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Skriven 2007-05-20 23:30:00 av bob klahn
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
Ärende: Whats a good name for it
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MM>> VH> We're a larger country -- so while it is possible in some areas for
the
MM>> VH> affluent and the poor to live cheek-by-jowl, in other areas there
would
MM>> VH> be very long drives for a teacher from, say west Little Rock to
MM>> VH> commute to Helena.

MM>>Yeah - we have no idea what having a whole state or province
MM>>seriously disadvantaged might be like.  Mind you, the 1930's
MM>>Depression was shared and horific - but today's lot have no real
MM>>idea.

 VH> Our problems are many, but one of the greatest was caused
 VH> by attempts to fix the problems -- Lyndon John's "Great
 VH> Society" programs halted the decline of poverty in the
 VH> United States and locked huge numbers of people into the
 VH> Welfare Cycle.

 Say what? Johnson's plan was a jobs oriented plan. Much of the
 mid '90s welfare reform was from that era.

 I see, from the statistical abstract of the US, poverty dropping
 from 20% when JFK and LBJ took office, to 12% by the time they
 left office, continuing to drop to 11.4% in '78. Then it
 reversed, fluctuating generally between 13% to 15%, until late
 in Clinton's term when it dropped to 11.3%. From there it
 started up again. I didn't find the poverty rates before that,
 but I did find the income levels, which tended to follow the
 same trend from 1950 to 1970.

 How did LBJ halt the decline?

 VH> Apparently Johnson never read Chapter 5 of Saint Paul's
 VH> First Epistle to Titus. :-(

 I had never either, so I looked it up on my online bible. Found
 up to chapter 3.

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