Doblin: 50 years later, 'The Great Society' is under attack

The Bergen Record ^ | April 14, 2014 | Alfred P. Doblin, editorial page editor

[cuban leaf]

This is kinda funny. The GS was a complete and utter failure.

[freedumb2003]

>>Would you lump veteran’s benefits into that rule?<<

Veteran’s benefits were EARNED. By those who CONTRIBUTED TO the nation (in ways vastly beyond those of us who just pay taxes and walk the straight and narrow).

In no possible way, shape or form are Veterans’ benefits “welfare.”

[Tupelo]

Iron Eyes Cod, the iconic “Indian” from the PSAs was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan Vermilion Parish, in southwestern Louisiana, a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily.

Corti like most of Alfred P. Doblin’s column,was fraudulent.

[Tupelo]

Cody. CODY. Damnnit don’t drop your Ys

[2ndDivisionVet]

But I bet there are hundreds of politicians and bureaucrats who would love to use your proposed rule to exclude veterans from the suffrage. In Starship Troopers the late Robert A. Heinlein drew a world in which ONLY veterans had the right to vote. Would Barack Obama be the president in that situation?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A superintendent is showing a substandard apartment — it needs a lot of work. If I recall, he shows the bathroom and how getting a nickel washer from the hardware store would fix the plumbing. The commercial's goal was to educate people of color that there were laws protecting them against housing discrimination.

God forbid that a black person be expected to buy and install his own nickel washer.

That would be racist.

[freedumb2003]

But I bet there are hundreds of politicians and bureaucrats who would love to use your proposed rule to exclude veterans from the suffrage.

Perhaps. I am not one of them.

[CSM]

“Obama’s signature health care reform is not as radical as the Civil Rights Act was in its day, “

Yet, in order to receive a policy under Obamacare, one must present a valid ID! Must be a racist law afterall...

Morons....

[CSM]

“I see seniors and working moms unable to pay for basic food at a grocery store because they have no government assistance.”

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Maybe if most of these Mom’s got married and then had kids they wouldn’t have to struggle. No sympathy from me.

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Or if the tax rates weren’t so high to pay for the free loaders, the working folks would be able to afford to pay for their own basic needs.

The author is a moron....(not you.)

[Albion Wilde]

Where’s the barf alert?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought the Civil Rights Act was all about making sure black Americans could not be forced to use separate washrooms and water fountains. Or chased away from the lunch counter. Or made to sit in the back of the bus. Or denied their right to vote so long as they were not a felon.

[Ouderkirk]

The obvious on war on poverty is to stop subsidizing it.

The war on drugs I’m afraid isn’t that simple. Back in the days when people had more self control you wouldn’t need to regulate such things. These days we can agree that the war on drugs is a failure, but to declare defeat and capitulate isn’t such a great alternative either.

I don’t have any answers on what to do, because none of the answers are any good.

[Organic Panic]

I hear North Korea is a lovely place. Everyone is equal. Everything is provided for by great leader. No one is fat, except dear leader. And a ruthlessly efficient national government forces everyone is treated equally

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The over-the-top fantasy that he concocts in this editorial is not surprising. Just take it as a lesson of what type of liberal zealots and fools run newspaper editorial boards.

[ronnie raygun]

Half a century of wasted tax payer money and failed programs that filled the pockets of those who planned it

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Don't get me started. GRrrrrr. LBJ was the worst president in history. Even FUBO has yet to reach the substandard levels of evilness that LBJ had. I hope and pray that someday the effects of the Great Sociery will be gone and destroyed forever.

”Liberals” love to use “society” as a euphemism for government. When Johnson boasted of his ability to produce as “great society,” he has actually promising a great government.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Call me crazy, but I don’t think low and no information citizens SHOULD be voting. If you don’t understand the basics of government, law, and politics, why should you have a say ?