he War on Poverty, which President Lyndon Johnson declared nearly 50 years ago, has “failed miserably,” House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Thursday — and he wants to figure out what approaches would work to get Americans out of poverty.

“When I look at the money spent, when I look at the programs created, when I look at the miserable outcomes and the high poverty rates, as a policy maker, (I say) ‘We can do better than this and we need to figure out how.’”

why do i get the feeling that the solution will involve tax cuts and the elimination of medicaid, the minimum wage, and food stamps?