Posted on 12/18/2020 10:59:43 AM PST by ammodotcom
The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might make the argument that social welfare programs are the moral path for a modern government. They cannot, however, make the argument that these are in any way effective at alleviating poverty.
In fact, there is evidence that such aggressive programs might make generational poverty worse. While the notion of a “culture of dependence” is a bit of a cliché in conservative circles, there is evidence that this is indeed the case – that, consciously or not, the welfare state creates a culture where people receive benefits rather than seeking gainful employment or business ownership.
This is not a moral or even a value judgment against the people engaged in such a culture. Again, the claim is not that people “choose to be on welfare,” but simply that social welfare programs incentivize poverty, which has an impact on communities that has nothing to do with individual intent.
We are now over 50 years into the development of the Great Society and the War on Poverty. It is time to take stock in these programs from an objective and evidence-based perspective. When one does that, it is not only clear that the programs have been a failure, but also that they have disproportionately impacted the black community in the United States. The current state of dysfunction in the black community (astronomically high crime rates, very low rates of home ownership and single motherhood as the norm) are not the natural state of the black community in the United States, but closely tied to the role that social welfare programs play.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammo.com ...
“inadvertently”
Sure....
“Inadvertently”? Yeah... keep believing that.
The author misspelled “deliberately”.
Inadvertently?? Please, LBJ was a major, real-life racist. He did it solely and purposely to enslave the black population making them dependent on the party of government, the commu-rat party.
Who’s gonna pull the rug out from under these bribes?
Give LBJ his due...he was right about securing that voter block for generations.
Not just the welfare state, but the drug culture, the sexual revolution, and the New Left, which championed the dumbing-down of education, promoted the idea that traditional academic standards are “racist,” promoted identity politics, and - eventually - turned the public schools and universities into bastions of anti-Americanism, which in turn justified resentment, indolence, rebellion, and a sense of entitlement - all of which are counter-productive to educational achievement and social integration.
FDR to LBJ onwards sought to enslave the Black vote to the Demonrat party by making them government dependents. Mission accomplished.
No; even that ceased to work for them, which is why they had to switch to fraud.
what a lie
“inadvertently”
the liberals knew what would occur, they desired it, it was a goal
50 years of Democrat solutions for the African American community who have rewarded them with 95% of their vote, and Black activists still claim victimhood.
What’s wrong with this picture?
LBJ just couldn’t stop at the Civil Rights Act....(thanks to the Republicans) he had to make up to his Dixiecrats by giving us the War on Poverty to make sure the black man was put back in his place, making black households kick daddy out and get in that ghetto, have babies and wait for your check and VOTE DEMONRAT!!!........anyhoo that’s how I see it. I hated that man with a passion!!
They’re falsely stating without evidence that the damage was inadvertent. When did a Democrat ever view dependency on goobermint as an evil to be minimized and then eliminated? It’s actually their stock in trade.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.