Mikeoxenormous
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The Failure of LBJ's Great Society and What It Means for the 21st Century
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Johnson declared war on poverty, jacked up federal spending on education, and pushed massive new entitlement programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, which promised to deliver high-quality, low-cost health care to the nation's elderly and poor. When Republican Richard Nixon(establishment Progressive Republican) succeeded Johnson, a Democrat, as president after the 1968 election, he continued and even expanded many of the Great Society programs despite being from a different political party.
LBJ thought that by creating "affordable housing" for blacks he could then move them away from the affluent white areas of the inner cities. This created massive poverty, drug use, and despair of many black families.But did the Great Society achieve its goals of eradicating poverty, sheltering the homeless, and helping all citizens participate more fully in the American Dream? In Great Society: A New History, Amity Shlaes argues that Lyndon Johnson's bold makeover of the government was a massive failure despite the good intentions of its architects and implementers.
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It wasnt WE, it was a racist Democrat from Texas who thought that he could buy the black vote, and he did, until now where more black people are moving away from the plantation Democrats, which Kamala Harris, once again, wants the government to fund "affordable housing". When people dont study History, History tends to repeat itself.Why did we build high-rise public housing projects?