LBJ - Poverty 1964 Election Ad

[ohmario1882]

LBJ had a lot of 60 second ads... Must'a been bankin'

[JackWormwood]

Stop Goldwater NOW!

[YManCyberDude]

I'm so glad he got rid of poverty.... Too bad no one thought to get rid of it before....

[needstoregister]

war always bankrupts the country

[spikeymaycry2]

these nigglets would be a prove that this education campaign did not go well

[DaveBrennanz]

LBJ was a great president

[harrisonconstantinou]

57 years later there is still poverty

[CentristFiasco]

@harrisonconstantinou And yet we give so much to the extent we're in debt... This should be a waking call.

[joeyess]

@CentristFiasco yes. we give so much we're in debt. I wonder, are those 2 wars and massive tax cuts to blame for our debt as much as feeding, clothing, and housing kids?  Or are those just your priorities?

[Danny2134ful]

@harrisonconstantinou 47 years later

[sidrahsiddiqui]

I like Robert F. Kennedy's ads. He was a true public servant. Not like LBJ, gettin some pathetic ad campaign company to colour his false promises.

[superjon5]

Rubbish, look at the Johnson record. Unemployment dropped from 5.7 in 1963 to 3.5 percent, the percentage of Americans living in poverty dropped from 17.3 to 11.1 percent, he balanced the budget and saw the largest average GDP growth since FDR. The economy grew, on average, five percentage points annually under his watch. Comparatively, it grew about 3.4 percent annually under Reagan. These are facts. Liberalism works.

[dreamcore]

@superjon5

Conscripting and sending your unemployed to foreign wars is a pretty solid way of getting those numbers down for a while.

[joeyess]

@superjon5 "Liberalism works." It sure as hell does.

[Monorprise]

ahahah that worked out great... NOT

[RevanGabriel]

Even before the financial crises, 25% of the population was living in poverty. Thats 1 out of every 4 americans living poverty. If only Vietnam didn't get in the way.

[VelvetElk]

Nothing sells like children.

[aljanadcob]

3 trillion spent fighting the war on poverty, killing any initiative for marriage or work, and where are we now? i would recommend reagan's 64 speech to anyonwe with an open mind.

[gundamWWW]

I still didn't get President Johnson.

Here is guy who wanted to help the poor Americans of all colors at home.

But he went off to kill some Vietnamese guys in Rice patties oversears.

President Johnston = One of the most confusing President's of all time.

[Claronium780]

@gundamWWW definetely not the worst though!

[trailboyus66]

@gundamWWW I didn't understand him either. My folks were split over politics. Mom's family were mostly Union army era Republicans and Dad's family were mostly Confederate army era Democrats. I am an independent as a result of all that static over politics.  Ron Paul + Pat Bucanan+ Bill Clinton+ Jimmy Carter+ Harry Truman+ and Ronald Regan- George Bush- George W.Bush- When it comes to Johnson ( - +)

[IwillKillYourCereal]

LBJ: Loved by minorities, and hated by hippies

[BUSean]

In retrospect, this one of the saddest ads in history, because the War on Poverty failed. It didn't fail because of anything to do with its implementation, but instead because Johnson couldn't stick around long enough to see it through because he couldn't lay off of Vietnam.

[AWesome61696]

@BUSean well all his anti-poverty efforts were brushed aside with the escalating conflict in Vietnam.

[flogeon]

Vote for President Johnson guyz

[Messicamunch]

they have good hair

[mindspring57]

According to an article in the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of WebMD magazine, blacks make up only 12% of our population, but 46% of the people who are HIV positive are black. How's the war on poverty going?

[NYerintransit]

The War on Poverty failed.

[FRSFreeState]

Poverty was clearly a big concern for LBJ but his solutions to the problem were well intended but badly designed. His "War on Poverty" should've been designed to Empower poor people to get themselves out of Poverty not to Empower Government.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Poverty is not the government's problem.

[MAdk1p]

lately Ive been thinking that poverty is not entirely circumstance and that it is partly hereditary. adopted kids end up with the IQ of their biological parents, not their adopted parents. feeding the low IQ drains on society without any check on their reproduction is recipe for disaster.

[Monorprise]

@MAdk1p I would point out that circumstance is mealy the raw materiel to be harness in the creation of wealth.

What that means is if life gives you lemons you can make a fortune in lemonade. All you need is a mind and will to see it and do it.

As for Genetics they do indeed predispose you to things but they do NOT govern you. 90%+ of what we are is what we choose to be over the course of our lives, we are truly self-made men and women.

[Khyrid]

@Monorprise Unless you're born with no arms and a half formed brother growing out of your face then you may struggle with the lemonade thing.

[bonfirejovi]

I hope this warmongering racist rots in hell. He has the blood of vietnam on his hands.

[bowmanski]

@bonfirejovi - "warmongering racist"? Where did you learn history, the GOP school of Historical Rewrites?

[StoneTemp1Pilot]

(After reading the comments) The Johnson/Goldwater election, the debate still rages, 46 years and counting! WOO!

[NoMercyJustCruelty]

"war on poverty"--abysmal multi-TRILLION dollar failure. liberalism is a mental disorder!

[northernsiren]

@NoMercyJustCruelty How's that war on terror or drugs going? I'm sure all those who got better scores in school because of free federal breakfast or attended headstart don't call it a failure.

[Kameleon676]

@NoMercyJustCruelty does it make you feel better how privileged you are by casting down others who live below your standard of living?

[DracoMalfoy87]

The only long term effect of the so-called Great Society was to create a generation that was dependent on government. The reason the cost of medicine is too high is because of medicare.

"We declared war on poverty, and poverty won." -Ronald Reagan

[suliam]

@DracoMalfoy87: Poverty had great allies in the GOP.

[garand]

@suliam actually, the welfare system has grown the life long dependence on welfare larger than any other system on earth.

[AzazelEblis]

@garand And really, other countries that offer these subsidies make it much easier than us to get and keep jobs, and harder to send them overseas.

But no, we can't do that, it'd be "un-American" and "Socialist" to quit *Subsidizing!* companies who send jobs overseas, or allow workers to have rights. Granted, some unions have strayed from their purpose, but they still have a place and a role to fill.

[garand]

@AzazelEblis what on earth are you going on about jobs for? the welfare system has taken the 2% that can't do better for themselves and turned it into the 14% that refuse to do better for themselves. They have 4.7 kids, who inturn have an 85% chance of being lifelong welfare bums. This has created generational failure to massive amounts of people.

And your silly theory is somehow it makes jobs? it makes expanding generations more dependent on hand outs and less than jobs.

[brunsworks]

@garand Refuse? Have you polled them? What's your source?

For that matter, if you postulate that the present system does not work, what is your solution?

[garand]

@brunsworks the current system can best be described as an abyssmal failure. The solution is simple. mandate birthcontrol. They will never work, they will never do anything other than whine for more handouts. The last thing we need is multiplying the current welfare class by 4.7 every 23 years.

[MikeBoomshadow]

@garand You first.

[garand]

@brunsworks the solution is simple- if you are milking off the state, you should be on birth control. preventing 4.7 kids from being born that have an 85% chance of being a welfare bum themselves.

[brunsworks]

@garand Citation needed.

[Monorprise]

@garand Your right Government has vastly expanded the ranks of those who simply ride and placed that burden upon our children and the ever diminishing ranks of those who must pull the ever heavier cart.

At some point we simply need to tell the Dems we won't pull their weight anymore and they cant make us. Even the guns of an illegitimate & repressive government are not such a threat as to permanently enslave us and our posterity. We have our own and the will to uses them to defend ourselves.

[AwfulVision]

papawx3, do you think gay people are icky?

[Musticman426]

Thanks I used this for my history class presentation on The Great Society

[papawx3]

Well, we see what THE GREAT SOCIETY got us! Debts out the arse and nothing to show for it. The truth is this: Government can not bring people out of poverty. Government can only redistribute wealth, but not create it. This is the same as punishing productivity.

[greeniem]

NO , we had a surplus with clinton. Reagan and G W Bush caused these deficits. But nice try!

[papawx3]

@greeniem

The USA has not seen a TRUE surplus since 1969. THAT IS FACT. The phoney Clinton budget surplus was accomplished by simply changing the accounting practices: 5-15=500! That is the math the Clinton administration used to get their "surplus". Ever administration since has used the same practices. THEY ALL ARE TO BLAME. Neither party gets a pass. They are all thieves. Thats what modern gubmint does-they steal our money.

[huckstered]

@papawx3 THAT IS A FACT ? You are

simple minded, it is that simple. There was a boom economy during Clinton's time that has been eliminated. Gubmint?

[TubeAmpMusic]

@huckstered - does clintons boom say anything of the government's ability to spend money? It says more about our technological advances, and our private sector growth. Indeed, for a democratic argument about spending-money-to-make-money, to work, it must be supported by a long-term,reaction of growth to Keynsean spending programs.

[huckstered]

@TubeAmpMusic The Clinton boom was a result of easy money being doled about by the banks and the dot.com boom. Lok at us now. The spend money to make money is an effort to stop the recession and indeed it did, it is not a long term solution just a short term stimulus to sort of -jump start- the economy which had slid into such a deep recession as you know I am sure. These are hard times for many people and many, have even lost their life savings.

[ajgolfer1]

@greeniem wiki us debt if you are literate you will be suprised to read the truth for once

[greeniem]

@ajgolfer1 yeah i'll go check wikipedia, you mental patient

[HVACSoldier]

@papawx3 There are always people willing to trust the government more than themselves. Or as Abe Lincoln (I think it was him) put it. "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time." However, today we have, (Bob Newhart playing Abe Lincoln's speech writer), "You CAN fool ALL the people ALL the time."

[TubeAmpMusic]

@HVACSoldier - Abe Lincoln said that? I thought that was Bob Marley...

[micesy]

@papawx3 You seem to know absolutely nothing about American History... The New Deal and The Great Society set the US on a path of prosperity for millions more Americans, recreated our infrastructure and united the country in a sense of common purpose. It's reagan that set us on the path of huge deficits, debt and massive borrowing by irresposibly cutting taxes (overwhelmingly for the wealthy of course) and not offsetting them in any way. Get your facts straight...

[TubeAmpMusic]

If you went out tonight and held 10,000 people gunpoint for $5, you could put a poor kid in school. How many people would go hungry, though, as a result? How many people would, without $5.00 forego filling up their gas tanks, or buying food they needed, or seeing their dentist who has a $10.00 copay; people are kept from their dreams in 10 minute increments, in successive $2.00 fees over years and years... you're either too rich to see it matter or too hopeless to have hope without thieving.

[AwfulVision]

@papawx3 Quick! Post more conservative talking points! HURRY DO IT.

[TubeAmpMusic]

@AwfulVision - nobody likes poverty. there is no change in the poverty rate since this time; americans are less educated. yeah civil rights came through, but through no help of the DEMOCRATS who tried to discredit and replace Dr. King, with Cointelpro. There's no doubt in anybody who knows anythings mind that de-segregation goes back to Eisenhower, who opened up the military as C in C and President. But you don't judge a bottle by it's label: you can pay a lot of money for something and get jack

[Clintville]

@TubeAmpMusic Desegregation in the military was ended by President Truman, not Eisenhower. And the greater civil rights legislation acts happened under LBJ. And the poverty rate under LBJ did drop dramatically compared to the national historic average.

[AlecBoy006]

Thank goodness we elected him! LBJ da man!

[cbat36]

@AlecBoy006 LBJ is a crook and murderer

[Ja100453]

LBj was mix presidnet

wonderul Domestic policys

but

Terrible forgin policy

I Will continue LBJs Deomestc poliys but I will not go to any war that we had nothing to do with.

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