[rktman]

I recall "The Forgotten Man" by this author. May have to give this book a look. As just about everything written, by anyone, some will find fault somewhere, others, not. Pretty good run down of the book in the article itself.

[gattaca]

I read “The Forgotten Man” and thought it was one of the best books on The Great Depression. I’ll have to check this out.

[SunTzuWu]

For the most part, our “poor” live like kings. They have a higher standard of living that most people from any past era. Free education, free food, free housing, trillions of dollars spent and most just sit on their ass with their hand out looking for more. I no longer have any sympathy.

[Fiji Hill]

I'm currently reading Great Society.

[Rummyfan]

The Great Society.... whenever I hear that term I am reminded of LBJ saying ‘we’ll have those n***** voting Democrat for two hundred years’. And the irony of that is that The Great Society has totally destroyed the black family in this country.

[sphinx]

How? Well, when you subsidize something, you tend to get more of it.

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’ve been telling my liberal friends for decades the ghetto is still the ghetto the great society was an utter failure

[Who is John Galt?]

I believe I read something a few years back, suggesting that we ‘lost’ the War on Poverty, because we allowed tens of millions of dirt-poor illegal immigrants into the country...

[lonestar67]

Amity is one of the most under rated thinkers of our time.

[ought-six]

Amity Shlaes is a very good writer. I used to read her syndicated columns years ago.

[fella]

"“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”"

Benjamin Franklin understood human nature far better than Ivory-Tower socialists and pocket-lining Beaurocrats ever have.

[JeanLM]

“Losing Ground” by Charles Murray covered the same subject. His recent “Coming Apart” and “Human Diversity” were similar.

His thesis is the Great Society created an alternative constitution of civil rights based entitlements that now have spread to evry possible subset of self-idetified grievers impossible to satisfy.

[FreedomPoster]

I came here to recommend her highly, will probably buy this book as well. The Forgotten Man should be a must-read for FReepers. This likely will as well.