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July 30, 2008, 5:29pm
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<p>I think most of this has turned into cr*p too - well intentioned to begin with, but ruined by governmental beaurocracy and waste… </p>
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The list begins at the end of 1963, when he took office following JFK’s assassination, and continues through his last full year, 1968. The titles are as LBJ himself listed them:</p>
<p>College Facilities
<p>Still with me? Good, because that’s only a partial list of what LBJ was so proud of but which Obama apparently feels just wasn’t enough. Perhaps Obama has a point. After all, the above is only a partial listing reflecting LBJ’s work for just one month of 1963 and only a portion of 1964. Let’s move on to 1965, again with space prohibiting a full listing of what Senator Obama seems to feel were LBJ’s inadequacies in just not getting the job done:</p>
<p>Medicare
<p>I can hear the chorus growing now. Stop! Stop with the list already! OK. But I warn you, we’re not even done with 1965 yet. With 1966, 1967 and 1968 still to go I hate to leave out things like Child Nutrition, Rent Supplements, Clean Rivers, Child Safety, Narcotics Rehabilitation, Water Research, Water for Peace, Air Pollution Control, Education Act, Deaf-Blind Center, Safe Streets, Wholesome Poultry, School Breakfasts, Aircraft Noise Abatement, Better Housing, Oil Revenues for Recreation, Juvenile Delinquency Protection, Guaranteed Student Loans, Gun Controls, Aid-to-Handicapped Children, Hazardous Radiation Protection, and Dangerous Drugs Control.
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<p>good article [The</a> American Spectator](<a href=“http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13344]The ”>http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13344 )</p>
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Why is this so? The reason that Democrats complain of poverty, bad schools and lousy jobs is that – in places where liberalism rules – this is exactly what one does find. Take a trip to Detroit and check in on the public school system. Hop on down to New Orleans and see what was going on there before – not after – Katrina hit. The failure of LBJ-style liberalism is writ large, for all the world to see. And the answer of Senator Obama is – more! More! More! MORE!
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<p>To quote Ronald Reagan “there you go again” mini
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July 30, 2008, 5:36pm
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Oh, wait, one was a LOAN from a private company, the other was a GIVEAWAY from the federal government!
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<p>Johnson’s deal at Fannie Mae was completely unethical and dirty handed, cheating literally millions of stockholders (who by the way, are people like me who own 401Ks and mutual funds). He is no different that Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling at Enron, he just hasn’t been indicted yet (and may never be, you know, friends in high places, and all that?). </p>
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If you want to know how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have survived scandal and crisis, consider this: Over the past decade, they have spent nearly $200 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. </p>
<p>But the political tentacles of the mortgage giants extend far beyond their checkbooks. </p>
<p>The two government-chartered companies run a highly sophisticated lobbying operation, with deep-pocketed lobbyists in Washington and scores of local Fannie- and Freddie-sponsored homeowner groups ready to pressure lawmakers back home.
Like I said, friends in high places.</p>
<p>As for your “government giveaway” - If the government gives me a refund or tax break, I’m going to take it. Unlike SuNa, whose family is so wealthy that she would like to pay more in taxes, I would like to keep more of the money that I work very hard for.</p>
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July 30, 2008, 5:39pm
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<p>The government didn’t give you a refund. They BORROWED MONEY (not YOUR money, NEW money) from our owners in China and Saudi Arabia to give it to you. </p>
<p>I’m glad you invested it well in building our nation’s infrastructure, creating jobs, providing health care, and shoring up Social Security, and I thank you for it.</p>
ag54
July 30, 2008, 5:50pm
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'm glad you invested it well in building our nation’s infrastructure, creating jobs, providing health care, and shoring up Social Security, and I thank you for it.
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<p>No, I went out and spent it on things like groceries. But, you’re welcome…</p>
ag54
July 30, 2008, 5:53pm
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WHICH BRINGS US HOME to the central fact for conservatives in this election season. The Obama policies – which are in fact the LBJ policies as presented by a better orator – will in fact fail. The principle behind them – government control – simply does not work. If it did Medicare and Medicaid would not be headed toward financial ruin, Social Security would be in the black as far as the eye can see, and the citizens of New Orleans, like the school children of Detroit – beneficiaries one and all of LBJ’s largesse – would be in an infinitely better place than they are today.</p>
<p>Forty-four years ago this year the seeds of the conservative success that would flower with the leadership of Ronald Reagan were firmly rooted in the landslide that elected Lyndon Johnson. It is not without irony that the power to transform the liberal agenda into the list LBJ cited so proudly in his memoirs eventually backfired and backfired badly, fueling the Reagan Revolution. Lyndon Johnson took FDR’s New Deal and ran the string out to its logical conclusion in the American system – and Americans, appalled at the cost, the bureaucracy, the extravagance and the incompetence, finally rebelled. The bill for LBJ’s list had come due
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<p>We’ve all been down the road before.</p>
