We are part of the only organization purely dedicated to this critical mission and we need your help to fuel this fight. In Washington, corporations organised themselves into a powerful lobby that spent millions of dollars to defeat the kind of labour and consumer bills they had once accepted as part of the social contract. It is no wonder that more and more Americans believe the game is rigged. The Great Society, also known as the infamous War on Poverty was launched as every other government top-down solution is, with great promise and “noble” intention.

Today – not unlike Tony Blair – he has traded on a life in politics to join the rarefied class of the global super-rich. The old folks down South were impeccably wise, and we should pay more attention to their lessons. “Fifty years later we see there can be no Great Society when government involvement incentivizes family disintegration, making it more profitable to cohabit than to be married,” Blye said. They do not want to see strong, two-parent families, educational freedom, and economic empowerment. My school, well, it no longer exists, it is just a community center.

My older brother returned from Vietnam where he had been wounded as a Marine Infantryman at Khe Sahn. It as a period that I call the Unwinding. WATCH: It does not take a PhD level study to grasp this. The Great Society blunder has resulted in the modern-day 21st century economic plantation in which American inner-cities have absolutely cratered. Never mind that al-Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar, whose oil exports and views of women and minorities make a mockery of the ideas that Gore propounds in a book or film every other year.

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are the reincarnation of Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie, Steven Cohen is another JP Morgan, Jay-Z is Jay Gatsby. The Great Society also took a sizable bite out of poverty. And I walked to and from school by myself. I grew up in the historic Old Fourth Ward community, the same one that produced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the cradle of the American civil rights movement, ya know, Sweet Auburn Avenue.

The MRC is a research and Matter of fact, Black Lives Matter has deemed the traditional nuclear family an extension of white supremacy. Never mind that his Apple stock came with his position on the company's board, a gift to a former presidential contender. Fifty-five years later, we are witnessing the -- shall I say it --“chickens coming home to roost.”. In ... , she notes that “just as the 1960s forgot the failures of the 1930s, we today forget the failures of the 1960s.” Shlaes has written 510 pages of argumentation, with detailed description and telling digression that traces the arc from the unbridled hopes of the early Sixties to the enormous administrative expansion of the “second New Deal” to the missteps in implementing it that became all too apparent in. In or around 1978, America's character changed. I went to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School, which was across the street from Ebenezer Baptist Church. All Rights Reserved. Consider my story, a young black kid born in a “Blacks Only” hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on February 7, 1961. The declaration calls for a smart alternative to the ... David Byrne’s American Utopia repudiates the beloved Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense.

Whistling past the graveyard referred to a person who fails to see the real issues they are facing. $25 a month goes a long way in the fight for a free and fair media. When I was born, the traditional two-parent household in the black community was nearly 77%. Across California, voters passed Proposition 13, launching a tax revolt that began the erosion of public funding for what had been the country's best school system. He is a Fox News contributor and author of “Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom” and his latest book from Brown Books Publishing Group, “Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death.”  Mr. West writes daily commentary on his personal website theoldschoolpatriot.com and is a Senior Fellow at the Media Research Center to support its mission to expose and neutralize liberal media bias.). It does not take a PhD level study to grasp this. The bill, which Pelosi introduced along with Congressman Jamie Raskin, would form a congressionally-appointed body called the Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge ... Kamala Harris is set to announce her candidacy for president sometime around Martin Luther King Jr. Day. No, on this new plantation, the left needs victims, and victims provide them with electoral patronage. The hideous term "stagflation", which combined the normally opposed economic phenomena of stagnation and inflation, perfectly captured the doldrums of that moment. It is the most interesting and substantive account of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon’s “war on poverty” to date — and just in time. Compare my inner-city experience to what is happening today. Sign up for our CNSNews Daily Newsletter to receive the latest news. Donate today to help CNSNews continue to report on topics that the liberal media refuse to touch. The governor has new shutdown rules in his new hot-zone rules. It was so successful in the USSR that it threatened to destroy society in the USSR. You might call it the period of the Roosevelt Republic. During his 22-year career, he served in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, receiving many honors including a Bronze Star. John Bolton’s time at the NSC will be remembered as the pacifist era of the Trump administration. The large currents of the past generation – deindustrialisation, the flattening of average wages, the financialisation of the economy, income inequality, the growth of information technology, the flood of money into Washington, the rise of the political right – all had their origins in the late 70s. Libertarian economist Thomas Sowell argues that the Great Society programs only contributed to the destruction of African American […] Understanding Suicide on September 25, 2011 at 5:38 am […] dependency and family disintegration, particularly among the urban poor. In Youngstown, Ohio, the steel mills that had been the city's foundation for a century closed, one after another, with breathtaking speed, taking 50,000 jobs from a small industrial river valley, leaving nothing to replace them. Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death. Their policies have created this incessant nightmare that is being unfolded before our eyes. Jimmy Carter was in the White House, preaching austerity and public-spiritedness, and hardly anyone was listening. CNSNews has emerged as the conservative media’s lynchpin for original reporting, investigative reporting, and breaking news. CNSNews.com is a division of the Media Research Center. The media are hard at work weaving a web of confusion, misinformation, and conspiracy surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. “Nearly four in ten African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African American youth are not employed,” Donald Trump said at the Republican Convention in Cleveland. And so here we are today in America, and both sayings have relevance, the former more so than the latter. But the country had the tools to correct its own flaws, and it used them: healthy democratic institutions such as Congress, courts, churches, schools, news organisations, business-labour partnerships. There would have been no Glass-Steagall Act, separating commercial from investment banking, without the bank failures of 1933; no great middle-class boom if the US economy had not been the only one left standing after the second world war; no bargain between business, labour and government without a shared sense of national interest in the face of foreign enemies; no social solidarity without the door to immigrants remaining closed through the middle of the century. There will always be isolated lawbreakers in high places; what destroys morale below is the systematic corner-cutting, the rule-bending, the self-dealing. For almost half a century, the United States had been a relatively egalitarian, secure, middle-class democracy, with structures in place that supported the aspirations of ordinary people. The US became more entrepreneurial and less bureaucratic, more individualistic and less communitarian, more free and less equal, more tolerant and less fair. First published on Wed 19 Jun 2013 12.47 EDT. It is sentimental at best, if not ahistorical, to imagine that the social contract could ever have survived – like wanting to hang on to a world of nuclear families and manual typewriters. Once the social contract is shredded, once the deal is off, only suckers still play by the rules. A reader writes in about Elizabeth Powers's review of. Yes, there are bad cops, as there are bad elements, individuals in any profession. America's postwar responsibilities demanded co-operation between the two parties in Congress, and when the cold war waned, the co-operation was bound to diminish with it. But there was nothing historically determined about the poisonous atmosphere and demonising language that Gingrich and other conservative ideologues spread through US politics. CNSNews covers the stories that the liberal media are afraid to touch. We used to have a responsible press. The fight is weird, but there is reason for optimism. The Roosevelt Republic had plenty of injustice, but it also had the power of self-correction. There is nothing unusual about the six surviving heirs to the Walmart fortune possessing between them the same wealth as the bottom 42% of Americans – that's the country's default setting. By this deterministic analysis, the US has always been a wide-open, free-wheeling country, with a high tolerance for big winners and big losers as the price of equal opportunity in a dynamic society. He was extraordinary to encounter. The Great Society is a failure. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Higher Education Act, part of his Great Society program, on November 8, 1965. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at … But where's teh anger, asks Sukhdev Sandhu, Available for everyone, funded by readers.

A review of 'Great Society: A New History', by Amity Shlaes. Earlier this year, Al Gore made $100m (£64m) in a single month by selling Current TV to al-Jazeera for $70m and cashing in his shares of Apple stock for $30m. It is no wonder that they buy houses they cannot afford and then walk away from the mortgage when they can no longer pay. The mall is a troublesome thing for leftists. Wed 19 Jun 2013 12.47 EDT I learned to swim, box, and play basketball at the historic Butler Street YMCA. Sadly, with the advent of reality TV and other mindless programming, we are becoming a nation of lemmings and useful idiots, not critical thinkers. We can have all the conversations about racism you want, but we will just keep whistling past the graveyard.