LBJ is the TRUE father of Marxism.
Richard Nixon, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Bush have been the biggest increasers of Marxism since LBJ. Only Ronald Reagan reversed course since LBJ.
Disability was introduced in 1950, though at first limited to those at or above the age of 50. That was dropped within a few years. An extra allowance for the dependents of those on disability was also added in the '50s.
It wasn't until Dick Nixon's administration that yearly increases in social security payments were automatic -- originally, they had to be voted on by Congress. Also, Social Security in general expanded from a supplement to a pension program only in the 1970s.
It's safe to say that all kinds of government programs began modestly under FDR but steadily expanded afterwards.
As Harry Hopkins, assistant to FDR (and Soviet agent) once said, "tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect."
Even so, guess what decade reached the LOWEST point of spending on social welfare...........the 1950s. Truman and Eisenhower brought spending down in this area to 28.4 cents of every dollar by 1960.
By 1970, this had risen to 38.5 cents of every dollar, showing LBJ's (and to a minor extent Richard Nixon's) increases. By 1980, it soared to 53.0 cents of eery dollar. The biggest culprit was Richard Nixon in the early 70s and Ford. Reagan showed a decline. Thank God for Ronald Reagan.
Today it is at 65 cents of every dollar.
Too often, people hear what year some program was initiated and end up placing blame on the president or Congress for that year. The warping of that program often takes place later. (The blame placed on FDR is wrongly placed in is the best example of this). The best way to gauge when the Marxism crap takes place is to look at actual spending so we can properly place blame.
As the chart in #27 shows, Nixon and George Herbert Walker Bush put some real damage on us in terms of bringing about a rising state of centralized statism/Marxism/socialism, whatever one wants to call it.
We are cutting back on military programs now (like the F-22) since we "can't afford them". The rising centralized socialism we have is the cause. If we can't afford military programs now at 65 cents of every dollar, what will happen when the social weolfare spending reaches 70 cents of every dollar?
Russia and China win. They don't need to beat us in a military war. All they need to do is wait a few years and let America implode from the internal cancer of social welfare spending and global lottery giveaways.