Posted on 01/04/2017 12:12:27 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest popular vote in the nation’s history. Johnson used this mandate to push for improvements he believed would better Americans’ quality of life.
Following Johnson’s lead, Congress enacted sweeping legislation in the areas of civil rights, health care, education and the environment. The 1965 State of the Union address heralded the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the White House Conference on Natural Beauty
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Are we better off than we were 50 years ago, after 50 years of all these government programs ????
The conditions were all in place
Just open the printed money and debt spigot, and the progressive-left can fund any social-engineering, political scheme they can think of.
Another president elected who took advantage of a “crisis” to enact a legislative agenda not desired by the country.
and single parent families have increased from 5% to 85%
Depends on who you are. If you are a Democrat who obtained great wealth as a result of these programs (vote bribing scheme for newly minted voters due to the 24th amendment) then "yes."
If you are someone who has to pay for or suffer the consequences of these programs, then "no."
I think most of the nation falls into the "no" category.
Creating the eternal Gibsmedat class of parasites and useless vermin.
This is factually untrue. We know his actual motives.
This is fake news - author should be made to clean toilets with his tongue.
I didn't say that.
This is factually untrue. We know his actual motives.
Yes we do. His motives were to grab all those newly created voters that the Liberal North Eastern Rockefeller-wing "establishment" Republicans thought they were going to get when they removed the tax paying requirement for voting. (24th amendment. Worst amendment ever.)
Johnson outsmarted them, and reaped a huge political windfall for doing so.
>>(24th amendment. Worst amendment ever.)<<
#3 worst.
Gotta go with #1) 19th and #2) 17th
You did not say that. The article did.
The guy was a giant doosh. We know that now.
And please don’t think I propose you clean toilets with your tongue.
I do not propose that.
IMO LBJ did more than any other president in the 20th century to destroy the fabric of our country.
This is why LBJ had JFK assassinated.
JFK wanted to get out of RVN which LBJ
needed to keep the public’s attention off
of the “great Society” scam/transfer of
wealth to democrat voters which as a bonus
sucked huge YUGE amounts of money away from
NASA’s moon program and in addition the Vietnam
war was a god send to the leftist organizations.
Just my opinion.
I hated the SOB, got a lot of friends and relatives killed for no good reason.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years” - Lyndon Baines Johnson
Racist bastard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP5h3zku7kc
To save wear&tear on the browsers;
a) 17th Amendment (1913) - Direct Election of the US Senate by popular vote superseding Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, by which US Senators were elected by state legislatures. Could be considered a death knell of true Federalism as it diminished power of the States in the Federal Government.
b) 19th Amendment (1920) - Women's right to vote. Another power grab by the Federal Government over the various States that were given the right to determine internal voting standards. No matter how much one may agree with the intent, from this precedent comes the Federal ability to mandate law within the States.
c) 24th Amendment (1966) - Prohibits both Congress and the states from limiting the right to vote in federal elections to require payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. Also has been extended by court cases, on the same principal to literacy and knowledge testing. Again flowing from the preemption of State Sovereignty as in the previously mentioned. While extensively used by the former Confederate States to depress minority voting, its implementation also paves the way to enabling the Welfare state to continue voting for increased benefits.
LBJ’s children and grandchildren are killing each other every day in Chicago.
Yeah but that ruins the (for me running) joke when they look up the 19th :)
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