What Were LBJ's "Great Society" Programs? | History

[@northstar92]

wish i could watch history channel without thinking about ancient aliens and wondering about the actual history they're presenting

[@shaolinslumz2702]

They definitely lost all credibility

[@tsolmon1087]

I keep thinking LEbron when she say LBJ

[@michaeltnk1135]

I have the opposite thing happen

[@wrldw4r]

Me too.

[@Red-pv7kx]

@@michaeltnk1135Like you think of the president instead of LeBron right?

[@michaeltnk1135]

@@Red-pv7kx When people say LBJ instead of LeBron James, it makes me think of Lyndon B. Johnson

[@jookbj]

1:20 Ummm what did she say, "many of these programs were successful". They are still around but they're haven't helped decrease poverty in the areas they were implemented especially in the urban areas.

[@jookbj]

@@HenryBSilver lol have you been in the black, and native American community after LBG. LBG society or community is what we call today as the hood. If you think that's good then idk what to tell you. The data shows welfare doesn't decrease poverty. U.S census bureau shows this. I don't care about your ideology on equality the truth is truth. I go by what works. Welfare don't work it sounds good but in practice it don't work.

[@jookbj]

@@HenryBSilver Providing healthcare to elderly isn't an indicator of decreasing poverty. It shows the opposite.

[@jookbj]

@@HenryBSilver It does make sense b/c healthcare is for those who can't afford it initially that is. Now dumb people are saying it's a right. If more people are on healthcare according to the earlier policies it means more people can't afford healthcare. This is one of many indicators of poverty. If people could afford it they wouldn't need healthcare. Do you get it or was that too hard for you?

[@jookbj]

@@HenryBSilver You mentioned providing healthcare to the elderly when I made my claim that LBG and WELFARE DON'T WORK which is irrelevant to the poverty question.

[@jookbj]

@@HenryBSilver Yea healthcare isn't a right. I know you're a leftist when you advocate for these expensive policies. You should be able to pay for it out of your pocket. Before gov. started funding it, people were able to pay for it on their own with little to no problem. Pet's healthcare is cheaper and use the same medical equipment as people's healthcare. The difference is no gov. involvement in the free market.

[@timothyjones-eg9ll]

The greatest society will treat the people at the bottom with the same respect as the people at the top!

[@timothyjones-eg9ll]

Equal rights, and equal opportunities would be the best system! If it doesn't happen to the king it shouldn't happen to the homeless!

[@JamesWilson-sb9iq]

They don’t lol

[@mathewharrison5569]

@@JamesWilson-sb9iqso that was lie LMAO

[@stevelucky7579]

@@timothyjones-eg9llwe don’t have a king in America.

[@milhouse14]

Sounds like a Libertarian's worst nightmare. 😂

[@lisajean948]

Milhouse there is a God

[@theonetruelenny9883]

@@lisajean948 lol

[@juandelgadillo2656]

yup, literally caused more income inequality

[@jasoncarter7013]

yup

[@daha3074]

@Greg Worthington That's a consequence of the enactment of a welfare state

[@CreativeT09]

Thanks for breaking it down

[@Galactus_]

These SNL skits are hilarious😂

[@mofeadeyemi8072]

😐

[@apocrypha7011]

This video: Coronavirus : hold my beer

[@thembanitheone]

This was arguably one of the defining great campaigns of the Democratic party platform.

[@bigdog6927]

It ruined black America

[@tboog8356]

America’s downfall

[@bgbgef]

He ruined the black/ brown community u mean.

[@cwilh6044]

New deal & great society are THE defining achievements of american governance. Unfortunately nothing since has even come close in terms of helping the working ppl of this nation. All leaders have done since then is hack away at those past achievements while offering nothing of policy substance of their own.

[@soopahsoopah]

@@bigdog6927 yeah because they had it so great before that

[@72Yonatan]

Great historical review. Thank you.

[@rachaelkoontz4089]

Interesting they did this when the black community was rising so fast and doing so well. They were the fastest growing community. Then this happened and things went backward

[@leadbellywolf578]

Nailed it

[@captainmofongo584]

FACTS!!!

[@72Yonatan]

It was JFK'S program and LBJ realized that agenda. But sometimes big govt is not the best answer. Desegregation of the public school system was a good intention, but the quality of the public education became dumbed down. I saw recently an elementary school named: Defeated. How can folks allow that to happen?

[@rainlakuma6443]

Greg Worthington nice grifting conservative bot 🤖

[@violentshemp7776]

@The Life Analyst because black voters are easily fooled? because black voters don't like alarm clocks? because black voters like "free" stuff?

[@RMcC104]

Where can I watch this entire video?

[@abcdefghijklmno66109]

Trillions of dollars are spent every year on these programs. End result is a marginal change in the poverty numbers. Now imagine all that money remaining in the hands of the working people instead of going into government waste.

[@radicalaim]

I think in the future, we will look at these programs differently. The US attains an incomprehensible amount of debt every year, and I think that it will someday catch up to us. Of course, spending trillions on aid for those in poverty isn't the only reason for the US's rapidly growing debt. We spend a trillion on the military every year. Also, social security is a failed system. The deductions from my payroll that will go to social security are already spent. I am not paying for my own social security, I am paying for the social security of my grandparents and my grandchildren will be paying for my social security.

[@abcdefghijklmno66109]

@@radicalaim so you want to enslave your grandchildren to pay your social security instead of you building a retirement fund? And letting them keep their money? The average American pays 30%+ of their income in taxes. How about we give everyone a 30% raise without a company having to raise a dime. Just let people keep what they have earned.

[@abcdefghijklmno66109]

@@radicalaim total amount of money spent on the twenty years wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was $2T. We spend $1T every year on welfare. The army alone has cut 45k jobs this year. The other branches are following suit. People have been screaming about these social programs all the way when Daniel Boone was in Congress. There is a famous story about Daniel Boone meeting a constituent that refused to fund or vote for him again. Why? Boone voted $25k to help rebuild a community. The voter said "if you aren't willing to pay for it out of your pocket then why is it ok for you to vote it out of mine"

[@DylanAFSCMEFlintMI]

any working person who is not for this type of politics and these type of programs has no idea what they're talking about and they're filled with false consciousness of course the number one fighter of poverty is labor unions because labor unions are of the workers for the workers by the workers funded by the workers

[@apocrypha7011]

Shrek is my favorite civil rights leader

[@alex4863]

We need a LBJ as president, he literally forced things through because he knew how to force people to vote his way, he wasn’t afraid to burn his own party and use JFK death as leverage. It’s really sad that Vietnam n health made him not seek reelection.

[@DylanAFSCMEFlintMI]

Couldn't agree more he's one of the top five or at least the top 10 best presidents and if it wasn't for Vietnam he would be probably the second best president behind FDR.

[@gambo302]

And since then, there’s been generational dependence on the government which has really hurt a lot of groups in America

[@chutemi3368]

Here for a US History assignment

[@juandelgadillo2656]

and income inequality gap between races only widened. thanks lbj!

[@user-nb5cy1rd4i]

You may want to thank Reagan for the wealth inequality gap!

[@hcn6708]

Actually, it's thanks to Reagan who cut the programs' funding.

[@juandelgadillo2656]

@@hcn6708 reagan was president in the 80s the income inequality gap widened in the 70s due to the social programs created by lbj and the removal of the gold standard by nixon

[@БогданРезнік]

@Greg Worthington wealth of the rich.

[@blueangel9752]

@Greg Worthington and giving more money to wealthy people doesn’t have any sort of effect.

[@theSkyGuardian]

"In 1964 LBJ won the presidency..." Let me stop you right there

[@markuscarlos6172]

Wym? He won against Goldstein.

[@TartarianTopG]

Ummmm

[@angelinobernal6899]

@@markuscarlos6172 It's Goldwater not Goldstein

[@markuscarlos6172]

@@angelinobernal6899 wow your cool

[@treyjefferson1149]

He won in one of the biggest landslides known to man. Behind 1972 and 1984

[@ssaacbasketball]

really cool!!

[@TwoScoopsRB]

On the night before the assassination, Lyndon Johnson attended a late -night meeting at the dirty Texas oil man Clint Murchison’s house. He came out of that meeting telling his mistress Madeline Brown , “ after tomorrow, those Kennedy’s will never embarrass me again . That’s not a threat , that’s a promise “

[@finlaywallbanks7304]

Evidence?

[@anguishedgoose4785]

we really do live in a mcdonalds

[@larrywheeler9917]

The most likely suspects were ruled out. Why? They had control of the investigation. Did they consider a staged crime scene? Did they look at the connections the suspect had to Kennedy's enemies? Did they look at who had the most motive and stood to gain the most? Did they look at the real enemies of JFK who accused him of treason? When the crime scene is all laid out At the scene - the rifle, the shells easily connected to the suspect- any investigation must consider a staged crime scene. The most important clue as to who was responsible is the suspects profile itself. Kennedy was considered soft on Castro and called a communist appeaser. Why would Castro or a pro Castro -ite remove jfk for a corrupt Texan connected to Kennedy's enemies?

[@Wahee1]

Okay Larry lets get you to bed and get you your meds

[@blackconservativeogee9390]

TOOK THE BLACK FATHER OUT OF THE BLACK HOMES

[@1953childstar]

Exactly !!! and Johnson drafted a disproportionately higher number of Black men to fight in Vietnam.

[@santanagamingcinema]

Tell it brother

[@keithsharpe1683]

It took black men out of the homes. If a family received welfare benefits they could not receive them if a man was in the home. They would send social workers around at the first of the month to check if a man was staying there. It was a policy put in place by Johnson and the democratic party.

[@BAnderson1387]

keith sharpe you are absolutely right, the idea was initiated under the Kennedy administration, and LBJ followed it through with a few “adjustments”.

[@TimmyTheTinman]

Oh yes I would like to imagine Lyndon Johnson was sitting at his desk of the day while planning this and him with a devious smile on his face “and I am going to take the black father out of black homes mua ha ha ha!”.

[@LadyLuck6910]

no mention of the kennedy legacy?? poor show

[@timothylever1660]

that music is killing me. why put that music in? its quite distracting

[@sixthsith5432]

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. -Thomas Sowell

[@tomgibson6801]

sowells a bullshiter tho

[@jookbj]

@@tomgibson6801 No he's not

[@jookbj]

I like how misleading this video is. People today are really for welfare b/c mainstream media is clearly in favor of it. She didn't talk about the poverty rate increasing to the areas that have welfare, who it helped get out of poverty, the single motherhood rate and public educated student's performance in the economy.

[@DinoDaley-xp2eo]

Thomas sowell rather the Jim crow era compare to now

[@buffaloman9671]

No child will go unfed and unschooled? Well, you failed to mention how they will also go without 2 parents.

[@08MzESHA]

Exactly

[@ccutehoney]

That’s was part of the the great society plan. It added a child care program and subsidies.

[@08MzESHA]

@ccutehoney wtf are u talking about? It didn't provide black ppl with a family. It took the black man and left the black woman to tend to the kids themselves. The government became daddy

[@AnAverageBoss]

This nation would be much better if lbj never came in office

[@kain8614]

No civil rights Act without him....

[@NathanIslesOfficial]

​@@kain8614a great lie...

[@kain8614]

@@NathanIslesOfficial how is it a lie? Which other president could've passed it aside from him?

[@DinoDaley-xp2eo]

​@@kain8614he can't answer

[@figofigo7908]

In other words you rather segregation today segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.

[@EazytheNDAcaptain]

Here because of Candace Owens

[@hannahdewinter5515]

Me too

[@corinaaguilar6507]

What episode?

[@DinoDaley-xp2eo]

U still here

[@turbokid8719]

The great society succeeded did exactly what it was meant to do.

[@dcgrace320]

Lol destroyed families

[@turbokid8719]

@@dcgrace320 yep & got people addicted to drugs also lowered the iq.

[@gregjames3001]

LBJ : "I'll have them N*words voting Damnitcrats for the next 200 years"

[@GrimmaStadguard]

I can see that @@turbokid8719

[@robertmasina7388]

I won't quite agree with that. It's made a segment of the population government dependent.

[@squirrelboss7067]

Too bad the music is too loud

[@coachsam486]

You forgot to mention that he removed the black fathers from the house old by providing a check for each child that was born

[@DidiV919]

Yep he incentivized single mother hood and fatherless homes. It's very sad what he did to the black community

[@markyuto6820]

Crazy thing is that many people are ignorant about this especially many from the black community. They're still "slaves" to the Democratic Party.

[@terriehiggins9489]

That was by design.

[@Al2023-wx3ck]

Agreed but so did all races except maybe Asians, why do we only care when it’s black people ?

[@boringletsplayer6634]

Got any evidence for this?

[@yegfreethinker]

Why are so many people simping for the rich 1% in here seriously if you're part of the 99% like me then you should be wanting to tax the rich but then again I'm a Canadian so what do I know (sarcastic tone)

[@markgenuelparadero8590]

The government has a big role in reshaping the economic structure of its society. As long as the parts of it are efficient and not corrupt and they are for public service, every dollar spent by people to generate taxes is worth it as long as it will be spent back to the welfare of the people.

[@fajarcahyono3693]

Why I support taxing the rich if my life goals is to become rich & successful? I am not stupid & lazy like you, lazy to think, lazy to achieve something, lazy mentality, always thinking government is my big bro, always demanding wealth redistribution but didn't have any single idea of how wealth is created. Do you think taxing the rich will make those rich people keep their wealth in your country? Too naive. If you tax the rich, do you think those rich people didn't move their factory to Vietnam and China and starting the job loss in your country? Rich people always move to the country where their wealth is safe and protected, not robbed, just think with broader perspective not only one. Just becaude you are poor doesn't mean you are good, deserve everything and vice versa. Sure you can achieve it if you want by hard and smart work

[@fajarcahyono3693]

Tax the rich more and thinking the rich will kept their wealth inside the country? Only very stupid, low level of survival mode and illogical rich people would do that. One sighted view is very naive, sometimes

[@PointnShootMovies]

Why can’t you just present things impartially?

[@Bezmenov93]

No profit.

[@treyeldred6370]

bro this dude mightve been more impactful that lebron tbh

[@KushClarkKent]

wat

[@oeleveoleve.7562]

thank you MR PRESIDENT.....

[@nattersting976]

Who disadvantaged folks? Libraries were open for everyone.

[@ScoutEboy]

Very partisan. Not a single reference to how it may have harmed minorities and created cycles of poverty and govt dependence.

[@Al2023-wx3ck]

It harmed all races, stop being a self hate

[@NathanieiAugustine-b9m]

Corwin Ridge

[@SusanWhite-w8f]

Gerhold Overpass

[@thomaspaine3395]

LBJ, the guy who said I'll be getting blacks to vote democrat for the next 200 years. Unfortunately it seems like he was right.

[@milhouse14]

Maybe if Barry Goldwater was not against the Civil Rights Act then we wouldn't be seeing that happening.

[@thomaspaine3395]

Milhouse the truth is Goldwater wasn't against civil rights he was against, government intruding upon states rights just like we saw under the Obama administration. Goldwater actually supported an early civil rights bill, but MSM lies so much that's they try to keeps blacks for voting democrat.

[@milhouse14]

Thank you for making it perfectly clear that Goldwater was against a federal law that finally ended segregation all over the country.

[@oranmulcahy90]

Thomas Paine ...he voted "Nay" on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

[@QhEstrada]

Thomas Paine fake news, he didn't say blacks he used the "N" word. They're putting a statue in houston.

[@DupontLucy-j4o]

Eli Dale

[@MonroeHelen-z2d]

Cruickshank Forks

[@KhanTena-t8z]

Nathan Dale

[@OregonEdProject]

Excellent, well-balanced presentation.

[@floridaboy1700]

No it's not... this was propaganda.

[@turbokid8719]

@@floridaboy1700 true

[@taiana2323]

What a difference to today's US president ✌

[@bradrobb7582]

Taiana Today’s US president is great

[@HankFinkle11]

Taiana Johnson’s policies have helped drive our debt and made inner city, fatherless homes a norm.

[@croydonsfinest007]

This guy had a part in the greatest treason the US has ever seen. He was an opportunist with backing from powerful people.

[@tinaroston9314]

@@HankFinkle11 well that was part of the plan to destroy black families and keep them in poverty ijs

[@nunomartins4265]

@@bradrobb7582 said no one ever

[@MollHilary-m9q]

Graham Overpass

[@robertmoir-vj1kq]

L.B.J. was sick man 58 000 Americans died in Vietnam because of that monster

[@dmc1449]

1/2 of the deaths in Vietnam were under Nixon, who was more the monster. LBJ was at least guilt-wracked over it, which is why he didn't run in '68, trying to focus on a peace agreement (that Nixon illegally stopped behind the scenes).

[@Evettecord]

@@dmc1449 He could've just pulled us out of Vietnam and he shouldn't have put us in. Kennedy was trying to take us out.

[@radicalaim]

@@dmc1449 Nixon delaying peace treaties while millions died in Vietnam as well as the Watergate scandal makes him one of my least favorite presidents. Maybe I just dislike him because he got pardoned by his vice president and never had to serve his time (not unlike other presidents in history)

[@understandthis4634]

The great society programs has made generations dependent on welfare, black single parent went from 40% to 70% today. These programs were temporary but created dependency and abuse.

[@daryllndemmayah4874]

It stil reduced the poverty rate

[@pattytheseeker8902]

There was welfare reform during the Clinton administration. Many actual welfare programs are no more.

[@understandthis4634]

@@pattytheseeker8902 you talking pre COVID or Post?

[@understandthis4634]

@@daryllndemmayah4874 very wrong, look up the data. Poverty although fluctuates it’s has remained the same. Poverty in US standards, because even homeless have cell phones and 4 meals a day.

[@turbokid8719]

@@daryllndemmayah4874 😂 no it didn’t

[@BronteFrank-s4m]

Andy Street

[@FletcherLingerfelter-o4p]

Bernhard Field

[@FeguerFineArt]

"Great Society", How's that working out. Rhetorical question.

[@gizzinhereye]

All these really worked 🙄

[@nascarconnor1254]

I just see lots of debt in this video.

[@GailShultz-v8d]

Watson Mill

[@JustinSpence-k5h]

Deckow Orchard

[@Al2023-wx3ck]

2:00 She said that literacy tests for voting are “ Discrimination” are you serous? Being able to read is how you vote. We all have to do it, it’s not racial

[@JamesStevens-q7c]

Padberg Pines

[@johnv2232]

The 1960s poverty rate in America was cut dramatically from 1961 to 1969 due to the Great Society programs 🇺🇸.

[@forgottenman8629]

indeed, and the net result? 10's of millions 'enslaved' to the DC teat...

[@markyuto6820]

Nice try propaganda account. The actual result is the opposite.

[@hannahdewinter5515]

And destroyed families for generations....

[@Al2023-wx3ck]

That’s probably because many people died in Vietnam, so less poor people LBJ sent away

[@EserKaya-k3x]

Ryleigh Drives

[@GlynisNaso-v5k]

Dibbert Forest

[@newunfinished9320]

History class hw

[@GuyGene-z4s]

Heath Mission

[@sojournsojourntraveler1203]

George H.W.Bush was exacted for his part in the assassination of JFK and 9/11 12/2018 This Great Society is SOCIALISM / NEW WORLD ORDER. This has turned out to be the worst thing to happen to the USA. DATED 3/22/2019 It has undermined every aspect of a truthful healthy society. IT IS THE GREATEST MOVE TOWARDS SOCIALISM IN US HISTORY !!!!

[@terriehiggins9489]

I noticed that this narrator omitted the part that the democratic party made it more lucrative for black women to not have a man in the house. Black women choose the check over having a nuclear family. Did I mess something?

[@onceagain6184]

You miss the fact that what you posted is a myth!

[@YoshikoWeglage-n7r]

Elouise Turnpike

[@jamesmullikin3045]

The great society was for big government to get BIGGER

[@RoryCarreras-v6s]

Sierra Camp

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Hayes Lake

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Stroman Fields

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Yoshiko Estates

[@TracyBennett-w8p]

Kessler Estates

[@asasial1977]

Reward the lazy, then reward them again when they have kids they can’t afford. Handicap people I can see helping. But handicap includes hurt feelings anymore.

[@boringletsplayer6634]

😶

[@AnaThompson-g5h]

Heaney Branch

[@conservativeforcalifornian9882]

I was taught at a very young age you don’t work you don’t eat. We need to go back to that philosophy. That is when America will really thrive.

[@boringletsplayer6634]

You do realize that people want to work.

[@htty-z6y]

West Stravenue

[@phoenixgazette5947]

Impressive.... NOw let's see Paul Allen's card..

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Hettinger Dale

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O'Hara Orchard

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Ebert Way

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0656 Makenzie Fords

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Hartmann Isle

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Clovis Harbors

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Lucas Ferry

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Amir Square

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Deondre Locks

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Abbott Terrace

[@IleenBarratt-r4y]

Muller Center

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Nick Bypass

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Altenwerth Walk

[@DonneCynthia-y9j]

Effertz Drive

[@JeffersonBridget-e8r]

Douglas Rue

[@COOKIESWITCREME5]

When you guys think about welfare. Do research on corporate welfare.

[@timothyryan8390]

One of the worst presidents ever Viet Nam was just a false flag bay of tonkin was a sham job. Admiral Morrison killed our young people for nothing.

[@timothyryan8390]

Farmers on Subsidized farm checks :huge corporate welfare auto makers etc.

[@AliceGranados-h2b]

Julius Locks

[@DougGrinbergs]

FDR New Deal: I'm from the government and I'm here to help 1.0 Great Society IFTGAIHTH 2.0 😉😀

[@camous49]

This Is Soundin' A Bit Too Liberal

[@mokhala4537]

Ambiance bizarre

[@averycombs6829]

LBJ didn’t say that. Obama did.

[@jackmeoff8953]

In short LBJ's "Great Society" programs was a waist of my money.

[@putinpuppet2063]

Jack MeOff - A "waist" of "your" money. Ignorant pig.

[@Evettecord]

Well, it got what LBJ and friends wanted, it depowered the black community.