Great Society

Gave federal government to much power

Medicaid and Medicare

FDR's New Deal attempted to fix the screw up the government started in the first place, by taking perfectly good factory workers and telling their employers that they couldn't hire them, and taking them to Montana to build fire towers instead. He forced farmers to burn crops and kill livestock, in the wacked out notion that this would raise farm prices and get the 'American Family Farm' back on it's feet. Six million pigs were sacrificed on the altar of the family farm, but no poor people got any bacon out of it. LBJ's Great Society took money from people who worked and saved, and gave it to people who didn't have jobs and didn't want to work. Interestingly enough, the poverty rate had been DECLINING (e.g., going down) for about twenty years - then in the 60's Democrats and to a certain extent, Republicans, realized they could BUY votes with federal tax dollars. So they started every thing from subsidies to farmers to keep prices up (e.g. Milk, Butter, Cheese, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Honey, Beef, Pork, Chicken, etc..) to AFDC and Food Stamps to help poor people pay for this food that got so expensive all of a sudden... Yeah, I know. Sounds stupid, doesn't it. Pay farmers to burn crops and kill livestock, so farmily farms don't go bankrupt. Pay poor people with food stamps to buy the food. Guess who's pocket they picked to spread all this money around. If you work, but not on a farm, YOU. Great society, eh?

Poverty:

The Great Society was a war on poverty and was led by Lyndon B Johnson. There were several things involved in the Great Society : * Higher Education Act which allowed more students to attend college from things such as Pell Grants and loans, etc. * It also included the Water Quality Act which started the testing of water for pollutants and bacteria in the water. * The Air Quality Act also set standards for industrial and auto emissions. * The Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in all public places and facilities. * Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) wanted federal money to be given to bring all schools up to a code and for all schools to have the same quality education. The money was also used for libraries and new technology, special education, adult education, etc. * The Medical Care Act (1965) was a compulsory system. Each pay check was docked to provide medical care for the elderly and the young. * The National Endowment For the Arts and Humanities promoted creativity; PBS was born from this program * The Model Cities Act (1966) made it so the cities could apply for federal aid to clean up slums * Head Start programs as well as CAP and VISTA was also created. The US now had a form of a welfare system. Poverty levels declined (In 1973, only 11% of the population was under the poverty line). It divided the Democratic Party (Southern democrats were angry about the new Civil Rights Act and started to turn conservative). This plan also created a budget deficit because the U.S could not afford both Vietnam and the Great Society.

The Great Society of President Lyndon B. Johnson was launched in 1964. This set of programs was intended to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.

the four major failures of the great society are -republican comeback. -trouble on all fronts. -black unrest. -student unrest.

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Medicaid, Medicare, and The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are in effect today. I typed "elementary and secondary education act" into Google and came up with the Department of Education page on the Act of 1965 and 2001 - it turned into No Child Left Behind. Overall, Medicare and Medicaid are probably of the highest impact, especially Medicare. My reasoning is that Medicare is for all older people regardless of their socioeconomic status, and it helps so many. Today I think there are very few people who could afford all their medical needs on their retirement savings, social security, and/or pensions. My grandmother had major surgery a few years ago, and between Medicare and her other insurance it was completely free. That takes much stress away from older people. It also takes stress off of their families, who may not be able to support elderly family they are responsible for. My grandfather lives with my uncle's family. And while they are middle class, there is no way they could afford his medical care. However, Medicare covers his diabetic supplies and doctor's visits. Medicare really helps everyone in a sort of trickle down way.

HUD, though, is also helping many people in this economy and is probably a close second. If you read their website - http://www.hud.gov/ - they have many programs to help people get and keep their homes. Housing and medical care are two of the most important things in anyone's life.

A great number were created and while many have been eliminated, under funded or consolidated a few such as Medicare, Medicade and Food Stamps have become a part of US society. A few of the others include: Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, VISTA, Office of Economic Opportunity, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and one of the largest programs created the Department of Transportation. It Was also started by President London B. Johnson =B

Some have said that "art" is short for "artifact." I would argue that any object carries the DNA of its culture/its time. The materials used in the creation of a piece of art reveals the resources of the time. Certain hand-ground pigments were mixed with binders that were abundant in the region in pre-renaissance painting. Now, many are using Photoshop on iBooks to create pieces. Without even touching on the aspect of content, we could discover volumes about the difference in the cultures that produced Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" and the recent interactive video for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."

On the subject of content, not only do we see what topics are popularly depicted, but how. What is the slant, the bias? How has the the depiction of religious piety changed through the discovery of Germ Theory, The Industrial Revolution, The Sexual Revolution (radically recontextualizing human breeding and reproduction)? The emerging and evolving mythology of the Individual... This both springs from and reflect its time, as directly as a child does spring from and reflect the characteristics of its parents.

The Great Society was a set of social reforms initiated primarily by President Lyndon Johnson aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice and thus the creation of a Great Society.

they both increased the role of the Federal Government in dealing with social and economic problems

That was LBJs program; Nixon concentrated on Vietnam.

The United States. manifest destiny was the idea the United States should spread from coast to coast

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I am not quite sure what you want to know. "Great Society" was a term used by President Lyndon Johnson to decribe a legislative agenda intended to end poverty and racial discrimination in the US. Ending poverty included more job training, better education at all levels, new jobs, low-cost health insurance and better housing. The idea was to end the circumstances that trapped certain groups of people into poverty from birth. The need for such a program was the factor that led to its creation. It got through Congress because Johnson had won a land-slide victory in 1964.

Ghost Dance

Lyndon Johnson was the President who started the Great Society programs.

The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

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Summers are very warm in South Carolina, with generally even temperatures. The northwest is slightly cooler. Rainfall is usually abundant throughout the state. The southeast and northwest receive the most precipitation. It's my belief that it was pretty much the same way when the state was a colony.So the climate is sub-tropical humid in some sort

The Great Society was NOT the result of the Vietnam war. They were a set of domestic programs and the main objective of the programs was the elimination of poverty and inequality. Medicare is one of the programs that came about as a result of the programs. Federal funding for education was also part of the Great Society. In the last two or three months much of these programs have been eliminated or will be changed.

Johnson declared a war on poverty early in 1964 through the Economic Opportunity Act. The act provided funds for the Job Corps, which secured employment for inner city youths; established the Head Start program, for disadvantaged preschoolers. hope this helps

Some argued that the Federal Government couldn't, or shouldn't, handle the nation's social problems in response to the War on Poverty. Still others held that the program made for a listless country. The program also came under fire from those who thought that the underpinnings of the African American society were in danger of being broken.