Repeating the Mistakes of the Great Society | Amity Shlaes (Repost)
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
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What Is the Great Society?
Government focused on public sector. Johnson said, cities, comma, countryside, colma classroom. So you let's spend a lot um and and do what we can. A big jurisdictional fight between yordi and washingtonn an l a meant that money that was promised wasn't being spent. Jobs were offered for the summer didn't materialize. And the watch riot, which was a famous, awful riot in 19 65, followed community action, spending, softening of the police and so on. It didn't precede it, right? Instead of getting fewer riots, the presumption of many who voted for this law, we got more riots because in cities of radicals empowered,
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