The real culprits.
Here in 2023 the permanent federal bureaucracy is now effectively a government unto itself, functionally detached from accountability to the either the Congress or the people.
Tagged: Lyndon Johnson
Old issues. Old prescriptions.
For more than 50 years, the United States government, mostly but not completely at the behest of the Democrats, has been obsessed with two issues: poverty and minimum wage.
The latest news from the “front.”
If the goal of the War on Poverty was to significantly reduce the proportion of the population living below the poverty line, one would have to say that so far the war is a draw.
The Great Society at 50.
Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan in which he first proposed what he called the “Great Society.” So what of the Great Society on its 50th birthday? Sadly, there’s little to celebrate.
The 50 year war.
The poverty rate in America stands essentially unchanged from its level on this day 50 years ago. If nothing else, the War of Poverty has proved the words of the scripture in which Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you.”
Barack, we’d like you to meet Lyndon and Dick.
No president can be president without the trust of the American people. Just ask Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
The 50-year Tug-of-War.
Since 1960, the country has been in a tug-of-war between those on the right that believe that one can only be truly free when one accepts full responsibility for one’s own life…