poverty is worse... WORSE!! Am I missing something here or would everybody be better off to stfu and go get jobs?
Basing happiness on comparisons like this are not in anyone's best interest. It is better to understand that equality is foundational to reality, and total abundance is the norm, regardless of appearances. Abundance is the truth, meaning everything created has been given the totality of everything. This means there are no differences between anything in "the Kingdom of God" not even between the creator and the created. There is no basis for comparison when all are "Lord", equally. Whether anyone believes it or not, all are members of the Kingdom of God, so all qualify for abundance. True abundance is unimaginable and beyond belief. The human machine, nor anything in this world can comprehend it. *The world* consists of members of the Kingdom of God who want to experience what it would be like if everything was different from the Kingdom of God. *The world* expresses the polar opposite of what is normal and natural...of what is the Kingdom of God. In the world, each separate one is different. And this is for making comparisons. Man is a comparison device. To be happy, one must begin to look beyond the differences which block sight of reality. This is the best way to *give* true abundance to anyone and everyone, not to mention self. Abundance is a fact...now...always. It is each one's true inheritance. It is not lost...nor is it achieved by hard work or future events. Happiness must be based on accepting abundance and giving it away without prejudice, without exception, to any and all, to the extent they would have it. Abundance is "recieved" [restored to your awareness] as you decide you are willing to "give" it to all, without exception. Jesus
There is a saying: "All men were created equal". In fact, this is not true. Men are not created, and they are not equal. The whole purpose of man is to express inequality as an antithesis to reality, to embody what is different from reality. What is different from reality is fundamentally opposite reality. Reality is such that you are either for or against it. The concept of man is against it. Reality is perfect, and cannot be improved. So any attempt to change it or add to it results in what is not perfect, what does not work, what is disfunctional. In reality, all living beings are created equal. Living beings are not persons or people or men or women. They are not "born", as if needing to grow and learn. They know all, and are given all, as an irrevocalble inheritance, upon their creation. The only possible difference is that there is creator and created, cause and effect. And yet, the created are endowed to create as they were created, and do so, making them creators, same as their creator. The idea that there is a heirarchy in the Kingdom of God is falsely projected by a world which knows only heirarchy as its "reality". In the Kingdom of God, everyone has/is everything. Men are imagined "images", in the mind of "Christ", the "Son of God". In fact, they are "made", not created. They emerge as the Son thinks to combine reality with an unreal antithesis, in order to have more than everything. The only problem is that there is nothing more than everything. So it is an attempt to have everything and nothing at the same time. Overreaching, reality is "lost" and replaced with a thesis of reality combined with antithesis. This makes an entirely false alt-reality that seems to synthesize both good and evil [thesis/antithesis]. The making of such a world constitutes a "fall", so-to-speak. It is disfunctional from it's inception, and can never be fixed except to be abandoned. In this way, every aspect of reality is expressed/experienced as thesis/antithesis. Let us take oneness for example. The world is said to be "one and many". Man also expresses "one and many". The oneness is not true oneness, and the many are not true at all. Let us take life for example. Man "lives" and "dies". Yet his "life" is not true life, and his "death" is not true either. Then there's equality. In many ways, man seems to be equal. In many other ways, man is different, one from another. Everyone is in the "same boat", but each has different experiences. I could go on with many examples. But as it applies to this thread, a prime attribute of reality [Christ] -the Kingdom of God - is sharing. And it is expressed in the world as theoretical sharing and theoretical non-sharing. The sharing is not true sharing, and the non-sharing is not true either. It is basically meaningless. The way to "give" in this world is to think truthfully. As each one thinks, his thoughts are shared with the entire world, and each one accepts as he is ready. And this is because the world is joined as one mind despite appearances. A sharable thought is one that is acceptable to the totality. As a rule of thumb, the thoughts that make up the world are not shareable because they are all false, and not totally acceptable by all. So no one is really giving anything to anyone. This must be turned around in order to see positive changes in the individual and collective experience. Jesus
Are you having trouble reading the graph on the first page? Poverty has improved from 1965 (not sure why you arbitrarily cherry pick that year), and the only reason that it hasn't improved more is (as you can see) it has consistently gone up under Republican presidents.