lyndon b. johnson

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    Black America Before LBJ: How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities

    The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might make the argument that social welfare programs are the moral path for a modern government. They cannot...
  2. ammodotcom

    Black America Before LBJ: How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities

    “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.” – President Ronald Reagan, 1988 State of the Union Address The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) have been a colossal and giant failure. One might...
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