Amity Shlaes is a treasure - her warmth, fairness and decency course beneath a wonderful flow of information she's organized to foster healthier (because more truthful) opinion - and correct long received (but falsely based) opinions. She is as brilliant a writer as speaker. I've long read and given her books as presents. I am so glad she decided to write - from the time she wrote her brilliant book "Germany: The Empire Within" written after her period in Germany in graduate school - about the "Germanys" coming together when East Germany was incorporated and the USSR dissolved. As a speaker, I delight in her humor - and her soft lapses into others' voices and accents when she quotes them.
Well if the billions spent on interfering in the Middle East and Aghanistan plus other countries was spent at home i am sure it would be a much better country
Keynesian economics and government meddling doesn't work to benefit the target of their efforts. So inspite of your irrelevant and no sequitur argument, the Great Society was an abject failure.
This is simply a dumb and tired out perspective. Government always wastes money and even if those conflicts didn’t happen the money would have been wasted and not improved the life of a single American in the long term.
I am very surprised that Amity did not mention when asked about failures of the Great Society she did not mention the terrible destruction of the Black family. Provisions for young unmarried mothers induced the majority of them to never ever marry, which would eliminate funds for housing, food, health and clothing. A marriage would force them to lose it all. Therefore If the future husband was not making a sufficient wage after taxes, she would be sacrificing the income of herself and children if she married. Also, the stigma of having a child while unmarried was mostly gone. Her parents suffered no monetary penalty in supporting her during and after her pregnancy. In due time, many young women lost any embarrassment in this situation and some may have welcomed it.
I was disappointed also by this - it's been the major factor in the destruction of the black family. The role of men/fathers was dimiished or eliminated almost entirely. It was pointed out to me recently the population of our black citizens has not grown much beyond 12% while other groups continue to grow almost exponentially. I will be researching this because it seems like a testament tsome conscious or unconscious need to destroy them.
To Independet Institute: What is the name of the Reagan lawyer, who comments on government lawyers and black lawyers? And what is the exact title of his book?
@@xxcrysad3000xx not true, the official poverty rate in the United States has not fallen since the late 1960s, so if the idea of the War on Poverty was to reduce poverty, then according to the government’s own statistics, it hasn’t worked. And LBJ was a mixture of welfare-warfare Socialist-Neoconservative typical establishment politician. mises.org/library/wars-poverty-and-terror
@@xxcrysad3000xx that's only as it relates to the population as a whole and desegregation is far more responsible for dropping the average so much, if you remove those who directly benefited from desegregation you'll see poverty rates dropping at the same rate as before the great society. That poverty statistic is 1 of those that can be very misleading when it's used to imply the great society was successful.
@@sisilotau2185 I don't really understand what you are saying. Can you explain it differently in greater detail or link to an article or study that explains it more clearly?
Amity Shlaes is a treasure - her warmth, fairness and decency course beneath a wonderful flow of information she's organized to foster healthier (because more truthful) opinion - and correct long received (but falsely based) opinions. She is as brilliant a writer as speaker. I've long read and given her books as presents. I am so glad she decided to write - from the time she wrote her brilliant book "Germany: The Empire Within" written after her period in Germany in graduate school - about the "Germanys" coming together when East Germany was incorporated and the USSR dissolved. As a speaker, I delight in her humor - and her soft lapses into others' voices and accents when she quotes them.
Word. The Great Society unravelled. It is odd that this history is obscure to most people in USA.
AMITY THANK YOU AGAIN.. YOU STAY IN A GREAT NATION
Well if the billions spent on interfering in the Middle East and Aghanistan plus other countries was spent at home i am sure it would be a much better country
Keynesian economics and government meddling doesn't work to benefit the target of their efforts. So inspite of your irrelevant and no sequitur argument, the Great Society was an abject failure.
This is simply a dumb and tired out perspective. Government always wastes money and even if those conflicts didn’t happen the money would have been wasted and not improved the life of a single American in the long term.
I am very surprised that Amity did not mention when asked about failures of the Great Society she did not mention the terrible destruction of the Black family. Provisions for young unmarried mothers induced the majority of them to never ever marry, which would eliminate funds for housing, food, health and clothing. A marriage would force them to lose it all. Therefore If the future husband was not making a sufficient wage after taxes, she would be sacrificing the income of herself and children if she married. Also, the stigma of having a child while unmarried was mostly gone. Her parents suffered no monetary penalty in supporting her during and after her pregnancy. In due time, many young women lost any embarrassment in this situation and some may have welcomed it.
I was disappointed also by this - it's been the major factor in the destruction of the black family. The role of men/fathers was dimiished or eliminated almost entirely. It was pointed out to me recently the population of our black citizens has not grown much beyond 12% while other groups continue to grow almost exponentially. I will be researching this because it seems like a testament tsome conscious or unconscious need to destroy them.
She goes into this in detail in her book.
Thank you very much!
My goodness, I'd forgotten about the GE kitchens...my mother loved the lemon yellow kitchen, my dad just rolled his eyes, LOL. Fond memories!
I don't agree with speech-language-pathology assistants in HeadStart.
That's too expensive for maybe eating and singing.
I❤️ independent. .....thx
America needs Sowellism not Socialism.
To Independet Institute: What is the name of the Reagan lawyer, who comments on government lawyers and black lawyers? And what is the exact title of his book?
Edwin Meese. He wrote many books on government.
Thanks
Further layout of the legacy of socialism in America. Generational poverty now entrenched for generations.
Nd it’s gotten much worse
Not true. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/09/16/the-us-welfare-state-cut-poverty-by-two-thirds-in-2018/
@@xxcrysad3000xx not true, the official poverty rate in the United States has not fallen since the late 1960s, so if the idea of the War on Poverty was to reduce poverty, then according to the government’s own statistics, it hasn’t worked. And LBJ was a mixture of welfare-warfare Socialist-Neoconservative typical establishment politician. mises.org/library/wars-poverty-and-terror
@@indobalkanizer6557 Not according to the Cato: www.cato.org/blog/us-poverty-has-plunged
@@xxcrysad3000xx that's only as it relates to the population as a whole and desegregation is far more responsible for dropping the average so much, if you remove those who directly benefited from desegregation you'll see poverty rates dropping at the same rate as before the great society.
That poverty statistic is 1 of those that can be very misleading when it's used to imply the great society was successful.
@@sisilotau2185 I don't really understand what you are saying. Can you explain it differently in greater detail or link to an article or study that explains it more clearly?
She should debate Matt Bruenig.
xxcrysad3000xx why should she.
@@birgittabirgersdatter8082 Because they disagree. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/09/16/the-us-welfare-state-cut-poverty-by-two-thirds-in-2018/
The question is not whether The Great Society failed, but why it was tried in the first place?
I am about halfway through "Great Society" and it led to my question.
To compete with the Soviet Union, I assume.
The institute does not like to be criticized, even by a libertarian. It’s a very insular group. It also has no impact.
A whole bunch of old people in the talk. Nothing wrong with that. Just wondering if the younger audience is no longer interested in topics like these.
They are not. They are falling into believing how wonderful Socialism is.
Too far from Hillsdale College?
Lol.
That's hilarious.
Handle scarcity.
Lot of questions she didn't want to cover... 🤷♂️