Conservatives and Poverty

It is a fairly popular meme among statists that conservatives are heartless and hate poor people, and that the conservative "solutions" to ending poverty will actually create more harm.  Here's the interesting thing. To a certain extent, they're right.  Many conservatives are in favor of poverty policies that would not in fact solve poverty because most conservatives basically want to continue government solutions for poverty, just perhaps with more restrictions on who gets money, how much they get, or how Christian the organization is that gives the money. 

THAT WILL NOT WORK.  At least, not any better than any of the governmental poverty reduction policies that have flat-lined previously falling poverty rates and ruined the family structure in the demographics that typically have higher poverty. 

But, most conservatives really aren't.  At least not to an economist.  That still doesn't explain the flood of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions in this article.  Which deserves a full fisking on its own.