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LBJ's Great Society program cost the American taxpayer over 20 trillion dollars. First let us see how much 20 trillion dollars is. If in the year 0(the day Christ was born) a million dollars was spent everyday up until now it still would not add up to 1 trillion dollars. Most of that 20 trillion went to programs for African Americans. So why is there poverty amongst the African Americans. Where did that 20 trillion go? No doubt there was a lot of corruption along the way. There must have been. There should be no poverty anywhere with that kind of money thrown into antipoverty programs. Something doesn't add up. So where did all that money go?
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LBJ's Great Society program cost the American taxpayer over 20 trillion dollars. First let us see how much 20 trillion dollars is. If in the year 0(the day Christ was born) a million dollars was spent everyday up until now it still would not add up to 1 trillion dollars. Most of that 20 trillion went to programs for African Americans. So why is there poverty amongst the African Americans. Where did that 20 trillion go? No doubt there was a lot of corruption along the way. There must have been. There should be no poverty anywhere with that kind of money thrown into antipoverty programs. Something doesn't add up. So where did all that money go?
Maybe it went to the same place all those $$$ we threw at the Pentagon went? Let's audit the DoD for the first time ever and find out, okay?
The original post betrays a profound ignorance of what the "Great Society" was and its wide scope. It was more than just a anti-poverty program. It included the effort to end discrimination against minorities (Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Fair Housing Acts) . an effort to clean up the environment (Clean air, water and Solid Waste acts) , revitalization of our cities through a public private partnership (Urban renewal and Mass Transit (BARTA, WMATA, MARTA etc.) , an effort to end the disgraceful poverty of the Appalachian belt from New York to Georgia (modern roads, incentives to create businesses, improved power and telecommunications) , making education more available to Americans who had poor schools (often rural) and giving poorer and lower middleclass students Pell grants and student loans to go to previously unaffordable universities.the biggest Great Society program was something called MEDICARE and its counterpart for the poor MEDICAID. In the 1960s before Richard Nixon and the GOP got teir hands on it and began the ongoing effort to sabatoge it it cut poverty in half and lifted millions out of poverty and over half of Americas poor were WHITE not black or latino. The 1960s were 50 years ago and no doubt we have spent 20T on such social programs or if divided by 50 about 400 billion a year the majority going to Medicare and Medicaid ( The largest provider of nursing home and hospice care to aging white people.
LBJ's Great Society program cost the American taxpayer over 20 trillion dollars. First let us see how much 20 trillion dollars is. If in the year 0(the day Christ was born) a million dollars was spent everyday up until now it still would not add up to 1 trillion dollars. Most of that 20 trillion went to programs for African Americans. So why is there poverty amongst the African Americans. Where did that 20 trillion go? No doubt there was a lot of corruption along the way. There must have been. There should be no poverty anywhere with that kind of money thrown into antipoverty programs. Something doesn't add up. So where did all that money go?
You do realize that 20 trillion dollars constitutes 400 billion dollars a year for 50 years? I don't even know if the whole US budget was 400 billion 50 years ago.
LBJ's Great Society program cost the American taxpayer over 20 trillion dollars. First let us see how much 20 trillion dollars is. If in the year 0(the day Christ was born) a million dollars was spent everyday up until now it still would not add up to 1 trillion dollars. Most of that 20 trillion went to programs for African Americans. So why is there poverty amongst the African Americans. Where did that 20 trillion go? No doubt there was a lot of corruption along the way. There must have been. There should be no poverty anywhere with that kind of money thrown into antipoverty programs. Something doesn't add up. So where did all that money go?
It didn't just go to African Americans, but WAY too much of it DID go to the "poverty pimps."
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"Obviously, a lot of anti-poverty money is going to people who are not poor. There are whole classes of people who live off the poor -- or rather, off the vast sums of money that are poured out from the public treasury and private philanthropy, in hopes of helping the poor.
Those who intercept the money intended for the poor have been aptly called "poverty pimps." The poor are a commodity to these people, who include not only local politicians, community activists and small-time hustlers, but also people with impressive titles and academic credentials, who likewise milk the larger society, in the name of the poor.
At the top of the food chain, as it were, are Ivy League professors who rake in big-time research grants to support themselves and their cronies while they are studying, romanticizing or otherwise exploiting the poor."
Is that some jewish site? Wouldn't want to get info from there..
It's Thomas Sowell (African American economist). And, yes, he is syndicated on a jewish site. Is there a problem with multiculturalism?
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