The slow decline of America since LBJ launched the Great Society

Washington Post ^ | 05/17/2014 | George Will

[SandRat]

LBJ as a ##**&&##@##!

[doc1019]

And then some.

[PapaNew]

The slow decline of America since LBJ launched the Great Society Turncoat Teddy Roosevelt helped get us the income tax beginning Progressive Socialism in earnest in the federal government.

[Misterioso]

Take that! you Post readers. LOL!

[posterchild]

Fifty years ago this Thursday, at the University of Michigan, Johnson had proposed legislating into existence a Great Society. It would end poverty and racial injustice, “but that is just the beginning.” It would “rebuild the entire urban United States” while fending off “boredom and restlessness,” slaking “the hunger for community” and enhancing “the meaning of our lives” — all by assembling “the best thought and the broadest knowledge.”

Wow! I thought I had ambitious ideas…

[kabar]

The 1965 Immigration Act is far more destructive in the long term than the Great Society.

[mass55th]

"Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President"

Knock yourself out Jeb.

[Liberty Wins]

Over the last 50 years we now realize the depth of the JFK tragedy - it created the political climate that enabled LBJ to grow the government. It’s such a huge monster we may never shrink it.

[OldSmaj]

...It (The Great Society legislation) would “rebuild the entire urban United States” while fending off “boredom and restlessness,” slaking “the hunger for community” and enhancing “the meaning of our lives” — all by assembling “the best thought and the broadest knowledge.”

Worked, too, didn't it?

LBJ was the second biggest turd (Jimmah Cottah and that Clinton asshole are tied for first) that the dimorat party ever foisted on the United States of America.

LBJ, you sucked.

But then, everybody knows that.

[HMS Surprise]

A government check is a shiv in the soul.

[Aria]

What you said.

[cherry]

why start with him?....wasn’t it the FOUNDING FATHERS who envisioned this mess of a country?...what with the Supreme court judges having all the power....I blame it on George Washington....if he hadn’t interferred we might still be colonists without rights but we’d be happier...../sarcasm/

[skeeter]

Exactly right. The statists have been diluting us ever since with dividing & conquering their ultimate goal.

[tophat9000]

Funny that Oswald the Communist achieve his desire and and open the door to the country going far further left then if Kennedy lived.. If Kennedy not shot..he either loose in 64 or has to tack right to hang on...Kennedy killed..he a martyr that let the leftest Dem’s run wild

[Misterioso]

Are you saying that all our problems can be attributed to Lee Harvey Oswald?

[Mears]

They have been advertising a documentary on the 60s that’s coming on soon.(I forget the channel)

I wouldn’t watch it it they paid me——I remember the time too well. It was like watching the country I loved disappear.

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[Misterioso]

—I remember the time too well

Unfortunately, what you remember is media propaganda, just like the rest of us. And there will never be a let up until the bough breaks.

[RightWingConspirator]

But America’s decline has rapidly accelerated under Obozo.

[MUDDOG]

The 1965 Immigration Act is far more destructive

Ted Kennedy's legacy.