Tag: The Great Society
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Black America Before LBJ: How the Welfare State Inadvertently Helped Ruin Black Communities
“A COLOSSAL AND GIANT FAILURE” by Sam Jacobs, Ammo.com, ©2020, CC by 4.0 (Jan. 10, 2020) — “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.” President Ronald Reagan, 1988 State of the Union Address The dust has settled and the evidence is in: The 1960s Great Society and War on Poverty programs of President…
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The Masses Need a Course in Economics, Capital and Freedom
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Sep. 4, 2016) — Let’s start out with some simple, undeniable truths: 1. Only the profits from private enterprise create income, which can be taxed by government. 2. Government can only create jobs, or pay for social services, using the money from the…
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Government-style “Fairness” for the 1%
OBAMA CRONIES GET ABUNDANT FAVORS – AT THE EXPENSE OF WORKING-CLASS AMERICANS by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Nov. 8, 2015) — Liberals love to extol their deep compassion for the poor, whom conservatives allegedly don’t give a fig about. Thus our Community-Organizer-in-Chief pontificates endlessly about income inequality, to justify his determination to “fundamentally transform” our nation,…
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Just How Evil and Corrupt is the American Government?
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2014 (Aug. 10, 2014) — The real question is, how far will the government go to subjugate, control and manipulate a once-free people? So let’s start out with a series of unanswered questions. 1. Why did the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), working on behalf…
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What is the Truth about November Food Stamp Benefits?
CONTRADICTORY REPORTS LEAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT FOOD ALLOTMENTS DURING SHUTDOWN by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 16, 2013) — In early August, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities announced that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered by the USDA and formerly known as “food stamps,” would reduce benefits to virtually all families which had received a…
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It’s Time for Conservatives’ Unity and Action
IN THE FACE OF THE “BENEVOLENT DICTATOR” by Colonel Bob Pappas, USMC, Retired, ©2013, blogging at Gulf1 (Oct. 13, 2013) — The United States of America is growing weak under the present Administration, but for those who know it has not always been this way. This is not a new revelation for most readers; it became great…
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The Atonement of John Lewis
“A TRAVESTY” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2013 (Sep. 2, 2013) — An open letter to Congressman John Lewis, Democrat of the 5th District of Georgia. Dear Congressman Lewis: The best that can be said for the 50th anniversary celebration of Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington is that it was a travesty. As one of…
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To “Touch the Face of God” pb
SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER by Steven Neill, ©2012 (Dec. 5, 2012) — Sold to Americans as the next step in space exploration, the Space Shuttle Program was ushered in with great fanfare and expectations. It was hailed as a means for the military to increase national security, for private industry to open new commercial opportunity;…
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A Time for Choosing, Part I
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG BANKLORDS, FIAT CURRENCY, AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP by Steven Wayne Pattison, ©2011 (Nov. 2, 2011) — By reading the following, you will learn the reason for our current situation and how it took place in other countries with the same results we will have soon. Some will not believe what they are about…
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Do You Think Your Vote in November Will Restore Freedom?
HOW MANY ARE PREPARED TO WALK THE LONG ROAD BACK? by Ron Ewart (Sept. 23, 2010) — “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson Way too many Americans dwell in la-la land, on either side of the political spectrum. Naiveté…