curious how you claim republicans have done nothing, to then reference Jack Kemp destroying your own argument. Kemp-Dole were the GOP leadership for eons. One gave us affordable housing, the other gave us the ADA.
 Here's the problem with your statement. We have spent trillions of dollars on poverty problems, hundreds of billions of dollars in the Chicago area alone...and it has done absolutely nothing to address poverty. Furthermore, we have refuge after refuge that came to our shores, worked their butts off, and went into business. remember the LA riots when the blacks terrorized the Korean businesses?
 It's one excuse after another. Rather than point the finger at dysfunctional republicans ask yourself this question; why is it after black sports players have spent billions of dollars on charity programs they started has the problem of poverty remained the same over the decades? Carson, who escaped poverty, says the same thing my Chickasaw mother taught me. They call him Uncle Tom