@@thomcarr7021 Single parent households were incentivized. In fact a household could get more if no husband/father was present. Before the War on Poverty the out of wedlock percentage for African American births was around 22%. Now it is almost 80%. A complete reversal. In many cases women's independence from men resulted in government dependence.
Re: LBJ, Barry Goldwater had the perfect summary: "He had to borrow $200 to file for his first election and retired with $39 million. You tell me how an honest politician does that."
what is 39 million, pea nuts... a small govt employee in a third world country makes it...just imagine the horrors when you add up all the govt employees in that country... would account for say 75% of tax revenues every year... anyway - remember Eisenhower's warning about congress-military industrial complex + other lobbies the biggest and most harmful being AIPAC...
Barack Obama went from Community Organizer to less than 1 term Senator to President in 1 seamless transition. Came to this country on a student visa in the early 80's. He's now worth 70 million $$$ dollars. HOW did that happen?
People seem to be living to triple digits these days, because public smoking became illegal I know many 90 year olds. The young these days, 45 and under, may not, if they used lots of ink. (Not knowing how to cook, and using seed oils too) It tends to end up in lymph nodes and system
Yes and Johnson with his war on poverty created a sham that actually made everyone worse off. Throwing Monet at a problem has never worked for this it is supposed to help. Generally it becomes a cash cow for insider organizations.
From the Kennedy assassination to the racial division to the Vietnam War to the faked manned Moon landings, Johnson had his hands in every dirty trick.
And people defend his prolific use of the n word as "a man of the times". Really? Where were all the N words in the founding documents of America? Who was going to stop a bunch of white people who were creating a country from using it? But they didn't use it - 200 years earlier!! Same goes for Lincoln. Can anyone imagine Abe Lincoln using that word?
It's so sad that a man such as him gets nearly no respect from his community. I guess it's hard to understand an intelligent man when so many give up on intelligence at such an early age. Let's hope there are many that will follow in his footsteps.
Let us not forget that Thomas Sowell said that obama was the worst president in the history of the United States -- obama, biden, harris -- all the same.
@@xzqzqActually, a big part of the black voter migration took place with FDR's New Deal policies in the 30s. Before FDR, the overwhelming majority of black voters voted Republican. Between FDR and LBJ, it was around 50/50. After LBJ it has been around 90/10 in favor of the Democrats.
Thomas Sowell is one of the most underrated and intelligent men of the black community. Ask yourself, why are men like Thomas never promoted to the forefront in the American political arena. It is because they speak the truth
Not just Blacks... Another knock-on effect is probably the current status of things between men and women... Paying women to have kids, etc., increases that sense of independence... which correspondingly reduces their appreciation and respect for men... teamwork... and reduces men's value to society as both husbands and fathers, further wrecking the family structure. Even more, the family structure is every baby's/child's first introduction to society. Wreck the family, and you can't help but cause great damage to the greater society as well.
LBJ's "great society" was, in effect, the IRL equivalent of the scientist running the Mouse Utopia 25 experiment. Having "someone" (the scientist in the experiment, Uncle Sam in real life) provide the necessities made the male mice redundant... useless. IMO, it is a direct causal link that only a few years after LBJ (1964-1968), that many women were bragging about how they needed men like fish need bicycles (1973).
Dr Thomas Sowell NEEDS to be taught...in elementary school, in high school, in every college in this country. His wisdom...his life experience...he speaks from real world experience. Hello is the epitome of pure common sense. He is, truly, an American Treasure! God bless him!
Bobby (RFK) should have known what LBJ was capable of doing ..... the dead bodies , Malcolm Wallace , LBJ's hit man , stolen elections , etc to have Johnson as your VP was like signing your death warrant , Bobby was too naive when it came to how murderous Johnson could be , and he lost a brother because of it !
One of two unspecified governors on Air Force One : Why do you want these War on Poverty and Great Society programs so much? President Lyndon B. Johnson : I'll have them ni**ers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [re: "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p.33]
@@halbleavy9900He made government dependence the new cotton plantation. A rap song called "First of the Month", which details welfare check and food stamp delivery, is the official anthem of the Democrat's modern slaveholding society.
I went through Johnson City, Texas and stopped there to have some lunch. The person waiting on me said "Folks around here think highly of him." I finished eating and left. Some battles are not worth fighting.
Didn't Johnson have an investment in rubber production in Vietnam? It was profitable for him to invest so many lives to protect his personal profits. I was 11 years old when JFK was assinated even then at that age, I wondered how strange it was for him to be johnny on the spot to take oath of office on the flight from Dallas back to DC. Almost like it was planned
I have never heard any positive comments about LBJ, and I am old enough to have been breathing air when he was in office. Not sure why certain folks vote for democrats after the mess that was LBJ.
LBJ got a massive amount of "social credit" for his "War on Poverty". Of course, as usual, those social policies had a great many (allegedly) unintended consequences which were quite negative.
In 1968, I was stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, on a thoracic and plastic surgery ward. One afternoon, I happened to be looking out a window as 2 limousines pulled up to the VIP entrance. Out of the second one stepped LBJ, and he was ushered inside. When I said "Hey, there's LBJ!", one Marine shouted " Where's my M-14?". Safe to say, LBJ wasn't very popular with that ward's residents; Vietnam veterans all.
Not all of us bought the lie. LBJ wasn’t a nice person, and only “helped” the blacks because it helped him politically. Remember, he’s the reason for the escalation in Vietnam.
WHAT NEWS !!! "news about the What" ! NO ! JFK SENT 16,000 TROOPS 1961 - 1963 ! WHY ???....TO SHOW KHRUSHCHEV ..."THE KENNEDY FAMILY WAS TOUGH" ! FACT !!! JFK WAS A DOPE FREAK 6 SHOTS EACH DAY. FACT !!! Rev. Jack Kinfolk Ministries
LBJ rose to be Senate Majority Leader WAY BEFORE as POTUS he signed the VOTING RIGHTS Bill that guaranteed their RIGHT to vote in the SOUTH, especially TEXAS. Got any more baldfaced LIES??????????
And they destroyed Nixon just like what they're trying to do to Trump. Nixon was a very smart man, possibly corrupt.. but they say now he had no knowledge of the Watergate situation.
My wife told me that as a child, she visited LBJs estate with her parents and noticed how horribly vile he spoke to and treated his hired hands. He was a very nasty man when not in the public spotlight or on camera.
@@annerfrancis I read about that one. The story was Johnson was drinking beer after beer, while driving through his ranch. When the urge struck him, he got out of the car and peed on the agent's leg. The agent said, "Mr. President, you're pissing on my leg." LBJ replied, "I know, it's my prerogative."
Unfortunately, not many ppl now even understand what you are referencing. The state of education, most notably, the history of the US, is not being taught. Only what's woke gets through. Hate whitey.
@@D-Fens_1632 What Johnson actually said, when the civil rights legislation passed Congress was "We have lost the south for a generation". It turned out to be absolutely true.
I'm 62. I grew up in the next town east of Pittsburgh, PA along the Allegheny River. I can vividly remember as a small boy of 5-6 yrs old, one of my aunts watching LBJ on TV and saying to me, " that man is NO GOOD".. I never forgot that.
Reading his columns 10, 20, 30 years ago taught me much.. LBJ most famous for Vietnam and chant directed at him "Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today" .. but I've known for a long time the most damage he caused was making minorities and poor in general (even whites) dependent on the Democrat Party/Federal Govt. Which says "if you don't vote Democrat, the evil Conservatives will take away your government benefits. Which were enough to Survive - but not Thrive.... promoting Dependence on the Party and the Federal Government. That legacy lives on - just look at today's Democrat Party. Dependent people are easier to control.
@5:15 I am a Legal Immigrant (now a proud American citizen). I came to California in 1978 with $37.00. By God's grace and His grace alone, I've been able to carve out a nice life. When native-born black Americans told me that the "man" made it impossible to achieve any type of success in America, I laughed. Why? Because they had no idea. This country is the greatest country on God's green earth. This country, still, allows a legal immigrant to achieve a modicum of success if that legal immigrant works hard and places their faith in Jesus Christ alone.
But America won't be America anymore, because of all these immigrants, who are virtually all nonwhite. Without Whites, there is no America. And we must be supermajority White or it is not Western civilization.
I had a GF who HATED LBJ. So did her whole family. She was born and lived in East Texas and they were witnesses to the things LBJ did. How he stole people’s land, ranches, attempted to grab entire oilfields. LBJ knew there is oil under Southern Viet Nam (more than there is under Saudi Arabia) and that’s the reason we were in Viet Nam. Civil Rights was the sop, the placating prize. Personally I believe that LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK. I read somewhere that JFK was planning to sign an Executive Order in to Law when he got back from Dallas, an order that would have disbanded and defunded the Federal Reserve Board. That would have frightened and been a threat to too many power mad politicians…..
I wonder if anyone has dug into every minute, every call and every contact of Abe Fortas from 1960-65. That is where the proof lies regardless of how directly LBJ was involved.
JFK and Diem had reached an agreement (the pacification plan) known to just a few people in Saigon, to de-militarize Viet Nam and to teach democracy to the people of S. Viet Nam. This plan ran counter to plans by the war-hawks (military industrial complex) to have an expensive war. Johnson was one of the war-hawks...getting rid of JFK was "just business".
@@jega157 I think Carter was just out of his depth. Possibly one of the last non sociopathic presidents. I don’t think he knew what he was getting into.
Glad to see Mr. Sowell bringing this stuff to light. My maternal grandmother knew LBJ from her college days in San Marcos & despised the man. She had told us about being asked out for a date by him, but turning him down flat because his reputation preceded him and he was (in her eyes) a foul mouthed, womanizing, SOB (yes, she spelled it out). I asked her once if she regretted in later years turning him down because she might have missed the chance to be the first lady, and she adamantly stated, "It would not have been worth it." This was way before I ever knew about LBJ's policies, apparent hatred for the Kennedys, possible involvement in JFK assassination, etc. Ladybird Johnson must have had her hands full.
This was destroyed by the social degeneration and the final "nail in the coffin lid" was Johnson's war on poverty, etc that destroyed the two parent family when the government took over the parent role.
I was born in 1939. I never met Mr. Sowell in spite of us being adjoining generations but every time I see an interview of him, I WISH I HAD KNOWN HIM. Dr. O
1964 the Civil Rights act, 1965 the Great Society welfare programs were passed . That’s when the black family was destroyed. I saw this destruction 20 years later when I worked CPS.
People don't see what it did to all poor people, and our public education system. The choices made in the 60's destroyed our country, and continues today.
You look at the historical sociological and economic data of black Americans from 1870 to 1960 and you see incredible progress. Look again from 1970 to today, and you see incredible decline. I winder what happened? 🤔
Let’s also never forget we have been bombarded with the overrated Watergate scandal for decades. When in reality LBJ did the exact same thing to Barry Goldwater.
@@kale2149 You have to take off your -rose- Democrat-colored glasses. He's a typical Democrat, if that's what you mean, but that doesn't apply to the country at large.
@@tomevers6670actually it was a mob hit. Joe Kennedy Sr. wanted to be president, but he was too involved with the Irish mob. His plan was to rule through his sons, and got help from the Italians to get JFK in office. Before Sr. could explain the bargain and get him to ignore the mob, JFK appointed RFK as attorney general and sent him after organized crime. Think of how powerful the mob would have become if the Warren Commission had acknowledged the mob’s role in the assassination.
@@tomevers6670 The CIA was the main group involved. LBJ just profited from the assassination to become president. He never would have been elected on his own. That's what people were saying all over the place at the time. I remember.
When the government grants welfare to the poor, they will only give them enough money for them to remain poor. It doesn't fight poverty, at all. It entrenches poverty as a lifestyle. They don't have to work and they get just enough for a roof over their heads, some second hand clothes and enough (barely) to eat. It's not easy but neither is menial labour. Then, if you reward them for having children, it will guarantee that they will never rise to any economic prosperity. Is that what LBJ secretly wanted or was this just the unintended consequences of good intentions. I'm leaning to the opinion that LBJ didn't want success for black American.
...and I think the baby payments was a way to ensure a steady supply of cheap menial laborers...PAID for with the citizens tax payers money ! I.E LEGAL THEFT..give this a thought.
Thomas Sowell 🇺🇸✨️🙏🏻is someone I love ❤️ and appreciate all of his intelligence! 8 would love ❤️ to sit and have a conversation with him! What a wonderful American he is! God please preserve him, we need more of his teachings he's experienced in life!
Be very aware that the history books are already being rewritten. That's one of the basic steps of any authoritarian regime. Facts and occurrences that are inconvenient to the new, progressive narrative will simply disappear.
Make sure you save all history books that are 50 years or older. If the oligarchs keep rewriting history at least we can always prove they are lying. Doesn’t mean the older books are accurate but it at least proves unequivocally they are purposely misleading us. It’s like the book 1984 is becoming more real as time goes on.
Being from near to Johnson City, most everyone around here knew all this about Lyndon Johnson. However, we were almost never effected by any of his social policies, the way folks in a city might have been. We lived in rural ranches with a couple thousand people per county. Before WW2, as a House member, he was able to get the approval for funds to build a dam on the river, and got electricity for the ranchers. However, he went along with Roosevelt, in slaughtering thousands of cattle during the depression and leaving them to rot in the pasture, while people were starving. They claimed they did this to keep beef prices high - which didn’t work. He then arranged for low interest loans for farmers & ranchers to try to appease rural voters who has become suspicious, but most distanced themselves from him. He later arranged to be elected as the Senator from Texas, and Vice President at the same time - which had been illegal, until he had a law changed. Yet, he was loved by the liberals in Austin, while instituting horrible social programs for blacks. Old news around here. Too bad so many others didn’t (still don’t) realize it.
Thomas Sowell has more information in his head, than a thousand books could contain! Like it or not he speaks the truth and has the facts to back it up!
WHAT NEWS !!! "news about the What" ! THE TAXPAYER IS FEEDING THESE 12 KIDS....AND NOT EVEN GETTING A KISS....FROM DA MOMMA ! IT'S NOT OUR BABY !!! Rev. Jack Kinfolk Ministries
My Father n Law worked THREE jobs in the 70s to bring his family (wife and 13 children, 2 adopted) legally to the United States. They NEVER applied for assistance. They worked for everything they accomplished. Love and respect my amazing Tongan Family.
I asked my young children after they had thrown a temper tantrum what they would like for dinner. They chose ice cream and cookies. For some reason, 10 years later, they are fat, angry and even more upset than before. I can't figure out why, I gave them exactly what they wanted, poor little children, they deserve ice cream and cookies everyday. Just wish I knew what else I could do for them. 🙄
A case of giving children what they asked for, and not what they actually wanted. Then again, even most adults don't have a clue what they actually want, so who would take the requests of a child too seriously?
@@RCAvhstape I don't think that's what he's inferring. What Dr. Sowell is getting at is that LBJ's "Great Society" harmed much of the minority population by removing traditional incentives. Many of these government programs intended to be temporary safety nets, eventually became hammocks. I'm sure that was not the original intent of the various programs. Nevertheless, everyone suffered for their implementation. And with government, instead of evaluating the effectiveness of a given program, they are expanded and have their budgets increased.
LBJ knew exactly what he was doing. He could actually take credit for helping the people who would then become dependent and self destuctive as a result.
President Johnson (D) said "Now that we have passed the civil rights act, we will own black Americans for the next 200 years". 60 years later, what has the Democrat party done for Black Americans?
Whatever. Her fought the Republican legislation for civil rights. When it was passed he had to sign it & that’s what he said would happen because a Dem signed it. He didn’t want that legislation to pass!l, but knew he’d get credit for signing it. He was a racist!
LBJ and his wife took financial control of Bell helicopter and made large investments in Genral dynamics just before he sent troops to Vietnam He was a monster
Even though JFK escalated the issue with Vietnam early in his presidency, by sending 400 Green Beret troops only as advisors and to help train the Vietnamese fighting forces. But later in his presidency he began to realize his mistake. There was no way to stop the Communist aggression from Ho Chi Mn who, according to history, was an ally to America against the Japanese in WW11. (After my USAF tour in Phan Rang, Vietnam 1967-68 I found out that Phan Rang Air Base was mostly constructed and occupied by the Japanese during WW11) Kennedy wanted to pull back on things in Vietnam! LBJ became a millionaire many times over due to his back door dealings with war manufactured related products like Bell helicopters and General Dynamics as he escalated the war with the help of Westmoreland and McNamara. Their foolish belief of winning the war in Vietnam parallels Bidens billions of dollar donation ignorance to Zelenski's Ukraine, a war they cannot win against Russia...LBJ was a scum bag much like our current president Joe Biden...
I believe in Thomas Sowell, My mom was first of her family born here of Russian & English parents (from their own countries)in 1913. Her life improved because of hers and her family’s desire to live a better life. My sister and I WENT TO COLLEGE and GRADUATED. We sought and secured employment within the 1st week out of college and have been continuously working ever since. Our children have followed the same route. We were poor (no car etc, lived in town so we could walk or take the bus where ever we had to go) Never owned a house but rented. Never asked for government hand out because as my mother said…that’s for the poor. As I see it now days, when the government creates programs (free) so many line up for the free gravy train this just adds to the burden on tax payers. My eyes are and have always been wide open to the stuff that goes on. I prefer to stay quiet, head down, work hard and be thankful that I ALONE achieved my own success.
I don't necessarily think it's a problem to not know it's called ignorance, which is simply the absence of information of any particular subject. Deliberate and or willful ignorance is a whole different kind of shame.
Lowering standards and expectations has destroyed communities. I witnessed this in my teaching career from the very early 80s when the majority of families were intact and education was to be a priority. The decline from welfare, encouraging babies out of wedlock, social promotions and scorning educational progress in students while promoting entertainers, thugs and athletes as heroes.
Read about LBJ being awarded the Silver Star during WWII. Was flying (riding) in a B-26. Plane turned back for mechanical problems 1/2 hour into mission, never saw any combat! MacArthur awarded LBJ the Silver Star for being an observer on the flight. No one else on the mission recieved any awards, including crew. He wore the Silver Star pin on his lapel to show he was a WAR HERO. Not Stolen Valor, he was awarded medal, but for a political deal.
I flew some 200 missions into Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War supporting Special Forces recon missions. We flew with orders not to fire unless fired upon. We flew without identification and our cover story was we were neutrality observers. I was put in for the Silver Star 3 times for the recovery of Special Forces recon teams under fire and surrounded by the NVA. All three times our helicopter was shot up at close range. While our entire crew was recommended for the Silver Star, only the pilot received the award in each case. On one of these missions, I was shot twice in my flight helmet and knocked to the floor of the helicopter. I recovered quickly and manned my M-60 machine gun to find 12 NVA soldiers charging our helicopter with the intention of capturing our aircraft and crew. I was able to take all 12 of them out in their charge. By the time we cleared the landing zone, I had expended all 450 rounds of my ammo when we cleared the tree tops. Our helicopter had 16 rounds that pierced it from nose to tail, but we made it back to the A camp in Vietnam. I received the Purple Heart, and my recommendation for the Silver Star was downgraded to a Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism. These were top secret missions. Had the incident occurred in Vietnam I would have easily received the Silver Star.
The BLM movement is a great example. The founders of that organization are vehemently opposed to the concept of a nuclear family, which strongly emphasizes the leadership of fathers in the household.
@@slapshot1971109 Absolute nonsense. The BLM movement simply wants the lives of non-whites to be given the same respect as that of whites. Nothing more.
Yep. There is a photograph of him on Air Force One smiling at a fellow politician who wins at LBJ. It's " The Wink ". You can find the photo on RUclips.
He s ,worth lots less ,in Hell, right now.....let that marinate ..........None ,of these evil doers ,will escape Judgement .......They just "Thought " they would...Their own Evil, Blinded them ,as JESUS said it would ...
When those elected want to "help" people by starting new agencies, they are forming a way to siphon money from taxpayers into their own pockets, buying loyalty and silence along the way.
@@dawnolson7276That's the truth and every Texan knew it. At 16 years old I figured it out for myself by just listening to the adults talk and watching the news.
I lived in the South Bronx in the early 80's. I got up one night & made a bed in the tub for our kids. The gunfire was extra that night. Not the regular Saturday Night Specials popping off.
35 years ago, I used to work out of Alice Texas. One day we were driving thru San Diego TX, which is about 5 or 10 south of Alice, and my boss (an original born resident) said to me, see that grave yard site over there, (point out the window while we were driving), He stated, just about every dead person in that graveyard voted for Johnson to be president. That was over 35 years ago, and I still remember it to this day.
When the announcement came over the intercom when I was in high school, I immediately told some of my classmates that LBJ was involved in it, but he had too many powerful friends in Texas government and the Senate, that would never let the truth be told. 2024 and the coverup of JFK assassination continues. Up until the past 3-1/2+ years of Joe Biden, I have always believed LBJ was the worst president ever, not Jimmy Carter as most others believed!!!
I came across a photo of the JFK conspirators, taken the night before. Front row , GHW Bush, LBJ, two mafia Dons, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, there were about 2 or three other rows of others smiling for the camera.
And as JFK's motorcade made the final turn, LBJ was found to be lowering himself into a duck down position in his car. No sense in him having a part in the assassination and getting hit too.
As someone else mentioned in the comments, I was alive during the LBJ years, and I've never heard anyone praise him. Everyone thinks he was a jerk, and a happy beneficiary of the JFK killing.
@@kale2149 That's fine. It doesn't change the fact that growing up I never heard anybody have anything nice to say about him. 🤷♂ Were you alive during his administration?
@@SG-js2qn no I was born in the 80s! But I was a part of the Head Start program! That his administration started! And It helped with my development as a child! Also he passed health benefits for senior citizens call Medicare! Also created PBS which was my favorite Channel as a child!!
@@SG-js2qn I live in reality! America been progressively leaning left for a long time!! Case in point! You and I both are talking to each other on RUclips! And where was RUclips created! Left leaning San Mateo California!!
I know a man who flew Air Force One when LBJ was president. He said it was not unusual to see Johnson walking around the plane naked. He also would conduct press conferences while sitting on the toilet.
That's a great overview. Another book that goes into the subject with great detail, including statistics, is "Losing Ground" by Charles Murray. Murray was politically Centrist. He showed that Democratic policies that were instituted allegedly to reduce poverty actually caused the opposite effect. Crime rose as a direct consequence of those policies.
Much like the war on drugs. Since its inception the rate of drug abuse, drug addiction, and everything bad that comes with drugs has increased dramatically and in direct lockstep with the annual increased funding for the war on drugs. The more we spend. The worse the problem has become.
@@timothycormier3494 This might just be correlation, rather than causation. There are a lot of other things that happened during that/this time period that might be the direct causes. For example, the destruction of the family unit, which increases poverty and crime. Poverty, for example, causes a lot of people to seek some kind of "escape". A long time ago, that used to be almost entirely alcohol... until other things came along.
At my age 83, right in the thick of the 60's, this is hard to hear! I knew nothing of any of Johnson's ugliness... Fast forward to today, 2024, and our politicians are still unknown to us really!!! They lie and their Party, Media, and everyone lies to us! We have zero truth! Help! ! !
You have that right. We have the illusion of knowledge of celebrities, politicians, and other rich folks. Occasionally you hear something, but in general, they're well-concealed.
Really? I was a small child when he was president and while I knew nothing about politics, I caught the vibe during the 68 election that he was not a good president. You were in your 20s. Oh, well, we all have our blind spots.
Johnson's biggest and most vile accomplishment was wrecking the African American family with his so-called War On Poverty.
Owe you a case for that one
I've heard this quite a few times. Please explain why his policies affected Blacks.
@@thomcarr7021 Single parent households were incentivized. In fact a household could get more if no husband/father was present. Before the War on Poverty the out of wedlock percentage for African American births was around 22%. Now it is almost 80%. A complete reversal. In many cases women's independence from men resulted in government dependence.
He was a pig all around. How else would you describe someone in the Whitehouse stepping out into the Rose Garden and taking a leak?
Agree 100%
Re: LBJ, Barry Goldwater had the perfect summary: "He had to borrow $200 to file for his first election and retired with $39 million. You tell me how an honest politician does that."
I think the only honest Politician was Gore Vidal father - if you can find one of Gore interviews about his dad, it’s Worth it….
Hasn't polosi got rich too and of course the Biden syndicate
what is 39 million, pea nuts... a small govt employee in a third world country makes it...just imagine the horrors when you add up all the govt employees in that country... would account for say 75% of tax revenues every year...
anyway - remember Eisenhower's warning about congress-military industrial complex + other lobbies the biggest and most harmful being AIPAC...
Insider trading is legal if you're in Congress. They all clean up.
Barack Obama went from Community Organizer to less than 1 term Senator to President in 1 seamless transition. Came to this country on a student visa in the early 80's. He's now worth 70 million $$$ dollars. HOW did that happen?
Thomas Sowell is 94. I wish he could be around for another 94
People seem to be living to triple digits these days, because public smoking became illegal
I know many 90 year olds.
The young these days,
45 and under,
may not, if they used lots of ink. (Not knowing how to cook, and using seed oils too)
It tends to end up in lymph nodes and system
He looks great, too.
Yea, but who would listen!?! A minority. 👍🏻
Whoa 😮
He looks like mid50s
He looks so good!
LBJ was a defining person that changed this country for the worst…much much worse.
Yes and Johnson with his war on poverty created a sham that actually made everyone worse off. Throwing Monet at a problem has never worked for this it is supposed to help. Generally it becomes a cash cow for insider organizations.
True and yet this country's demise began with FDR.
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Arguably Wilson by allowing the Fed Reserve
From the Kennedy assassination to the racial division to the Vietnam War to the faked manned Moon landings, Johnson had his hands in every dirty trick.
@@Adz2kill Sure did.
The Vietnam war made LBJ rich also. He was vile.
I believe that he was the responsible for the assassination of JFK.
And people defend his prolific use of the n word as "a man of the times".
Really?
Where were all the N words in the founding documents of America?
Who was going to stop a bunch of white people who were creating a country from using it?
But they didn't use it - 200 years earlier!!
Same goes for Lincoln.
Can anyone imagine Abe Lincoln using that word?
He was a majority stock holder in Bell Helicopter.
Exactly. He was in no hurry to try and end the war. He profited off the lives of American soldiers.
Reportedly his wife owned stock in bell helicopter which was produced extensively throughout the war.
Lyndon B. Johnson was an absolutely detestable man. Easily one of our worst presidents. Definitely up there with Woodrow Wilson.
or you could say down there with Woodrow Wilson.
@@chrismiller5198 LOL, I stand corrected.
So the man that helped push for civil rights! Is one of the worst Presidents!
Don't forget the Bushes, Obama, Clinton scumbugs!
I've always held LBJ responsible for the tens of thousands of US Servicemen killed in Vietnam.
"Keep 'em dumb, dependent, and Democrat." LBJ. (Truly evil and selfish.)
Richard Nixon famously said of LBJ "I would like very much to be President, but unlike my opponent, I am not willing to commit murder for it."
Which makes him the liar we all knew him to be.
Johnson didn’t run against Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton never ran against Richard Nixon.
@@jjhporwho did Nixon murder?
@@jjhpor Friend, get familiar with the facts. The hit took place in Dallas for a reason and LBJ owned the Warren Commission.
When Dr. Sowell dies, we will have lost a National Treasure.
His observations are eye-opening.
He’s blessed to be 94 years old now. He may reach age 100.
@@TheLifeofKam99 The man looked like he's two decades younger.
We are fortunate to hear him first hand.
It's so sad that a man such as him gets nearly no respect from his community. I guess it's hard to understand an intelligent man when so many give up on intelligence at such an early age. Let's hope there are many that will follow in his footsteps.
My father turned down a government promotion because he wouldn't work for LBJ. My father was morally upright and prided himself on his reputation.
One cannot be “morally upright” and also a government employee
Johnson is one of the worst presidents ever, and that’s not talked about enough.
@@2H2521 I don't know about that we've had some real bad ones! Lol
@@kale2149 And he’s one of them.
@@2H2521 is policies abroad yes domestically I thought his policies pretty good
Let us not forget that Thomas Sowell said that obama was the worst president in the history of the United States -- obama, biden, harris -- all the same.
@@kale2149 The "War on Poverty" squandered $5 Trillion, and there are now more poor than ever.
LBJ was a true southern Democrat. He saw a opportunity to have blacks beholden to the Democrat party for the next three generations.
From Reconstruction to LBJ, blacks voted Republican.
@@xzqzqActually, a big part of the black voter migration took place with FDR's New Deal policies in the 30s. Before FDR, the overwhelming majority of black voters voted Republican. Between FDR and LBJ, it was around 50/50. After LBJ it has been around 90/10 in favor of the Democrats.
LBJ: The Architect of the Modern Democrat Plantation.
He was a scumbag of the worse kind, for many reasons.
@@1960Sawman A very true and valid statement!
Thomas Sowell is one of the most underrated and intelligent men of the black community. Ask yourself, why are men like Thomas never promoted to the forefront in the American political arena. It is because they speak the truth
So true!!
How about "Thomas Sowell is one of the most underrated and intelligent men" in this country - black or white!!
@@carlz7777 how about you read the complete post, brainiac
of any community!
@@carlz7777
Well said, alongside Dr. Ben Carson.
Paying single women to have as many babies as possible, paying more for every baby, could not help but to destroy the black family structure.
It wasn’t just the black families, all families.
@@michaelredman5750
It's why, modern men, are wimps, or thugs.
Unless taught
Not just Blacks...
Another knock-on effect is probably the current status of things between men and women...
Paying women to have kids, etc., increases that sense of independence... which correspondingly reduces their appreciation and respect for men... teamwork... and reduces men's value to society as both husbands and fathers, further wrecking the family structure.
Even more, the family structure is every baby's/child's first introduction to society.
Wreck the family, and you can't help but cause great damage to the greater society as well.
LBJ's "great society" was, in effect, the IRL equivalent of the scientist running the Mouse Utopia 25 experiment.
Having "someone" (the scientist in the experiment, Uncle Sam in real life) provide the necessities made the male mice redundant... useless.
IMO, it is a direct causal link that only a few years after LBJ (1964-1968), that many women were bragging about how they needed men like fish need bicycles (1973).
@@Nyet-Zdyes Yes but it only increased the women's sense of independence via a dependency on welfare.
Dr Thomas Sowell NEEDS to be taught...in elementary school, in high school, in every college in this country. His wisdom...his life experience...he speaks from real world experience. Hello is the epitome of pure common sense. He is, truly, an American Treasure! God bless him!
He has been taught. He’s a very learned man 🙄
He is a pseudo Historian. His garbage needs to stay right where it is. The only people who take him seriously have a single digit IQ.
Dude is garbage. He is only taken seriously by dimwits.
@@jimthompson9992 democrats are truly pos
@@mtamech535I think you missed the point. 😪
Texans who knew LBJ, say he was the biggest crook in state
Government and not bashful
about it.
And there are still a shitload of them in Texas!
Bobby (RFK) should have known what LBJ was capable of doing ..... the dead bodies , Malcolm Wallace , LBJ's hit man , stolen elections , etc to have Johnson as your VP was like signing your death warrant , Bobby was too naive when it came to how murderous Johnson could be , and he lost a brother because of it !
It's obvious why the BBC ignores Thomas Sowell.
One of two unspecified governors on Air Force One : Why do you want these War on Poverty and Great Society programs so much?
President Lyndon B. Johnson : I'll have them ni**ers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.
[re: "Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler, p.33]
the BBC supports the Biden and Trudeau regimes and any other upholding postmoderism and Marxist idealoogy
It's obvious why people ignore the BBC. The UK version of MSNBC.
And so does Oprah, Al, and Jesse, just to name a few.
VERY OBVIOUSLY!!!!
LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill in 1964 and became the owner of 20 million slaves.
Please explain. If you're smart enough.
@@halbleavy9900 Can't explain to someone incapable of understanding.
I am not buying it for one second
Wow so true
@@halbleavy9900He made government dependence the new cotton plantation. A rap song called "First of the Month", which details welfare check and food stamp delivery, is the official anthem of the Democrat's modern slaveholding society.
I enjoy this man's analysis of almost everything. It's so nice to listen to an independent thinker.
We used to call him "Landslide Lyndon" after he narrowly won a state election with a box of votes from dead people.
Oh, they were alive, but voted in alphabetic order, and all signed the register with the same pen.
don't forget the 🐖🍆 story... 😉👆
Nothing new under the sun.
I seem to recall that JFK received votes from residents of Cook County cemetery, too. Interesting that ol' Lyndon followed a similar strategy.
Republican reps help along with it back then too? Because that's what they do now.
LBJ was a monster
Morally corrupt
And he was behind the killing of Kennedy.
AKA "Light Bulb Johnson"
Murdered JFK w CIA. All about money for the war machine. Same today as yesterday
I went through Johnson City, Texas and stopped there to have some lunch. The person waiting on me said "Folks around here think highly of him." I finished eating and left. Some battles are not worth fighting.
There are 58,000 names on that damn wall, and LBJ put the majority of them there. For what?
Didn't Johnson have an investment in rubber production in Vietnam? It was profitable for him to invest so many lives to protect his personal profits. I was 11 years old when JFK was assinated even then at that age, I wondered how strange it was for him to be johnny on the spot to take oath of office on the flight from Dallas back to DC. Almost like it was planned
Absolutely ! War mongerer.
For what? $$$$$$$$$
Helicopters too.
To line his pockets and compensate for his little package.
I believe Dr. Sowell is a national treasure!
Him and Clarence Thomas
The man is friggin brilliant, and we can't get anyone to listen to him...
I have never heard any positive comments about LBJ, and I am old enough to have been breathing air when he was in office. Not sure why certain folks vote for democrats after the mess that was LBJ.
Same here. There is just nothing positive about him. My father was a Roosevelt Democrat and couldn't stand Johnson.
LBJ got a massive amount of "social credit" for his "War on Poverty".
Of course, as usual, those social policies had a great many (allegedly) unintended consequences which were quite negative.
Well, at least, people voted for Nixon in 1968
@@federalist46
FDR/JFK are the Republicans, these days
In 1968, I was stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, on a thoracic and plastic surgery ward. One afternoon, I happened to be looking out a window as 2 limousines pulled up to the VIP entrance. Out of the second one stepped LBJ, and he was ushered inside. When I said "Hey, there's LBJ!", one Marine shouted " Where's my M-14?". Safe to say, LBJ wasn't very popular with that ward's residents; Vietnam veterans all.
I have done some research on LBJ. He was a real sleezeball.
Not all of us bought the lie. LBJ wasn’t a nice person, and only “helped” the blacks because it helped him politically. Remember, he’s the reason for the escalation in Vietnam.
LBJ gave them the war they wanted, that Jack Kennedy would not.
WHAT NEWS !!!
"news about the What" !
NO ! JFK SENT 16,000 TROOPS 1961 - 1963 ! WHY ???....TO SHOW KHRUSHCHEV ..."THE KENNEDY FAMILY WAS TOUGH" ! FACT !!!
JFK WAS A DOPE FREAK 6 SHOTS EACH DAY. FACT !!!
Rev. Jack
Kinfolk Ministries
I believe that he was fully involved in the murder of jfk
LBJ rose to be Senate Majority Leader WAY BEFORE as POTUS he signed the VOTING RIGHTS Bill that guaranteed their RIGHT to vote in the SOUTH, especially TEXAS. Got any more baldfaced LIES??????????
no, no, it was the mic that was responsible for that. that's why "they" killed kennedy, and he agreed to look the other way...
Richard Nixon called him an "animal"...let that sink in.
I do notice, since Johnson got in, flag burnings started..
Never heard about it, until post 1966
That's being nice !!!
And they destroyed Nixon just like what they're trying to do to Trump. Nixon was a very smart man, possibly corrupt.. but they say now he had no knowledge of the Watergate situation.
The coil called the spiral indirect.
@@richardstewart2680from some of the things that was exposed by some of the White House interns,yes indeed that is being nice.
My wife told me that as a child, she visited LBJs estate with her parents and noticed how horribly vile he spoke to and treated his hired hands. He was a very nasty man when not in the public spotlight or on camera.
And he has a lot of company!
He actually PEED on one of his Secret Service agents! How in Hades did "Lady Bird" stomach him?
My Grandfather toured his ranch and was shocked at how he housed workers in Tar paper shacks. He was an exhibitionist, Adulterer, drunk.
@@annerfrancis I read about that one. The story was Johnson was drinking beer after beer, while driving through his ranch. When the urge struck him, he got out of the car and peed on the agent's leg. The agent said, "Mr. President, you're pissing on my leg." LBJ replied, "I know, it's my prerogative."
Even in front of the MSM. They protected him. We saw him mistreat animals with no shame.
Gulf of Tonkin much? Another pack of lies from LBJ.
Unfortunately, not many ppl now even understand what you are referencing. The state of education, most notably, the history of the US, is not being taught. Only what's woke gets through. Hate whitey.
Allowed LBJ and McNamara to greatly expand the Viet Nam war and US casualties.
@@jimarcher5255 But they would never lie to us about Covid or Ukraine, so booster up, fellas! -Democrats
...and we now know...US ships were NOT "fired-upon"....there were NO ENEMY SHIPS there.
All those young lives destroyed in Vietnam over a lie 😢
The nine most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help". Ronald Reagan.
America would be much better off if Ronald Reagan & other Republicans simply stayed completely out of politics.
Or "I'll have every N word voting democrat for 200 years." It's technically ten words and he probably didn't actually say it, but my point stands.
@@johnbrennan4449 Ikr?! Just imagine tax rates of 10,000,000% on the rich!! Government printing quadrillions! A "gender" for all 400,000,000 of us!!!
@@D-Fens_1632 What Johnson actually said, when the civil rights legislation passed Congress was "We have lost the south for a generation". It turned out to be absolutely true.
@@D-Fens_1632OH, he said it, on a recorded phone call.
I'm 62. I grew up in the next town east of Pittsburgh, PA along the Allegheny River. I can vividly remember as a small boy of 5-6 yrs old, one of my aunts watching LBJ on TV and saying to me, " that man is NO GOOD".. I never forgot that.
Wise woman!
Reading his columns 10, 20, 30 years ago taught me much..
LBJ most famous for Vietnam and chant directed at him "Hey Hey LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today" .. but I've known for a long time the most damage he caused was making minorities and poor in general (even whites) dependent on the Democrat Party/Federal Govt. Which says "if you don't vote Democrat, the evil Conservatives will take away your government benefits. Which were enough to Survive - but not Thrive.... promoting Dependence on the Party and the Federal Government. That legacy lives on - just look at today's Democrat Party. Dependent people are easier to control.
Problem is : how many would see it that way on this eve of the 2024 Elections?
He had the most to gain jfk's death.
Didn't he once say "I'll have those ngrs voting democrat for the next 200 years."? He's 30% of the way there now.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 He did say that.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 Yep, he did. And it looks like he may have been right given how many of them are still on the plantation.
@5:15 I am a Legal Immigrant (now a proud American citizen). I came to California in 1978 with $37.00. By God's grace and His grace alone, I've been able to carve out a nice life. When native-born black Americans told me that the "man" made it impossible to achieve any type of success in America, I laughed. Why? Because they had no idea. This country is the greatest country on God's green earth. This country, still, allows a legal immigrant to achieve a modicum of success if that legal immigrant works hard and places their faith in Jesus Christ alone.
It's the brainwashing, the democrats did to many, not all, traditional black churches
Absolutely 💯 Amen 💯 🙏
This is a REAL American! He was born American. It just a while to get home.
But America won't be America anymore, because of all these immigrants, who are virtually all nonwhite. Without Whites, there is no America. And we must be supermajority White or it is not Western civilization.
God's grace but as you plainly say yourself at the end: you worked hard. You earned your destiny.
I had a GF who HATED LBJ. So did her whole family. She was born and lived in East Texas and they were witnesses to the things LBJ did. How he stole people’s land, ranches, attempted to grab entire oilfields. LBJ knew there is oil under Southern Viet Nam (more than there is under Saudi Arabia) and that’s the reason we were in Viet Nam. Civil Rights was the sop, the placating prize. Personally I believe that LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK. I read somewhere that JFK was planning to sign an Executive Order in to Law when he got back from Dallas, an order that would have disbanded and defunded the Federal Reserve Board. That would have frightened and been a threat to too many power mad politicians…..
He had EVERYTHING to do with JFK’s assassination
I wonder if anyone has dug into every minute, every call and every contact of Abe Fortas from 1960-65. That is where the proof lies regardless of how directly LBJ was involved.
no he did NOT!
So he pulled the trigger? Was driving the limo? Loaded the gun? Pressed the ammunition?
@originalmamagrizzly2478 he hated JFK, swore he would get him, owned the Texas mafia.
JFK and Diem had reached an agreement (the pacification plan) known to just a few people in Saigon, to de-militarize Viet Nam and to teach democracy to the people of S. Viet Nam. This plan ran counter to plans by the war-hawks (military industrial complex) to have an expensive war. Johnson was one of the war-hawks...getting rid of JFK was "just business".
LBJ was probably the worst president we ever had, at least until Biden came along.
No, T-rump was by far Worse, only in-that, He didn't pull off an Execution, like LBJ did. Granted, it was JFK, not RFK/Jr..
Jimmy Carter...pyew.
@@jega157 I think Carter was just out of his depth. Possibly one of the last non sociopathic presidents. I don’t think he knew what he was getting into.
Donald Trump…felon, 6 time bankruptcy’s
LBJ was horrid but Obama was worse. Biden’s just a puppet.
Glad to see Mr. Sowell bringing this stuff to light. My maternal grandmother knew LBJ from her college days in San Marcos & despised the man. She had told us about being asked out for a date by him, but turning him down flat because his reputation preceded him and he was (in her eyes) a foul mouthed, womanizing, SOB (yes, she spelled it out). I asked her once if she regretted in later years turning him down because she might have missed the chance to be the first lady, and she adamantly stated, "It would not have been worth it." This was way before I ever knew about LBJ's policies, apparent hatred for the Kennedys, possible involvement in JFK assassination, etc. Ladybird Johnson must have had her hands full.
He was as crooked as they are now!!😨
“By their fruits you will know them.” - Jesus Christ
Look how much damage they cause before you find out that they are wolves
Texas has hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, and hail storms, but the worst thing to ever happen to Texas was Lyndon Johnson.
LBJ stuffing the voter box back then. Nothing to see, again.
Democrats have a long history of ballot box stuffing.
The most important thing in a child's life is a stable, loving two parent household. Everything else is secondary.
yes, yes and yes!
And parents that work and don’t do drugs. Eliminate welfare
This was destroyed by the social degeneration and the final "nail in the coffin lid" was Johnson's war on poverty, etc that destroyed the two parent family when the government took over the parent role.
I was born in 1939. I never met Mr. Sowell in spite of us being adjoining generations but every time I see an interview of him, I WISH I HAD KNOWN HIM.
Dr. O
I have read nine of Sowell's books and have a 10th one ready. So glad to have him with us.
1964 the Civil Rights act, 1965 the Great Society welfare programs were passed . That’s when the black family was destroyed. I saw this destruction 20 years later when I worked CPS.
Civil rights act, wasn't a bad thing
The other one was
Now they are working on destroying all families
I don’t know squat about this. Your the first sensible voice I’ve heard.
People don't see what it did to all poor people, and our public education system. The choices made in the 60's destroyed our country, and continues today.
You look at the historical sociological and economic data of black Americans from 1870 to 1960 and you see incredible progress. Look again from 1970 to today, and you see incredible decline. I winder what happened? 🤔
Let’s also never forget we have been bombarded with the overrated Watergate scandal for decades. When in reality LBJ did the exact same thing to Barry Goldwater.
Gore Vidal said Lyndon Johnson was far more mendacious than Richard Nixon.
Not to mention his involvement with the assassination of JFK!
Thank you for expanding my vocabulary. I had to look that word up. LOL
@thom - you fail to "mention" any FACTS OR EVIDENCE
@@jryecart8017 Look it up, baby.
@@jryecart8017 So do you!
Those of us who knew about him in the first place never thought he was nothing but a racist anyway.
"I'll have them n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years." - LBJ, typical Democrat
JFK, at least tried to follow Eisenhower on civil rights
I can't remember ever voting for him !
He was no more racist than anybody else at that particular time
@@kale2149 You have to take off your -rose- Democrat-colored glasses. He's a typical Democrat, if that's what you mean, but that doesn't apply to the country at large.
I have learned so much from Dr. Sowell. I have saved some of his interviews for my grandchildren. Forever grateful.
Surprise surprise another politician cloaked in lies
Surprise surprise another DEMOCRAT politician cloaked in lies
Lbj was behind jfk being un-alived
@@tomevers6670actually it was a mob hit. Joe Kennedy Sr. wanted to be president, but he was too involved with the Irish mob. His plan was to rule through his sons, and got help from the Italians to get JFK in office. Before Sr. could explain the bargain and get him to ignore the mob, JFK appointed RFK as attorney general and sent him after organized crime. Think of how powerful the mob would have become if the Warren Commission had acknowledged the mob’s role in the assassination.
Another democrat
@@tomevers6670 The CIA was the main group involved. LBJ just profited from the assassination to become president. He never would have been elected on his own. That's what people were saying all over the place at the time. I remember.
When the government grants welfare to the poor, they will only give them enough money for them to remain poor. It doesn't fight poverty, at all. It entrenches poverty as a lifestyle. They don't have to work and they get just enough for a roof over their heads, some second hand clothes and enough (barely) to eat. It's not easy but neither is menial labour. Then, if you reward them for having children, it will guarantee that they will never rise to any economic prosperity.
Is that what LBJ secretly wanted or was this just the unintended consequences of good intentions. I'm leaning to the opinion that LBJ didn't want success for black American.
It's ironic, that LBJ is famous for "The Great Society"... and yet, he destroyed the family, which is the basic building block of society.
@@Nyet-Zdyes
I couldn't agree with that statement more.
@@JackHaveman52 Here's hoping that people will actually burn a calorie or two thinking about what *both* of us posted.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
Milton Friedman
...and I think the baby payments was a way to ensure a steady supply of cheap menial laborers...PAID for with the citizens tax payers money ! I.E LEGAL THEFT..give this a thought.
Thomas Sowell 🇺🇸✨️🙏🏻is someone I love ❤️ and appreciate all of his intelligence! 8 would love ❤️ to sit and have a conversation with him! What a wonderful American he is! God please preserve him, we need more of his teachings he's experienced in life!
Our history books all need to be re-written -- removing all the lies.
But whose 🤔 going to do that for you 🤔
That would leave a mighty thin book. One that would make most peoples' head explode.
Be very aware that the history books are already being rewritten. That's one of the basic steps of any authoritarian regime. Facts and occurrences that are inconvenient to the new, progressive narrative will simply disappear.
We can't learn from the mistakes made if we don't know the real history. That's what the government wants. They are the enemy.
Make sure you save all history books that are 50 years or older. If the oligarchs keep rewriting history at least we can always prove they are lying. Doesn’t mean the older books are accurate but it at least proves unequivocally they are purposely misleading us. It’s like the book 1984 is becoming more real as time goes on.
THOMAS SOWELL HAS SEEN SO MUCH, KNOWS SO MUCH AND WRITTEN SO MUCH!!!!
Being from near to Johnson City, most everyone around here knew all this about Lyndon Johnson. However, we were almost never effected by any of his social policies, the way folks in a city might have been. We lived in rural ranches with a couple thousand people per county. Before WW2, as a House member, he was able to get the approval for funds to build a dam on the river, and got electricity for the ranchers. However, he went along with Roosevelt, in slaughtering thousands of cattle during the depression and leaving them to rot in the pasture, while people were starving. They claimed they did this to keep beef prices high - which didn’t work. He then arranged for low interest loans for farmers & ranchers to try to appease rural voters who has become suspicious, but most distanced themselves from him. He later arranged to be elected as the Senator from Texas, and Vice President at the same time - which had been illegal, until he had a law changed. Yet, he was loved by the liberals in Austin, while instituting horrible social programs for blacks. Old news around here. Too bad so many others didn’t (still don’t) realize it.
Thomas Sowell has more information in his head, than a thousand books could contain! Like it or not he speaks the truth and has the facts to back it up!
A woman screaming that she has 12 children and who is going to pay for them says it all.
And 12 different daddies
@@davidcarter8119 😮
@@davidcarter8119 Troo dat!
@old ? ...If I remember correctly wasn't the true count like 14 or 15 and several of the children WERE NOT living in the same house???
WHAT NEWS !!!
"news about the What" !
THE TAXPAYER IS FEEDING THESE 12 KIDS....AND NOT EVEN GETTING A KISS....FROM DA MOMMA ! IT'S NOT OUR BABY !!!
Rev. Jack
Kinfolk Ministries
My Father n Law worked THREE jobs in the 70s to bring his family (wife and 13 children, 2 adopted) legally to the United States. They NEVER applied for assistance. They worked for everything they accomplished. Love and respect my amazing Tongan Family.
LBJ was just a foul man, overall. He would boast about, and even whip out "Jumbo" to show people.
What was Lady Bird's reaction?
That is where the term calling "it" a "johnson" came from.
@@camwinston5248 WOW!! I did not know that. He was a bigger pos than I thought. He would go to prison for that today.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205, that's a resume enhancement in the Democrat party.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 yep that's where "big johnson" started.
I asked my young children after they had thrown a temper tantrum what they would like for dinner. They chose ice cream and cookies. For some reason, 10 years later, they are fat, angry and even more upset than before. I can't figure out why, I gave them exactly what they wanted, poor little children, they deserve ice cream and cookies everyday. Just wish I knew what else I could do for them. 🙄
Excellent!
A case of giving children what they asked for, and not what they actually wanted. Then again, even most adults don't have a clue what they actually want, so who would take the requests of a child too seriously?
So are you inferring that black people are to be treated like children by the government and told what's best for them?
@@RCAvhstape I don't think that's what he's inferring. What Dr. Sowell is getting at is that LBJ's "Great Society" harmed much of the minority population by removing traditional incentives. Many of these government programs intended to be temporary safety nets, eventually became hammocks. I'm sure that was not the original intent of the various programs. Nevertheless, everyone suffered for their implementation. And with government, instead of evaluating the effectiveness of a given program, they are expanded and have their budgets increased.
@@RCAvhstapeYou're the ones treating them like children.
And some of us knew it all along.
FDR, LBJ and Obama… the Great👹Destroyers
Correct and Woodrow Wilson too. He started the Socialist Movement in our country
LBJ knew exactly what he was doing. He could actually take credit for helping the people who would then become dependent and self destuctive as a result.
What shook blacks, to leave Dems, are illegals coming in, and getting special treatment in sanctuary cities
Well said , well said!
Yes, when it goes well, "Look what I did!" When the inevitable disasters follow, "That's not my fault."
Yea I say the same thing it’s like he knew that this would lead to detriment for black people by making broken families
@@stubryant9145 Yes, there was definitely a political angle at work.
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
Ask retired Secret Service what they thought of LBJ. He was a horrible person for what I was told.
President Johnson (D) said "Now that we have passed the civil rights act, we will own black Americans for the next 200 years". 60 years later, what has the Democrat party done for Black Americans?
Only he didn't say black Americans according to what I have heard but used the "n" word.
@@knothead5 That is True.
LBJ: "I'll have those ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years"
"We'll have those (insert vile word here) voting for us for the next 200 years."
Your quote is more accurate.
LBJ. WILL HAVE THOSE (N) VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR THE NEXT 200 YEARS. QUOTE.
Says a lot that you have to censor a Democrat president today.
The quote was actually for 100 years.
@@garydouglas9413he did say 200 in one clip.
I thought it was "generations."
Whatever. Her fought the Republican legislation for civil rights. When it was passed he had to sign it & that’s what he said would happen because a Dem signed it. He didn’t want that legislation to pass!l, but knew he’d get credit for signing it. He was a racist!
LBJ and his wife took financial control of Bell helicopter and made large investments in Genral dynamics just before he sent troops to Vietnam
He was a monster
Even though JFK escalated the issue with Vietnam early in his presidency, by sending 400 Green Beret troops only as advisors and to help train the Vietnamese fighting forces. But later in his presidency he began to realize his mistake. There was no way to stop the Communist aggression from Ho Chi Mn who, according to history, was an ally to America against the Japanese in WW11. (After my USAF tour in Phan Rang, Vietnam 1967-68 I found out that Phan Rang Air Base was mostly constructed and occupied by the Japanese during WW11)
Kennedy wanted to pull back on things in Vietnam! LBJ became a millionaire many times over due to his back door dealings with war manufactured related products like Bell helicopters and General Dynamics as he escalated the war with the help of Westmoreland and McNamara. Their foolish belief of winning the war in Vietnam parallels Bidens billions of dollar donation ignorance to Zelenski's Ukraine, a war they cannot win against Russia...LBJ was a scum bag much like our current president Joe Biden...
Thomas Sowell
A great American
🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I believe in Thomas Sowell, My mom was first of her family born here of Russian & English parents (from their own countries)in 1913. Her life improved because of hers and her family’s desire to live a better life. My sister and I WENT TO COLLEGE and GRADUATED. We sought and secured employment within the 1st week out of college and have been continuously working ever since. Our children have followed the same route. We were poor (no car etc, lived in town so we could walk or take the bus where ever we had to go) Never owned a house but rented. Never asked for government hand out because as my mother said…that’s for the poor. As I see it now days, when the government creates programs (free) so many line up for the free gravy train this just adds to the burden on tax payers. My eyes are and have always been wide open to the stuff that goes on. I prefer to stay quiet, head down, work hard and be thankful that I ALONE achieved my own success.
Not to mention the almost 59K young men killed in Vietnam...
He brazenly stole his 1948 Senate race.
Ballot box 13
There's a lot of black people that don't know about Johnson at all..
@@RobertoTheOriginalManFromTheA And also don't know the Democrats filibustered for 72 days AGAINST the Civil Rights Act.
There’s a lot of black people that don’t know much about anything at all other than what they are told. Truly sad 😞
There's also a lot of black people who don't know about Thomas Sowell either, and that is very sad.
I don't necessarily think it's a problem to not know it's called ignorance, which is simply the absence of information of any particular subject. Deliberate and or willful ignorance is a whole different kind of shame.
I sorely miss reading his newspaper columns. What an enlightening man he is. The world needs more people like Thomas Sowell. ❤
Thank you Mr. Sowell, you are Always informative based on facts not feelings. I am forever grateful!
Lowering standards and expectations has destroyed communities. I witnessed this in my teaching career from the very early 80s when the majority of families were intact and education was to be a priority. The decline from welfare, encouraging babies out of wedlock, social promotions and scorning educational progress in students while promoting entertainers, thugs and athletes as heroes.
Read about LBJ being awarded the Silver Star during WWII. Was flying (riding) in a B-26. Plane turned back for mechanical problems 1/2 hour into mission, never saw any combat! MacArthur awarded LBJ the Silver Star for being an observer on the flight. No one else on the mission recieved any awards, including crew. He wore the Silver Star pin on his lapel to show he was a WAR HERO. Not Stolen Valor, he was awarded medal, but for a political deal.
I agree
I flew some 200 missions into Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War supporting Special Forces
recon missions. We flew with orders not to fire unless fired upon. We flew without identification and
our cover story was we were neutrality observers. I was put in for the Silver Star 3 times for the
recovery of Special Forces recon teams under fire and surrounded by the NVA. All three times our
helicopter was shot up at close range. While our entire crew was recommended for the Silver Star,
only the pilot received the award in each case. On one of these missions, I was shot twice in my flight
helmet and knocked to the floor of the helicopter. I recovered quickly and manned my M-60 machine
gun to find 12 NVA soldiers charging our helicopter with the intention of capturing our aircraft and crew.
I was able to take all 12 of them out in their charge. By the time we cleared the landing zone, I had
expended all 450 rounds of my ammo when we cleared the tree tops. Our helicopter had 16 rounds
that pierced it from nose to tail, but we made it back to the A camp in Vietnam. I received the
Purple Heart, and my recommendation for the Silver Star was downgraded to a Distinguished Flying
Cross for Heroism. These were top secret missions. Had the incident occurred in Vietnam I
would have easily received the Silver Star.
@@ronwinkles2601 And your point?
@@ronwinkles2601Thank you for your service. Viet Nam vets hardly heard those words when they came home.
Says a lot about MacArthur too. Harry Truman fired him since he did not know who the commander and chief was.
Ask a leftist why they have never tried to put the father back in the family and they will lose their mind.
The BLM movement is a great example. The founders of that organization are vehemently opposed to the concept of a nuclear family, which strongly emphasizes the leadership of fathers in the household.
Your comment is a perfect example of making up an impossible straw man and then using it to attack an imaginary opponent.
@@slapshot1971109 Absolute nonsense. The BLM movement simply wants the lives of non-whites to be given the same respect as that of whites. Nothing more.
@@jjhporWe can post you the links where the BLM leaders said that was exactly their intent but you'll deny it as well
@@jjhpor You need to come up for air. What color is the sky in your world?
I always said, "Who had the most to gain from this assassination?"
Dr Sowell should be president. And his ideas should be taught in schools. WHY are we doing ALL THE WRONG THINGS???
Not sure, but Detroit seems to be doing a lot of RIGHT things. Go figure...
LBJ was seen smiling right after the assassination of President Kennedy 💔
Yep. There is a photograph of him on Air Force One smiling at a fellow politician who wins at LBJ. It's " The Wink ". You can find the photo on RUclips.
He was smiling because his plan worked. That is why so many democrats were frowning after the attempt on Trump.
@@greglane3978 Yes. Look up the photo called " The Wink ". This photo was taken in Air Force One right after this malevolent crook was sworn in.
I've said before and will continue to say it - Thomas Sowell is the smartest man in America.
He left the White House worth hundreds of millions.
He made most of that off the Vietnam War.
LBJ was a true war criminal.
Just like Clinton and Obama.
Doesn't every President?
He s ,worth lots less ,in Hell, right now.....let that marinate ..........None ,of these evil doers ,will escape Judgement .......They just "Thought " they would...Their own Evil, Blinded them ,as JESUS said it would ...
I despised Johnson and quit the Democrat party because of him.
My mother changed Party’s after the death of JFK because she believed his own party murdered him. JFK was against Common
Thomas Sowell is a great man!
My dad called him a crook.
My Dad LBJ was involved in JFK's assassination.
When those elected want to "help" people by starting new agencies, they are forming a way to siphon money from taxpayers into their own pockets, buying loyalty and silence along the way.
He was a crook and a liar. He would do anything that got him what he wanted regardless of anyone else!
@@dawnolson7276That's the truth and every Texan knew it. At 16 years old I figured it out for myself by just listening to the adults talk and watching the news.
Your dad was being too nice.
I lived in the South Bronx in the early 80's. I got up one night & made a bed in the tub for our kids. The gunfire was extra that night. Not the regular Saturday Night Specials popping off.
@@gardener3017 democrats are destroying America
I live in the South Bronx. Never experienced such violence but to start a fight between two young black men is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Odd as NY has some of the strictest gun control laws.
So sorry to hear that. No child should have to grow up with that kind of fear.
@@knothead5Gun control is an oxymoron
35 years ago, I used to work out of Alice Texas. One day we were driving thru San Diego TX, which is about 5 or 10 south of Alice, and my boss (an original born resident) said to me, see that grave yard site over there, (point out the window while we were driving), He stated, just about every dead person in that graveyard voted for Johnson to be president. That was over 35 years ago, and I still remember it to this day.
I always thought he was a bad dude who had a hand in at least the knowledge of JFK’s assassination. That pic of him smiling in the plane …
There’s a book called “the devils chessboard” I believe you will find it very interesting
@@ordinarypete Jackie Kennedy believed he was somehow involved also.
When the announcement came over the intercom when I was in high school, I immediately told some of my classmates that LBJ was involved in it, but he had too many powerful friends in Texas government and the Senate, that would never let the truth be told. 2024 and the coverup of JFK assassination continues. Up until the past 3-1/2+ years of Joe Biden, I have always believed LBJ was the worst president ever, not Jimmy Carter as most others believed!!!
I came across a photo of the JFK conspirators, taken the night before. Front row , GHW Bush, LBJ, two mafia Dons, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, there were about 2 or three other rows of others smiling for the camera.
And as JFK's motorcade made the final turn, LBJ was found to be lowering himself into a duck down position in his car. No sense in him having a part in the assassination and getting hit too.
A national treasure if ever there was one. I wish we could clone Thomas Sowell.
As someone else mentioned in the comments, I was alive during the LBJ years, and I've never heard anyone praise him. Everyone thinks he was a jerk, and a happy beneficiary of the JFK killing.
No I disagree with that I think he was a great legislator
@@kale2149 That's fine. It doesn't change the fact that growing up I never heard anybody have anything nice to say about him. 🤷♂
Were you alive during his administration?
@@SG-js2qn no I was born in the 80s! But I was a part of the Head Start program! That his administration started! And It helped with my development as a child! Also he passed health benefits for senior citizens call Medicare! Also created PBS which was my favorite Channel as a child!!
@@kale2149 Yeah, so you live in a left wing self-praise bubble. That's awesome for you. Please enjoy!
@@SG-js2qn I live in reality! America been progressively leaning left for a long time!! Case in point! You and I both are talking to each other on RUclips! And where was RUclips created! Left leaning San Mateo California!!
LBJ had his own sister deleted because she 'knew too much' of his illegal involvements, and he was afraid she'd blab. Great guy.
I know a man who flew Air Force One when LBJ was president. He said it was not unusual to see Johnson walking around the plane naked. He also would conduct press conferences while sitting on the toilet.
Morals have declined. America needs Jesus Christ.
That's a great overview. Another book that goes into the subject with great detail, including statistics, is "Losing Ground" by Charles Murray. Murray was politically Centrist. He showed that Democratic policies that were instituted allegedly to reduce poverty actually caused the opposite effect. Crime rose as a direct consequence of those policies.
Since Mr. Murray is white, he received the kind of vicious abuse that, thank goodness, they wouldn't dare do to Dr. Sowell.
Much like the war on drugs. Since its inception the rate of drug abuse, drug addiction, and everything bad that comes with drugs has increased dramatically and in direct lockstep with the annual increased funding for the war on drugs. The more we spend. The worse the problem has become.
@@timothycormier3494 This might just be correlation, rather than causation.
There are a lot of other things that happened during that/this time period that might be the direct causes.
For example, the destruction of the family unit, which increases poverty and crime.
Poverty, for example, causes a lot of people to seek some kind of "escape".
A long time ago, that used to be almost entirely alcohol... until other things came along.
At my age 83, right in the thick of the 60's, this is hard to hear! I knew nothing of any of Johnson's ugliness... Fast forward to today, 2024, and our politicians are still unknown to us really!!! They lie and their Party, Media, and everyone lies to us! We have zero truth! Help! ! !
To be a successful politician you have to be an expert at lying. A lot of our politicians are psychopaths and that applies to all political parties
the truth is out there for anyone to see, but you have to know how to recognze it
You have that right. We have the illusion of knowledge of celebrities, politicians, and other rich folks. Occasionally you hear something, but in general, they're well-concealed.
Put your trust in the only one who never hid the truth...Christ.
Really? I was a small child when he was president and while I knew nothing about politics, I caught the vibe during the 68 election that he was not a good president. You were in your 20s. Oh, well, we all have our blind spots.
JFK could not have been assassinated and the whole matter covered up the way it was without the direct imvolvement of LBJ.
Thomas Sowell is a great scholar--a tragedy that he is not more widely known. He is also absolutely fearless.
Thomas Sowell is one of the few people telling the truth these days.
Johnson also got extremely wealthy while being a politician. Pelosi was not the first.