of course 50 years ago lyndon johnson claimed his war on poverty would end pover in america..n. will do better. ted turner gave him a billion dollars for this. individual governments and squandered nearlg to lift people out of poverty in africa. i say squandered because after they spent trillions for income per capita it went down. that is maybe because the foreign aid encourages dependency and african kleptocrats government sal much of the money. what is the alternative? michael fay says he has an answer. what is yours? >> we are going straight to the port. cash transfers from you directly to them. no middleman, no leakage, no hidden costs. john: the charity, and y have raised about $6 million. just given 27,000 people-the thousand dollars each. >> that is exactly right. a thousand for the households. john: this sounds like a stupid idea. they will just spend it and then it won't have any. >> you are not the only one. the truth is there has been about a decade of research that shows the exact opposite. what are these people missing? a lot of them are missing the catal. we ha