I support the President on judicial nominations and the WOT. I'm not happy about the excessive spending; his refusal to veto that atrocity CFR was a disgrace.
LBJ was arguably the worst wartime President we ever had. IMHO he was worse for this country than Carter or Clinton because of his gross mismanagement of Vietnam.
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LBJ was arguably the worst wartime President we ever had. IMHO he was worse for this country than Carter or Clinton because of his gross mismanagement of Vietnam.
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I might add that it was during the time of LBJ that the Great Society was born. At the time when blacks just won the Civil Right Battle and were on the cusp of following the path of self-reliance and prosperity through responsible living and work ethic, it was LBJ who pompously told their leaders that he would END ALL POVERTY by fighting a war against it.
And who would be the beneficiary of this largesse ? The black community of course. He was the one who popularized the word --- ENTITLEMENT. Ever since then, we have had people who think that government "owes" them something and that they are ENTITLED to every single goodie you can think of, to hell with responsibility.
I trace the start of rampant black illegitimacy to this time.
Since then, we have spent close to 6 trillion dollars to fight this war on poverty, all to no avail, and still the clamor to spend more to eliminate it never ends.
And it is not only me who observed this.
Black economists like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell and many black thinkers like -- Star Parker, Armstrong Williams, Mychal Massie, Niger Ennis, Larry Elder, Ward Connerly and even actor Bill Cosby have made this observation.
Thank you LBJ for helping to create this hole from which we have not dug ourselves out of.
And now of course -- Dubya is creating a new entitlement --As if Medicare isn't going bankrupt ( faster than social security ), he has now created another multi-hundred billion dollar entitlement. This time, not to the poorest, but to some of the wealthiest group of people --- Senior Citizens - via prescription drug benefits.
If you think we can get away from this one by voting the alternative, think again -- The DEMS are calling him TOO STINGY by not spending more for this entitlement.