National Holiday for 300 Million Population

The Great Society vs The Rat's Ass Society

In 1968, America reached 200 million people in population and President Johnson made a speech recognizing the fact. We also have significance at this time to compare Presidential and Congressional activity today.

""A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative programs in the Nation's history."

"The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act."

Let's look at President Bush and Congress for their efforts:
1. Aid to education has been drastically reduced. Most of today's students in America have major loans (in the tens of thousands and even the hundreds of thousands of dollars)that will be difficult for them to repay.
2. Attack on disease. Bush and Congress have restrained the research into stem cells, one of the most promising avenues of research.
3. Medicare. President Johnson and Congress established it and President Bush and Congress want to tear it down today. Let Bush and Congress return all of the Medicare funding their relatives have received over the years.
4. Urban renewal. America's infrastructure is continuing to fall apart. The urban renewal America is paying for can be seen in India and China.
5. Beautification. Bush and congress have no clue.
6. Conservation. Bush and Congress do not believe Global Warning exists. America is the only major country that does not support the Kyoto efforts. Bush and Congress only listen to the major oil companies and they don't believe global warning exists either.
7. Development of depressed regions. The number of depressed regions have increased with President bush and the Republican Congress because they have done nothing to retain American jobs rather than outsourcing them to foreign countries. They have also not protected American industries from unfair foreign competition causing the loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs. They have not even tried to bring in alternative industries to these areas. The development of depressed regions that America pays for are in foreign countries like India and China.
8. Wide scale fight against poverty. Bush and Congress made it much more difficult to escape debts from bankruptcy. Many people have to pay even though they only have Social Security retirement to live on. The number of Americans without health insurance has declined with Bush. Wages for unskilled and semi-skilled workers have declined in real terms across the board with Bush. Bush and Congress have not increased the minimum wage in over 9 years. The major success on poverty for Bush and Congress has been allowing 10 to 20 million illegal workers receive social benefits such as medical care and education of their children at the expense of American labor, while American business benefits. Bush and Congress also fight poverty in India and China by outsourcing millions of American jobs there.
9. Control and prevention of crime and delinquency. The Bush and Congress approach to most things is to ignore them. They ignore the prosecution of thousands of employers of illegal aliens.
10. Removal of obstacles to the right to vote. President Bush has violated the right to vote by not following good voting practices and allowing the republican supreme court to appoint him president. The conspiracy of Bush and his bother Jeb "Chad" should never have been tolerated. Gore had the majority of the popular national vote. There were major problems with the next presidential vote, also with Bush. Today with no paper trail and the underlying fraudulent ability to hack most of the electronic voting machines...I certainly have very little faith in next months election as to being accurate and that a recall can accurately be accomplished in all election districts. We tell other countries to change their ways and vote, but America has voting problems that must be solved nationally.

The Great Society vs The Rat's Ass Society are in sharp contrast to each other. Presidents Johnson and Bush are both from Texas, but that seems to be where the similarity stops.

This blog was started to celebrate reaching 300 million in population, to enable discussions to learn major issues that have gone on in America over the years, and to look forward to America's future.

This article was written to compare the efforts of President Johnson when the population reached 200 million and the similar efforts of President Bush when the population reaches 300 million.

posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 5:03 AM