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Originally Posted by 1399
Examining LBJ's Great Society, I read there was a lot of good that came out of this plan. Most of the stuff in his plan is just good policy for our Country.
I do not call this Socialism.
Furthermore, spending for this plan expanded EXPONENTIALLY under Republican leadership, that is established fact as well.
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The Great Soociety was called "the war on poverty". Its goal was to eliminate poverty n the US. Many of the current entitlement programs that made people codependent on government social programs started here, the most famous of which was Welfare. 7 trillion dollars later poverty is still with us and Welfare had to be altered because it was a failed program. It was a redistribution of wealth effort that has ended up doing what all socialist programs do: fail.
I do call it socialism and so do its believers. They aren't ashamed of the label, why should you?
As far as the failure of Republicans from 2001-2006 to curb sending while cutting taxes has been criticized by many conservatives including myself. I wrote a letter to the RNC in 2006 repremanding them for their failure in this regard. We found out that "compassionate conservatism" was a misnomer. It was just liberal Republicanism in disguise.