Thomas Sowell says there is no need to explain poverty. It is a natural state we are all born into. What we need to focus on is wealth and where it comes from. No one talks about it. It's all about poverty.
You and Dr. Sowell are 100% correct. How much better off would the anti-capitalist haters (not to mention the rest of society) be if instead the same time, effort, and energy were invested in the study of value creation and in turn wealth creation were embraced studied and replicated?
@@debbiebrantley61 that's called "confirmation bias." You are willing to believe something you know is a lie because the truth does not fit your preconceived, erroneous notions. Changing your mind to adapt to the truth makes you uncomfortable.
That has to do more with corporate greed.just because the government gives people money to help them out doesn't mean these corporations had to raise their prices.they were still making a profit b4 they just wanted a bigger profit.
@@kennethburnette1153government must steal resources from some to “give” to others thru violent coercion… this is the worst form of generosity. Why aren’t YOU willing to give your money to the poor?…. It’s because you are greedy.
But historians have said the Great Society is a great success just by looking all the people that are on it. It has helped a lot of people, lifted everyone out of poverty, historians have said amazing things about the Great Society that it is.❤
13:35 Sweden had its "Million-Programme" at the same time. In a state of then about 8 million, a million new housings were built 1965-1974. The money came from socialization of pensions … These are now our problematic suburbs.
The Cabrini Green Projects were built for immigrants but soon became home for many rural blacks leaving the south. By the 1980s, it was hell on earth. One monster killed a little girl and stuffed her in the wall. The drug gangs were so turned off by that they put a bounty on his head. The mayor lived there for a week and fled when she had the chance!
How are you supposed to kill poverty when your only source of income is stealing from other people, punishing the productive which hampers their drive to produce, taking their wealth via the threat of force , or borrowing fiat currency into existence creating inflation and interest on that newly-created currency that steals wealth from the future?
LBJ finished off the constitution, a process began by FDR. We now live under two constitutions, one of which destroyed the other as our present conditions demonstrate. The 1787 constitution has been replaced by the one created in 1964
The Forgotten Man was an incredible book. I’ve probably bought 4 or 5 copies as gifts. I did not know about this book. Now I do, and I will need to buy it. Thanks.
Government was meant to 'remove barriers' for economic mobility, not attempt to manage them. Pursuing wealth is an internal motivation that requires nothing from government but 'getting out of the way.' The resurgence of political 'control' always seems to resurface.
There would not be massive debt without the Great Society(22 trillion) The debt is equal to the increase in federal spending. A tax on " hope" and opportunity is a good description of the results of the GS. The student loan problem is related also.
LBJ. I was 10 months old when Kennedy was assassinated. I got to see the welfare state develope from the start with a somewhat open mind. But growing up around relatively poor people, many who were not absolutely broke (or broken), I now contend that people are more poor and broken, than when they had less money and less technology. LBJ's great society has created a worse society.( Focus on the word society) Communities/societies are about families. The welfare programs of the "great society" has ruined families. Regardless of political affiliation, any of you who believe throwing money at a problem (whether private or public) solves a problem, are as dumb as a bag of rocks. This stupid concept of " if only we spent more money", has created broken schools, broken homes and bloated government. You can't fix people giving them money, you fix people with people. Unless they are too broken to fix. Sometimes I get the intuition that many of you are too broken to fix. Maybe that's why people are in a state of poverty in the first place. You are too broken to succeed.
Sooooo, it failed because it is a "tax on hope"? What is that a metaphor? Is this a real concept in the social sciences? It sounds more like the title of a poem than anything else. And how exactly is trying to solve a very real problem like poverty "social engineering"? It is shameful for a historian to believe in spontaneous order out of the chaos of the market.
Real question from a non america, all of conservatives keep saying that your national debt is too high spending is too high etc. But every time you get republicans in all three level of goverment (2003-2007 and 2017-2019) they don’t reduce federal spending and just keep letting your debt get higher. How big of a conservative majority would you guys actually need to reduce the federal goverment?
Look up the Filibuster. We haven't had a Republican Super Majority since the 1920's and Democrats have no incentive to cut spending, so they block it every time.
Beg to DIFFER about Lincoln In the last 75 years, my top 3 of a worst list no particular order, would at least include Carter and Obama, and the question is could that list include Johnson, because of his escalating the amount of US involvement in Vietnam and this Great Society BS, I say yes! LINCOLN NO! Lincoln IMHO belongs in my top 3 greatest presidents list. Curious why you think LBJ and Lincoln belong on your worst presidents list?
@@markldavis1 Lincoln because he made the USA a Union (as in no Separation/Secession of States from the federal Goverment) , because he did not let the South to Split from the North . Worst President Tier List: 1.Lincoln 2.Wilson(Living Constitution) 3.Nixon(Gold) 4.FDR(New Deal) 5.LBJ 6.Bush Junior(War on Terror) 7.Obama(Culture Shift to Progressivism). So after a quick thought LBJ is only on 5.. Edit:Not Chronologically.
It's unfortunate many Americans will never understand the benefits of good social policy like those we have here in the UK and the rest of Europe. What's wrong with good education, good healthcare, providing an economic safety net for the entire population during hard economic times, and good infrastructure? Ironically, you can live the American dream here in Europe, but in the US you have to be asleep to experience it.
One wonders whether what we see below is an opinion arrived at because American history was poorly taught or @theevermind was just a bad student. LBJ achieved the greatest civil rights victories since slavery ended. Poverty was cut in half, we began eliminating slums, and no president since has increased high school graduation rates or increased the percentage of high school grads going on to college, or lowered malnutrition or infant mortality rates like LBJ did. Yeah, Johnson used racist words, he was vulgar in private. What is more important, words or actions?
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@@keithwhittygmail Money means nothing when your citizens are either fleeing the state they live in or forced out of their homes from high taxes high real estate costs or ridiculous rent fees. They have ever growing numbers of homeless living in disease and crime infested tent cities and crapping on the sidewalks. They are running out of water in places and rationing the electricity. 65% of high school graduates can't read or write or they just drop out. It's just a damn shame that a bunch of liberal idiot politicians are allowed to run it into the ground.
@@chickey333 Now thats a lot of serious issues. Did Arnold not sort it all out? Maybe vote in an idiot like Trump and see how he gets on. Oh Yeah, that happened and the FEMA camps are waiting, never mind Covid 19. Ring up FEMA and ask them why hotels are bing used as hospitals instead of your thousands of Nazi, I mean FEMA camps? Interesting answer they give.
@@keithwhittygmail I'll take the "idiot" financial conservative over the anti-American tax and spend socialist every time not that one is much better than the other. And the FEMA camps... ask your friendly neighborhood progressive globalist. No don't bother they wouldn't tell you anything truthful anyway... as California continues to be a crap hole run by said progressive globalists.
It wasn't all "Good Intentions" some in the ruling class wanted a Permanent dependant underclass. and created the insatiable Monsterous Federal Government that wants to rule every aspect of our lives.
If LBJ's goal "was to entrap those in poverty, not help them" then he failed miserably because the poverty rate nationally was cut almost in half over the next decade.
@@henrytoledo4103 someone could just as easily classify you, too, in such terms. Name-calling is not much of a response when the issue of poverty is the subject and the fact is in a decade, the poverty rate in the U.S. was cut in half. That's a good thing.
That is one of the main reasons the percentage of children born into poverty is near the same level as 1965. We imported and subsidized poverty. Too bad Reason and most libertarians believe in open borders. They can’t even comprehend that importing third world people we make us less free.
@@edwardcoit9748 how can you admit we subsidize poverty and then say the wall is the answer? Stop subsidizing, and they won't come! There has never been a wall there, and they weren't flooding our borders 100 yrs ago.
Poverty was in decline prior to LBJ b/c poor folks were moving to places that had higher-paying jobs. The Great Migration is a perfect example of that. After LBJ, we had teen moms having 10 kids and all of that nonsense. Soon gangs of violent criminal became the norm in many cities.
If you look at just about anything the govt has jumped in to "save" the decline is already evident pre-govt involvement. They enjoy taking undue credit.
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The new deal came first, but if you do your homework you may find that these are all just corporate restructurings demanded by creditors (a.k.a the Federal Reserve) of the US govt following bankruptcies. Each one transferring the property and persons of the American population into their hands to repay those debts. There's a reason today's Americans are nothing but tenants and serfs.
@@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 Nonsense. By providing farmers loans to buy buy tractors, not only did the New Deal keep them from losing their farms from bankruptcy, but very quickly 100,000 tractors were sold as well as large numbers of combines. That government investment in the American people mechanized agriculture and American farms, especially in the South, became far more productive. Investments in infrastructure provided massive numbers of jobs building things like levees on the Mississippi River protecting rich, Mississippi land such as my farm from flooding, making that land even more productive There was no "corporate restructuring" involved when massive numbers of jobs were created to construct the TVA to provide electricity for millions of people and the power needed to build the atomic bomb. When Rural Electrification began, only 10% of rural Americans had electricity. There was no "corporate restructuring" needed to get them electricity, all that was needed was a government program to hire people to get it done - and they did. There was no "corporate restructuring" when tens of thousands of more jobs were created to build roads, bridges, schools, post offices and sanitation systems. With the development of infrastructure in the South, manufacturing businesses, such as the Wurlitzer plant at Holly Springs, Mississippi, could move in and hire people. You go across the South to various colleges and universities and you'll see beautiful buildings constructed by new Deal programs that were not "corporate restructuring" at all. Here in Virginia where I live today, the federal government purchased land for 6 parks and established work camps to put people to work building roads, trails, bridges, shelters and cabins on them. Then the government gave those 6 parks to the state and the Virginia system of state parks was established, no "corporate restructuring" in sight. Nor was there any "corporate restructuring" when another new Deal program stocked streams and lakes with millions of trout and other game fish. When I research old, historic buildings, the New Deal Historic American Building Survey is often a valuable resource, in spite of the lack of any "corporate restructuring."
@@vr-wx7dl when I hear black American talk about democrats in a good way it hurts my heart. It's like someone speaking well of there rapist. What a shame.
@@vr-wx7dl It is documented. He didn't say it on tape or in public. He was quoted by an aide of his who was quoted in a book. It's a credible, if not infallible, source, and it's totally in line with other statements he made. He would privately talk just like that when trying to convince politicians who spoke like that amongst themselves (such as racist segregationist types). We _know_ he would use the N-word. He wanted everyone to feel he was on their side. He had exceptional political skills.
I was in by early 20's when LBJ was president, having been born in 1944, so I lived through that disaster. In my opinion LBJ was the worst President in US history! He ran against Goldwater as a piece candidate, and after he won he immediately became a war hawk. He turned a small Communist insurrection into a blood bath. He accelerated America's descent into Socialism and Bankruptcy. He helped destroy the Black family in America. I may not be an "expert" on LBJ, but I was there, and I still have an intact memory. Today my wife and I are over 65, so according to Federal Law, we are under Medicare, and I don't like it. When I tried to set up an appointment with an excellent Pulmonary Doctor for my wife, I was told he was not on the approved list of our Medicare Administrator, and when I offered to pay out of my own pocket, they told me it was against Federal Law for a doctor to accept a direct payment from a person who was eligible for Medicare. Thank you LBJ!
That is exactly right! People have zero clue how bad it is! I have unfortunately been on medi-cal for years and it's horrible. I too was told its illegal to pay anything, even a dollar. Its ALL quantity over quality! I had an ACL injury/torn miniscus over nine years later and its still not been addressed, full of arthritis and pain, add that to herniated discs and arthritis in my back and neck and all I know is pain and pathetic personal "pain management". I rarely talk about it. It just is. The last time I even mentioned my pain to the provider I was recommended stretching (which Ive done my most of my life anyway), and, get this...counseling. Counseling for chronic debilitating pain! I could give many other accounts but all Im going to say is that my personal experiences and observations are that there was always a majority, if not all, non white people being served and doing the serving and they were always the priority, period. And no one will ever make me believe that "reverse racism" doesnt exist. I KNOW it does!
@@kevinsbott My daughter is a Political Science major. I have been thinking about going back to school to get my bachelors degree. I am torn between a passion, US Constitution/Government and History, and what might actually earn a decent living, which is badly needed at this point. I pray for this country, and all people in the fight to take it back.
@The Life Analyst: I don't remember saying ANYONE, (Black, white, brown, or any other color), should have voted for Goldwater! What I said was, "He ran against Goldwater as a piece candidate, and after he won he immediately became a war hawk." You need to read what people wrote, not what you think they wrote. And calling people names like "stupid" is school yard crap. I would have assumed anyone making comments on UA-cam was older than that. But READ my comment completely and you will see I was NOT endorsing Berry Goldwater. Remember, just because Goldwater was a bit weird, that doesn't made LBJ a good guy.
That "poverty" exists is a reason for the Left to exist in an ethically vacant marketing sense. The fact that "poverty" today includes TV's, smart phones, cars, air conditioning and other luxuries that 60 years ago would have been unimaginable shows that the goal-post of poverty keeps moving..
"America today has replaced indentured servants with the Working Poor. There comes a point where people need to understand that government subsidies for those working poor are not benefits for the poor, they are another grant for the rich so they can have cheap labor!" Agreed !!!
Over simplified? Government is not in the business of solving problems. Conflict of interest. They administrate. More the better. Bigger budgets. Solution(s) equals their obsolescence. Good will(supposed?) leads to greed.
Not only was the Great Society a failure in terms of outcome, but I would also say it is the primary catalyst for our social problems enabling mothers the raise their kids single and then doing very little at educating the children.
But they said along with what historians are saying that his Great Society is a great success because it's very popular and now there are a lot of people that are on it.
I'd say Satan did that in The Garden. Everything since then has been the trickle- down. It's a Spiritual issue. We're all against God by nature. Mix that with money and power and now we're seeing what comes of it. It'll get worse for sure.
"Feeding the horses to feed the sparrows." Now there's a saying I haven't heard in ages, but it's entirely accurate tbh. Whenever I hear young people today, opining that we must go socialist, that that'll fix things, I just despair. How can you look at the failure of the boondoggle of government social programs and think more of the same would fix things?
@@bharn253 Not to mention that Bernie et al has been lying to them. He calls himself a "Democratic Socialist" but anyone with half brain can google his past, pay attention to the things he's done over the last few decades. Praising the USSR, Cuba, that Central American dictator (whose name escapes me atm) ALL of whom murdered millions of their people in order to "save the worker". God, Bernie Bros are such idiots. "Bread lines are a GOOD thing!" SMH...
I spent 5 years on the East /West Border. I spent 1 year on the Korean DMZ. When you've seen communism first hand, them shooting each other to keep them from escaping. You know it doesn't really work...
@@bharn253 Oh, you are preaching to the choir, brother. My own son spent almost 3 yrs on the DMZ, was there when the NK's tried a nuke test--completely freaked the post out, they had to call everybody back in off of leave and put the post on alert. He's got some pretty hairy stories to tell as well. Very sad for the NK people. My overseas duty (36K) was in Germany, before The Wall fell, and we were on alert a lot of the time as well. Communists...as a Christian we're taught not to hate, it's self-destructive. BUT--I make an exception for communists. If communism is so great, why do you have to shoot your own people if they try to leave?
They're taught this in public schools. I've had to deprogram all 3 of my kids from it, which was actually easy to do, but if you don't do it then the kids just believe it as truth.
Such an insightful and interesting guest. I wasn’t aware of her or her work until now, but am definitely going to pick up a copy of this book because it really seems to tell the story of how we got to such a bloated bureaucratic nightmare government, and how maybe things can change if we educate enough people about the failures of the past. I really loved the part about Tom Hayden, who was Jane Fonda’s husband at the time and explains everything we need to know about Hanoi Jane and her self serving activism that she is still performing on a weekly basis. Her brand of activism is as old as she is and a vainglorious attempt by an elderly woman to be relevant. That type of activism, which is most types of it, requires no personal hardship, is a virtue signal, and is a new form of aristocracy that is a capricious pecking order. I really hate these immoral prats pontificating to us mere ignorant plebs.
The guest's statement that no one knew how expensive Medicare/Medicaid was going to become,... is absolutely false!! Everyone knew,... and no one cared! So long as *_WE_* look good, who really cares about those who follow us who have to clean up the mess. Look at how most no one cares a bit about exploding government debt and liability today. *Progressive Assertions:* 1) Scarcity is *NOT* natural. Scarcity *_ONLY_* happens because of greed. Production isn't necessary; only sharing. At any time in the past, present, or future, universal prosperity is always possible, except for the greed of a few. 2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism , as advocated by folks such as Noam Chomsky, is the way to go. No one needs prices to know what is worthwhile to do. Reason, and good will, are adequate to plan production. Labor is not a commodity. 3) Sovereignty should be based upon Good Intentions and not free moral agency. Corollary: Rule by Philosopher Kings!! 4) No one should ever have to suffer regardless of fault. 5) *_From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs_* (regardless of cost to everyone),... is still the best way to organize society,... but people are too greedy and selfish to make it work. It would be better for society to live as social insects, than as human beings. 6) Why be satisfied with trade-offs when solutions suggest themselves so obviously! 7) Wealth is consumption, not production. We have our cake, not because we bake it, but because we eat it. 8) Results flow from will, and will alone. If good results are not forthcoming, it is *ONLY* due to either a lack of good will or the presence of an opposing evil will. It is *NEVER* construed that results are lacking due to a lack of knowledge. Knowledge, science, technology, skills, prices, etc., are just incidental details. 9) Lifeboat ethics reign always. All these suppositions follow very naturally from the *_FACT_* that people today are essentially the same as we were a hundred thousand years ago when *EVERYONE* lived in nomadic, and essentially egalitarian, tribes. Most people's ethical, moral, and economic intuitions are still the same as our ancient ancestors, so is it any real surprise that so many people feel alienated in today's world where, under modern markets, the relationship between cause and effect is so abstract. For many caring, empathetic, people, trusting in Capitalism and self interest and the invisible hand of the market place makes just as much sense as walking off a ten story building,... and expecting the outcome to be okay. Just like a computer, the market can not be argued with, or pleaded with, or persuaded to be different. To people who rely on their ability and skill to influence people, the cold logic of computers/markets is, of course, experienced as profoundly alienating. If reality offers little to them, then so much the worse for reality then! This is how keirsey.com/temperament/idealist-overview/ progressives think versus the way keirsey.com/temperament/rational-overview/ libertarians think. For more, check out www.cato.org/events/socialism-human-nature . Basically the ideology of the Regressive Left (thank you Dave Rubin!) comes down to, literally, that wishing should make it so,... and if you even question the efficacy of such beliefs,... you're evil, you've bad intentions, you only say that wishing alone can not make it so because you must not really want it to be true. They are insane. But they speak to something that is very deep in the human soul than tends to be experienced more as the world becomes ever more prosperous and free. For more, read Nathaniel Branden's essay, *_Alienation_* in _Capitalism, the unknown ideal._ The punch line is that those who want to experience liberty covet the ability and responsibility to think for ourselves,... yet, mostly being herd animals, the vast majority of humanity atavistically craves a time when a mere instinct for survival, automatic and understood, was sufficient to survive and prosper. It isn't today. It can't be. But the Regressive Left would quite literally prefer the extinction of our species, rather than acknowledge as true the Pareto Principle as it applies to people; that roughly when any number of people are involved in most any activity, the square root of that number of people are providing half the value (out of 10,000, 100 create half the value, and then 10 create half the value again, or a quarter of the value of the original 10,000; How could there not be billionaires then?). We are not blank slates,... we are not all equal to each other, or even to ourselves on different days. We differ in will, merit, and ability. And we most likely always will. But, as I noted above, much of the Regressive Left would prefer humanity lived as social insects do,... so as there would be nothing to envy at all. *_Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom._* ~ Alexis de Tocqueville *_The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism._* ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter *_Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it._* ~ George Bernard Shaw *_[The average man] is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty,... and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies._* ~ H.L. Mencken *_Wonderful theory, wrong species._* (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans) ~ Edward Osborne Wilson *_Any cook should be able to run the country._* ~ Vladimir Ilich Lenin *_A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties._* ~ Cyril James
@@strawhatluffy1880 Thank you! *_If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny._* ~ Thomas Jefferson *_Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, & deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science, All such laws are un-American and despotic, & have no place in a Republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom._* ~ Benjamin Rush MD, Signer of the Declaration of Independence *_Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery._* ~ James Bovard *_It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it._* ~ Thomas Sowell
As a kid, I always wondered why the radio people kept talking about "our Sgt. Shriver." LBJ gave us the Great Society, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Vietnam War, and the USS Liberty incident. Swell record...
he told the nsa to get the liberty out of the war zone. they ignored him and stuck around. they tried to target the part of the ship with the nsa . everybody decided to call it an accident and move on because nobody wanted to show that the deep state does as it damned well pleases and that the president of the usa is not really in control of the spooks. they were intercepting israeli military traffic, transmitting it without encryption to hq. the soviets were listening in and sharing with their arab allies. the soviets were smarter. they stayed out of the war zone. let the fellow jew-haters provide them the intelligence . lbj was so guilty of faking the gulf of tonkin incident . the soviets and chicoms knew it was faked but didn't reveal it . they figured out LBJ and his gang wanted to get us bogged down more in s.e. asia. let johnson get us into that mess.
It wasn't a failure. It accomplished what it was designed to do, create a multi generational pool of votes that will pay dividends for decades, if not longer. Well played.
Completely shocked this didn’t pan out as intended...larger government just means more costs and bureaucracy without much effectiveness . We have been lost from the original intentions of our fore fathers in keeping government small and more of a republic than centralized. And...it’s only getting larger and worsening.
LBJs Great Society couldn't have done much for the homeless because they didn't exist in '64. That would take another 25 years of progressive policies.
Pauline Hill was Atlantic City;s Moynihan. She was responsibe for destroying many historic city neighborhoods to build massive housing projects, a process that drove most of the city;s middle class away, leaving AC a poverty stricken and corrupt failure.
will ty popularity is how it always starts. S.S is slowing going to have more people receiving money then paying for the program, what then? Not only that but it has ballon to 25% of the US total spending and growing exponentially, preventing the government from investing in any new programs.
Friedrich renewable energy like wind and solar can’t power a city, that’s why China is investing in nuclear energy while we killed that industry with over regulation, decades ago.
Good interviewing and good historian. I lived through those days and fought in Johnson’s war (at their command). Johnson had to have his guns and butter (it was a favorite debate in economics class) and drove the country into high inflation rates. The Democrats turned against the patriotic anti-communist wing of the party and went wholesale for social reforms starting in 1968. Nixon was torpedoed because he had pledged to defend South Vietnam if the communists broke their peace pledge. Reagan only temporarily halted the socialists.
Then you should recall we were stuck in Vietnam by Ike's SEATO Treaty and more Americans died in Vietnam under Nixon than LBJ. Johnson not only had guns and butter, HE ALSO HAD a 3.5% unemployment rate and balanced budget to hand off to Nixon, who could not maintain the prosperity, but instead gave us two Traditional Republican Recessions. Inflation under LBJ was lower than that under Carter, Ford, Truman, Nixon, Reagan and Bush41. LBJ funded large programs that made life better for Americans while delivering the highest percentage of job growth, increases in per capita disposable income, GDP growth since FDR. The great social reformers of the 1960s Democratic Party - LBJ, Humphrey, all 3 Kennedy brothers, took a back seat to no one in opposing communism. They and Ike, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush41 followed the strategy created by the Democrats to win the Cold War. The Democrats have never pursued socialism. In fact, their economic policies produce our greatest capitalist growth. Republicans are shitty at capitalism. Republicans own 107 of the last 113 months of recession we've been in. Republicans dominate the cellar when we rank a large sample size of presidents on job growth, industrial production, GDP growth, reduction in people below the poverty line, and deficit reduction/increases.
The social issues that “The Great Society” sought to tackle are, in many respects, still being fought today. So it is no surprise that historical perspectives of the raft of legislation that was passed between ‘64-68 are still frequently colored by the partisan battles of the present and recent pass. Most of Dr. Schlaes critiques on this legislative program are spot on, but it also glosses over the positive effects those laws DID have. Considering that the Far Left has rejected that ANY progress has made in the past 244 years (let alone the last 60), perhaps it is an inopportune time to remind viewers of a more conservative bent that before “The Great Society” Southern Black Americans were barred from receiving a quality public education, enjoying the equal use of public properties & services, contracting with most private businesses for their goods and services, and most shamelessly, expressing their constitutional right to vote. Although I’m not in favor of the “nanny state,” many of the consumer protections passed are ones we take for granted today: before the great society there were no warning labels on cigarettes, and anyone could buy them. Of the many burdensome regulatory laws that were passed, the Truth in Lending Act was not one of them, for it required lenders the not-so-burdensome task of clearly explaining the terms their loans to their customers. As far as poverty rates are concerned, they dropped from 22-25% in the early 60’s to 11-12% in the early 70’s. Rates have never climbed above 16% in the years since. I think it would be disingenuous to suggest that “The Great Society” deserves all or even most of the credit for this, but it does deserve some credit. Also, there is Medicare. It might not be around by the time I qualify, but I sure hope it will be. I think the sentiment was best expressed by an angry Republican voter, who in 1994 warned Democratic Sen. John Breaux, “keep your g*** d***n government hands of my Medicare.” “The Great Society” did not cure poverty any more than the “New Deal” got America out of the Great Depression, but it’s hard to argue that it did not alleviate poverty. The “New Deal” may even have prolonged the Depression, but it brought with it rural electrification: a vital service likely would have been ignored by Investor Owned Utilities for decades. Neither did “The Great Society” end racial inequality, but it extended for the first time substantive protections of the Constitution Rights of Southern Black Americans. I think much of America has accepted that big Federal bureaucracies are not the most efficient or sufficient way to address civil needs. When the free market is incentivized or left alone they fare typically better than Planned Centralized Economies, but for those market sectors whose structures or practices inhibit competition, targeted well-written government laws STILL work. Just like the “New Deal,” or the “Square Deal” after that, “The Great Society” was deeply flawed. It would just be inaccurate and disingenuous to claim was a complete failure.
If you mean, taking unfixable human problems and making them worse under the guise of "help", but to actually obtain power over those you claim to help, forever. Then yes, it wasn't a complete failure.
Plenty of ridiculous comments in here...if all of these types of programs are so terrible, why do they thrive & prosper in every other 'developed' economy but the US? You know, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Australia, etc...maybe it's not so much LBJ's Great Society was a failure, maybe it's our mentality toward our fellow Americans & an unwillingness to fund programs that actually help people rather than spending it all on the war machine, the military industrial complex, & massive tax breaks for the wealthy & corporations.
I think it's time to change it, no new welfare recipients, as for current ones let them know no more increases, that should encourage them to stop having children they can't afford
Over 2,000 years ago Jesus said the poor would always be with us, no matter how much money we gave them. This was as true then as it is now. You can not tax and spend the poor out of poverty.
This was an eye opener for me, it shows that even if we get the same information, how that information is processed within ourselves. maybe starkly different, depending on a number of factors. I don't think there is any legislation or program that is without flaw but to hear someone talk about jobs in 1925 and home ownership in 1918, could not be taking into consideration where blacks and other people of color were going through in those time periods. This is the entire reason the black community became so dependent on government is because the private sector. Had no problem with just excluding them from the equation and the government is saying with aid of some presidents and their administrations and legislation. Ok but what do we do about this segment of people who have been wronged and purposely held down? As a result, you get things like civil rights legislation. affirmative action and government assistance, but these attempts are always met with fierce anger and resentment.
..... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
I have got to object about her characterization of the Pruitt Igoe housing project. It's a fashionable excuse to blame the architecture but International style tower blocks do not cause gangs to proliferate. If that were the case then Hong Kong and Tokyo would be over run with criminal gangs. The Chinese have be living in high density urban environments including multi level apartments for centuries. There was a massive gulf between the people who designed and the people who lived in the housing projects. Refusing to mention the race and culture of the people who lived in Pruitt Igoe is lying by omission Try putting the phrase "these people' together with "nobody cared for it and everybody trashed it".
Thomas Sowell says there is no need to explain poverty. It is a natural state we are all born into. What we need to focus on is wealth and where it comes from. No one talks about it. It's all about poverty.
You and Dr. Sowell are 100% correct.
How much better off would the anti-capitalist haters (not to mention the rest of society) be if instead the same time, effort, and energy were invested in the study of value creation and in turn wealth creation were embraced studied and replicated?
Kovacs, Sowell is one of the greatest minds in history. I admire him more than I can describe. It is great to see him mentioned here.
Poverty is too much of "a state of mind" to ever disappear, unfortunately. A state of Poverty, of and in, thought.
Sowell a great read, smart man, mandatory reading in high school.... liberals would never allow it.
According to whom? Scholars and the larger society have spent decades studying both.
"We'll have these [N-words] eating out of the palm of our hand for the next two hundred years." - LBJ
Sounds like LBJ had a little of the mentality of your profile pic in him.
He never said that 😂😂
@@scnojohnson9645 HE SURE DID
@@hellentatsios7888It’s unclear if he said it but it was rumored
"We'll have these CENSORED voting Democrat for 200 years." ~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Niggra's
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Urban legend that persists because racists keep repeating it.
That's where you heard it from.
LBJ wa racists as hell,even his black driver said he was very racist so yeah I believe he said that
@@debbiebrantley61 that's called "confirmation bias."
You are willing to believe something you know is a lie because the truth does not fit your preconceived, erroneous notions.
Changing your mind to adapt to the truth makes you uncomfortable.
Government money from taxes chasing health care, education, etc has drastically increased the cost of all of them
That has to do more with corporate greed.just because the government gives people money to help them out doesn't mean these corporations had to raise their prices.they were still making a profit b4 they just wanted a bigger profit.
@@kennethburnette1153government must steal resources from some to “give” to others thru violent coercion… this is the worst form of generosity.
Why aren’t YOU willing to give your money to the poor?…. It’s because you are greedy.
They should have known that something called Great Society would be a miserable disaster.
But historians have said the Great Society is a great success just by looking all the people that are on it. It has helped a lot of people, lifted everyone out of poverty, historians have said amazing things about the Great Society that it is.❤
@@Punisher18301/5 black people grew up without their father right before The Great Society. Shortly after it jumped to 3/5
They are still using the same argument they use in all aspects of our government, education is one example.
13:35 Sweden had its "Million-Programme" at the same time. In a state of then about 8 million, a million new housings were built 1965-1974. The money came from socialization of pensions … These are now our problematic suburbs.
The Cabrini Green Projects were built for immigrants but soon became home for many rural blacks leaving the south. By the 1980s, it was hell on earth. One monster killed a little girl and stuffed her in the wall. The drug gangs were so turned off by that they put a bounty on his head. The mayor lived there for a week and fled when she had the chance!
How are you supposed to kill poverty when your only source of income is stealing from other people, punishing the productive which hampers their drive to produce, taking their wealth via the threat of force , or borrowing fiat currency into existence creating inflation and interest on that newly-created currency that steals wealth from the future?
"Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish." -- Abraham Lincoln
@@bscottb8
True quote , although he ended up enslaving Americans with the 14th amendment that turned them into "US citizens"
LBJ finished off the constitution, a process began by FDR. We now live under two constitutions, one of which destroyed the other as our present conditions demonstrate. The 1787 constitution has been replaced by the one created in 1964
World class, the interview was great, first time meeting Amity, I just know she'll be one of my favorite historians.
I had the pleasure to read this book six months before it even came out.
Her biography of Coolidge was great too.
The Forgotten Man was an incredible book. I’ve probably bought 4 or 5 copies as gifts. I did not know about this book. Now I do, and I will need to buy it. Thanks.
Arguably one of the best interviews Gillespie has ever done.
I’m enjoying it as well.
Government was meant to 'remove barriers' for economic mobility, not attempt to manage them. Pursuing wealth is an internal motivation that requires nothing from government but 'getting out of the way.' The resurgence of political 'control' always seems to resurface.
There would not be massive debt without the Great Society(22 trillion)
The debt is equal to the increase in federal spending. A tax on " hope" and opportunity is a good description of the results of the GS. The student loan problem is related also.
If giving people money solves poverty Indians would be doing great with that Indian money, but they are doing the worst statistically
The successful Indians barely know they're Indians. The ones on reservations still are kind of like the Amish.
LBJ.
I was 10 months old when Kennedy was assassinated.
I got to see the welfare state develope from the start with a somewhat open mind.
But growing up around relatively poor people, many who were not absolutely broke (or broken), I now contend that people are more poor and broken, than when they had less money and less technology.
LBJ's great society has created a worse society.( Focus on the word society)
Communities/societies are about families.
The welfare programs of the "great society" has ruined families.
Regardless of political affiliation, any of you who believe throwing money at a problem (whether private or public) solves a problem, are as dumb as a bag of rocks.
This stupid concept of " if only we spent more money", has created broken schools, broken homes and bloated government.
You can't fix people giving them money, you fix people with people.
Unless they are too broken to fix.
Sometimes I get the intuition that many of you are too broken to fix.
Maybe that's why people are in a state of poverty in the first place.
You are too broken to succeed.
Sooooo, it failed because it is a "tax on hope"?
What is that a metaphor? Is this a real concept in the social sciences? It sounds more like the title of a poem than anything else.
And how exactly is trying to solve a very real problem like poverty "social engineering"?
It is shameful for a historian to believe in spontaneous order out of the chaos of the market.
Stop pretending they didn't know what they were doing at the top. It's a form of control. They understood perfectly.
That beat at the start of this video was brutally annoying. Cant hear my self think, let alone hear what is being said
Real question from a non america, all of conservatives keep saying that your national debt is too high spending is too high etc. But every time you get republicans in all three level of goverment (2003-2007 and 2017-2019) they don’t reduce federal spending and just keep letting your debt get higher. How big of a conservative majority would you guys actually need to reduce the federal goverment?
Good question
Look up the Filibuster.
We haven't had a Republican Super Majority since the 1920's and Democrats have no incentive to cut spending, so they block it every time.
Good conversation Glad I listened
Worst President after Lincoln.
Beg to DIFFER about Lincoln
In the last 75 years, my top 3 of a worst list no particular order, would at least include Carter and Obama, and the question is could that list include Johnson, because of his escalating the amount of US involvement in Vietnam and this Great Society BS, I say yes! LINCOLN NO!
Lincoln IMHO belongs in my top 3 greatest presidents list.
Curious why you think LBJ and Lincoln belong on your worst presidents list?
@@markldavis1 I would assume he meant chronologically
@@markldavis1
Lincoln because he made the USA a Union (as in no Separation/Secession of States from the federal Goverment) , because he did not let the South to Split from the North .
Worst President Tier List:
1.Lincoln
2.Wilson(Living Constitution)
3.Nixon(Gold)
4.FDR(New Deal)
5.LBJ
6.Bush Junior(War on Terror)
7.Obama(Culture Shift to Progressivism).
So after a quick thought LBJ is only on 5..
Edit:Not Chronologically.
@Yorky Gonzalez
No i am not. 😂
@@vinlandanarchist7979 "culture shift to progressivism" ??? How so? How was the confederate a good thing for anyone who wasn't a slave owner?
How much did future wars and globalization hurt the American economy?
we are all victims of LBJ
Great interview. Thank you.
holy crap this lady is based. what a chad.
History repeats itself. Energy is key to industry. Money is the religion.
It's unfortunate many Americans will never understand the benefits of good social policy like those we have here in the UK and the rest of Europe. What's wrong with good education, good healthcare, providing an economic safety net for the entire population during hard economic times, and good infrastructure?
Ironically, you can live the American dream here in Europe, but in the US you have to be asleep to experience it.
Why do many think the Great Society failed then?
One wonders whether what we see below is an opinion arrived at because American history was poorly taught or @theevermind was just a bad student.
LBJ achieved the greatest civil rights victories since slavery ended.
Poverty was cut in half, we began eliminating slums, and no president since has increased high school graduation rates or increased the percentage of high school grads going on to college, or lowered malnutrition or infant mortality rates like LBJ did.
Yeah, Johnson used racist words, he was vulgar in private.
What is more important, words or actions?
finally someone who understands basic facts
texas sharpshooter
"Yeah, Johnson used racist words, he was vulgar in private.
What is more important, words or actions?"
oh my god the hypocrisy
you spread false information@@waytoohypernova
13:43 Is that a shot from some version of SimCity?
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Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven
There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today
Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
Very engaging and informative, however for best effect, this needs to be bulleted and followed up w/stats
if we were to phase out these social reforms and sharing the government by half we would have a surplus every year and pay off our debt.
Can anyone explain to me please why Medicare and Medicaid are failed?
LBJ was Julia Ceasar without conquest.
Here I was thinking it was my fault no matter how hard I work I am broke...
(not really, I always knew why)
Interesting we went off of the gold standard when the butter outpaced the guns.
Social Capitalism is an idea.
I think that is what California is slowly rotting to death from now.
@@chickey333 What the richest state in America?
@@keithwhittygmail Money means nothing when your citizens are either fleeing the state they live in or forced out of their homes from high taxes high real estate costs or ridiculous rent fees. They have ever growing numbers of homeless living in disease and crime infested tent cities and crapping on the sidewalks. They are running out of water in places and rationing the electricity. 65% of high school graduates can't read or write or they just drop out. It's just a damn shame that a bunch of liberal idiot politicians are allowed to run it into the ground.
@@chickey333 Now thats a lot of serious issues. Did Arnold not sort it all out? Maybe vote in an idiot like Trump and see how he gets on. Oh Yeah, that happened and the FEMA camps are waiting, never mind Covid 19. Ring up FEMA and ask them why hotels are bing used as hospitals instead of your thousands of Nazi, I mean FEMA camps? Interesting answer they give.
@@keithwhittygmail I'll take the "idiot" financial conservative over the anti-American tax and spend socialist every time not that one is much better than the other. And the FEMA camps... ask your friendly neighborhood progressive globalist. No don't bother they wouldn't tell you anything truthful anyway... as California continues to be a crap hole run by said progressive globalists.
It wasn't all "Good Intentions" some in the ruling class wanted a Permanent dependant underclass. and created the insatiable Monsterous Federal Government that wants to rule every aspect of our lives.
Yep...Thats why they support massive 3rd world immigration today
The adjective for LBJ was "racist."
The motivation was to entrap those in poverty, not help them.
There are LBJ quotes that support your allegation of "racist", but they include his racist words.
It was to get blacks to vote for the democrat party of the KKK.
If LBJ's goal "was to entrap those in poverty, not help them" then he failed miserably because the poverty rate nationally was cut almost in half over the next decade.
I heard someone awhile back classify him as a "High Functioning Sociopath", and after hearing of stories of aides and those close to him I agree
@@henrytoledo4103 someone could just as easily classify you, too, in such terms.
Name-calling is not much of a response when the issue of poverty is the subject and the fact is in a decade, the poverty rate in the U.S. was cut in half.
That's a good thing.
The immigration changes in 1965 have harmed this country and made it difficult to make necessary changes
That is one of the main reasons the percentage of children born into poverty is near the same level as 1965. We imported and subsidized poverty. Too bad Reason and most libertarians believe in open borders. They can’t even comprehend that importing third world people we make us less free.
It almost dangerous to suggest we should limit immigration (not even counting stopping the illegals) these days.
@@stephenpowstinger733 well we should limit legal immigration
@@edwardcoit9748 how can you admit we subsidize poverty and then say the wall is the answer? Stop subsidizing, and they won't come! There has never been a wall there, and they weren't flooding our borders 100 yrs ago.
C Conroy
Because they are two different things. We can do both. Stop welfare programs and that money should be spent on the wall.
Poverty was in decline prior to LBJ b/c poor folks were moving to places that had higher-paying jobs. The Great Migration is a perfect example of that. After LBJ, we had teen moms having 10 kids and all of that nonsense. Soon gangs of violent criminal became the norm in many cities.
If you look at just about anything the govt has jumped in to "save" the decline is already evident pre-govt involvement. They enjoy taking undue credit.
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Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today
Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven
There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today
Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
Romans 6.23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
The editing on this channel is always top notch
I think they are especially proud of their good editing so i am sure they appreciate that xD
LBJ's great society was one of the early starts of the craziness we see today.
True
it began much earlier, like with lincoln denying the constitutional limitation on his power.
@@motnosniv Nevermind the civil war, Lincoln was a total economics ignoramus and Hamiltonian big government statist.
The new deal came first, but if you do your homework you may find that these are all just corporate restructurings demanded by creditors (a.k.a the Federal Reserve) of the US govt following bankruptcies. Each one transferring the property and persons of the American population into their hands to repay those debts. There's a reason today's Americans are nothing but tenants and serfs.
@@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593 Nonsense. By providing farmers loans to buy buy tractors, not only did the New Deal keep them from losing their farms from bankruptcy, but very quickly 100,000 tractors were sold as well as large numbers of combines.
That government investment in the American people mechanized agriculture and American farms, especially in the South, became far more productive.
Investments in infrastructure provided massive numbers of jobs building things like levees on the Mississippi River protecting rich, Mississippi land such as my farm from flooding, making that land even more productive
There was no "corporate restructuring" involved when massive numbers of jobs were created to construct the TVA to provide electricity for millions of people and the power needed to build the atomic bomb.
When Rural Electrification began, only 10% of rural Americans had electricity. There was no "corporate restructuring" needed to get them electricity, all that was needed was a government program to hire people to get it done - and they did.
There was no "corporate restructuring" when tens of thousands of more jobs were created to build roads, bridges, schools, post offices and sanitation systems.
With the development of infrastructure in the South, manufacturing businesses, such as the Wurlitzer plant at Holly Springs, Mississippi, could move in and hire people.
You go across the South to various colleges and universities and you'll see beautiful buildings constructed by new Deal programs that were not "corporate restructuring" at all.
Here in Virginia where I live today, the federal government purchased land for 6 parks and established work camps to put people to work building roads, trails, bridges, shelters and cabins on them. Then the government gave those 6 parks to the state and the Virginia system of state parks was established, no "corporate restructuring" in sight.
Nor was there any "corporate restructuring" when another new Deal program stocked streams and lakes with millions of trout and other game fish.
When I research old, historic buildings, the New Deal Historic American Building Survey is often a valuable resource, in spite of the lack of any "corporate restructuring."
"I'll have those N-----s voting Democrat for the next 100 years"
-Lyndon Banes Johnson
He was right.
It breaks my heart.
It's beginning to change.
Regardless, that's a fake quote. He never is documented as saying that.
@@vr-wx7dl when I hear black American talk about democrats in a good way it hurts my heart.
It's like someone speaking well of there rapist.
What a shame.
Stop deleting my comment dumbasses
@@vr-wx7dl It is documented. He didn't say it on tape or in public. He was quoted by an aide of his who was quoted in a book. It's a credible, if not infallible, source, and it's totally in line with other statements he made. He would privately talk just like that when trying to convince politicians who spoke like that amongst themselves (such as racist segregationist types). We _know_ he would use the N-word. He wanted everyone to feel he was on their side. He had exceptional political skills.
I was in by early 20's when LBJ was president, having been born in 1944, so I lived through that disaster. In my opinion LBJ was the worst President in US history! He ran against Goldwater as a piece candidate, and after he won he immediately became a war hawk. He turned a small Communist insurrection into a blood bath. He accelerated America's descent into Socialism and Bankruptcy. He helped destroy the Black family in America. I may not be an "expert" on LBJ, but I was there, and I still have an intact memory. Today my wife and I are over 65, so according to Federal Law, we are under Medicare, and I don't like it. When I tried to set up an appointment with an excellent Pulmonary Doctor for my wife, I was told he was not on the approved list of our Medicare Administrator, and when I offered to pay out of my own pocket, they told me it was against Federal Law for a doctor to accept a direct payment from a person who was eligible for Medicare. Thank you LBJ!
That is exactly right! People have zero clue how bad it is! I have unfortunately been on medi-cal for years and it's horrible. I too was told its illegal to pay anything, even a dollar.
Its ALL quantity over quality! I had an ACL injury/torn miniscus over nine years later and its still not been addressed, full of arthritis and pain, add that to herniated discs and arthritis in my back and neck and all I know is pain and pathetic personal "pain management". I rarely talk about it. It just is. The last time I even mentioned my pain to the provider I was recommended stretching (which Ive done my most of my life anyway), and, get this...counseling. Counseling for chronic debilitating pain! I could give many other accounts but all Im going to say is that my personal experiences and observations are that there was always a majority, if not all, non white people being served and doing the serving and they were always the priority, period. And no one will ever make me believe that "reverse racism" doesnt exist. I KNOW it does!
oldgysgt I have a pretty hard-core background in political science, and I agree with you 1000% on every point you just made.
@@kevinsbott My daughter is a Political Science major. I have been thinking about going back to school to get my bachelors degree. I am torn between a passion, US Constitution/Government and History, and what might actually earn a decent living, which is badly needed at this point. I pray for this country, and all people in the fight to take it back.
@The Life Analyst That's not true
@The Life Analyst: I don't remember saying ANYONE, (Black, white, brown, or any other color), should have voted for Goldwater! What I said was, "He ran against Goldwater as a piece candidate, and after he won he immediately became a war hawk." You need to read what people wrote, not what you think they wrote. And calling people names like "stupid" is school yard crap. I would have assumed anyone making comments on UA-cam was older than that. But READ my comment completely and you will see I was NOT endorsing Berry Goldwater. Remember, just because Goldwater was a bit weird, that doesn't made LBJ a good guy.
The man with JFK's blood on his hands
Allan Dulles
he was a key contributer.@@golf869
That "poverty" exists is a reason for the Left to exist in an ethically vacant marketing sense. The fact that "poverty" today includes TV's, smart phones, cars, air conditioning and other luxuries that 60 years ago would have been unimaginable shows that the goal-post of poverty keeps moving..
"America today has replaced indentured servants with the Working Poor. There comes a point where people need to understand that government subsidies for those working poor are not benefits for the poor, they are another grant for the rich so they can have cheap labor!" Agreed !!!
Over simplified?
Government is not in the business of solving problems.
Conflict of interest.
They administrate. More the better. Bigger budgets.
Solution(s) equals their obsolescence.
Good will(supposed?) leads to greed.
This guy was a disgusting human, hateful and dishonest.
Not only was the Great Society a failure in terms of outcome, but I would also say it is the primary catalyst for our social problems enabling mothers the raise their kids single and then doing very little at educating the children.
But they said along with what historians are saying that his Great Society is a great success because it's very popular and now there are a lot of people that are on it.
@@Punisher1830People are stupid and ignorant.
The Great Society paved the road to Hell.
I'd say Satan did that in The Garden. Everything since then has been the trickle- down. It's a Spiritual issue. We're all against God by nature. Mix that with money and power and now we're seeing what comes of it. It'll get worse for sure.
The Great Society pave the way to our current Hell.
"Feeding the horses to feed the sparrows." Now there's a saying I haven't heard in ages, but it's entirely accurate tbh. Whenever I hear young people today, opining that we must go socialist, that that'll fix things, I just despair. How can you look at the failure of the boondoggle of government social programs and think more of the same would fix things?
Because they're lazy inexperienced spoiled children
@@bharn253 Not to mention that Bernie et al has been lying to them. He calls himself a "Democratic Socialist" but anyone with half brain can google his past, pay attention to the things he's done over the last few decades. Praising the USSR, Cuba, that Central American dictator (whose name escapes me atm) ALL of whom murdered millions of their people in order to "save the worker". God, Bernie Bros are such idiots. "Bread lines are a GOOD thing!" SMH...
I spent 5 years on the East /West Border. I spent 1 year on the Korean DMZ. When you've seen communism first hand, them shooting each other to keep them from escaping. You know it doesn't really work...
@@bharn253 Oh, you are preaching to the choir, brother. My own son spent almost 3 yrs on the DMZ, was there when the NK's tried a nuke test--completely freaked the post out, they had to call everybody back in off of leave and put the post on alert. He's got some pretty hairy stories to tell as well. Very sad for the NK people. My overseas duty (36K) was in Germany, before The Wall fell, and we were on alert a lot of the time as well. Communists...as a Christian we're taught not to hate, it's self-destructive. BUT--I make an exception for communists. If communism is so great, why do you have to shoot your own people if they try to leave?
They're taught this in public schools. I've had to deprogram all 3 of my kids from it, which was actually easy to do, but if you don't do it then the kids just believe it as truth.
Such an insightful and interesting guest. I wasn’t aware of her or her work until now, but am definitely going to pick up a copy of this book because it really seems to tell the story of how we got to such a bloated bureaucratic nightmare government, and how maybe things can change if we educate enough people about the failures of the past. I really loved the part about Tom Hayden, who was Jane Fonda’s husband at the time and explains everything we need to know about Hanoi Jane and her self serving activism that she is still performing on a weekly basis. Her brand of activism is as old as she is and a vainglorious attempt by an elderly woman to be relevant. That type of activism, which is most types of it, requires no personal hardship, is a virtue signal, and is a new form of aristocracy that is a capricious pecking order. I really hate these immoral prats pontificating to us mere ignorant plebs.
The guest's statement that no one knew how expensive Medicare/Medicaid was going to become,... is absolutely false!! Everyone knew,... and no one cared! So long as *_WE_* look good, who really cares about those who follow us who have to clean up the mess. Look at how most no one cares a bit about exploding government debt and liability today.
*Progressive Assertions:*
1) Scarcity is *NOT* natural. Scarcity *_ONLY_* happens because of greed. Production isn't necessary; only sharing. At any time in the past, present, or future, universal prosperity is always possible, except for the greed of a few.
2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism , as advocated by folks such as Noam Chomsky, is the way to go. No one needs prices to know what is worthwhile to do. Reason, and good will, are adequate to plan production. Labor is not a commodity.
3) Sovereignty should be based upon Good Intentions and not free moral agency. Corollary: Rule by Philosopher Kings!!
4) No one should ever have to suffer regardless of fault.
5) *_From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs_* (regardless of cost to everyone),... is still the best way to organize society,... but people are too greedy and selfish to make it work. It would be better for society to live as social insects, than as human beings.
6) Why be satisfied with trade-offs when solutions suggest themselves so obviously!
7) Wealth is consumption, not production. We have our cake, not because we bake it, but because we eat it.
8) Results flow from will, and will alone. If good results are not forthcoming, it is *ONLY* due to either a lack of good will or the presence of an opposing evil will. It is *NEVER* construed that results are lacking due to a lack of knowledge. Knowledge, science, technology, skills, prices, etc., are just incidental details.
9) Lifeboat ethics reign always.
All these suppositions follow very naturally from the *_FACT_* that people today are essentially the same as we were a hundred thousand years ago when *EVERYONE* lived in nomadic, and essentially egalitarian, tribes. Most people's ethical, moral, and economic intuitions are still the same as our ancient ancestors, so is it any real surprise that so many people feel alienated in today's world where, under modern markets, the relationship between cause and effect is so abstract. For many caring, empathetic, people, trusting in Capitalism and self interest and the invisible hand of the market place makes just as much sense as walking off a ten story building,... and expecting the outcome to be okay. Just like a computer, the market can not be argued with, or pleaded with, or persuaded to be different. To people who rely on their ability and skill to influence people, the cold logic of computers/markets is, of course, experienced as profoundly alienating. If reality offers little to them, then so much the worse for reality then! This is how keirsey.com/temperament/idealist-overview/ progressives think versus the way keirsey.com/temperament/rational-overview/ libertarians think. For more, check out www.cato.org/events/socialism-human-nature .
Basically the ideology of the Regressive Left (thank you Dave Rubin!) comes down to, literally, that wishing should make it so,... and if you even question the efficacy of such beliefs,... you're evil, you've bad intentions, you only say that wishing alone can not make it so because you must not really want it to be true.
They are insane. But they speak to something that is very deep in the human soul than tends to be experienced more as the world becomes ever more prosperous and free. For more, read Nathaniel Branden's essay, *_Alienation_* in _Capitalism, the unknown ideal._ The punch line is that those who want to experience liberty covet the ability and responsibility to think for ourselves,... yet, mostly being herd animals, the vast majority of humanity atavistically craves a time when a mere instinct for survival, automatic and understood, was sufficient to survive and prosper. It isn't today. It can't be. But the Regressive Left would quite literally prefer the extinction of our species, rather than acknowledge as true the Pareto Principle as it applies to people; that roughly when any number of people are involved in most any activity, the square root of that number of people are providing half the value (out of 10,000, 100 create half the value, and then 10 create half the value again, or a quarter of the value of the original 10,000; How could there not be billionaires then?). We are not blank slates,... we are not all equal to each other, or even to ourselves on different days. We differ in will, merit, and ability. And we most likely always will. But, as I noted above, much of the Regressive Left would prefer humanity lived as social insects do,... so as there would be nothing to envy at all.
*_Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom._*
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
*_The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism._*
~ Joseph A. Schumpeter
*_Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it._*
~ George Bernard Shaw
*_[The average man] is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty,... and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies._*
~ H.L. Mencken
*_Wonderful theory, wrong species._* (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans)
~ Edward Osborne Wilson
*_Any cook should be able to run the country._*
~ Vladimir Ilich Lenin
*_A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties._*
~ Cyril James
This is an underrated comment.
@@strawhatluffy1880 Thank you!
*_If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny._*
~ Thomas Jefferson
*_Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, & deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science, All such laws are un-American and despotic, & have no place in a Republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom._*
~ Benjamin Rush MD, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
*_Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery._*
~ James Bovard
*_It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it._*
~ Thomas Sowell
As a kid, I always wondered why the radio people kept talking about "our Sgt. Shriver."
LBJ gave us the Great Society, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Vietnam War, and the USS Liberty incident. Swell record...
he told the nsa to get the liberty out of the war zone. they ignored him and stuck around. they tried to target the part of the ship with the nsa . everybody decided to call it an accident and move on because nobody wanted to show that the deep state does as it damned well pleases and that the president of the usa is not really in control of the spooks. they were intercepting israeli military traffic, transmitting it without encryption to hq. the soviets were listening in and sharing with their arab allies. the soviets were smarter. they stayed out of the war zone. let the fellow jew-haters provide them the intelligence . lbj was so guilty of faking the gulf of tonkin incident . the soviets and chicoms knew it was faked but didn't reveal it . they figured out LBJ and his gang wanted to get us bogged down more in s.e. asia. let johnson get us into that mess.
And Richard Nixon gave us 4 more years of the war in Vietnam, with his "secret plan to end the war," along with Watergate. Equally "swell record."
She has no problem with throwing away money on endless wars. This is just more right-wing claptrap.
It wasn't a failure. It accomplished what it was designed to do, create a multi generational pool of votes that will pay dividends for decades, if not longer.
Well played.
Just a few years prior, Republicans had those votes, have you ever asked yourself, what happened?
Completely shocked this didn’t pan out as intended...larger government just means more costs and bureaucracy without much effectiveness . We have been lost from the original intentions of our fore fathers in keeping government small and more of a republic than centralized. And...it’s only getting larger and worsening.
10 Communists dislike this.
Awesome-X and counting.
What luck, being at the transition from one era to another.
LBJs Great Society couldn't have done much for the homeless because they didn't exist in '64. That would take another 25 years of progressive policies.
Ask the government to fix a pothole, and you end up with a mud puddle.
Never accept free stuff from strangers or politicians. It always ends badly.
I learned very little about the Great Society in grade school and college. History was my favorite subject and I minored in it. I wonder why.
LBJ: CLASSIC CASE OF REACH EXCEEDING GRASP..
Pauline Hill was Atlantic City;s Moynihan. She was responsibe for destroying many historic city neighborhoods to build massive housing projects, a process that drove most of the city;s middle class away, leaving AC a poverty stricken and corrupt failure.
Now just imagine what deal a Bernie Sander presidency would bring to this nation. 🙄 Would definitely set us back a century.
Social security is one of the most popular socialist programs we have in America
Friedrich green new deal
will ty popularity is how it always starts. S.S is slowing going to have more people receiving money then paying for the program, what then? Not only that but it has ballon to 25% of the US total spending and growing exponentially, preventing the government from investing in any new programs.
Friedrich renewable energy like wind and solar can’t power a city, that’s why China is investing in nuclear energy while we killed that industry with over regulation, decades ago.
@Friedrich never been ah?
He signed this into policy speaking the words, and i paraphrase..".this will keep the N.....voting Democrat for the next 50 years." WELL???
RCA = Rugs, Chickens and Automobiles.
Good interviewing and good historian. I lived through those days and fought in Johnson’s war (at their command). Johnson had to have his guns and butter (it was a favorite debate in economics class) and drove the country into high inflation rates. The Democrats turned against the patriotic anti-communist wing of the party and went wholesale for social reforms starting in 1968. Nixon was torpedoed because he had pledged to defend South Vietnam if the communists broke their peace pledge. Reagan only temporarily halted the socialists.
Then you should recall we were stuck in Vietnam by Ike's SEATO Treaty and more Americans died in Vietnam under Nixon than LBJ.
Johnson not only had guns and butter, HE ALSO HAD a 3.5% unemployment rate and balanced budget to hand off to Nixon, who could not maintain the prosperity, but instead gave us two Traditional Republican Recessions.
Inflation under LBJ was lower than that under Carter, Ford, Truman,
Nixon, Reagan and Bush41.
LBJ funded large programs that made life better for Americans while delivering the highest percentage of job growth, increases in per capita disposable income, GDP growth since FDR.
The great social reformers of the 1960s Democratic Party - LBJ, Humphrey, all 3 Kennedy brothers, took a back seat to no one in opposing communism.
They and Ike, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush41 followed the strategy created by the Democrats to win the Cold War.
The Democrats have never pursued socialism.
In fact, their economic policies produce our greatest capitalist growth.
Republicans are shitty at capitalism.
Republicans own 107 of the last 113 months of recession we've been in.
Republicans dominate the cellar when we rank a large sample size of presidents on job growth, industrial production, GDP growth, reduction in people below the poverty line, and deficit reduction/increases.
The broke society
Finally something sensible posted on this channel. Thumbs up!
Compared to Reganoimcs, Great Society was a notable attempt.
I guess Shlaes isn't a Yang supporter!
The road to hell is paved with Democrats’ good intentions.
And at this time us Brits had Harold Wilson who took charge of the Labour Party when the leader suddenly feel ill on a trip to Russia.
Leftists: Read it and sober up.
Please. They've already read the Harry Potter books, no need to read anything else
If those in poverty do not earn for themselves, then they are still in poverty, no matter how much they are given.
The social issues that “The Great Society” sought to tackle are, in many respects, still being fought today.
So it is no surprise that historical perspectives of the raft of legislation that was passed between ‘64-68 are still frequently colored by the partisan battles of the present and recent pass.
Most of Dr. Schlaes critiques on this legislative program are spot on, but it also glosses over the positive effects those laws DID have.
Considering that the Far Left has rejected that ANY progress has made in the past 244 years (let alone the last 60), perhaps it is an inopportune time to remind viewers of a more conservative bent that before “The Great Society” Southern Black Americans were barred from receiving a quality public education, enjoying the equal use of public properties & services, contracting with most private businesses for their goods and services, and most shamelessly, expressing their constitutional right to vote.
Although I’m not in favor of the “nanny state,” many of the consumer protections passed are ones we take for granted today: before the great society there were no warning labels on cigarettes, and anyone could buy them.
Of the many burdensome regulatory laws that were passed, the Truth in Lending Act was not one of them, for it required lenders the not-so-burdensome task of clearly explaining the terms their loans to their customers.
As far as poverty rates are concerned, they dropped from 22-25% in the early 60’s to 11-12% in the early 70’s. Rates have never climbed above 16% in the years since. I think it would be disingenuous to suggest that “The Great Society” deserves all or even most of the credit for this, but it does deserve some credit.
Also, there is Medicare. It might not be around by the time I qualify, but I sure hope it will be. I think the sentiment was best expressed by an angry Republican voter, who in 1994 warned Democratic Sen. John Breaux, “keep your g*** d***n government hands of my Medicare.”
“The Great Society” did not cure poverty any more than the “New Deal” got America out of the Great Depression, but it’s hard to argue that it did not alleviate poverty.
The “New Deal” may even have prolonged the Depression, but it brought with it rural electrification: a vital service likely would have been ignored by Investor Owned Utilities for decades.
Neither did “The Great Society” end racial inequality, but it extended for the first time substantive protections of the Constitution Rights of Southern Black Americans.
I think much of America has accepted that big Federal bureaucracies are not the most efficient or sufficient way to address civil needs. When the free market is incentivized or left alone they fare typically better than Planned Centralized Economies, but for those market sectors whose structures or practices inhibit competition, targeted well-written government laws STILL work.
Just like the “New Deal,” or the “Square Deal” after that, “The Great Society” was deeply flawed. It would just be inaccurate and disingenuous to claim was a complete failure.
If you mean, taking unfixable human problems and making them worse under the guise of "help", but to actually obtain power over those you claim to help, forever. Then yes, it wasn't a complete failure.
Plenty of ridiculous comments in here...if all of these types of programs are so terrible, why do they thrive & prosper in every other 'developed' economy but the US? You know, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Australia, etc...maybe it's not so much LBJ's Great Society was a failure, maybe it's our mentality toward our fellow Americans & an unwillingness to fund programs that actually help people rather than spending it all on the war machine, the military industrial complex, & massive tax breaks for the wealthy & corporations.
The Great Society,and it’s predecessor,the New Frontier, functioned exactly as designed. None of this is accidental.
I think it's time to change it, no new welfare recipients, as for current ones let them know no more increases, that should encourage them to stop having children they can't afford
Hayek in Reagan's cabinet as chief economics advisor; still my beating heart
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He said that he would have #N#1#GG#3#R#5 voting democrats for the next 200 years.
GS was an epic failure. Wonder how we can reel in many entitlements it brought about?
Over 2,000 years ago Jesus said the poor would always be with us, no matter how much money we gave them.
This was as true then as it is now. You can not tax and spend the poor out of poverty.
Whatever we declare war on we get more of...poverty ..drugs...obesity...maybe we should declare war on sobriety, thinness, etc?
Excellent interview, gonna buy a copy. Liked, shared.
And let's not forget that he had JFK murdered.
I agree, I'm "Stuck on S.S.I" I feel Disgusted!
wow. great interview and very impressive lady.
More people need to read the book "Road to Serfdom."
This was an eye opener for me, it shows that even if we get the same information, how that information is processed within ourselves. maybe starkly different, depending on a number of factors. I don't think there is any legislation or program that is without flaw but to hear someone talk about jobs in 1925 and home ownership in 1918, could not be taking into consideration where blacks and other people of color were going through in those time periods. This is the entire reason the black community became so dependent on government is because the private sector. Had no problem with just excluding them from the equation and the government is saying with aid of some presidents and their administrations and legislation.
Ok but what do we do about this segment of people who have been wronged and purposely held down? As a result, you get things like civil rights legislation. affirmative action and government assistance, but these attempts are always met with fierce anger and resentment.
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Proud to be an American, not a democrat!
I have got to object about her characterization of the Pruitt Igoe housing project. It's a fashionable excuse to blame the architecture but International style tower blocks do not cause gangs to proliferate. If that were the case then Hong Kong and Tokyo would be over run with criminal gangs. The Chinese have be living in high density urban environments including multi level apartments for centuries. There was a massive gulf between the people who designed and the people who lived in the housing projects. Refusing to mention the race and culture of the people who lived in Pruitt Igoe is lying by omission
Try putting the phrase "these people' together with "nobody cared for it and everybody trashed it".
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Good intentions? Yeah sure.
Awesome interview Nick and thank you, Amity, for your work.