LBJ's "War on Poverty" has been a dismal failure

[Contumacious]

LBJ's war on north viet nam was also a massive failure. 58,000 dead americans and billions of dollars for absolutely nothing.

LBJ should be impeached postumously. He was second only to obama in being a terrible president

LBJ was an unbelievable scumbag who attempted to sink the [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZSzdQuOqM"]USS Liberty [/ame] kill its sailors in order to blame and then invade Egypt.

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[Contumacious]

they have to pretend history doesn't exist.


they cant live in the real world.

it destroys their historically failed ideas

What "history" is that?

Or are you the one ignoring that the war or poor is a gigantic fraud?

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[Listening]

LBJ's "War on Poverty" has been a dismal failure


Today, the poverty rate is only slightly below where it was in 1964, and it came with a $20 trillion price tag. What’s more, a record 47 million Americans are now receiving food stamps, which is about 13 million more than when the President Obama took office.

Actually, the war on poverty hasn’t failed. It has done exactly what it was intended to do: enrich and empower the state and its interest groups. One of the problems of being a think-tank is that you must accept the state’s bona fides, or be fired. Only radical criticism, however, criticism that goes to the root, in other words, has a chance of delegitimizing these evil activities.

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But his war on the middle class has been a huge success.

Obama has taken over and is now blithely leading the charge.

 

[Listening]

Go get some numbers that prove your party backed the war on poverty and fully funded it?


now run along and search


what you pretend exists dosent

You mean....like your brain.

 

[Truthmatters]

they have to pretend history doesn't exist.


they cant live in the real world.

it destroys their historically failed ideas

What "history" is that?

Or are you the one ignoring that the war or poor is a gigantic fraud?

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Go get the PROOF that all the Rs who held office since that day it started have fully funded that war?


You see you cant trash a program and then blame it for not working.

that is hypocrisy.

Oh wait maybe YOU can

 

[Truthmatters]

Go get some numbers that prove your party backed the war on poverty and fully funded it?


now run along and search


what you pretend exists dosent

You mean....like your brain.

oh how clever cockroach taint

 

[Decus]

LBJ's strategy was a HUGE success for the Democratic Party but not for anyone else. Everybody lost, the poor, the taxpayers, and society as a whole. The Democratic Party continues to be the sole beneficiary of this travesty:

""I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.""
~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One


""These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.""

LBJ

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

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[Contumacious]

There can be no legitimate argument that the War on Poverty - INCREASED poverty.
No argument.
The social programs of the 60's-70's destroyed three generations of the black race...and working on the fourth.
The ONLY legitimate tool to combat poverty is job opportunities and a LIMIT on social safety nets when folks find themselves between jobs.
Anything and everything else is a waste of taxpayer dollars and NOT relief - but enabling laziness.
The only exception to this is disability. Which is heavily infected with fraud.

Exactly.

Confiscatory taxation and massive regulations destroy jobs.

Welfare state demagogues pander to unemployed masses by promising free lunches in exchange for their vote.

A parasitic relation is thus created.

 

[kaz]

Today, the poverty rate is only slightly below where it was in 1964, and it came with a $20 trillion price tag. What’s more, a record 47 million Americans are now receiving food stamps, which is about 13 million more than when the President Obama took office.

Democrats are deeply vested in making sure we don't solve poverty as that would only eliminate the base source of their votes. Keep em poor, let illegals vote, expand welfare roles, send them checks and you're in power for life.

 

[Contumacious]

there was never any "war on poverty". There was a war on the minds of certain population to vote dimocrap for generations.

that demagoguery war was won.

Poverty did not matter to LBJ at all and neither does it to any of his successors.

Exactly.

Their mission was create a class which would become addicted to freebies and would vote for welfare state politicians in order to show their appreciation.

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So this is funny because of two things:

One is because you all see these secret motives all the time but never talk facts. Its always "he did *blank* because he wants *blank*" that you can make up on the fly like the response you'll give me from this post. You just agree on the talking points which is fine but just know thats what it is.

Second thing, You are suggesting that LBJ developed the war on poverty to have voters for decades. As if there is some voodoo LBJ put on the war on poverty that prevents republicans from liking anything in it for Generations to come.

The fact is that Republicans went after it for decades. Reagan Bush etc constantly bash all parts of it when they dont have too. They can provide ideas to put on the table but the only ideas are tear it down FIRST...then we'll work it out. (Like ACA) LBJ couldnt have put such a hex on the GOP as to make their message fail for decades could he?

I have consistently referred to welfare state politicians - which includes democrats and the members of the Republican Party Surrender Caucus.

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[Vox]

there was never any "war on poverty". There was a war on the minds of certain population to vote dimocrap for generations.

that demagoguery war was won.

Poverty did not matter to LBJ at all and neither does it to any of his successors.

Exactly.

Their mission was create a class which would become addicted to freebies and would vote for welfare state politicians in order to show their appreciation.

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and they created that class. social engineering at it's purest.

 

[rdean]

Too many "let him die" Republican Presidents.

It's good that more and more finally admit they agree with "fuck the poor".

 

[Decus]

Too many "let him die" Republican Presidents.

It's good that more and more finally admit they agree with "fuck the poor".

LBJ certainly felt that way:

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

Huffington Post

 

[Listening]

Too many "let him die" Republican Presidents.

It's good that more and more finally admit they agree with "fuck the poor".

Not the poor.

Just you.

 

[Contumacious]

LBJ's "War on Poverty" has been a dismal failure


Today, the poverty rate is only slightly below where it was in 1964, and it came with a $20 trillion price tag. What’s more, a record 47 million Americans are now receiving food stamps, which is about 13 million more than when the President Obama took office.

Actually, the war on poverty hasn’t failed. It has done exactly what it was intended to do: enrich and empower the state and its interest groups. One of the problems of being a think-tank is that you must accept the state’s bona fides, or be fired. Only radical criticism, however, criticism that goes to the root, in other words, has a chance of delegitimizing these evil activities.

”

But his war on the middle class has been a huge success.

Obama has taken over and is now blithely leading the charge.

Well the middle class can not afford to pay for the massive welfare/warfare state.

The rich is able to remove their wealth overseas or manipulate the tax code to their advantage.

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[Vox]

LBJ's "War on Poverty" has been a dismal failure


Today, the poverty rate is only slightly below where it was in 1964, and it came with a $20 trillion price tag. What’s more, a record 47 million Americans are now receiving food stamps, which is about 13 million more than when the President Obama took office.

Actually, the war on poverty hasn’t failed. It has done exactly what it was intended to do: enrich and empower the state and its interest groups. One of the problems of being a think-tank is that you must accept the state’s bona fides, or be fired. Only radical criticism, however, criticism that goes to the root, in other words, has a chance of delegitimizing these evil activities.

”

But his war on the middle class has been a huge success.

Obama has taken over and is now blithely leading the charge.

Well the middle class can not afford to pay for the massive welfare/warfare state.

The rich is able to remove their wealth overseas or manipulate the tax code to their advantage.

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The middle class is a natural enemy of the left. therefore it has to be eradicated.

the previous left was not so radical as the current left in power.
obamacare is actually a perfect tool to achieve that goal - eradication of the middle class.

 

[Contumacious]

they have to pretend history doesn't exist.


they cant live in the real world.

it destroys their historically failed ideas

What "history" is that?

Or are you the one ignoring that the war or poor is a gigantic fraud?

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Go get the PROOF that all the Rs who held office since that day it started have fully funded that war?


You see you cant trash a program and then blame it for not working.

that is hypocrisy.

Oh wait maybe YOU can

What the fuck do that means?

Are you saying that while they were in power welfare type payments were suspended?!?!?!?!?!?

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[Contumacious]

LBJ's strategy was a HUGE success for the Democratic Party but not for anyone else. Everybody lost, the poor, the taxpayers, and society as a whole. The Democratic Party continues to be the sole beneficiary of this travesty:

""I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.""
~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One


""These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.""

LBJ

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

Huffington Post

Are the "liberals" disputing the quote?

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[Vox]

LBJ's strategy was a HUGE success for the Democratic Party but not for anyone else. Everybody lost, the poor, the taxpayers, and society as a whole. The Democratic Party continues to be the sole beneficiary of this travesty:

""I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.""
~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One


""These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.""

LBJ

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

Huffington Post

Are the "liberals" disputing the quote?

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no, they are ignoring the inconvenient truth

 

[kaz]

LBJ's strategy was a HUGE success for the Democratic Party but not for anyone else. Everybody lost, the poor, the taxpayers, and society as a whole. The Democratic Party continues to be the sole beneficiary of this travesty:

""I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.""
~ Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One


""These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again.""

LBJ

The Relentless Conservative: The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations

Huffington Post

Are the "liberals" disputing the quote?

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No, they are agreeing with it