1964 - Johnson's Great Society Ad

[JugheadObama]

LBJ--Just another Socialist Nail in the Coffin of the USA

[SloterMFmeyer]

One of the nails in America's coffin. The whole world is envious of your constitution. Why did you people fuck it up?

[sayanroy36]

wiped out by reagan and today's do nothing war on middle class and poors gop

[fuhrerlau]

it is the most disgusting piece of history that LBJ was a ex-president of USA.

MOst disgraceful act of human history for this president who won through BULLETS and not BALLOTS.

Fark him and his whole family in their graves below.

[AliceNchainz011]

@fuhrerlau What? He won the 1964 election.

[rasputinslovechild1]

Jackie O. new who killed her husband, when asked as to why she was wearing the dress with JFK's blood on it during in the swearing in of president Johnson she said I want the people to know those bastards killed my Jack (meaning LBJ!)

[ericstrattendgtmy]

Goldwater should have beat this crook!

[Suprkit]

@ericstrattendgtmy Goldwater was a crook!

[oreokookie1000]

LBJ Blows......Great society??...yeah if you were rich, white, and loved imperialism.....or were a kennedy

[ChristopherSEAY123]

@oreokookie1000 Americans are rich. Race has nothing to do with it. Imperialism is irrelevant.

And it's not only the Democrats that practice imperialism, silly.

[zobielamouche1]

he was a facist swine not only because of his continuation of the war against vietnam but also because of the foul downthrow of goulart, brazils last left president before lula and last democratic president before sarney..for the zionists he's a hero cause he has established the special relation to israel and thats all that counts for them

[ToxicOdiousOne]

JFK dies so he forces his failed social experiment on us.

[bobbollu]

@ToxicOdiousOne You are so right my friend LBJ took this country down and its taken many years to recover from his shite

[FrsBigeasy]

The Great Society has its plus's like Aide to Education, Head Start, Medicaid and Medicare. But it has a lot of faults like creating generation's of people dependent on Public Assistance for their survival and adding to the "Culture of Dependency" like the New Deal.

The Great Society should've been designed instead to Empower poor people to get themselves out of Poverty through, Education and Job Training. So they could get themselves the skills that they need to get a good job.

[CalicoVall]

@FrsBigeasy Agree, whole-heartedly.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Michael Savage said yesterday that it was LBJ's Great Society in the late 1960s which killed fatherhood and destroyed the family. How did the Great Society damage the family unit? Was the Great Society more than just waging a war on poverty?

[steveforsane]

Kennedy was never able to get anything off the ground...too concerned about his womanizing and reelection...Thank-god for Luyndon Johnson....one of our last great Dem. Presidents!!! W/o Johnson, there would be no Barack Obama!

[EdwardRommel]

That's right...Johnson was a much more effective President..and though people sometimes criticize the Great Society...the fact is that it accomplished a lot in the way of rectifying America's race problems...and in improving income inequality.

[VictrolaJazz]

Yes, your son is a legitimate recipient of our benevolence! It's the people who game the system that ruin it for everyone else! All the best to you and yours!

[huckstered]

@VictrolaJazz In your naivete do you think he is the only one in such dire circumstance due to a situation beyond their control? So be it. Deceit is everywhere, so what ?

[VictrolaJazz]

It's like Judge Judy said during a proceeding the other day, medical marijuana was intended for people who have legitimate, unceasing pain and that's fine for them--but you'll never convince me that the majority of people who use it are just slackers. By the same principle, at least 1/3 of those on some kind of government benevolence are just slackers because that's the way they live. They take away benefits from those with legitimate disabilities.

[huckstered]

@VictrolaJazz Don't know the fraud numbers but that is about fraud , again. The govt. is also rife with it. Med. ins. is

riddled with it Political influence makes the vote in both houses. Therein-therein

is the problem. Blacks are victims not the

producers of poverty - conception of the reality. The past is reocurring even now, The middle class is suffering badly. Without social programs suffering would be endemic. the real world. These people don't own computers.

[VictrolaJazz]

(1) I was not making a commentary about the black community, but the population in general. I believe that roughly 1/3 of the total population is legitimately retired or disabled as your son is. Another 1/3 just gets up and goes about its business doing what it's supposed to do without asking for any credit. Then another 1/3 are just good for nothing slackers whose only impulse is to game the system so that they don't have to work or are simply the criminally minded.

[VictrolaJazz]

(2) It's the last 1/3 that causes all the misery in our country today. I don't include Asians in that group because their culture does not seem to encourage the kind of self-centeredness, self-absorption and sense of entitlement that other cultures encourage. Theirs is more of a duty and responsiblity-centered culture.

[whoo689]

Was there even a big debate on whether it was actually government's job to try to end poverty?? Because, as a libertarian, I don't believe in it. It's not constitutional, and the states themselves should handle that stuff anyway. And of course, we can't put roadblocks in the way of private charity and individual initiative.

Let's look at the record: Healthcare costs are up, education quality is down, 37 million poor still, out-of-wedlock births increased in minority communities.

[whoo689]

Doesn't sound like a good record to me. Let's just admit the war on poverty has lost and give "poverty reduction" back to the states where it belongs, if anything. Cut back on excessive healthcare regulations and give the power back to consumers, not government OR insurance co's. Let the states run their education systems, abolish the DOE, and end NCLB. Abolish TANF, which only encourages young women to have lots of kids to have free money.

[huckstered]

You are nuts. Admission of failure?

[whoo689]

Failure? What failure? Why don't you admit the Great Society crap is still far from ending poverty? We have an average poverty rate of 12% in this country nowadays. Any plummet in poverty 'caused' by the GS petered out anyway in a decade or so. Medicare is damn near bankrupt. Same with SS. Both are ponzi schemes, of course. And medicare's not even means-tested! Why shoudl ANY senior, whether he's rich or poor, get practically free medical care? that makes no sense.

[whoo689]

If you ask me, you're a senior, you should only be eligible for Medicare if you either a) can't afford regular insurance or b) have a preexisting condition, and insurers won't cover you. It's practically the same deal with every other entitlement program. But medicare is this weird exception. As long as you 'paid into it' with taxes and are old enough, you can automatically get it. Sounds a little silly to me. We could at least reduce some spending on it if we make it means-tested.

[whoo689]

Even SS benefits are determined by how much income you made in the highest 35 or so years (or quarters, I forget) of your wage-earning. The more income you got, the less SS you get.

[huckstered]

@whoo689 it is a great record, things were ridiculous before LBJ. elderly living

with no health care? When it was needed the most Job corp ? Fed. Stud. loans?

Truth in lending? And a thousand others. It was the best of times. It matters little what you think, these are things that helped millions. You shouldn't weep in public anyway.

[huckstered]

@whoo689 Lets? Lets- see if you can make any sense. Senoirs and vets do recieve medical care. It is the right and moral thing to do. When you turn 65

do not accept medicare or social security. Do not pay the irs a dime either, that is unconstitutional also. License plates- also a tax. I believe your state should secede, start a movement. Get vouchers for everything.

Hand over the car keys to wall street. They will take care of everything . Don't worry.

[VictrolaJazz]

The Great Society was conceived at a time of great productivity and low inflation and unemployment. The idea was that every enterprise of human existence required the funding and staffing of a governemnt office to expedite it. In 1975, we had double digit inflation and unemployment and a moribund economy. Medicare, with it's huge bureaucracy and requirements, stands as the greatest monument to this notion.

[huckstered]

@whoo689 Libertairians are zealots.

The debates went on for up to 100 days. Unconstitutionality would end entitlements . I don't see any senators submitting

bills to repeal any of it. Libertarians won't ever reach high office any more than green party, communists or

tea baggers . An alternative party may be needed but never will such an extremist

reactionary stance be taken seriously

by the electorate. What is with all of this "Let's" stuff?

[whoo689]

The EITC, of course, is little more than welfare under the name "tax cut." I mean, even non-taxpayers who are poor can sometimes qualify for it! The only 2 "welfare-state" programs that work long-term are student loans, which allow people to go to college and get a degree for a high-paying job to become self-sufficient, and a good education K-12. Job training may also work, but I don't know the stats on that. But without those 3 programs, the entire welfare state would not work.

[whoo689]

Declared the failed war on poverty. Which has drained the federal budget dry and will give us $53 Trillion in unfunded liabilities due to Medicare and SS. Poverty has remained stagnant the past 30 years or so at about 12.7%.

[whoo689]

Let's not forget that poverty was steadily decreasing even before Johnson got into office. Poverty estimates show that it was at about 18 or 19% before 1960. And by 1970, I'm sure it would've easily lowered to 12% on its own, without the Great Society.

Government handouts, which are most of what the welfare state is, don't alleviate poverty. They just give you a little extra to work with. You're responsible for getting the education or job necessary to lift yourself up.

[VictrolaJazz]

This was the theory, but never the practice. Before the Great Society, you had local, informal charities to tide people over rough spots.  But once benevolence became institutionalized and annonymous with the GS, millions became content to dwell in perpetuity at a lowest common denominator so long as government financed that lowest common denominator--kind of a Guaranteed Minimum Income in practice if not in name.

[huckstered]

@VictrolaJazz Glossed over version. The truth is that children went hungry old people had diseases with no treatment,

hunger and suffering went on daily in the most astonishiongly prosperous place on earth, not to even mention the institutionalized racism which permeated

all walks of life. It was a very primitive political system that allowed these things to happen. LBJ wrested power away from

the entrenched heirarchy and won the war

on poverty.

[VictrolaJazz]

"LBJ wrested power away from

the entrenched heirarchy and won the war

on poverty."

I'm sure those permanent dependents of the state today would be surprised to know that!

[huckstered]

@VictrolaJazz My son is a permanent dependent of the state due to mental illness. It has been a godsend, Blue cross ran out. He might be homeless or worse. Many others like him out there. God bless LBJ for this and other acts

of his humanity.

[bobbollu]

@huckstered your son deserves it and is the exception to the rule. However there are a lot of freeloaders

that took advantage of the "kindness of the federal government" to go on the dole. We started a dependent class right here thanks Lyndon

[huckstered]

@bobbollu I suppose you are the ultimate judge of need and can identify and already know all the

rest are undeserving of help,the ones that aren't the execptions to the rule. Good, the govt. should contact in order to to clean up the country.

[less01]

EXEPTIONAL MAN

[6thfloorbookdeposit]

Yes Waiting In The Wings Was LBJ

[scooterfan96]

i have lbj for a report

[TruthorDare21]

Hey someone here forgot to say he kept the war going untill Nixon came and put and end to it..why didnt he stop vietnam ?

[Suprkit]

Great ad.Great President.God Bless Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Johnson Family.