Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908-1973, 36th President of the United States (Democrat, TX), Speech announcing the War on Poverty, 1964
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The “War on Poverty” had an intellectual precursor.
The "Great Depression" began the following year.
The War on Poverty made substantial gains in reducing the percentage of poor people in America, but from 2000 till this statement in 2013, the economic policies and practices, together with the Great Recession, increased the assets of the richest Americans and also increased the percentage of poor Americans. See {634008}.
She improved the economy considerably but was stuck in a socialized economic ideology that inhibited major private sector growth, without which it is impossible to eliminate poverty and with which excessive greed can also produce poverty.
Many of the very rich agreed with Lind on this point. So did many Americans with good jobs. However there were very few Americans who did not have good jobs who agreed with this point of view. In most industrialized countries ,most workers spend one-hired of their entire adult lives working. If we do not count sleeping time, it is more like half. It is hard to believe for most people that a person could have a good life when half of his/her waking hours are spend in a not very good situation. Many of Lind’s critics observed that this was the Classic Christian theological view until recent times that every person should accept his station and be happy in at as that is what God ordained.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
