The Unconditional War On Poverty By President Johnson

The Democratic Party Should Be Deeply Ashamed!

As we look back on 50 years of this absurd war, I would like to remind the reader that President Lyndon B. Johnson said following in his first State Of The Union address delivered on 1/8/1964 (Emphasis added):

1. “Let this session of Congress be known as the session which did more for civil rights than the last hundred sessions combined; … as the session which declared all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States”
2. “For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington.”
3. “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.”
4. “Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it. ”

Had anyone else but the President of the U.S. spoken these words, the person would have been declared insane or a warmonger on his own people.

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