Carter, while a smart guy, was inept and let his self-righteousness overwhelm history and his own common sense. Obama was very competent in pushing the agenda he was supposed to, that is, the destruction of what was left of America as it was known. Biden was “selected” to perform the coup de gras so he would take all the heat and leave Obama unsoiled.
For my money, before Obama/Biden the most destructive President in American History was LBJ. He planted the seeds for most of the big problems we suffer from today. The Vietnam War, all the social programs that have destroyed the Black family structure, using SS funds to disguise the true cost of all those, and setting the stage for the outrageous money printing taking place currently. He was personally, by most accounts, a total POS.
Initiated by John Kennedy. Bungled by Johnson and his wunderkind MacNamara.
all the social programs that have destroyed the Black family structure, using SS funds to disguise the true cost of all those, and setting the stage for the outrageous money printing taking place currently.
You blame Johnson for that? You don't know your history. Prior to 1963, you couldn't vote unless you paid taxes. This system kept spending under control, because taxpayers would oppose excessive spending because they knew they would have to pay the bill with higher taxes.
It was a self regulating system up until 1963. That was the year the *LIBERAL REPUBLICANS* decided to push an amendment that would take away the requirement to pay taxes in order to vote. They sold it as an anti-racism amendment, but the truth was it was a vote grabbing amendment.
*THAT* is where the excessive spending came from, and *THAT* is where the fake social programs came from.
The people who deserve the blame for the disaster of excessive spending and failed social programs (vote buying schemes in reality) are the liberal Republicans who pushed that amendment.
When *THEY* made it practical to bribe newly created voters with public money, Johnson merely took advantage of the opportunity *THEY* created.
Do you think life long racist Johnson cared about black people? No. He just cared about their votes, and since the Republicans created the conditions where it was practical to bribe them with tax dollars in exchange for their votes, Johnson just did what *they* were going to do anyways, he just did it first.
Blame Liberal big city Republicans for this fiasco, because they are the ones who created it.
“The Great Society”- NOT!