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The war on poverty all is does it increase crime and cause other people to be stay poor trapped in unemployment leeching us government-welfare system.
America watched the anti-American left oppose the Iraq War as a war without end, an un-winnable war that is too expensive. well? $17 trillion of money looted from the American taxpayer and not only is poverty not gone, it has worsened and American families are decimated by the dependency and the pimp mentality of Washington. Why do Democrats support the open-ended, un-winnable war on poverty with tax dollars but opposes removing anti-American dictators? Don't "Progressives" believe in facts?
@BlackRepublican2010 How about putting money into jobs and education instead of borrowing billions from China trying to "transform" the world. Iraq never attacked the US and was no threat to the US. The purpose of the military is to protect the country from attack or invasion, not to be sent around the globe on some unrealistic and immposible mission of remaking the world as we wish it were.
@BlackRepublican2010 Hardly a discernable message here? Poverty stricken families are better off
for public aid. You are out of touch and cannot identify even, with people that truly need, a hand.
Things are bad now, work cannot be had by all, had they wanted it. Medical ins. costs so
high, one policy premium could not be paid by a very large population. Situations are not about political policy -it is hard living hand to mouth on a daily basis , however they can. Repeal tax cuts of top 5%.
LBJ such a great President. Until you think of Vietnam and then put his position as one of the great tragic presidents, near greatness but his role in the mistake of the war was such a tragedy for Vietnam and the US. Too bad, he would be one of the most loved Presidents in history despite some of the bad legacies of the Great Society. The war ruined him. Now, the majority of people who were born after his time in office could not name him, even if you showed them a photograph of Johnson.
@urdaddy4321 The guys accomplishments were monumental and the policies he set in motion changed the country and made it better for all. Most don't realize this and cannot understand.
One of the absolute worst presidents we've ever had! He kept us in Vietnam because, by his own admission, he was afraid to go against what his Harvard-grad advisors told him to do (because he attended a hick college).
Also, it was Johnson that gave us the nightmare government program called The Great Society. The fool believed that it was somehow a wise thing to get people to use others to get a free ride through life! U.S. tax-payers have ever since suffered greatly due to this fool jackass!!
The "War on Poverty" should've been about Empowering poor people to get themselves up and to be Self Sufficient. Through temporary Financial Assistance, Education, Job Training and Job Placement. Not subsidizing people indefinitely and hoping the problem goes away on its own.
the man is pure scum. Don't forget he was one of the main figures of opposition when the Republicans were trying to pass the first version of the civil rights act.
@jeffmagic32 Thats because both parties are corrupt. If one party has good legislation the other party will still fight it and then when the other party is in power they will think nothing of turning and passing some version of that legislation which they had previously opposed. The differences between the two parties are not that great for the most part, what they both really care about and want to gain is power and staying in power, solutions to problems and issues are a secondary concern.
I like LBJ, im not gunna lie. He was a very good president, and also a very bad president. The poverty rate drastically went from something like 34 % to i think 13%. The great society saved alot of people from the strings of poverty but at the same time created a welfare dependent nation that did not work out very well in the future. He also lied our way into vietnam (gulf of tonkin), which drug us into a pointless war, everybody knows that. LBJ is probably one of the most debatable presidents.
@69ballsackarian I agree- but for LBJ-the good lagacy far outweighs the bad. The guys nature, like his political policies were very contradictory and mysterious. A bigot on the outside but was it political posturing? Were the poverty, prejuduce, ignorance, violation of rights and a thousand other wrongs that were righted to be left the way they were? In that day, Viet Nam was another South Korea,another communist wrong to be righted. It was a huge mistake and a quagmire. Unchangeable, bad.
The problem with Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" weren't the goals which I think most good people share. The problem was the approach. The "War on Poverty" should of been about empowering poor people to get themselves on there feet through education, job training, encouraging business's to locate in impoverished areas where the people there could work & encouraging business's to give there low skilled labor job training to move up in the company. Instead it empowered the Federal Government.
what a moving speech, you see the conviction and real dedication LBJ had to this war on poverty. Something that no politician dare utter today because he would be dragged into the mire by the conservative media straight away and called "anti-growth" and "anti-business". What happened to compassion and care for one another? This is the question you need to ask.
This isn't actually one of Johnson's State of the Union Addresses or his address on the War on Poverty. It is actually was his "We Shall Overcome" speech to a joint session of Congress.
LBJ was a double dealing, say whatever he needed to say, do what he needed to do, politician, to get POWER, but he did some great things before the tragedy of Vietnam.
@WHP1959 The loss of a war does not negate the profound change of direction
this country took after the LBJ administration. Bush Jr is seen as a bad pres.
The stigma from cynics as regards Johnson was because of trying to win a war inherited hides the staggering social revolution that occurred at the time.
I remember the Cadillacs and the tar paper shacks with the poor. We were poor but had a nice clean home and a 15 year old car to get around with. Friday and saturday nights you could see the Cadillacs down in the drinking bars whooping and holler.
The war on poverty also gave us the current 'hip hop' industry where black kids go around shooting cops, raping women, wear their pants on the ground, and causing all kinds of chaos because the black father has been eliminated from the equation.
@Launchpad05 You are speaking out of the bottomless depths of your ignorance. Repression causes the outpouring of such deviant behaviors and the development of alternate cultures, denial of entrance to the mainstream culture is
the cause, prejudice. Nothing more. You are a fool.
@AlecBoy006 Clinton does nt belong in there at all, there was no watershed events
or legislation passed during the administration of slick Willie. He was very likable
and had good intentions. But the us founder , Lincoln, the depression era pres. who helped the masses and the greatest politician LBJ -do not belong in a grouping including Clinton.
@AlecBoy006 Lyndon Baines Johnson a 33rd Degree Freemason shown that the 33rd degree secret is Tesla Earthquake No. 333 and was initiated with a predicted seismic event appearing divine at the time to an “idiot of the 33rd degree” -Mark Twain (Freemason)
@AlecBoy006 i like that list! But my big sticking point with Clinton is NAFTA, it's hurt not just us but Mexico too, it put thousands of small Mexican farmers out of business who couldn't compete with big US corp agriculture, personally i'd drop Clinton and add Teddy Roosevelt :-)
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Speaking of which, what will victory look like in the "War on Poverty"? When are they going to produce an "exit strategy" from that quagmire? quote from Ann Coulter
I lived before, but not in the deep South and in big cities, but people had more self respect and respect for others because they weren't feeding at the public trough (sorry for the run-ons). I do remember the tar paper shacks and Cadillacs. It was a different world back then, but a lot safer, though not as affluent.
I like the determination and the confidence in his voice
timewatch12 1 month ago
To me, LBJ's greatness was his compassion for the disavantaged and the legislation that came out of that.
onewomanandsomesongs 2 months ago 3
2011
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killing me softly with his song
SuperMegaUberGenius 4 months ago
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The war on poverty all is does it increase crime and cause other people to be stay poor trapped in unemployment leeching us government-welfare system.
Hperman09 9 months ago
At least he really was from Texas, not like the president who pretended to be, but is really from Connecticut.
jcfrmcali 10 months ago 6
Probably one of the most under rated presidents we have ever had. Had it not been for Vietnam history would view him much differently.
VincenzoPickatelli 10 months ago 3
America watched the anti-American left oppose the Iraq War as a war without end, an un-winnable war that is too expensive. well? $17 trillion of money looted from the American taxpayer and not only is poverty not gone, it has worsened and American families are decimated by the dependency and the pimp mentality of Washington. Why do Democrats support the open-ended, un-winnable war on poverty with tax dollars but opposes removing anti-American dictators? Don't "Progressives" believe in facts?
BlackRepublican2010 11 months ago
@BlackRepublican2010 How about putting money into jobs and education instead of borrowing billions from China trying to "transform" the world. Iraq never attacked the US and was no threat to the US. The purpose of the military is to protect the country from attack or invasion, not to be sent around the globe on some unrealistic and immposible mission of remaking the world as we wish it were.
xexixk 10 months ago 5
@BlackRepublican2010 Hardly a discernable message here? Poverty stricken families are better off
for public aid. You are out of touch and cannot identify even, with people that truly need, a hand.
Things are bad now, work cannot be had by all, had they wanted it. Medical ins. costs so
high, one policy premium could not be paid by a very large population. Situations are not about political policy -it is hard living hand to mouth on a daily basis , however they can. Repeal tax cuts of top 5%.
huckstered 9 months ago 2
LBJ such a great President. Until you think of Vietnam and then put his position as one of the great tragic presidents, near greatness but his role in the mistake of the war was such a tragedy for Vietnam and the US. Too bad, he would be one of the most loved Presidents in history despite some of the bad legacies of the Great Society. The war ruined him. Now, the majority of people who were born after his time in office could not name him, even if you showed them a photograph of Johnson.
Yeldarb4 1 year ago 3
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"After tomorrow those goddamn Kennedys will never embarrass me again—that's no threat—that's a promise."
That' what Johnson said one day before they slaughtered JFK.
045781 11 months ago
@Yeldarb4 Ruin him? Ruin LBJ? Hah! Public opinion isn't always spot on. Accomplishments live on in public policy.
huckstered 10 months ago 3
Worst president behind Carter and Obama. Everything he did was a failure and was a political bully
urdaddy4321 1 year ago
@urdaddy4321 The guys accomplishments were monumental and the policies he set in motion changed the country and made it better for all. Most don't realize this and cannot understand.
huckstered 10 months ago 5
One of the absolute worst presidents we've ever had! He kept us in Vietnam because, by his own admission, he was afraid to go against what his Harvard-grad advisors told him to do (because he attended a hick college).
Also, it was Johnson that gave us the nightmare government program called The Great Society. The fool believed that it was somehow a wise thing to get people to use others to get a free ride through life! U.S. tax-payers have ever since suffered greatly due to this fool jackass!!
guyNbluejeans 1 year ago
he always reminds me of john wayne!!
czarinaofall 1 year ago
The "War on Poverty" should've been about Empowering poor people to get themselves up and to be Self Sufficient. Through temporary Financial Assistance, Education, Job Training and Job Placement. Not subsidizing people indefinitely and hoping the problem goes away on its own.
FRSFreeState 1 year ago
the man is pure scum. Don't forget he was one of the main figures of opposition when the Republicans were trying to pass the first version of the civil rights act.
jeffmagic32 1 year ago
@jeffmagic32 Thats because both parties are corrupt. If one party has good legislation the other party will still fight it and then when the other party is in power they will think nothing of turning and passing some version of that legislation which they had previously opposed. The differences between the two parties are not that great for the most part, what they both really care about and want to gain is power and staying in power, solutions to problems and issues are a secondary concern.
xexixk 1 year ago
I like LBJ, im not gunna lie. He was a very good president, and also a very bad president. The poverty rate drastically went from something like 34 % to i think 13%. The great society saved alot of people from the strings of poverty but at the same time created a welfare dependent nation that did not work out very well in the future. He also lied our way into vietnam (gulf of tonkin), which drug us into a pointless war, everybody knows that. LBJ is probably one of the most debatable presidents.
69ballsackarian 1 year ago
@69ballsackarian I agree- but for LBJ-the good lagacy far outweighs the bad. The guys nature, like his political policies were very contradictory and mysterious. A bigot on the outside but was it political posturing? Were the poverty, prejuduce, ignorance, violation of rights and a thousand other wrongs that were righted to be left the way they were? In that day, Viet Nam was another South Korea,another communist wrong to be righted. It was a huge mistake and a quagmire. Unchangeable, bad.
huckstered 11 months ago
The problem with Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" weren't the goals which I think most good people share. The problem was the approach. The "War on Poverty" should of been about empowering poor people to get themselves on there feet through education, job training, encouraging business's to locate in impoverished areas where the people there could work & encouraging business's to give there low skilled labor job training to move up in the company. Instead it empowered the Federal Government.
FrsBigeasy 1 year ago
what a moving speech, you see the conviction and real dedication LBJ had to this war on poverty. Something that no politician dare utter today because he would be dragged into the mire by the conservative media straight away and called "anti-growth" and "anti-business". What happened to compassion and care for one another? This is the question you need to ask.
haasxaar 1 year ago
This isn't actually one of Johnson's State of the Union Addresses or his address on the War on Poverty. It is actually was his "We Shall Overcome" speech to a joint session of Congress.
EEllenGardner 1 year ago
LBJ was a double dealing, say whatever he needed to say, do what he needed to do, politician, to get POWER, but he did some great things before the tragedy of Vietnam.
WHP1959 1 year ago
@WHP1959 The loss of a war does not negate the profound change of direction
this country took after the LBJ administration. Bush Jr is seen as a bad pres.
The stigma from cynics as regards Johnson was because of trying to win a war inherited hides the staggering social revolution that occurred at the time.
huckstered 1 year ago
great president
MillaHead 1 year ago
I remember the Cadillacs and the tar paper shacks with the poor. We were poor but had a nice clean home and a 15 year old car to get around with. Friday and saturday nights you could see the Cadillacs down in the drinking bars whooping and holler.
TheMydoggator 2 years ago
The war on poverty also gave us the current 'hip hop' industry where black kids go around shooting cops, raping women, wear their pants on the ground, and causing all kinds of chaos because the black father has been eliminated from the equation.
Launchpad05 2 years ago
@Launchpad05 Non-sense. A disconnect with reality. Centuries of oppression cause poverty ,discrimination
and an ugly outpouring of such reactions
to the status quo. One of the most out of touch historical statements ever on here.
huckstered 2 years ago
If you spend a trillion dollars to fight poverty, you get a trillion dollars worth of poverty. You get what you pay for.
Launchpad05 2 years ago
@Launchpad05 Why should they care if one has nothing to lose no matter the behaviors ? Tragically , it is the current state of affairs.
Respect for authority is disappearing
because it makes no sense to them. It is false social rebellion and I don't understand it either.. it is so self-destructive.
huckstered 2 years ago
@Launchpad05 You are speaking out of the bottomless depths of your ignorance. Repression causes the outpouring of such deviant behaviors and the development of alternate cultures, denial of entrance to the mainstream culture is
the cause, prejudice. Nothing more. You are a fool.
.
huckstered 1 year ago
No, your a fool for thinking that the great society programs of L.B. Johnson work, and that the government should be in charge of your healthcare!
Launchpad05 1 year ago
It is very reassuring for me to see matters the way you write them, launchpad. What wisdom you can pen.
You have a great economy with words.
huckstered 1 year ago
fight the war on poverty one of my favorite presidents Lyndon B.Johnson
jrbrknox 2 years ago
One of the best presidents we ever had!
AlecBoy006 2 years ago
One of the top 5 according to a history channel documentary.
huckstered 2 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree! I have Lincoln first, then Washington, FDR, Clinton, and then LBJ. Great list if you ask me!
AlecBoy006 2 years ago
Clinton doesn't belong in there.
T. Roosevelt was a visionary and great leader , Clinton is out of his league with the others by a long shot. I think he is great though.
huckstered 2 years ago
@AlecBoy006 Clinton does nt belong in there at all, there was no watershed events
or legislation passed during the administration of slick Willie. He was very likable
and had good intentions. But the us founder , Lincoln, the depression era pres. who helped the masses and the greatest politician LBJ -do not belong in a grouping including Clinton.
huckstered 1 year ago
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@AlecBoy006 Lyndon Baines Johnson a 33rd Degree Freemason shown that the 33rd degree secret is Tesla Earthquake No. 333 and was initiated with a predicted seismic event appearing divine at the time to an “idiot of the 33rd degree” -Mark Twain (Freemason)
insightllc 1 year ago
@AlecBoy006 i like that list! But my big sticking point with Clinton is NAFTA, it's hurt not just us but Mexico too, it put thousands of small Mexican farmers out of business who couldn't compete with big US corp agriculture, personally i'd drop Clinton and add Teddy Roosevelt :-)
xexixk 1 year ago
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Speaking of which, what will victory look like in the "War on Poverty"? When are they going to produce an "exit strategy" from that quagmire? quote from Ann Coulter
oilhammer04 2 years ago
There is none, this is the status quo
the quagmire was before when there was no war on poverty.
huckstered 2 years ago
Actually Black families were doing better before the Great Society policies kicked in and help ruin so many black families
oilhammer04 2 years ago
A Reagan myth. Poverty levels were reduced by more than half, afirmative action, federal student loans, medicaid
and particularly the food stamp program
kept black children from going hungry
which was very widespread before, a shame in such an afluent nation. The country is a far different place
than before the Great Society.
huckstered 2 years ago
I lived before, but not in the deep South and in big cities, but people had more self respect and respect for others because they weren't feeding at the public trough (sorry for the run-ons). I do remember the tar paper shacks and Cadillacs. It was a different world back then, but a lot safer, though not as affluent.
oilhammer04 2 years ago
You obviously never lived before 1964 as an adult, this is a far different
place now. Respect was the LAST thing people got in the south. You are deluded.
huckstered 2 years ago
This rocks!
bms2tpw 3 years ago 2
Great upload, thanks.
I'm writing a paper on urban renewal and this is some good food for thought.
JamaicaGR10 3 years ago