by Evan McMurry December
15th, 2013
On ABC’s This Week With George
Stephanopoulos, a discussion on the flagging war on poverty turned
into a debate between former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich over the partisan
sources of income inequality, with Gingrich claiming that Democratic-controlled
cities were abscesses of poverty.
“The war on poverty was successful for a time, but what
has happened, however, over the last twenty yards was much of the ardor, much
of the concern, much of what propelled that war on poverty has dissipated,”
Reich said. “I think it has something to do, perhaps, with the intransigence of
the speaker’s party. Every time there was a jobs bill, every time there was an
effort to expand low income housing, every time there was an effort to provide
better opportunities for young people—”
“This is baloney,” Gingrich interrupted. “Every major
city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats. Their policies have
failed, and the fact is it’s the poor who have suffered.”
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