Meaning of povertician | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is paid to work with the poor, especially one who profits at the expense of the poor; A welfare worker.

derogatory

Examples

“One of the “bold” as well as costly programs on the war on poverty and one which is being extolled from the hustings by professional povertician Sargent Shriver, is the reincarnation of the depression-born C. C. C., the Youth Job Corps.”

““This all leads,” Rep. Hansen says, “to everyone getting the money, except the poor, who get warm words of hope and encouragement from the administration, advice from Sargent Shriver (OEO director), honorable mention in the press, and short shrift from the paid “poverticians’.””

“Here is an example of a poverty stricken woman who had her hopes roused by this program, only to see the benefits directed toward the “povertician.””

““Everyone gets the money except the poor,” Congressman Berry has complained. “The poor get warm words of hope and encouragement from the White House, advice from the bureaucrats and honorable mention in the press, but are short-changed by the “Poverticians” who are riding the gravy train.”

“The poverty program did not attempt to increase the purchasing power of the poor, but instead to create a vast new establishment (poverticians) to deal with their problems. These poverticians were to gain a considerable vested interest in perpetuating the illusion of a “War on Poverty.””

“The White House wants the War on Poverty, I guess it also wants the Poverticians for they’ll vote again next year.”

“The business—which has made Haddad one of the country’s leading poverticians—is booming, so much so in fact that Haddad is in a quandary over whether to buy a company jet or merely a company Turboprop.”

“Check out the poverticians and movement hustlers hovering around, cutting up folk for the best position to receive the piddling chumpchange they say they are “robbing” and “fooling” the Man for.”

“Today’s “povertician” is yesterday’s ward heeler.”

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