I guess 20 trillion dollars of wealth redistribution just wasn't enough.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/29/don-lemon/cnns-don-lemon-says-more-72-percent-african-americ/
There will never be enough money to end the war on poverty and there will never be enough armed federal, state, and local LEOs to end the War on Drugs.
>> “the hunger for community”
That’s socialist code for abdicate responsibility and make government your daddy.
Lyndon Baines Johnson is the WORST president America ever had.
B. Hussein is a close second and may overtake Johnson someday, but the social, economic and moral fallout from the LBJ years still haunt us today.
…end poverty and racial injustice – Nope, it didn’t do that
…“rebuild the entire urban United States” – Nope, that didn’t happen
…fend off “boredom and restlessness,” – Nope, no progress there
…slake “the hunger for community” – Nope
…enhance “the meaning of our lives” – Nope
No program in the history of our country has been as big a failure as LBJ’s “Great Society... ”
…yet.
It’ll take a few more years (assuming we last that long) for Obama’s “Fundamental Transformation” to equal it.
Jeb Bush says he wants to govern like LBJ. His brother was in that mold , too.
I once asked Tom Moorer why Lyndon Johnson did not go to Congress to get a formal declaration of war for the Vietnam “police action.” He growled back: “Because he thought it would interfere with his great society.” So the choice was between being victorious for the people whom we later betrayed on the one hand and destroying the American family and morality on the other hand.
LBJ’s stated goal for the Great Society was “to keep the n*****s voting for us until the end of time.”
In that he has succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.
My parents and other family-mostly ranchers-said he was already deep into corruption and the mob when he was a senator, and I believe it-and it only got worse-I’d campaign harder than I ever have for someone who would take a huge ax to all his great society programs...
He gave us a welfare system that has turned the urban poor into the urban Roman mob, killed ambition and the desire for success through legitimate employment in lower income families-and that has persisted for three generations now, it is responsible for increasing numbers of children having no fathers involved in their upbringing and the resulting crime and lack of a work ethic.
LBJ actually had total contempt for Blacks and Latinos-he used the words “n***ers” and “meskins” in private all the time.
His foolish actions and courting of the left put us in a no-win situation in Viet Nam-Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?
We should burn a truckload of EBT cards every year in his memory...
I guess 20 trillion dollars of wealth redistribution just wasn't enough.
Doesn’t matter. He got the democrats 30 more years of holding the congress, and that was the point.