Five trillion dollars later. all we have is a growing record of catastrophic failure... a federal highway paved with good intentions that leads directly into the hellish corners of some of our inner cities. In 1964. when the first massive welfarespending of the Great Society passed Congress. President Johnson proudly declared that it would "break the cycle of poverty." that it would "give a hand up. not a hand out." The premise of the Great Society was that the basic institutions of American life do not work... that the path from poverty to selfsufficiency that so many millions of immigrants and settlers had taken beforeand so many millions of newer immigrants would take laterhad been closedand that massive government intervention was the only way to ensure fairness. But that liberal premise was patently false. Within a few years after the massive social spending of the Great Society got underway. the positive trends of the 50s and early 60s were reversed.
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