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On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:13:55 -0400, iBoaterer
wrote:

A graph:

http://tinyurl.com/nfjsy7r

It is always funny when you post a premise then link a site that
disputes it.

Look at your graph. Poverty has hovered between 10 and 15 percent for
the last 45 years.
You call that success?

Their refrain should be that we have stopped it from becoming worse.